The Vent and Rant Thread

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

what's wrong with a cuddly koala ?

They taste like eucalyptus.

Cheers,
Marc

[GeoffC]

but doesn't the eucalyptus keep the flies away?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

but doesn't the eucalyptus keep the flies away?

Well, the country's full of eucalypts, and we've got more flies than you can shake a corked hat at (thus the "Aussie salute"). Maybe they've built up a resistance here?

Cheers,
Marc

[GeoffC]

ah...
better find something better to keep the little ...... away then ....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

You can use them to make a rather delicious conserve; but it does have the rather unfortunate side effect of turning your mouth an unpleasant colour. Yes, be warned, you can blue lips from hamster jam!

paaaah hahahaha !!!!!

i see the punishment is not over sparrow !! i must have been tired last night because that slipped right past me but i woke up laughing this morning when it finally sank in.

flowers for you mate !

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

...flowers for you mate !

Awww! For me? Zelda

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

paaaah hahahaha !!!!!

i see the punishment is not over sparrow !! i must have been tired last night because that slipped right past me but i woke up laughing this morning when it finally sank in.

flowers for you mate ! ...

Ahhh, now I get it. Because hamsters are royal, and so are blue-blooded, and they like flowers on their family crest.

No?

Cheers,
Marc (obnoxiously obtunding the obscure - just for the giggles)

[nekokami]

I knew there was something there I wasn't getting. (I'm terrible with puns, because I don't index language by sound or something.)

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

what's wrong with a cuddly koala ?

I have been thinking on Geoff's idea, and it suddenly occurred to me that the oft-used but mistaken phrase, "cuddly koala", is used about equally as often as another misleading phrase, "koala bear" ,(the intended koala not, of course, being a "bear").

Well - I thought, scrambling and climbing all over my MontsnMags Enterprises Lifeform Generator built under contract for LG ("Life's Good", they say), ensuring sufficient duct tape, epoxy and WD-40 had been applied in all the right places - why not allow Pan-Dimensional, Panda-Mental, PolyChronologically-Accessible Hindsight (Trademark/Copyright/Patent Pending/Don't Frack With My Lawyers) to both solve Queen Zee's shum problem and also give those folk previously mistakenly using the phrase "koala bear" the warm glow of self-righteousness?

Good idea, yes? No?

Nevertheless, it is done.

Koala + (panda) bear = ???

Okay, visuals are always more effective than words:



("Today's the day the koala bears have their piiiiiicnic....rrrrRRROOOOOOWWW!!!")

Cheers,
Marc

[GeoffC]

Gosh, that's scary....(the kid of course)....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I have been thinking on Geoff's idea, and it suddenly occurred to me that the oft-used but mistaken phrase, "cuddly koala", is used about equally as often as another misleading phrase, "koala bear" ,(the intended koala not, of course, being a "bear").

Well - I thought, scrambling and climbing all over my MontsnMags Enterprises Lifeform Generator built under contract for LG ("Life's Good", they say), ensuring sufficient duct tape, epoxy and WD-40 had been applied in all the right places - why not allow Pan-Dimensional, Panda-Mental, PolyChronologically-Accessible Hindsight (Trademark/Copyright/Patent Pending/Don't Frack With My Lawyers) to both solve Queen Zee's shum problem and also give those folk previously mistakenly using the phrase "koala bear" the warm glow of self-righteousness?

Good idea, yes? No?

Nevertheless, it is done.

Koala + (panda) bear = ???

Okay, visuals are always more effective than words:



("Today's the day the koala bears have their piiiiiicnic....rrrrRRROOOOOOWWW!!!")

Cheers,
Marc

yay !! thanks marc for taking my problem to heart !! i should have known you would have the perfect solution to it. brilliant !!

[GeoffC]

A quiet moan - not yet a rant -
how long does it take to check out an e-book to see if there is anything wrong with it???

I'm already having to plant 20 trees for the number of paper-version books I'm reading ....

