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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Anu's wordplay! #6650 09/19/2000 11:39 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky What did the bartender do when he saw a couple of patrons too drunk to drive themselves home? He called a parataxis. -Anu Cool!! (And if they'd gotten sick, he coulda called a paradox.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6651 09/22/2000 10:30 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 If they got too high, then perhaps a parachute would be useful. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6652 09/23/2000 1:18 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Anu--do parataxis have parameters?? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6653 09/23/2000 1:28 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Anu--do parataxis have parameters?? If so, can you pay with a paradigm(s)? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6654 09/23/2000 10:41 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia paulb addict paulb addict Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia <If they got too high> a sort of paralytic paradise par avion, perhaps? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6655 09/23/2000 2:49 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 I'm wondering whether they got high on too much Paraclete? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6656 09/23/2000 5:46 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass pardon my parrhesia in partaking in this little party, but I thought I could parlay this little paradigm to some benefit: my paranymph committed just an awful parapraxis at our wedding reception (although it may have been a purposeful paronomasia) involving parorexia and the Parousia; before we parted, there was a bit of parti pris and untoward parvanimity -- what a lot of parvenus.... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! #6657 09/25/2000 7:00 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 pardon my parrhesia . . . . etc. etc Well - I suppose this is par for the course . . Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Anu's wordplay! Max Quordlepleen #172059 12/12/2007 10:04 PM Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1 pl8speaker stranger pl8speaker stranger Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1 A paradigm(s) will no longer let you make a phone call, even to a parataxis. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  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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