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#37107 07/31/01 12:21 AM
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#37108 07/31/01 02:14 AM
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ROTFLMAO!!!!

[wiping tears from eyes] Whew. That was great. Thanks, Max.


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Yes, that's great! Thank you, my sweet Max!
You may imperative me all over the place...


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Lovely, Max

Surely should be millstone, though, not milestone?


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milestone, as on a Gantt chart, is probably carefully chosen.


#37112 08/01/01 03:26 AM
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As a veteran Windows ME Crashee...IMAGINE THAT! Thanks, Max!


#37113 08/04/01 06:18 PM
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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?


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LOL, I just finish reformating my computer and that's the first post i've read on this forum. :)


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Hi and welcome to the board! I trust your name has no ulterior significance...


#37116 08/08/01 01:55 PM
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> 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 )


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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.


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#37119 08/09/01 08:31 AM
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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


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> 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


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