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#6348 09/11/00 04:04 AM
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"Vegetarian" is an old Iroquois word meaning "poor shot."




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Thank you, Father, from a vegetarian with a sense of humour. And is there, perhaps, a similarly fascinating etymology for a teetotaller?


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Teetotaller = Someone who no bars hold.


#6351 09/21/00 02:19 PM
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(I can't resist.)

A teetotaler I can handle, bar none, as long as he's
riding a bicycle! (Ow ow ow!)


#6352 09/22/00 12:59 PM
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A teetotaler I can handle, bar none, as long as he's
riding a bicycle!


Of course, if he drank like a fish, he would need a bicycle as much as a woman needs a man, I suppose?





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>if he drank like a fish, he would need a bicycle as much as a woman needs a man, I suppose?

Professor Krankl writes from his comfortable cell:

"Dass ist zer good, but can be rendered mitt greater klarity in zer followig equations - upon vich I haf been vorking for much of my life".

man + bar = woman [Tender is the night]
man + woman = bard [Avon calling]
man - bar = effishiency [where'sh my bi'scal?]
man + bar + bike = barf-ish [ooh, creme de menthe]
man + Z(bars) = bicycle [let Z = ease]
man + bicycle = barred x (Woman - bar) [sole mio]

or should that be "sole - miaow!"


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Excellent, mave, boyo - and I thought the Welsh had no sense of humour !


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I thought the Welsh had no sense of humour !

Dieu,dieu! And who was it gave you the delightful backslang of Llanreggub Hill and the poetic spendours of all who dwell in its shadow? Now there's poetry for you, see?


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Ah, yes! To this day, when the landlord asks me what I will have, I invariably sigh, in chorus with Nogood Boyo, "Too Much"

And nothing can ever be plain black, now - it is always some variation on Slow, black Sloe-black, Bible-black etc.


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Slow, black Sloe-black, Bible-black

Please see the thread RS Thomas if poetry interests.


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