On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:07 am, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I would say this is unfathomable, but that would just be wrong.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
>
> On May 15, 2007, at 6:22 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> > That's the verst series of puns imaginable.
> > What on erg were you thinking?
> > Flesh you may have but not a drop of blood.
> > While inching my way towards the bar to offer a few pence for a dram
> > of seventy proof, I might raise a footling objection to that
> > depiction and be defenestrated onto the stones of the yard without
> > scruples. Achieving the security of my quarter acre and lit only by
> > candle power, I regret my drunken utterances while I fry the perch I
> > took on a rod this morning - not a furlong hence across the hide and
> > just through the virgate. But hunger eludes me and I peck at the fish
> > and groats, finally throw it in the chaldron for soup and bed down
> > on a wey of hay in a stupor, having consumed a near kilderkin of ale
> > and a rundlet of port.
> >
> > Murkins only refuse to use metric 'cos it was invented by the French.
> > They should convert immediately, unless they know how many oxgangs
> > there are in a hide. Or tads in a smidgeon.
I'm days late reading this thread, but it contains a grain of truth and I
thought I'd put my two bits in. Mark Twain might agree, but I doubt that
Newton or Pascal would. These threads are barrels of fun and are proof that
the list is alive and well.
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