[sianon]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

for the love of all things holy that's ENOUGH RAIN !!!!!

i almost drowned coming back from the grocery store just now, criminy ! and hello, have you noticed ? it's MAY !!! the saying goes, "en avril ne te découvre pas d'un fil, en mai, FAIS CE QU'IL TE PLAIT" !!! and what would please me is to go and spend my weekend afternoon on a nice terrasse wearing a summer dress and sunglasses, not a bleeding DIVING COSTUME !!!!! graaaa !!!! so stop it already !!! or at the very least, let it pour down solid sheets of water between 4 and 7 in the morning, when civilized people (= me) are in bed !! p*tain de s*loperie de sa R*CE !!!! b*rdel !! sérieux, ça suffit !!!!

EDIT : oh and also, what is up with the instruments of torture at the ophtalmologist's office ?? i had to go there two days ago and after he did the test for eye tension (where he shoots something (i can't tell you the details, i didn't want to know) DIRECTLY AT YOUR EYEBALL, it's barbaric) i had to lie down with my feet up because i was getting all spinny-headed, and eat some sugar. true story. this end of the week SUCKS.

Zelda, no amount of rain is too much rain. If you don't want it, please tell it to come here where we reallllllly need lots of it. Our damns,, rivers and lakes are drying up at an alarming rate.

I totally agree with the Ophthalmologists implements of torture comment. Not only is there that strange thing they aim at your eye (incredibly scary) but what about the eye drops they use first. THEN after that test, mine stuck some other drops in my eye, made me wait for 20 minutes while they got to work. Called me back in before aiming something with a really bright light directly at my overly dilated pupil. My pupil did not go back to normal until late in the day (appointment was 8:30am), so I walked around with one pupil normal sized and the other one at maximum dilation. I sure got some odd looks.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by sianon

Zelda, no amount of rain is too much rain. If you don't want it, please tell it to come here where we reallllllly need lots of it. Our damns,, rivers and lakes are drying up at an alarming rate.

believe me, i am continually praying scientists will find a way to more equitably redistribute the world's precipitation. even if we can't ship it all the way to the antipodes i'm sure the south of this country (perpetually in a drought, according to the news) would appreciate it.

I totally agree with the Ophthalmologists implements of torture comment. Not only is there that strange thing they aim at your eye (incredibly scary) but what about the eye drops they use first. THEN after that test, mine stuck some other drops in my eye, made me wait for 20 minutes while they got to work. Called me back in before aiming something with a really bright light directly at my overly dilated pupil. My pupil did not go back to normal until late in the day (appointment was 8:30am), so I walked around with one pupil normal sized and the other one at maximum dilation. I sure got some odd looks.

i think that opthalmologists are probably all frustrated sadists and torturers who have found the profession to be a refreshing outlet for their normally illegal tendencies. i suspect they give you the eyedrops that make you blind just so you cannot see them rubbing their hands together in evil glee as they shoot horrifying, unnamed things at your defenseless ocular globes.

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I have been thinking on Geoff's idea, and it suddenly occurred to me that the oft-used but mistaken phrase, "cuddly koala", is used about equally as often as another misleading phrase, "koala bear" ,(the intended koala not, of course, being a "bear").

Well - I thought, scrambling and climbing all over my MontsnMags Enterprises Lifeform Generator built under contract for LG ("Life's Good", they say), ensuring sufficient duct tape, epoxy and WD-40 had been applied in all the right places - why not allow Pan-Dimensional, Panda-Mental, PolyChronologically-Accessible Hindsight (Trademark/Copyright/Patent Pending/Don't Frack With My Lawyers) to both solve Queen Zee's shum problem and also give those folk previously mistakenly using the phrase "koala bear" the warm glow of self-righteousness?

Good idea, yes? No?

Nevertheless, it is done.

Koala + (panda) bear = ???

Okay, visuals are always more effective than words:



("Today's the day the koala bears have their piiiiiicnic....rrrrRRROOOOOOWWW!!!")

Cheers,
Marc

You were so cute as a child. Who is that you are eating?