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#8914 10/27/00 12:14 PM
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Up Look You Can (AnnaStrophic)


#8915 10/27/00 12:22 PM
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Ah, so. Old hands can get away with personal remarks. I am young, but I will learn, Yoda (You Oughtn't Do Aerobics)


#8916 10/27/00 02:01 PM
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>Does anyone know the name of those rope nets that hang over the sides of ships for troop debarkation?

Gosh, I can't believe how many posts there are out there!!! I've been reading the emailed posts every day, and every time I try to scrape up time to go on line to reply, there's another danged brush fire that needs some gasoline thrown on.

Anyway, one of my co-workers is a Navy commander who at one time served on an LST (landing ship tank), a vessel from which Marines can debark by throwing over the side a CARGO NET!!! That's the official US Navy name for it.

TEd, who has seen SO many opportunities for puns and so little time to perpetrate them upon unsuspecting readers. For those of you who've been debating the nature of humor, I posted some time back my theory that the pu is the only form of joke which does not have a victim. Which is why we groan at them. There's no one to laugh at



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#8917 10/27/00 02:04 PM
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"my theory that the pu is the only form of joke which does not have a victim"

Is this the church pu you're talking about? I've been victimised on them and I can tell you it's no joke.


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No, it's the kooL pU You Can!


#8919 10/27/00 02:36 PM
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Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahah...

Oh dear... can't stop crying with laughter.

Can't top that.

You win!!!


#8920 10/27/00 02:57 PM
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Old hands can get away with personal remarks

Yes indeed, young Skywalker - let the Wookie win!





#8921 10/27/00 03:09 PM
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Yes indeed, young Skywalker - let the Wookie win!

You callin' Jo a hairy scary monster?
Mmmm Halloween!


#8922 10/27/00 04:58 PM
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the church pu you're talking about? I've been victimised on them and I can tell you it's no joke.

Have you no shame??



#8923 10/27/00 07:45 PM
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Is this the church pu you're talking about?

Nope, it's Winnie ille Pu:
http://www.gvo.it/privati/zsuzsa/lenard/winniepu.html
If you do a Web search, you'll find quite a few references to this famous Pu, who, whilst in some ways a victim, is always a winner.


(Get that babelfish out!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=5052)



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