Nope. We buried the thread and now we're dancing on the grave.Nanohedron wrote:Wombat wrote:Oh, we've heard it all right. According to the genious who said that, Noel Hill, Mary Bergin, Yehudi Menuhin, Larry Nugent, just about every major classical soloist and conductor, a large number of Nobel prizewinners, along with Bill Whedon can't. Now four of five of them might be believable but all of them?billw wrote:
And didn't any of you snobes and poots never hear that old saw, "Them whut cain't does, teech!"
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In keeping with the new decorum, let me say to whoever it was who first spewed up that cliche and all the lame tossers who repeat it seriously, and I mean this in the nicest possible way: it's running down yer leg, dearie.
Hey, is this thread still alive yet, then?
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Dang! I wondered what them muffled "thump!"s I've been hearin' wuz! What's up with that, Wombat? You had to get cloggers? Sheesh!Wombat wrote:Nope. We buried the thread and now we're dancing on the grave.Nanohedron wrote:Wombat wrote: Oh, we've heard it all right. According to the genious who said that, Noel Hill, Mary Bergin, Yehudi Menuhin, Larry Nugent, just about every major classical soloist and conductor, a large number of Nobel prizewinners, along with Bill Whedon can't. Now four of five of them might be believable but all of them?
In keeping with the new decorum, let me say to whoever it was who first spewed up that cliche and all the lame tossers who repeat it seriously, and I mean this in the nicest possible way: it's running down yer leg, dearie.
Hey, is this thread still alive yet, then?
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But are they playing the tune properly? Does it have enough lift?billw wrote:Dang! I wondered what them muffled "thump!"s I've been hearin' wuz! What's up with that, Wombat? You had to get cloggers? Sheesh!Wombat wrote:Nope. We buried the thread and now we're dancing on the grave.Nanohedron wrote:
Hey, is this thread still alive yet, then?
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IHey! I resemble that remark!DCrom wrote:But are they playing the tune properly? Does it have enough lift?billw wrote:Dang! I wondered what them muffled "thump!"s I've been hearin' wuz! What's up with that, Wombat? You had to get cloggers? Sheesh!Wombat wrote: Nope. We buried the thread and now we're dancing on the grave.
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Means two different things, though.Bloomfield wrote:If it weren't such a terrible loss to the world, I think I'd shoot myself the next time I hear someone say "I resemble that remark" instead of "I resent that remark." Sigh.
"I resent that remark" means exactly what it sounds like, but, at least down here in the South, "I resemble that remark" is a funny way of saying "guilty as charged."
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Wasn't it also one of Curly's lines in The 3 Stooges?peeplj wrote:Means two different things, though.Bloomfield wrote:If it weren't such a terrible loss to the world, I think I'd shoot myself the next time I hear someone say "I resemble that remark" instead of "I resent that remark." Sigh.
"I resent that remark" means exactly what it sounds like, but, at least down here in the South, "I resemble that remark" is a funny way of saying "guilty as charged."
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Oops, me too.Daryl wrote:Oh, no! I can't believe I just contributed to this thread.
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No, you're confusing it withDaryl wrote:Wasn't it also one of Curly's lines in The 3 Stooges?
Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah!
I think "resemble" is from one of the Marx Brothers: Karl, Lenin or Trotsky. I'm not sure which one. Harpo, maybe.
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Karl Marx?
Hrm... I thought it was either Bing or Norm (Crosby)...glauber wrote:No, you're confusing it withDaryl wrote:Wasn't it also one of Curly's lines in The 3 Stooges?
Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah!
I think "resemble" is from one of the Marx Brothers: Karl, Lenin or Trotsky. I'm not sure which one. Harpo, maybe.
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Mighta been Curly or Moe, though...
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Click the WWW and come have some fun with poems and music and now BOOKS! and check out the preeeety whistles and the T-shirts with attitude!
A whistle without a fipple, is just a piece of leaky pipe!
Click the WWW and come have some fun with poems and music and now BOOKS! and check out the preeeety whistles and the T-shirts with attitude!