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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #37107 - 07/30/01 08:21 PM Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #37108 - 07/30/01 10:14 PM Re: For Beatles fans Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773 ROTFLMAO!!!! [wiping tears from eyes] Whew. That was great. Thanks, Max. Top #37109 - 07/30/01 10:48 PM Re: For Beatles fans Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Yes, that's great! Thank you, my sweet Max! You may imperative me all over the place... Top #37110 - 07/31/01 09:01 AM Re: For Beatles fans maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 Lovely, Max Surely should be millstone, though, not milestone? Top #37111 - 07/31/01 10:14 AM Re: For Beatles fans tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10462 Loc: this too shall pass milestone, as on a Gantt chart, is probably carefully chosen. Top #37112 - 07/31/01 11:26 PM Re: For Beatles fans WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... As a veteran Windows ME Crashee...IMAGINE THAT! Thanks, Max! Top #37113 - 08/04/01 02:18 PM Re: For Beatles fans francais31415 member Registered: 01/15/01 Posts: 157 I've heard some of those before, and loved them! I always thought of "milestone" in that song as being some intermediate deadline set by the employer of the unfortunate composer? Top #37114 - 08/08/01 02:51 AM Re: For Beatles fans Wrangler stranger Registered: 07/31/01 Posts: 2 LOL, I just finish reformating my computer and that's the first post i've read on this forum. :) Top #37115 - 08/08/01 09:20 AM Re: For Beatles fans maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 Hi and welcome to the board! I trust your name has no ulterior significance... Top #37116 - 08/08/01 09:55 AM Wrangler belligerentyouth old hand Registered: 12/20/00 Posts: 1055 Loc: Berlin > I trust your name has no ulterior significance... If so 'Levis' might have been more fitting... Otherwise let me give my whole-hearted welcome Loud, contentious arguments ... ahh, the hot chilli of life (aside: why are there so many bleedin' spellings of 'chili', 'chile'!) (another aside: 'chilly' and 'chilli' are almost homophone-antonyms ) Top #37117 - 08/08/01 12:41 PM Chil__ Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon by asides: why are there so many bleedin' spellings of 'chili', 'chile'!) This puts me in mind of a song by Moxy Fruvous, a Canadian band Hi Bean! with the same sort of gift for wordplay as their countrymen, the Barenaked Ladies. In a MF song called "The Kids' Song", they intone: My name is Gabby and I just got here from Chile, I like Canada except that it is chilly, I met Premier Bob Ray, and he ain't no Pinochet, My mother makes a spicy bowl of chili! Cheap rhymes. Always cracks me up. Top #37118 - 08/08/01 04:29 PM Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #37119 - 08/09/01 04:31 AM Re: Chil__ rodward addict Registered: 02/13/01 Posts: 609 Loc: Portsmouth, United Kingdom Cheap rhymes. Always cracks me up - says Fiberbabe I don't think I have posted this one before, apologies if I have. When they catch a chinchilla in Chile They shave off its beard wile-nile With a sharp razor blade Just to say that they've made A Chilean chinchilla's chin chile Rod Top #37120 - 08/09/01 06:55 AM Canadian Musicians belligerentyouth old hand Registered: 12/20/00 Posts: 1055 Loc: Berlin > a Canadian band with the same sort of gift for wordplay as their countrymen, the Barenaked Ladies Then I'm sure you've heard of the Canadian band called ... The Winona Ryders Top Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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