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Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.5.44.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 18, 2008 12:56PM

They only call it "liquor" because "slurry" might put people off. You are safe... for now.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: September 18, 2008 04:11PM

Chocolate slurry? Sounds ok....

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Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.range86-132.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 19, 2008 09:41AM

Chocolate slurry leads to chocolate milk fountains and it's one step from there to total disaster. Beware the chocolate slurry.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.253-193-42.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 19, 2008 09:45AM

Melba Hotel in South Gate (Melbourne) has a fountain of melted chocolate that continuously flows. People dip things into it as though it were fondue.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.9.254.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 19, 2008 09:55AM

Garr!

Be ye sure that they are only dipping comestibles?
Chocolate coated dubloons could be a danger to chipping.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.range86-132.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 19, 2008 12:06PM

Landlubbers! Where be the chocolate covered plank?

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 19, 2008 12:42PM

"Scupper me skull-and-crossbones!"

Chocolate slurry sound as dangerous as shark-infested custard. But if you have to go, there would be worse ways to go.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: September 24, 2008 05:42AM

.....shades of earworms....

...who's slurry now.....(Connie Francis and others)

....the slurry with the fringe on top.....(frae Oklahoma)

....I'm slurry...... (Brenda Lee for the unaware)

......


feell free to totally ignore, but if you have another one submit it it it it.......

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.48.168.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 24, 2008 09:21AM

Slurry seems to be the hardest word (Reg Dwight)

Anything by Mud

Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: zendao42 (---.bhm.bellsouth.net)
Date: September 29, 2008 12:00AM

Chocolate's always good, unless it's been polluted with coconut or bananas... :(

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Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 29, 2008 02:18PM

Corr, chocolate coconut, lovely. Especially if you leave out the chocolate.

<Gallantly starts kicking against trends>

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: October 01, 2008 12:39PM

That's like saying Corr carrot cake, just leave out the cake. Or corrs just leave out andrea!

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.28.76.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: October 01, 2008 12:54PM

Well, people only go to see the Corrs for the guitar playing, don't they?




edited to put in first comma: it is really quite important.....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2008 12:56PM by SkidMarks.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: October 01, 2008 01:18PM

So you are saying the core isn't the center?

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.28.76.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: October 01, 2008 01:22PM

No, that "well, people" has no connection with apples but that "well people" may eat an apple a day.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: October 01, 2008 01:24PM

Ah, I see <arranges facial expression into a knowledgeable one>

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: October 02, 2008 04:49AM

I have eaten an apple a day in my life. It's just that the day I'm up to April 16, 1972.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: October 02, 2008 08:57AM

The launch date of Apollo 16?

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.181.216.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: October 02, 2008 10:49AM

Apollo 16 - even though the commander was Young, the other two were junior.

Re: Mysterious corrections...
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: October 04, 2008 04:19AM

...this post has become 'Mysterious connections.....

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