Unutterably Silly Friday's question of the week 15 aug 08

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Well, they could, but they won't. You see the copyright laws don't suck, they exhibit copyright gravity. If the border patrol collect too many devices together the resultance accumulation of copyright law would cause a nasty copyright and legal black hole. Unlike normal black holes, which sucks in everything, the black hole resulting from a critical mass of unusually copyrighted material sucks in copyright laws and lawyers, and only let out the exceptionally rare anti-particles known as "Common Sense". Now, Tom Paine notwithstanding, the US Government cannot risk either the sudden absense of copyright laws and lawyers, or an uncontrolled release of "Common Sense", and so has instructed all border guards to leave such devices well enough alone.

look out, you're making a bit too much sense there yourself, you may soon be declared a threat to national security.

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

look out, you're making a bit too much sense there yourself, you may soon be declared a threat to national security.

Is that to USofA national security, or Ministry of US national security? One of them is seriously scarey on the basis of the weaponry they can bring to bare on the problem, and the other doesn't have a queen.

[zelda_pinwheel]

well in light of that, are you really sure you want to find out ?

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by RWood

Or when there was a typesetter's strike in LA and they refused to use the letter "C" so they spelled the state's name as "Kalifornia"

No, I'm pretty certain you are thinking of the time that the Bill the Cat Collective took over the entire state, banned the letter "O" and they had to call it "Califurnia."

[montsnmags]

I can't believe the amount of misleading legal information, paranoia, naive "it doesn't affect me" attitude, vitriol and ego-laden rhetoric in this thread! I've read it all, and it beggars belief that it can go on so long when the answer is so blindingly obvious to anyone with an ounce of insight and investigative abilities. So, since you all seem incapable of that, I've gone through the thread, the border laws, copyright laws, and amazonial EULAAAAAAHHHHH!, and it clearly indicates the following...



Fire on the mountain. Run, boys, run.
The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun.
Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough.
Granny, does your dog bite? No, child, no.



Now can leave aside this stupid bickering and get onto more important things, like the rest of the song...



The devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat.
And he laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet.
Johnny said, "Devil, just come on back if you ever want to try again.
'Cause I told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best that's ever been."

Cheers,
Marc (Where's my iPod Touch? I've gotta go buy a song...)

[GeoffC]

Silly people, it is the commas that are causing the problem.

See too many writers are using them as , in sentences. Now when the legislators come to write the laws etc they find they do not have sufficient quantity of , so they have started to use ' instead. Now as you know the ' has no tail on it so it has to be dragged down to the bottom of the line and as it does so it stretches in a slight curve as it becomes a ,

So what does this mean well the apostrophe is used as a psuedo comma and increasingly as a speech mark " which of course looks like a double apostrophe.

Add onto this the increasing use of potato's sweet's tomato's it's and of course the Friday questions (all those friday's!) everything is beginning to edge towards crisis such that each country is now trying to stop people taking e-books out of their country where they may transfer their stories to other machines without the necessary export licences.

And of course the problem has got worse with the Internet as it allows free exchange of punctuation marks with absolutely no check on them at all. Increasing the number of webpages has caused occasional runs on the dot and this has in certain situations meant the comma has to be used but minus its tail.
Now we have all these tails hanging around with nowhere to go but to wiggle their way through the ether. (the tails in case you were wondering can't be stitched onto the apostrophe for a comma because they are too independent and fight like cats and dog if you try).
If you find a webpage doesn't load properly then you may find you are using one of these dots made by castrating the poor comma.

It is a veritable crisis they have on their hands an overabundance of laws and legislation is directly proportional to the increaded use of the comma and even simple writers like myself have a great deal of difficulty in writing sentences without the little old pause statement....

woe is me woe for the world....

(stupid boy)

[The Skwerl]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Aw, c'mon, folks! This is an UNUTTERABLY SILLY thread! If I wanted the overly serious approach, I'd've gone to the abundance in other fora.


Silly! Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Si lly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Sill y!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly! Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Si lly!Silly!Silly!Silly!Silly!

I'm sorry didn't realize you wanted something different.

[RWood]

So a pshrynk wanders in to ....

(no, this is not a traveling salesman joke.)

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I can't believe the amount of misleading legal information, paranoia, naive "it doesn't affect me" attitude, vitriol and ego-laden rhetoric in this thread! I've read it all, and it beggars belief that it can go on so long when the answer is so blindingly obvious to anyone with an ounce of insight and investigative abilities. So, since you all seem incapable of that, I've gone through the thread, the border laws, copyright laws, and amazonial EULAAAAAAHHHHH!, and it clearly indicates the following...



Fire on the mountain. Run, boys, run.
The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun.
Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough.
Granny, does your dog bite? No, child, no.



Now can leave aside this stupid bickering and get onto more important things, like the rest of the song...



The devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat.
And he laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet.
Johnny said, "Devil, just come on back if you ever want to try again.
'Cause I told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best that's ever been."

Cheers,
Marc (Where's my iPod Touch? I've gotta go buy a song...)

