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Re: amusing typos
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 20, 2008 03:15AM

I prefer stores where they advertise 'womens' underwear: 40% off'

'Skirts : down 20%'

Takes me back to 'Round the Horne" when Daphne Whitethigh advised that 'while hemlines were getting higher necklines were plunging'

Kenneth Horne said 'Well, I'm hoping to be there when they meet.'

Ah, Radio comedy of the intelligent kind, written by Marty Feldman and Barry Took and not a swear word in audible range, but all sorts of innuendo* in place.


* For the younger generation: 'innuendo' is NOT an Italian suppository.


I 'saw', or rather misread an advert in the program for the cat show last week where they advertised a product I read as 'Fleasex' but was actually 'Seaflex' or such.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2008 03:18AM by bunyip.

Re: amusing typos
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.129.---)
Date: August 20, 2008 01:25PM

Intelligent? No, only a more wordy type of low humour- done very VERY well.

Re: amusing typos
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 20, 2008 02:05PM

Exactly. Don't be fooled into thinking things are high-brow when underwear's involved!

Re: amusing typos
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 22, 2008 07:05AM

I don't coz my glasses or hearing aids or wine glasses or jackhammers or small furry things with knobs on from the inside usually get caught in the elastic. My brows are untouched.



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Re: amusing typos
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: August 22, 2008 10:49AM

I have two eyebrow....

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Re: amusing typos
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.253-195-102.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 22, 2008 02:24PM

I have known some "gentlemen" who are so firmly in the harry highpants category that their undies might very well cover their eyebrows. Does that count as highbrow underwear humour - or just really ugly mental image.

Re: amusing typos
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 25, 2008 06:05AM

.....there are some things that mankind is not meant to know.........

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