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The game is played by staging a turn-based conversation amongst a group of people(family, friends, people in bus queues etc). The conversation starts with a statement(that might be printed on a piece of card in the posh, after dinner version - $25 Pat. Pending), and then each person asks a question or
makes a comment in turn.
Every time someone takes their turn, they must somehow show that they have misheard, misunderstood or otherwise simply not got the gist of whatever the last person said.
It's different to the 'Half A Word' game [linked by Phundung] in that rather than being a question and answer game, the statements can be comments, questions, asides or anything that the next person may naturally want to say. This makes the game flow more like a conversation and less like an interrogation.
Misunderstandings can be based on whatever the individual likes, however sportsmanship should be employed in order to keep the quality up and avoid 'cheap' gags wherever possible.
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How many of you bakers play this game?! [phundug, Jun 29 2005]
[thumbwax]'s anno is amazing to me.
Mandatory_20Sign_20Day
about being hearing impaired [Zimmy, Jul 01 2005]
Pa've website
http://peculiarpabulum.blogspot.com/
[normzone, Feb 27 2006]
(?) explaining 'purple monkey dishwasher'
http://www.geocitie.../6460/1999mar31.htm
[xandram, Feb 27 2006]
The Two Ronnies "Fork Handles" sketch.
http://www.youtube....watch?v=saP127nVfSk
Classic! [DrBob, Jan 16 2007]
The Postmodernist Essay Generator
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
Every time you go to this page, it generates a new postmodernist essay. After wading through a few paragraphs of academic-speak, you realize that the argument isn't going anywhere, and that in fact the essay was generated by a random algorithm. Reading the annos to this idea reminded me of it. [sninctown, Jun 04 2008]
[link]
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I think it is very unfair to pick on the last person to arrive at a party, Just because they are late!!! Maybe they lost the car keys down the sofa or something... shame on you [zen_tom]!! |
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my point being [zen_tom] is that they are
too right wing to be communist. |
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My phone keeps leaking time. |
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[johng] must be displaying that famed British sense of humour(sic), but the Chinese Communists can hardly be said to be right wing. |
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jong, are you johng? wow. |
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So does that make Mrs.thegeologist Ma Jong? |
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Someone is translating these words into Chinese as I speak. Good afternoon agent #2345. |
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//sniffing list, walks away, slinking down low, wants to play, but after "2 cups of coffee", knows it's only a matter of time before someone conjures up the master.// |
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WW4 has started already? Who's fighting this time? |
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//Who's fighting this time?//
Apparently the UK, US and China. And Hulk Hogan. |
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//Someone is translating these words into Chinese as I speak. Good afternoon agent #2345.// |
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Yes, Agent #2345, Governments are really just a huge waste of resources. You should consider Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom as ideal pursuits. |
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That should be enough to ban this idea from Chinese web access & give our friendly Agent #2345 a break from translating the following posts. |
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Ben Hogan's joined the WWF? |
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my favourite curry that - Lamb Rogan
Josh. Eh? Blue ... ? Don't be so offensive! |
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Who's this bald Josh fella anyway, and yes, why use lame Rogain when Nutrifolica Hair Regrowth Formula is so much more effective? I dipped my finger in some once and now I have finger stubble. |
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You know orange does rhyme if you're very careful with the door hinge. I learned that from Eminem. |
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I didn't say anything about a whore binge. What are you insinuating? |
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This sounds like a wonderful game [zen_tom], have a croissant. |
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How would you know he's got a cross aunt ? |
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[marked–for-deletion], elite list. |
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Snot for everyone? Terrible idea. *shudders* |
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"MFD"? I don't think the purpose of this is to be played in the annotations, its just that everyone wants to (and thus does) because it would be a very fun game. The post is for a new game but isn't asking veiwers to "play" here on the site. Then again, it might be presumptuous of me to speak for zen_tom. |
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What's wrong with shutters? They keep the wind out, doncha-know. |
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A winding path may be the shortest, when all is said and done. |
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You are all going to hell.
But just in a Helena Basket.