Well, I nevah!!! I simply nevvvah!! That the Son of OZ would stoop to calling us paranoid. US?? PARANOID?? (Oh, crap .... I forgot to check my shoes for scorpions this morning ... what if they're IN THERE RIGHT NOW, plotting my demise????)

In ANY event, the only proper reply for your idiotic tirade, is:

here's a llama
there's a llama
and another little llama
fuzzy llama
funny llama
llama llama
duck

llama llama
cheesecake
llama
tablet
brick
potato
llama
llama llama
mushroom
llama
llama llama
duck

i was once a treehouse
i lived in a cake
but i never saw the way
the orange slayed the rake
i was only three years dead
but it told a tale
and now listen, little child
to the safety rail

did you ever see a llama
kiss a llama
on the llama
llama's llama
tastes of llama
llama llama
duck

half a llama
twice the llama
not a llama
farmer
llama
llama in a car
alarm a llama
llama
duck

is THIS how it's told now?
is it all so old?
is it made of lemon juice?
doorknob
ankle
cold
now my song is getting thin
i've run out of luck
time for me to retire now
and become a duck

HA!!! There, I've run rings around you logically!!! And using only a llama, a duck, and this trusty paperclip!!

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

...
HA!!! There, I've run rings around you logically!!! And using only a llama, a duck, and this trusty paperclip!!

Ahh, I see you've fallen for the usual assumption, and assumed that the "logic" of such matters begins and ends with the Bill of Ducks and The Declaration of Llamapendence. While I will put aside what should be unforgivable references to Clippy, I do humbly respect the near-supreme importance of the above documents, with their positing of self-evident truths such as "Is it made of lemon juice? Doorknob. Ankle. Cold" and "The orange slayed the rake". Truly, it is philosophy as poetry.

However, one must occasionally remove one's cultural blinkers and see that there are other truths outside that are perhaps even more supreme and just.

For instance...

Yam! Bam! mon chat Splash
Git sur mon lit a bouffe
sa langue en buvant tout mon whisky
quant a moi peu dormi, vide, brime
J'ai du dormir dans la gouttiere
Ou j'ai eu un flash *
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
En quatre couleurs *"

Allez hop! un matin
Une louloute est venue chez-moi
Poupee de cellophane, cheveux chinois
un sparadrap, une gueule de bois
a bu ma biere dans un grand verre en caoutchouc
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Comme un indien dans son igloo

Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca plane pour moi
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi

Allez hop! la nana quel panard!
Quelle vibration!
de s'envoyer sur le paillasson
Limee, ruinee, videe, comblee
You are the King of the divan!
Qu'elle me dit en passant
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!



You see? It is inarguable, for, indeed, I am...

Yours respectfully,
The King of the Divan

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Ahh, I see you've fallen for the usual assumption, and assumed that the "logic" of such matters begins and ends with the Bill of Ducks and The Declaration of Llamapendence. While I will put aside what should be unforgivable references to Clippy, I do humbly respect the near-supreme importance of the above documents, with their positing of self-evident truths such as "Is it made of lemon juice? Doorknob. Ankle. Cold" and "The orange slayed the rake". Truly, it is philosophy as poetry.

However, one must occasionally remove one's cultural blinkers and see that there are other truths outside that are perhaps even more supreme and just.

For instance...

Yam! Bam! mon chat Splash
Git sur mon lit a bouffe
sa langue en buvant tout mon whisky
quant a moi peu dormi, vide, brime
J'ai du dormir dans la gouttiere
Ou j'ai eu un flash *
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
En quatre couleurs *"

Allez hop! un matin
Une louloute est venue chez-moi
Poupee de cellophane, cheveux chinois
un sparadrap, une gueule de bois
a bu ma biere dans un grand verre en caoutchouc
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Comme un indien dans son igloo

Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca plane pour moi
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi

Allez hop! la nana quel panard!
Quelle vibration!
de s'envoyer sur le paillasson
Limee, ruinee, videe, comblee
You are the King of the divan!
Qu'elle me dit en passant
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!



You see? It is inarguable, for, indeed, I am...

Yours respectfully,
The King of the Divan

Huh .... it seems to me that the only cat drunk on whiskey around here is named Bill. So, I do not think the analogy is at all apt. Aside from which, since Norway is now knighting penguins, it is clear to me that the rest of you have all gone barking mad. Of course, that's only my opinion, but there's a llama standing behind you with a loaded gun who will enforce my opinion if necessary. Mwwwaaaahhhhhhaaaaaaa!!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Aside from which, since Norway is now knighting penguins, it is clear to me that the rest of you have all gone barking mad.

FIRST PRIZE in the "funniest non sequitur when taken out of context" contest !!

[RWood]

Penguins bark? I thought trees bark.

[BookishDreamer]

Nils is a king penguin, so isn't the knighthood a demotion?

Dreamer

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

Nils is a king penguin, so isn't the knighthood a demotion?

Dreamer

I say, wot wot?? I think you may be on to something there. Hrumpf, hrumpf. Wot?