I didn't want to foul up the game thread by putting this explanation into it, so here goes.

Someone else typed, "On a clear day...", to which I replied, "...you can see Rotherham from my house. Every cloud has a silver lining!" Jon then queried why it was such a good thing to be able to see Rotherham.

Well, the whole point is, it isn't. (Eh?) What I was trying to convey was that clouds have their good side, because they prevent me from being able to see Rotherham, you see.

Don't mind me. I'm a little strange...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

I used to work in Rotherham. She's right, you know.

Let's face facts, Sarah. Anyone who regularly pays any attention to this website is MORE than a little strange :)

Also commenting on the game;

"If at first you don't succeed....keep sucking till you do" alarmed me so much (coming from the innocent Jon!) that it took me a good three minutes to see the pun...



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Re: Rotherham. Ah, now I understand. I've been to Rotherham, and it has the world's worst football ground, and it tells you all you need to know about the place if I add that said ground is the most interesting building in the town.

Innocent? me? I've always been presumed extremely guilty.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I thought the "succeed" pun was a variant on a marvellous shaggy dog story told by either Frank Muir or Denis Norden on "My Word!" many moons ago. It concerned a large piece of agricultural equipment which went grievously wrong because the narrator had failed to pay attention to the advice printed in large letters on the side of the machinery:

"If At First You Don't Suck Seed, Try Drier Grain."



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Argh!!

That's horrible!

Splurk.

<goes off cackling to send it to people>



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Oh, they did worse than that .... a story about an Eskimo who got very cold paddling about in his canoe and tried to light a fire in it to keep himself warm. Alas, the fire burnt a hole in the bottom of the canoe and it sank. The moral of this tale? You can't have your kayak and heat it.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

You took the words right out of my mouth... in fact, if I recall correctly, that was the title of the anthology of stories from "My Word!" that they published. My dad has a copy, but unfortunately I don't, so I'm quoting from memory here.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Then there's the three Native American Squaws sitting outside their wigwams. The one on the Elephant hide had one son. the one on the giraffe hide had one son. The one on the hippopotomus hide had two sons, which just proves that the squaw on the hippopotomus equals the sons of the squaws o the other two hides.

(Don't ask me how they got a hold of hippo, giraffe and elephant hides in North America. I'm only repeating it)