Eh? Are you being naughty?

<snickers>

I'll raise you a Bananaman

Me? Naughty?


Never.

Oh, and I see your Bananaman and raise you an Eric (the half a bee)

I'll take all that and raise you all an Appleman.

What abaht the 'snickers' I saw earlier.

Worf at least two Mars bars.

<Resists urge to start connecting Klingons (Worf) to chocolate bars>

Darn, now I'm caught 'twix the horns of a chocolate dilemma.

<snickers at Egon's dilemma>

edited 'cos the spelinge wos rong



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2008 09:19AM by SkidMarks.

A curly-wurley situation for you, Egon.

Ah, curley-wurleys I remember when they were huge and you could chew on them for what seemed like hours. It was that or I was a lot smaller, and only had a little mouth.

But knowing the way that marketers work it was a combination a small me and bigger bar.

Marathon - not Snickers.

Isn't a marathon only to do with running (and other sports), not sugary snack bars?

Snickers bars used to be called Marathon bars here in the UK. Oh, happy times...

"Those were the days, my friend,
we thought they'd never end....."

Such are the delights of globalisation.

I remember the days when there were Wimpy Burgers in the UK, rather than the globalised Burger King. At least Australia is holding out with Hungry Jack, but then again we never thought the Wimpy would go did we?

Apparently we have developed a range of even more classy fast food chains with such names like: Eagle Boys Pizza

Each of which strive to make the worst possible food imaginable. All of these will have trouble beating a certain greasy place in Marysville, where the chips are disgusting, the pizza could solve the oil crisis and the vegetables are mythical.

<End of rant ^_^>

(skip this post if you're not interested in mousetraps)

This topic reminds me of a Dutch TV sketch from the sixties or so, which may have been an adaption from something British - I don't know. Anyway, it is about an inventor that brings his newest creation to the patent office: A mouse trap. It consists of a razor blade standing vertically, sharp edge up, in a flat piece of wood, and a piece of cheese on one side of it.
- Patent officer: How does it work?
- Inventor: Well, the mouse comes from the non-cheese side, and by reaching for the cheese over the blade cuts its own throat.
- Patent Officer: Brilliant. But what if the mouse comes from the other side?
- Inventor: I'm working on that.
A few months later the inventor presents his improved model to the patent office. It is identical to the original except that it has no cheese on either side.
- Patent officer: How does it work?
- Inventor: Well, from whatever side the mouse comes, it will peep over the blade to see whether there is cheese on the other side. By the time it thinks "Darn, no cheese today", it has cut its throat.

Edited: I just found the sketch on internet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXAB1Kn40VI). It turns out to differ slightly from my description above but never mind. Those who do not understand Dutch may prefer to skip the first 7 minutes, in which the patent officer points out that he has already 2971 patents for mousetraps recorded, and nothing essential happens. The subsequent demonstration is so visual that it needs no understanding of the words.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/01/2008 02:52PM by delacuesta.

Yeah, but as Burger King own Hungry Jacks...

CannibalRabbit Wrote:
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> I remember the days when there were Wimpy Burgers
> in the UK, rather than the globalised Burger King.
> At least Australia is holding out with Hungry
> Jack, but then again we never thought the Wimpy
> would go did we?


Although few and far between, there are still some Wimpey bars left in the U.K. I suspect that they were franchises rather than company-owned and so kept the old name.

... and I like the mousetrap, delacuesta

Indeedy, there's a Wimpy in Carmarthen and another in Broadmarsh Centre, Nottingham. Franchises? Who can tell? They're always empty when I pass though.

Do they still have those 'Yorkie' bars in the UK?

They used to use a semi trailer sa* the body of the ad>**



* read as 'as'

** should be'.'

dyslexic fingers misstrike again!!!!!!!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/03/2008 09:44AM by bunyip.