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ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-11-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

You know, you'd be surprised how long (so very long) it has been since anyone has actually asked me that question? Thank-you. Yes, please. I'll have a quintuple-shot of Zany Carter Tripletriskaidekaphilia Concentrate served in the half-eggshell of a Giant Moa, and a line of crystallised Myrmecia venom and a half-straw laid out on the back of an angry, shaved grizzly bear.

I couldn't find an angry grizzly bear, so I started shaving a rather content one. Turns out it's now very angry indeed... It means there's only quarter of a straw on a half shaved bear, and the line is rather wavy in an artistic fashion...

LazyScot · 07-11-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

mmwAHAHAHA[hick!] ...splutter ...ptooie ...HACKHACKhaHA!haHA!haHA!ftftftftftftftftft... tee hee... doioioioioioing... [wheeze!]... aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... he he... Giggle... [snort!]

You know, that sounds exactly like a cat with an excessive hairball problem that has just be told of a doggie bag happening...

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i must say that knowing people like biggles are in charge of international, ah, "intelligence" makes for a reassuring thought as you're falling asleep at night...

And having people like Dr. Montsnmags would make things reassuring, how?

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I couldn't find an angry grizzly bear, so I started shaving a rather content one. Turns out it's now very angry indeed... It means there's only quarter of a straw on a half shaved bear, and the line is rather wavy in an artistic fashion...

Do you think this should be known as the Zany Carter Adrian?

zelda_pinwheel · 07-11-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

And having people like Dr. Montsnmags would make things reassuring, how?

oh, no way at all. but it would be a different kind of un-reassurance.

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Do you think this should be known as the Zany Carter Adrian?

yes.

montsnmags · 07-12-2009, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I couldn't find an angry grizzly bear, so I started shaving a rather content one. Turns out it's now very angry indeed... It means there's only quarter of a straw on a half shaved bear, and the line is rather wavy in an artistic fashion...

Excellent! That's actually exactly what I wanted. It was a test to see if you could really make my ZCTripletriskaidekaphilia-and-wavy-line-and-quarter-straw-on-a-half-shaved-bear preference, or whether you would be eaten by a bear. You have passed the test, and you'd be amazed at how many apprentice Jedi Bar-persons I've been through with that request (though the bears are well-fed, which is nice).

Brew or brew not; there is no "try".

Yours going clean over Zelda's head,
Adrian (May the farce be with you)

pshrynk · 07-12-2009, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Yours going clean over Zelda's head,
Adrian (May the farce be with you)

Well, I've herad that she's sort of short...

zelda_pinwheel · 07-12-2009, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Well, I've herad that she's sort of short...

right. that's my excuse, and i'm sticking with it.

incidentally à propos Miss'Tic graffito : "regardez la réalité en farce."

DixieGal · 07-12-2009, 10:04 AM

Pshrynk got a boat. Nice, but it is interfering with his writing time. Get back to work, Sailor Boy!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-12-2009, 10:09 AM

He could write on the boat!

Mindy · 07-13-2009, 10:27 AM

We might have difficult reading it off the boat. He should stick to just putting the boat's name on the boat.
I think he really needs to come back and right it on here.
Promptly, please.

pshrynk · 07-13-2009, 10:35 AM

Howard Hughes was a very excited man. He was always that way, but today was especially exciting. He walked rapidly through the hallways at Hughes Aircraft and ignored all the secretaries trailing behind him with those annoying memos. If he picked up just omne, then he would be all day going over every one of them in excruciating detail. Then he'd have to wash his hands over and over and over...

He shook his head and picked up the pace as distant cries of, "But Mr Hughes!" faded away behind him.

Finally, he got to the hanger door and walked in to the "Experimental Aircraft" section. There it was... his latest invention. The Flying Boat sat on it's wheels in all it's glory. Twin engines. Cargo bay that converted to seating with just three hours of backbreaking labor. A big aluminum boat welded to the bottom to land on water. And of course the all knew electronics package that was going to revolutionize flying. He practically skipped with joy as he walked up to the mechanics who were putting the finishing touches on her.

"Good morning, Randall! How are things progressing?"

Randall, the only mechanic that Hughes had ever trusted with his aircraft, moved his lips as he tried to figure out the question. "Just fine, Mr Hughes." This was his stock answer most of the time. Randal couldn't stand college boys, but the pay here was good.

"Is she all ready to take up on a trial flight?"

"Certainly, Mr Hughes." Antoher stock answer that never failed.

"And what about the Multi-Axial Reactive Vortex Inertial Navigator?"

Now this Randall was sure of. "I really don't know about that one, Mr Hughes. It seems a bit... depressed."

"Nonsense! How can electronic circuitry be depressed?" Hughes knew very well how flesh and blood circuitry could become depressed and he was damned well sure that the nav system in his new toy had never even met his mother.

