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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread #37107 07/31/2001 12:21 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37108 07/31/2001 2:14 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 ROTFLMAO!!!! [wiping tears from eyes] Whew. That was great. Thanks, Max. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37109 07/31/2001 2:48 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Yes, that's great! Thank you, my sweet Max! You may imperative me all over the place... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37110 07/31/2001 1:01 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Lovely, Max Surely should be millstone, though, not milestone? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37111 07/31/2001 2:14 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 milestone, as on a Gantt chart, is probably carefully chosen. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37112 08/01/2001 3:26 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... As a veteran Windows ME Crashee...IMAGINE THAT! Thanks, Max! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37113 08/04/2001 6:18 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 francais31415 member francais31415 member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 I've heard some of those before, and loved them! I always thought of "milestone" in that song as being some intermediate deadline set by the employer of the unfortunate composer? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37114 08/08/2001 6:51 AM Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 2 Wrangler stranger Wrangler stranger Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 2 LOL, I just finish reformating my computer and that's the first post i've read on this forum. :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: For Beatles fans #37115 08/08/2001 1:20 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Hi and welcome to the board! I trust your name has no ulterior significance... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Wrangler #37116 08/08/2001 1:55 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > I trust your name has no ulterior significance... If so 'Levis' might have been more fitting... Otherwise let me give my whole-hearted welcome Loud, contentious arguments ... ahh, the hot chilli of life (aside: why are there so many bleedin' spellings of 'chili', 'chile'!) (another aside: 'chilly' and 'chilli' are almost homophone-antonyms ) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Chil__ #37117 08/08/2001 4:41 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Fiberbabe old hand Fiberbabe old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon by asides: why are there so many bleedin' spellings of 'chili', 'chile'!) This puts me in mind of a song by Moxy Fruvous, a Canadian band Hi Bean! with the same sort of gift for wordplay as their countrymen, the Barenaked Ladies. In a MF song called "The Kids' Song", they intone: My name is Gabby and I just got here from Chile, I like Canada except that it is chilly, I met Premier Bob Ray, and he ain't no Pinochet, My mother makes a spicy bowl of chili! Cheap rhymes. Always cracks me up. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter #37118 08/08/2001 8:29 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Chil__ #37119 08/09/2001 8:31 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 609 Portsmouth, United Kingdom rodward addict rodward addict Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 609 Portsmouth, United Kingdom Cheap rhymes. Always cracks me up - says Fiberbabe I don't think I have posted this one before, apologies if I have. When they catch a chinchilla in Chile They shave off its beard wile-nile With a sharp razor blade Just to say that they've made A Chilean chinchilla's chin chile Rod Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Canadian Musicians #37120 08/09/2001 10:55 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > a Canadian band with the same sort of gift for wordplay as their countrymen, the Barenaked Ladies Then I'm sure you've heard of the Canadian band called ... The Winona Ryders Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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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