Or was that casket? |
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Yes. Yes it is a helluva musket, but how do you know aunt Hellen? |
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Aren't Helen? None of them? Then who is she? *shutters* |
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Greek Muskrats are very tasty. |
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that, my friend, *is* chinese whispers. |
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you forgot to mention that the messages were verbal. (well, you did actually but it was well hidden). I prefer the pen and pencil method myself. |
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Funny name, Chinese Whispers. Is your friend a boy or a girl? |
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cheese mate, ripe Stilton. |
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Checkmate, Paris Hilton. (the hard drive on our server at work went kaploey to day. Thank Jutta for the 1/2 Bakery.) |
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Spelling is just a concept for you, isn't it Pa`? |
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"Spelling IS just a con, ('cept for Hugh), isn't it, Paw?" |
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When did you get out of jail Paw? |
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You have a nail in your paw? Would you like to be my friend? |
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If one already misunderstands everything, do we get a lifetime exemption from the early rounds . |
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No qualifying school? Yeehaw, I get to play! |
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(Ur, if it's alright with the bakesperson.) |
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Now I don't like you. I find you insulting, and cruel. I now want you smooshed like yesterday's bubble gum. |
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Yesterday, I wanted you to become part of a group outside HB. |
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Now I want dustin to poop on your head. |
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I retract the invitation that I gave, thinking that [Pa've], had grown into being a polite person. Something like an adult. |
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My mysteriously tight underpants are swollen. |
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This thread is giving me flashbacks of conversations with my hard-of-hearing grandmother. |
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This kind of thing is common. It starts with a smart-ass trying to show off being clever by twisting what he heard into something silly. It's funny the first time, and maybe the 4th time. But try doing this for more than 5 times in a row without really annoying everyone and see where you get. |
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I met a man who had a head injury from shrapnel in one of our wars..probably would have been Korea, based on his age. |
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His hearing was fine, but conversing with him was like this anyway. |
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some people are so annoying that it is simpler and more polite just to pretend that we cannot hear them. |
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that's a shame, normzone. |
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Yes, but he seemed happy. Although if he'd been unhappy, I don't think he could have told me about it using words. |
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This happens everytime I get drunk. |
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I didn't know you could hire people to do that. Do they just repeat everything people say into her ear really loudly? |
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I think the objection might be that hearing aids would be more spellatically correct. |
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Operator's voice: "The fingers you have used to dial with are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, mash the keypad with your palm now."
-The Simpsons |
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After reading a few comments, on a few ideas, [P], chill.
Lordy, lordy, do you always enjoy looking at a road map, folding it up for an hour, and then ignoring what you read. |
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There is, I believe, few here that think you are a troll, or an annoyance, or someone who can't become a very crusty old baker. Ya just gotta respect everyone. Here, or in the real world you live in. It's really very simple. |
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I, for one, hope you can adjust, just a wee bit. Your're not dumb, nor does that approach work for you. |
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I hope Chloe's two do find a solution. |
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Never been there, Angkor Wat, but hope to some day. |
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I was down there on Saturday night - had a few pints and watched the concert, then went on to the Dog & Duck. |
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I have a few ideas about what could be misunderstood about dog & duck (the latter in particular) but it probably ought not be expressed here... |
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Yeah, it was the first one she bought from Victoria's Secret. |
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I'll say there's plenty to fix! First of all, it seems like a lot of people here are either not paying attention or they are deliberately misunderstanding the last person. How can you carry on a decent conversation under those conditions? And secondly, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding going on as well. I suggest a good brainwashing for one and all. |
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//I suggest a good brainwashing for one and all// Call for Dyno-rod. |
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Is that what they're calling him these days? I always liked the Kenny Everett version best, you know, where his bum got bigger and bigger until it was swollen beyond all bounds of nomality. |
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Do you mean the city limits of Nome, Alaska, or the boundries of my existence? |
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What is a troll? And please do not humorously misunderstand that question, or tell me it's a mythcal creature that turns to stone when exposed to sunlight. |
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Say something about the belfries of Essex, [normzone]? I prefer to stay out of them. |
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I prefer the fries at my local fish shop. Tres bel. |
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From google: a newsgroup post that is deliberately incorrect, intended to provoke readers; or a person who makes such a post. Oh, never mind. |
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I though a troll was a way to catch fish...? |
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Yes, but whether it catches any or not it will be back before dawn. |
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Is it just me, or did [Pa've] completely self destruct? |
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I was reading this, caught a bit of the unpleasantness at the middle, and tried to search for him. All his anno's are gone, and I know he annotated on a few of my ideas. Did I miss something big? |
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He went off in a huff, declaring that he was going to start a bigger and better bakery. He has a site someplace, echoing and deserted for the most part. |
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That's kind of sad. If I ever got that disgruntled with my fellow 'bakers I'd just go and spend some time interacting with people in the real world. I'd be scurrying back here quick sticks. |
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Yes, but you're not a twat. |
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Thanks, [wags]. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding ;-) |
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Good game, by the way. Has anyone ever played the one where you respond to the second-to-last thing that was said? You could combine the two. |
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I did! I did! I taw a puddy twat. |
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Who said anything about how long a second should last? |
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What's the name of his rogue site site? Has it found our site's weakness in the form of an air vent/ faulty wiring? |
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The second shoe'd use the same last as the first, but back to front. |
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[notmarkflynn], see link. |
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do not mark that fin with ink, see? purple monkey dishwasher +(please see link, not intended for normzone, sorry -he's cute) |
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If I recall correctly [notmarkflynn], he averaged a similar bun to fish ratio as you seem to be observing. Of course he was never willing to show any humility and ricocheted (Is this a word?) between fairly entertaining to downright arrogant. This seems one of his not so shining moments. |
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[wags], it's an easy thing to say from your point of view, but he had well over a hundred ideas that he thought were good. At least 70 of them we had collectively decided weren't. Facing that amount of rejection, I'm not altogether surprised that he turned against the halfbakery. (I'm also a little entertained that we no longer qualify for his 'Fun and Interesting Links' list) |
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Thanks for coming to my defense, [bigsleep], but the truth of the matter is that I am a purple monkey dishwasher, although only recreationally and not as a profession. |
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I have always been a fan of dueling, but dawn is reserved for assassins in my book. Are you offering to be my second, or defend my honor? Can I sleep in late while you take care of it? |
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I don't understand. How can I (deliberately
or not) misunderstand the last person. If
they're the last person, then there are no
other people left - everyone else is gone.