"It just seems that way, Mr Hughes."

"Well, let's just hop up and take a look for ourselves, shall we?"

Hughes always loved the thrill of getting into a new aircraft. The smell of leather, the fresh paint, the lack of cracks on the widshield, the absence altogether of any dust dust dust dust anywhere. He pinched his thumb painfully to stop that thought.

"Good morning, Plane!" he shouted when he plopped himself into the pilot's seat.

"I don't know what's so good about it. Just look at those cumulus clouds there in the west. It will be rain before lunch for certain. Not that I should care about lunch. Who is going to remember to feed the autopilot?" said M.A.R.V.I.N.

zelda_pinwheel · 07-13-2009, 10:54 AM

hm, so marvin never met howard hughes' mother... so his bleak outlook on life is still not explained. i guess he's not ready to quit therapy yet, eh ?

badgoodDeb · 07-13-2009, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

In a quiet cantina, far back in the barrios of Havana, a man walked up to the bar. "I need some matches," he said.

"Here you go," said the bartender, sliding a box across the counter.

"No... I need some matches!"

"And there you go!" said the bartender.

"Isn't this the Blue Mongoose Cantina?" asked the man.

"No, this is the Aqua Mongoose Cantina. The Blue Mongoose is across the street and down two doors."

"Right. My fault completely!" The man left the cantina, muttering about the lack of real difference between "blue" and "aqua," especially in a basically illiterate society.

The bartender motioned one of his patrons over to the bar. "Go tell the gate guard at the American Embassy that the Frenchman has arrived."

Well -- maybe a punch line. It is also a direct parallel to the Pratchett book that I have temporarily misplaced (due to other hobbies intruding) and have thus forgotten the title of -- where the "pass-phrase" is said at the wrong place, due to the name being oh-so-close-but-not-quite-right.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-13-2009, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

hm, so marvin never met howard hughes' mother... so his bleak outlook on life is still not explained. i guess he's not ready to quit therapy yet, eh ?

Maybe it's a reaction to Hughes' over-excitable personality?

LazyScot · 07-13-2009, 05:25 PM

Zo, Herr Hughes, tell me vhy you zink your mother is a zource of depression.....

DixieGal · 07-13-2009, 05:30 PM

07-13-2009, 10:35 AM	#145
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Howard Hughes was a very excited man. He was always that way, but today was especially exciting. He walked rapidly through the hallways at Hughes Aircraft and ignored all the secretaries trailing behind him with those annoying memos. If he picked up just omne, then he would be all day going over every one of them in excruciating detail. Then he'd have to wash his hands over and over and over... He shook his head and picked up the pace as distant cries of, "But Mr Hughes!" faded away behind him. Finally, he got to the hanger door and walked in to the "Experimental Aircraft" section. There it was... his latest invention. The Flying Boat sat on it's wheels in all it's glory. Twin engines. Cargo bay that converted to seating with just three hours of backbreaking labor. A big aluminum boat welded to the bottom to land on water. And of course the all knew electronics package that was going to revolutionize flying. He practically skipped with joy as he walked up to the mechanics who were putting the finishing touches on her. "Good morning, Randall! How are things progressing?" Randall, the only mechanic that Hughes had ever trusted with his aircraft, moved his lips as he tried to figure out the question. "Just fine, Mr Hughes." This was his stock answer most of the time. Randal couldn't stand college boys, but the pay here was good. "Is she all ready to take up on a trial flight?" "Certainly, Mr Hughes." Antoher stock answer that never failed. "And what about the Multi-Axial Reactive Vortex Inertial Navigator?" Now this Randall was sure of. "I really don't know about that one, Mr Hughes. It seems a bit... depressed." "Nonsense! How can electronic circuitry be depressed?" Hughes knew very well how flesh and blood circuitry could become depressed and he was damned well sure that the nav system in his new toy had never even met his mother. "It just seems that way, Mr Hughes." "Well, let's just hop up and take a look for ourselves, shall we?" Hughes always loved the thrill of getting into a new aircraft. The smell of leather, the fresh paint, the lack of cracks on the widshield, the absence altogether of any dust dust dust dust anywhere. He pinched his thumb painfully to stop that thought. "Good morning, Plane!" he shouted when he plopped himself into the pilot's seat. "I don't know what's so good about it. Just look at those cumulus clouds there in the west. It will be rain before lunch for certain. Not that I should care about lunch. Who is going to remember to feed the autopilot?" said M.A.R.V.I.N. Last edited by pshrynk; 09-25-2009 at 12:30 PM.

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DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Pshrynk got a boat. Nice, but it is interfering with his writing time. Get back to work, Sailor Boy!

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07-13-2009, 05:25 PM	#149
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	Zo, Herr Hughes, tell me vhy you zink your mother is a zource of depression.....