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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Please #142345 04/25/05 01:21 PM 04/25/05 01:21 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter OP Pooh-Bah inselpeter   OP Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Not even a weary O was heard on windless 'morrow Re: Please #142346 04/25/05 02:48 PM 04/25/05 02:48 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York O [/weary] Re: Please #142347 04/26/05 08:36 PM 04/26/05 08:36 PM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ V Vernon Compton enthusiast Vernon Compton   enthusiast V Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ Now it's my turn to say "ich bin schuldig". I misread the pun. I am not anything like clever enough to have figured out inselpeter's intended pun. I simply thought it was a pun on "loan/loewen", allowing for sloppy mispronunciation of one of the punned words. It seems that straining a word's pronunciation to fit a pun is de rigeur, if the many on this board are any guide, so that's what I thought this pun was. Re: Please #142348 04/27/05 11:26 AM 04/27/05 11:26 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb   Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK I don't think it's really strained pronunciation. [duck]Just American.[/hide] Re: Please #142349 04/27/05 11:37 AM 04/27/05 11:37 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ V Vernon Compton enthusiast Vernon Compton   enthusiast V Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ You do know that (a) I'm a NZer, and (b) the strained pronunciation I was talking about was of the German half of the pun? Re: Please porridge #142350 04/27/05 12:00 PM 04/27/05 12:00 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont puns are like a stroll (or a run) through a meadow, or an art gallery; each one leads to something else, perhaps unexpected, with the enjoyment coming from the reactions, some subtle, some not, that one has with each new thought or idea. the path (of thought) taken while one delves into language, and sound, is enjoyable for its own sake. or something like that. formerly known as etaoin... Re: Please porridge #142351 04/27/05 08:13 PM 04/27/05 08:13 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter OP Pooh-Bah inselpeter   OP Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Band of outsiders. Yeah. I kinda like that. Re: Please #142352 04/28/05 07:59 AM 04/28/05 07:59 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb   Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK You do know that (a) I'm a NZer, and (b) the strained pronunciation I was talking about was of the German half of the pun? ~ VC Er, yes, but I was picking up on your general statement: It seems that straining a word's pronunciation to fit a pun is de rigeur, if the many on this board are any guide ...and anyway, I was just trying to provoke TEd! Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 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. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message View Homepage Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,887 Posts225,227 Members9,069 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Mcclea10, Dilaon, BloodyAaAssassin, MOAM, Mrcheetah 9069 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 registered members (), 122 guests, and 3 spiders. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 50 A C Bowden 34 LukeJavan8 30 Mcclea10 1 Top Posters(All Time) wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,538 LukeJavan8 9,248 wofahulicodoc 8,150 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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