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A discussion of all things Thursday !
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 18, 2002 10:19AM
<HTML>Re that website, I did see a test once given to trainee travel agents, where their geographical knowledge was tested by having to identify various islands by their shape. Candidates with low scores were eliminated, on the grounds that they couldn't tell their Harris from their Elba.</HTML>
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 18, 2002 01:06PM
<HTML>Bah, that website is blocked from work because of 'sexual content'. I'll have to try when I get home.</HTML>
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 18, 2002 01:23PM
<HTML>here you, what can we get Dawn for xmas, having failed on the hat/scarf/glove front?</HTML>
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 18, 2002 01:36PM
<HTML>Right, here's what she wants:
Notepad with multi-coloured paper.
Small diary (handbag size)
Good quality colouring book and felt-tips.</HTML>
Notepad with multi-coloured paper.
Small diary (handbag size)
Good quality colouring book and felt-tips.</HTML>
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: December 18, 2002 04:58PM
<HTML>I'm dreaming of a Landen Parke-Laine,
just like the one I used to know...
With temples lightly graying, and piano duets playing
hobbling on one leg as he goes...
I'm dreaming of a Landen Parke-Laine,
And ev'ry book he used to write...
may Mr.Shitt-Hawse wither up and die,
And may little Landen swim away from the light.</HTML>
just like the one I used to know...
With temples lightly graying, and piano duets playing
hobbling on one leg as he goes...
I'm dreaming of a Landen Parke-Laine,
And ev'ry book he used to write...
may Mr.Shitt-Hawse wither up and die,
And may little Landen swim away from the light.</HTML>
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: December 18, 2002 06:53PM
<HTML><I>So this is Thursday...
and what has she done?
Gone is her lover.
In her oven, a bun.
So this is Thursday...
now what can she do?
She's pissed off Goliath,
and now Schitt-Hawse, too.
So this is Thursday...
and now where is she at?
She's joined Jurisfiction,
She knows the UA of W Cat.
So this is Thursday...
finding Landen she hopes.
Hiding from Aornis
Better shake those entroposcopes.
So this is Thursday...
now where did she go?
To save Schitt from "The Raven",
by Edgar Allan Poe
So this is Thursday...
and the Schitt boys have lied.
They were trying to blackmail her,
they certainly tried!
So this is Thursday...
so much on her mind.
Havisham and "Cardenio",
her husband to find.
So this is Thursday...
Aornis's coincidences to fight.
Strawberry Dream Topping
to end the world it just might.
So this is Thursday...
she and her father saving the world.
Joins the Character Exchange Programme,
she waits for her baby boy (or a girl?)
</I></HTML>
and what has she done?
Gone is her lover.
In her oven, a bun.
So this is Thursday...
now what can she do?
She's pissed off Goliath,
and now Schitt-Hawse, too.
So this is Thursday...
and now where is she at?
She's joined Jurisfiction,
She knows the UA of W Cat.
So this is Thursday...
finding Landen she hopes.
Hiding from Aornis
Better shake those entroposcopes.
So this is Thursday...
now where did she go?
To save Schitt from "The Raven",
by Edgar Allan Poe
So this is Thursday...
and the Schitt boys have lied.
They were trying to blackmail her,
they certainly tried!
So this is Thursday...
so much on her mind.
Havisham and "Cardenio",
her husband to find.
So this is Thursday...
Aornis's coincidences to fight.
Strawberry Dream Topping
to end the world it just might.
So this is Thursday...
she and her father saving the world.
Joins the Character Exchange Programme,
she waits for her baby boy (or a girl?)
</I></HTML>
Re: Appallingly Bad Christmas Punnage...
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: December 18, 2002 07:01PM
<HTML>my apologies for such poor and outlandish rhyming schemes! (EESH!)</HTML>
Dammit, dammit, dammit...
Posted by: poestscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 19, 2002 11:06PM
<HTML>
Well, in my fine spirit of rewriting Chaucer and whatnot, I'm going to bugger about with some Trad. English stuff... (To whit: <A HREF="http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/anonymous/adam.html">Adam lay ybounden</A>)
<em>Landen lay ybounden,
Bounden out of time,
In Thursday's memories,
Must he now reside.
And all was for Goliath,
Goliath's man Jack Schitt,
As readers finden,
After Mr Fforde wrote it.
Ney had Jack Schitt taken been,
Shoved in the Raven,
Ney had never our Landen,
Eradicated been.
Cursed be the time,
That Landen taken was.
Therefore we moun singen,
Bring on 'Well of Lost Plots'.</em>
And, if anybody knows the tune, this one does scan!</HTML>
Well, in my fine spirit of rewriting Chaucer and whatnot, I'm going to bugger about with some Trad. English stuff... (To whit: <A HREF="http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/anonymous/adam.html">Adam lay ybounden</A>)
<em>Landen lay ybounden,
Bounden out of time,
In Thursday's memories,
Must he now reside.
And all was for Goliath,
Goliath's man Jack Schitt,
As readers finden,
After Mr Fforde wrote it.
Ney had Jack Schitt taken been,
Shoved in the Raven,
Ney had never our Landen,
Eradicated been.
Cursed be the time,
That Landen taken was.
Therefore we moun singen,
Bring on 'Well of Lost Plots'.</em>
And, if anybody knows the tune, this one does scan!</HTML>
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