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>okay, TEd, I gave ya your chance< Perhaps TEd's above such petty puns, and chooses to ignote such opportunities. Ogden Nash, however, did say: A fly and a flea in a flue were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee;" Said the flea, "Let us fly," So they flew through a flaw in the flue. Earlier someone mentioned holding sales in a gymnasium, with chruch ladies present. Hmmm.... Since "gymnasium" literally means "naked place," I'll assume the church ladies were either Druids or Unitarians.  Whaddaya think, Jackie - any naked Southern Baptists out your way?
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Perhaps TEd's above such petty puns, and chooses to ignote such opportunities.All the puns here are just in fun!  It was admittedly an obvious groaner, Geoff. And it was just a joke. Get it?
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any naked Southern Baptists out your way?
As my (probably) long-lost, late cousin Lewis Grizzard said, if you're unclothed in the South, you can't be naked: you gotta be nekkid...you know, as in nekkid'r'n a jay bird.
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Okay, so which is it? Butt nekkid or buck nekkid? When I was younger, I could swear it was buck nekkid. Now, it seems as if the youngers all say butt nekkid.
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All the puns here are just in fun! It was admittedly an obvious groaner, Geoff.
Of course! Now, as fer them church ladies in the gymnasium baring their puns...
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All the puns here are just in fun! It was admittedly an obvious groaner, Geoff.
Of course! Now, as fer them church ladies in the gymnasium baring their puns...And, akshully®, I was kinda hopin' to prod TEd into another one of his usual great stories by embarrasskin' meself like that!
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>Falling off the back of a truck
We'd use a similar expression "it fell off the back of a lorry" and some people are always around ...
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USns also use tailgating to mean pregame party in the parking lot with beer and whatever served off the tailgate of the vehicle.
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Here's a little story about a true event that happened near my home town some 20 years ago.
A goods train derailed in a relatively remote part of the hills north of Dunedin. The alternate lifestylers are fairly thick on the ground in the area, although personally I lived nearly five miles away as the crow flies.
This was a Thursday.
On the train was a wagon containing fridges, freezers, washing machines and clothes dryers from the local whiteware manufacturing plant. Along with about three other wagons, it tipped over and spilled its contents into the paddock the railway line ran through. The insurance assessors were on the scene almost immediately, and the decision was made to leave the three wagons where they were, put the other wagons back on the track and worry about it all at the weekend when the train traffic was lighter. The other problem was the remoteness of the crash site and the roughness of the ground was such that getting wheeled transport in was going to be a problem, and they formulated a plan to build a temporary road up to the tracks at the crash site.
Come the Saturday, they used a bulldozer and pushed a road over the worst of the ground, gravelling it as they went. They got up to the crash site by about lunchtime. Only to find that there wasn't a washing machine, clothes dryer, fridge or freezer to be found. The locals had been up there, in spite of the access problems, and snaffled the lot.
I never did hear what happened after that. There was probably an underground railroad shifting them all out of the area! If it worked, it wasn't run by New Zealand Rail.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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As well as going westward to the Turkish etymon for bazaar travelled eastwards to Indonesia to become pasar, meaning market. One variation not mentioned so far is the jumble sale. Again jumble sales were usually held by church groups or other good causes, and offered for sale things which would otherwise only get thrown away. I was quite an avid attender of jumble sales as a small boy with my grandmother. I forget what it was she used to buy, but I always had a great time going through the used books. Quick edit. As I posted this I thought Turkish didn't sound right. According to the online AHD, bazaar is from the Persian.http://www.bartleby.com/61/52/B0125200.htmlBingley
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