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term of venery for a group of bankers
So, when's the season open?
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Five English gentlemen and one American computer programmer are walking along the Thames, discussing terms of venery. They see three English prostitutes, and wonder what the term of venery is for them. The first English gentleman says, "A fanfare of strumpets." The second says, "No, it's a trey of tarts." The third says, "No, a volume of Trollope's." [Trollope was an essayist.] The fourth says, "Nope, a pride of loins." The fifth says, "No, I say it's an anthology of English prose." And the programmer says, "It's a string of cache misses." And a good link for a few choice terms: http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Embnetut/Personal/venereal.html
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So, when's the season open?Probably when interest rates rise ...  How about a misconception of mondegreens? 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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a bunch of wankers might be a wunch of bankers? At least, that's been my experience with them (remember, I'm a student and I get shafted).
My sympathies are with you! I work with them and I couldn't agree more. Me? I'm a mere Operations Analyst - for want of a more appropriate title. We had an interesting (??) discussion in a meeting (yawn) this morning about the difference between the company values and the (perceived) customer values. One of the guys said "But I'm an employee AND a customer" to which I replied "well, you must be having quite a dilemma then, trying to figure out how to rip yourself off" ... oops!  Suspect that could have been career limiting (if I cared), but sometimes mouth engages before brain! Regularly - in fact!
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Yes indeed Jackie, I was thinking of wunch.
Mind you, a venery of bankers seems just about right too...
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Hyla: I came across the phrase "a jam of tarts" recently but can't remember the source.
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hyla, i actually like diagnosis and prognosis..
thinking wholisticly, polution is like a pimple.. a small surface infection.. can it spread and make thing worse? sure
if you think of the earth as a living organizism, they you are diagnosising problems, treating them, and talking about an expected prognosis.
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Suspect that could have been career limiting (if I
cared), but sometimes mouth engages before brain! Regularly - in fact!
I refer to these moments as accidental yoga. That's the position wherein one places both feet in one's mouth simultaneously.
Now, how about an avarice of bankers? Bankers and strumpets in the same thread? Hmmm.... I think I'm seeing a connection. Now, if only there'd be a banker's convention here in Oregon, in the place called Wanker's Corners! I'll bet Fiberbabe's been there, as it's just a couple miles south of Lake Oswego.
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Five English gentlemen and one American computer programmer are walking along the Thames, discussing terms of venery... See also "Collective nouns" a little further down in this very same forum... http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=68295 ("All that is necessary for telepathy is that two people be thinking the same thing at the same time.")
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"All that is necessary for telepathy is that two people be thinking the same thing at the same time"We were pretty close to the same time (15:30 and 13:51), but on different days...  Does it still count? Anyway, I like your joke better.
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