This would include myself, therefore I can't
be around to misunderstand the last
person, as they're the last person. |
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Out of interest then [norm]. What is a purple monkey dishwasher? Is it a purple monkey that washes dishes? Or a dishwasher for purple monkeys? A dishwasher for monkeys that happens to be purple or a machine to wash purple monkey dishes? |
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I'd opt for the purple machine that washes monkey-dishes. |
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Sorry, can't hear you. Could you speak up? |
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Hey, that gives me an idea for an echo - Ask For Explanation From Last But One Person. |
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What, you mean black coffee in a little cup? |
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I've got the waterfront covered. |
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I've got a kitchen cupboard. |
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<aside>I particularly enjoyed and was impressed by [Jinbish]'s calculations last week, proving, in the end, and on an entirely different idea, that [Vernon] has a very small kitchen. I would like to take this opportunity to simultaneously thank [Jinbish] for providing such enjoyable workings, and also to apologise to [Vernon] (in this completely inappropriate location) for instigating something so totally off-topic on his idea. I would have apologised on the idea in question, but I didn't want to off-topic it any more that I already had - plus I was enjoying the results so much, I didn't want to spoil them. I thought putting an apology here would be a good idea, because if I worded it incorrectly, it would simply look as though I was attempting to join in with the game, rather than simply being an ass. |
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[zen tom], no offense taken. I understand that the HB is rather free of discipline. And it probably couldn't be what it is, if it had it. :) |
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[bigsleep] [mfd] Bad science / Magic. Esperanto is a language and therefore cannot be placed in a small cup. Please do some research before you waste our time with these ideas that can easily be proved impossible. |
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Just how big of a CPU do you need? |
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spidermother, - indeedy, except that a
language in and of itself can in fact be
placed within a cup - witness the famous
Crowded House lyric "...try to catch Italian
in a paper cup". |
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Misheard Lyrics:
Johnny Cash with deluge in a paper cup.
Original Lyrics:
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup. |
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Robert De Niro's waiting. |
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No doubt fiddling, while Rome burns |
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[bigsleep] I am the solipsist. Don't do that, they deserve to see you sober. |
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Yeah, this is a pretty sloppy list. |
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I've been trying to cut down. |
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Well, then go to town. You deserve it. |
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Are surfeits like forfeits? If so, do them yourself. |
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Bath salts, with or without the loofah. |
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Really? How far? I'm bursting for a pee! |
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<Two Ronnies> Peas? Here you go, one tin of peas! </TR>
(linky) |
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I never thought that a tin of grease was kinky. It's how you use it, I suppose. |
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Those suppositories better be greased up then. |
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But it is only natural for a tin of grease to be kinky; the kinks in the surface enhance grip, which is essential when handling a greasy tin. Why [Ling], you act as if there were something queer about the word "kinky", and that a tin would be wrong to be such. |
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I believe I just read something about ten kinky wongs. |
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You just said something about Kinky Friedman's Bongs? |
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Whoever King Keefreemen is, I don't think you should accuse him of taking bungs without some proof to back you up. |
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Oh, tennis player as well, was he? Well, I'm not a priest, but if you insist... I bless you, my son. |
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You want a bun forced upon you? My, what a strange fellow. |
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Yes, a very strange instrument to learn. |
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Instrumental urns are, by their very nature, strange. |
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I agree, for men to learn it is a strain. |
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Take the "S" train? Yeah, that would be mental. But I take the "W" just to 17th street. I saw James Last there once on the platform. |
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James was last on the platform? I hope he managed to get on. |
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He has aged a good bit, but She-Ra's still pretty hot. |
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Well, Solomon certainly thought so. |
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Yah mon...he sought dough... |
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over the harbour bridge, take a left. |
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Yes, that's right, it should be left of the arbour's ditch, then straight on until you hit the dam. |
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I always hated that Goddamm snitch. |
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Yeah, spindly little legs, big scaly eyes, always going on about his "precious", the guy made me sick! |
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"You have good luck"???? I don't believe in that. Everything's predetermined. |
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You've previously termite proofed your aviary? Why? Are termites a particular problem in your neck of the woods? |
