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Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: bunyip (---.tafe.sa.edu.au)
Date: September 04, 2012 06:46AM

Would it be of any interest to a large dog?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: September 05, 2012 08:19AM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.
10) Is it manufactured? Absolutely, defiantly yes.
11) Does it use batteries? No.
12) Is it printed papers of some kind? No.
13) Is it a container? No.
14) Would it be of any interest to a large dog? It might fetch it?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 05, 2012 11:12AM

Does it have at least one straight edge?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: September 05, 2012 08:53PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.
10) Is it manufactured? Absolutely, defiantly yes.
11) Does it use batteries? No.
12) Is it printed papers of some kind? No.
13) Is it a container? No.
14) Would it be of any interest to a large dog? It might fetch it?
15) Does it have at least one straight edge? Yes, in fact it MUST have at least one straight edge.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: September 05, 2012 08:56PM

Is it a rule/ruler/linegauge?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: September 06, 2012 07:36AM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.
10) Is it manufactured? Absolutely, defiantly yes.
11) Does it use batteries? No.
12) Is it printed papers of some kind? No.
13) Is it a container? No.
14) Would it be of any interest to a large dog? It might fetch it?
15) Does it have at least one straight edge? Yes, in fact it MUST have at least one straight edge.
16) Is it a rule/ruler/linegauge? Yes.

Huzzah! Poop poop!

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 06, 2012 11:23AM

Thank you Egon.

0) vegetable, animal and vegetable, sometimes with vegetable.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: OB (---.range86-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 06, 2012 07:51PM

1) Is it alive sooner or later

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.wireless.albany.edu)
Date: September 06, 2012 07:54PM

2) Is it delicious?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 06, 2012 10:27PM

3) Will it fit in a breadbox?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: September 06, 2012 10:37PM

0) vegetable, animal and vegetable, sometimes with vegetable.
1) Is it alive sooner or later - No but variously it was.
2) Is it delicious? - Yes
3) Will it fit in a breadbox? - Yes

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: September 06, 2012 11:48PM

Has it ever been used in the British Royal household to celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Battenberg?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: September 07, 2012 06:51AM

0) vegetable, animal and vegetable, sometimes with vegetable.
1) Is it alive sooner or later - No but variously it was.
2) Is it delicious? - Yes
3) Will it fit in a breadbox? - Yes
4) Has it ever been used in the British Royal household to celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Battenberg? - Not being privvy to the private lives of the British Royal household, and the tabloids have not yet published any transcripts of either of their telephone conversations it is impossible for me to say, but I would doubt it. I would hope, that both the Princess herself and Ella would have come across examples while staying with their grannie. Louie would certainly have partaken while in the Royal Navy.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 07, 2012 08:49AM

5) Ought the Navy to have marked it with an S for savoury?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 07, 2012 08:56AM

0) vegetable, animal and vegetable, sometimes with vegetable.
1) Is it alive sooner or later - No but variously it was.
2) Is it delicious? - Yes
3) Will it fit in a breadbox? - Yes
4) Has it ever been used in the British Royal household to celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Battenberg? - Not being privvy to the private lives of the British Royal household, and the tabloids have not yet published any transcripts of either of their telephone conversations it is impossible for me to say, but I would doubt it. I would hope, that both the Princess herself and Ella would have come across examples while staying with their grannie. Louie would certainly have partaken while in the Royal Navy.

not numbered) Ought the Navy to have marked it with an S for savoury? - No. It should be marked "SS" for "Senior Service" and nothing to do with any other organisation which could lay claim to those initials, nor ancestry of the family.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: OB (---.range81-132.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 07, 2012 08:45PM

Is it Old Shag chewing tobacco

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 08, 2012 10:16AM

0) vegetable, animal and vegetable, sometimes with vegetable.
1) Is it alive sooner or later - No but variously it was.
2) Is it delicious? - Yes
3) Will it fit in a breadbox? - Yes
4) Has it ever been used in the British Royal household to celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Battenberg? - Not being privvy to the private lives of the British Royal household, and the tabloids have not yet published any transcripts of either of their telephone conversations it is impossible for me to say, but I would doubt it. I would hope, that both the Princess herself and Ella would have come across examples while staying with their grannie. Louie would certainly have partaken while in the Royal Navy.

not numbered) Ought the Navy to have marked it with an S for savoury? - No. It should be marked "SS" for "Senior Service" and nothing to do with any other organisation which could lay claim to those initials, nor ancestry of the family.
5) Is it Old Shag chewing tobacco - No

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: bunyip (---.tafe.sa.edu.au)
Date: September 11, 2012 07:34AM

6) Vegie and navy! Does it contain, or is it in any way connected to, rum?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 11, 2012 08:39AM

0) vegetable, animal and vegetable, sometimes with vegetable.
1) Is it alive sooner or later - No but variously it was.
2) Is it delicious? - Yes
3) Will it fit in a breadbox? - Yes
4) Has it ever been used in the British Royal household to celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Battenberg? - Not being privvy to the private lives of the British Royal household, and the tabloids have not yet published any transcripts of either of their telephone conversations it is impossible for me to say, but I would doubt it. I would hope, that both the Princess herself and Ella would have come across examples while staying with their grannie. Louie would certainly have partaken while in the Royal Navy.

not numbered) Ought the Navy to have marked it with an S for savoury? - No. It should be marked "SS" for "Senior Service" and nothing to do with any other organisation which could lay claim to those initials, nor ancestry of the family.
5) Is it Old Shag chewing tobacco - No
6) Vegie and navy! Does it contain, or is it in any way connected to, rum? - Sadly, No.
(Do not fixate on Navy - the services are not excluded, but not germane)



edited to add note



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2012 08:41AM by SkidMarks.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: September 11, 2012 09:36AM

<I once had a friend who was Irrelevant in the Germane Navy (promoted from 2nd Pertinent.) He wasn't all that appropriate in the Army, either.

7) Do you own one?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2012 09:48AM by MistyCat.

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