#12710
12/12/2000 7:16 PM
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Yacking with a fellow punster, I used the phrase "laughed like a drain". This was not known t'other side of the pond. Is is common where you are?
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#12711
12/12/2000 7:48 PM
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In a private post, some one asked me about my using the term "country matters" when I was, as Jackie would say, in the gutter.
I have never heard of laughed like a drain, (like a hyena maybe) and I am wondering if the country matters reference was one everyone understood.
I see it as positive re-frame– the same sort of behavior could put one in the gutter or in the country, and as for me, I'd rather be in the country!
It's Shakespearian– or at least as old as himself..
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#12712
12/12/2000 7:54 PM
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>laughed like a drain
I've not heard it -- is this an appropriate usage?
There was a young lady from Kitchenor,
Who slipped on the quayside at Itchenor.
In spite of the pain,
She laughed like a drain,
When the surgeon inserted a stitch in her.
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#12713
12/12/2000 8:24 PM
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When the lady laughed like a drain
From a piercing surgical pain
The medical staff
Said "oh what gaff,
We should have left her where she was lain!"
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#12714
12/12/2000 11:50 PM
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Mav, you`re an addict. I don`t know if I should congratulate you or have a intervention and talk about twelve steps.
One day at a time Mav dear.
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#12715
12/13/2000 1:11 AM
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I've heard "laughed like a drain" here in Zild although it's certainly not common usage. I've always fondly imagined that it was a kind of gurgling laugh, a cross between a full-bellied laugh and a giggle. Maybe a drainiggle?
My limerick contribution, although logically, I think it came from a cork ...
There was a young senhor from Spain
Whose very heart was removed and displain
When he asked if it hurt
As the blood pooled and spurt
He just sat up and laughed like a drain.
God, why do I do these things?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#12716
12/13/2000 10:50 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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God, why do I do these things?
Because, CapK, you wish to share your deep philosphy with us all, for which I tender grateful thanks. It is obvious, reading deeply into the touching story you have unfolded, that the whole piece is a metaphor of the psychic discontinuities engendered by, not only relocation from the land of ones birth - as has surely happened to the young Portuguese national who is your protagonist, but subsequent displacement from his chosen, or adopted, country, Spain. This term's essay: <<The "loss of his heart" is a lyrical substitute that recalls the pain of his loss of national habitat whilst retaining the tenderness of national identity>> Discuss. Word limit, 1,500. Deadline, Friday 15th Dec. Essays handed in after the deadline will be penalised 10% per day, unless an extension has been arranged with your tutor.  
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#12717
12/13/2000 11:20 AM
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One day at a time Mav dearWould it were so! Another year bites the dust for me today, so thanks for all the birthday chuckles with the limericks, folks. And yes, addiction just crept up on me unawares - Jackie had to it point out to me  In the circumstances, Rhu, can I be excused the essay please? Puns and word jokes, however insane, Make a maverick laugh like a drain! The only real pain Is when forced to explain He’s an Addict – so kindly refrain!
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#12718
12/13/2000 2:37 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Your addiction probably entitles you to an aegrotat.
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#12719
12/13/2000 4:03 PM
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maverick maunders: Another year bites the dust for me today, so thanks for all the birthday chuckles...
remember, it's not another year older; it's another year
of your life wasted in a banal dance with the mundane,
edging precariously close to the precipice of decay and death.
joe (happy birthday) friday
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#12720
12/13/2000 5:03 PM
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Rhub enthuses: It is obvious, reading deeply into the touching story you have unfolded, that the whole piece is a metaphor of the psychic discontinuities engendered by, not only relocation from the land of ones birth - as has surely happened to the young Portuguese national who is your protagonist, but subsequent displacement from his chosen, or adopted, country, Spain.
Thanks for telling me what it meant. I had no idea. I only wrote it. Hell, I am deep, aren't I? Deep, deep, deep ... doodoo.
No bloody essays. Business cases are bad enough. Terms of reference are worse. Theses are the pits. So go on. Put me in detention.
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#12721
12/13/2000 5:06 PM
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Mav smithed:
Puns and word jokes, however insane,
Make a maverick laugh like a drain!
The only real pain
Is when forced to explain
He’s an Addict – so kindly refrain!
Twenty-one again, is it, Mav? Commiserations ...
What do you call a poem (limerick or otherwise) where every line rhymes? (cue tsuwm)
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#12722
12/13/2000 5:40 PM
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>What do you call a poem (limerick or otherwise) where every line rhymes? (cue tsuwm) usually (and in this case), poesy. 
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#12723
12/13/2000 8:59 PM
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tsuwm replied: >What do you call a poem (limerick or otherwise) where every line rhymes? (cue tsuwm)
usually (and in this case), poesy.
... and leaves me (as I already knew, of course) a poetaster. With all of the connotations made possible by reassigning syllable values ....
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#12724
12/16/2000 11:57 PM
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I fear I'm at threat from the internet
Each night it seduces me into debt
I laugh like a drain
as it downloads my brain
What TV began it'll finish yet
Carpe whatever
Carpe whatever
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#12725
12/17/2000 12:37 AM
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solrep (whose handle makes him sound like he sells the sun for a living door-to-door) offered:
I fear I'm at threat from the internet
Each night it seduces me into debt
I laugh like a drain
as it downloads my brain
What TV began it'll finish yet
Carpe whatever
Don't want to seem like you're carping on, but ...
Can anyone else on the list come up with something which solrep should continually warn us to beware of?
Please include in a complete, properly-scanning AAABBA form limerick, at least one line of which should be in Swedish, and in which at least one line should mention gold records and OTT stage costumes, but this should not in the same line which is in Swedish ...
Sesame Street script writers are ineligible to enter.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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