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Your neck feels wooden? A massage should help. |
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I realise that this is good fun, but perhaps comments should concentrate on the virtues of the suggested game, rather than on actually playing it. |
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How can say it without actually saying it? I think four lemons would be more reasonable. |
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I dunno about phlegm on surcease an' all, either. But if, once you've stopped coughing, you can clear your throat, that's gotta be a good thing. Catarrh-related expectoration can be messy, though. |
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//I realise that this is good fun, but perhaps comments should concentrate on the virtues of the suggested game, rather than on actually playing it.// |
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Yep, I was asked to remove one of my ideas because the thread turned into the game.(It popped back after the crash though without 35 pages of anno's off a printer) |
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You head turned into game? |
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Grouse or pheasant I hope. Load my gun for me. |
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Why would I loan you my gun? I can't even afford the ammo. |
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Part of the name has fallen off. |
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the last of my mane has fallen off? Damn this liony premature hairloss |
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The hard part about reading this is the recurring illusion that there is actually a thread of sane conversation going, and that you just happen to skip over the annotation that makes it all make sense. |
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Gosh no you say, Maine has fallen off?
Oh wait...that was a bit scatterhaired of me to leap to such a maturized assumption. Perhaps you were refering to only the main street there? |
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Your brain had fallen off? Well done I say, its probably happier at floor-level. So which part of your anatomy is thinking now? |
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Oh Hazlenuts, fishrum...Who knows? I always was afraid of elevators. (Good god my hare stands straight up on end when I board a lift!) |
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Rachel's nuts? I always thought she had it all together. And yes Darth Vader is a pretty intimidating idividual... there's no shame in being scared of him. |
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When I saw that Jon was nuts, I thought of Hazel's? |
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Dark ping-pong? That doesn't make any sense. Great idea, +1 |
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Duck table tennis? That's so batty it's for the birds. |
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We should all be for the birds, they've been here lots longer than we have. |
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You live in a yurt you say?
Good luck to you, i'd like a
yurt. |
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Yes indeed; quite enchanting. |
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I to have always found meditation very relaxing. |
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You don't have to think about it for all that long. It's just one idea. |
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Just as you say, this idea is just wonderful! |
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it isn't, I still had screws left over after I assembled the wall unit. |
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When will this constant badgering of the Walnut Assemblage cease? So they wear crewneck pullovers! Big deal. At least they have the decency to eschew Speedos. |
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zen_tom -- Isn't 'guess and hide' a completely different party game? Similar to 'hide and seek'?? |
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Hidden Sick is quite another party game altogether. |
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It's one thing to skip a day of work and claim you were sick, but a party? You are dull. |
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he's not a doll, he's an action figure. |
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for a similar literary experience, see The Postmodernist Essay Generator [link]. |
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Forest military experience? Did you train at Ft.Bragg too, [sninctown]? |
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Stayed mostly in "area J" myself, but wandered off the map a few times here and there. |
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I would like to wander off and take a nap here also. |
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Don't we all like to ponder how often our chips tend to snap in the salsa and why it occurs more often when you're on your fifth beer instead of your first? |
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any sheep napping in the tundra would be polar bear food. |
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Yes, I see you point. One might further
postulate that a polar bear napping in the
dales would be sheep food, n'est pas? |
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beer or ale and salsa may be cheap but you still need chips for roughage. |
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Be Errol, in D'Salsa May? |
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Haven't seen it, but I did see him in Robin Hood. Tell me, can you do a good Melville Cooper? |
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You saw him robin' hoods? |
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It's normally hoodies that rob Melville's Mini Cooper. |
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where Rockefellers walk with sticks |
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Fixing the rockets with sticks and umbrellas when the rockets are in their pits. Nice prank to make on NASA. |
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Missing the sprocket? Bricks and heather aren't much use to
you... what was that about cockpits? And what do you want
to thank NASA for... ? |
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