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#18489
06/11/2001 9:06 AM
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a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebarsthe stationary bikes in my gym have control panels so complex that I am sure they are well able to handle e-mail, small spreadsheets and display small gifs already. As for a name, IBM is just about to market the Think-Ped  Rod
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#18490
06/11/2001 10:24 PM
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Because "Flynn" and "Inland" both have the 'in' sound.
[preparing-for-a-barrage-of-puns-e]
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#18491
06/14/2001 8:12 AM
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I unaccountably seem to be inundated by wombatiana. Yesterday I received a letter from my sister, who's moved to a cottage in the country - wombat country. She reports a W has taken up residence in the floorboards beneath her bed, where it farts audibly all night. She then claims she and her partner are going to have to get rid of the W. I've always suspected my sister to be a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic, but this takes the cake (sorry). Doesn't she realise the enormous advantage of a flatulent wombat beneath your bed? It means that you (with respect to your bedmate) can fart nocturnally, with impunity. 
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#18492
06/14/2001 11:46 AM
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Hmmm... flatulent underbed wombats, you say? Well, in this part of the world, we blame it on the barking spiders.
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#18493
06/14/2001 3:24 PM
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You can't rush a wombat
Upon re-opening this thread, I read Faldage's proposed pithy expression, and this time read it differently from every other time I've visited. I had been reading "rush" to mean charge or attack, as in "As the brilliant panto troupe brought their show to a glorious close, the ecstatic crowd rushed the stage," and assumed Faldage's example to mean that wombats are fierce combatants mano-a-mano, and should be dealt with from a distance.
Just now, I read it to mean wombats are by nature pokey, and they will not be hurried.
Anybody else have this experience?
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#18494
06/14/2001 3:44 PM
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wombats are by nature pokey, and they will not be hurried.
You got it, brother!
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#18495
06/14/2001 3:47 PM
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Figgered that were whut yuh ment.
Not at all sure why the more agressive interpretation occurred first, and stuck so firmly, in my cranial cavity, as it's by far a less common meaning of rush. Language is a funny thing.
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#18496
06/14/2001 3:50 PM
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I would have said, "You shouldn't…" or "Don't rush a wombat" had I meant the former.
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#18497
06/14/2001 4:06 PM
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...unless you were implying an unspoken clause like "~ and live!" Just so, you might comment "You can't run up a mountain."
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#18498
06/15/2001 4:10 AM
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If the unspoken phrase is "of debt", I certainly can.
Bingley
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