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Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: June 21, 2003 12:01AM

our Nestle chocolate powder is called Quik "cuz Nestle makes the very best" lol!!

Hey, Kaz, does your product also have the Nestle Bunny for it's mascot??

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: June 21, 2003 09:16AM

please correct the above to "Produced by Nestle so it's very evil"

Sorry, but had to say that out of loyalty to an old friend who was almost sent down for putting up anti-Nestle posters by the vending machine in her college.



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Simon (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: June 21, 2003 09:23AM

The vending machine almost sent your friend down?!?

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Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Simon (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: June 21, 2003 09:45AM

I see that I've been holding fairly steady, since the last occasion on which somebody presented a list of people's numbers of posts, at between 4% & 5% of the total.

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Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 21, 2003 11:08AM

Ah, mondegreens... I love them! I was once guilty of a spectacular one myself. A friend at university had an old Citroen 2CV, one of those with the deckchair-striped canvas top, and I thought it was cute but a lot of his friends used to tease him about it. It was also, however, very noisy. So this chap (oddly enough, another Jasper) was giving me a lift somewhere, and he mentioned that his flatmates had been on at him about the car again, at which I warmly sympathised.

"Oh, don't worry," he said (or so I thought), "I get used to stick insects."

"Pardon?!"

"I get used to the stick it gets!"

"Oh, right. Jasper, do you know what I thought you just said there?"

The term "stick insect" has been synonymous with "mondegreen" among my friends ever since!



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

Sarah

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Milo (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: June 21, 2003 12:15PM

That's brilliant!

A while ago, at uni, I was trying to get into our student's union, but people were flocking out and security weren't letting people in. I asked one girl what was going on, and she told me in a thick irish accent that it was "because of a paraphilia". Disgusted, I wondered how this would result in the shutting of the union and realised I didn't really want to think about it so I went home.

I later realised she'd said "power failure"


Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Simon (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: June 21, 2003 01:07PM

ROFL :-)

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: June 21, 2003 11:12PM

To All Who Care: Down Under we also have Nesquik (called Quik up until a coiple of years ago) in flavours of chocolate, strawberry, banana, caramel and, for some unknown reason, vanilla. Presumably so you can mix it with milk and the milk turns.... white.

And no, Milo, I wasn't being sarcastic. I like our Milo drink. And our Milo fforumite.


Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Guy (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 22, 2003 01:03AM

Ah yes, but the milk turns vanilla flavoured, which stops it tasting of milk. And makes it taste of vanilla. Which is a good thing. If you can afford it. (Real vanilla that is, vanilla flavouring is yuk.)



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Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 22, 2003 04:30PM

Guy: the best real vanilla I know of comes from Lakeland Limited. I've got a bottle of it which I've had for ages, and the flavour hasn't deteriorated at all.



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

Sarah

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: June 22, 2003 07:15PM

Darn-I-was-so-close...



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Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: June 22, 2003 10:28PM

To being in the top ten, that is. Not to getting vanilla ice-cream. I'm way off that - it's all Mars bars in this house...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: June 22, 2003 10:32PM

Those who were shocked that I'm not bribable with chocalate may be interested to know that I'm not a great muncher of ice cream either. On the other hand, you may not.



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: kaz (139.134.57.---)
Date: June 22, 2003 10:53PM

Right! It's official. PSD is lacking in oestogen. As every woman knows, chocoalte and ice cream are essential for a womans well being. PSD's well-being is in severe danger of cracking up completely. That's it! PSD - you must go to your nearest GP and ask for HRT. It's the only chance you have.





(Of course, all that testoterone churning through your glands may have something to do with the above.)


Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: June 22, 2003 11:02PM

Ha! They wouldn't be the only pills my GP would be prescribing...



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: June 23, 2003 03:35AM

Ooh, he sounds like fun. Quick, tell me his name and address and let him know this mad Aussie will be calling in some time soon for some freebies.


Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 23, 2003 11:47AM

Dried ffrog pill, anyone? Very nice... they've got cinnamon in them...



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

Sarah

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 23, 2003 03:40PM

And far too much egg.


Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 23, 2003 06:45PM

Just egg white... it's no yolk, you know.



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

Sarah

Re: Pick of the posts:
Posted by: Jo (---.ex.ac.uk)
Date: June 24, 2003 12:59AM

Ooooh, that reminds me I was planning to make dried frog pills for my exams. Probably a good idea though - I didn't need a dose of sanity right in the middle of my ethics exam.

(Sarah, consider yourself well and truely air-gunned for that pun...)



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