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« Reply #77 on: 18:12:21, 01-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #78 on: 18:21:49, 01-08-2007 » |
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Mind you, Max did still have all four legs, not just the three.
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« Reply #79 on: 18:33:02, 01-08-2007 » |
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Evan, maybe my brain has become dislocated but I don't understand a word of that Wiki entry. No soap radio (often No soap, radio, No Soap Radio, sometimes "No soap... radio?", "No soap. Radio!") is the traditional punch line for a type of prank joke which has a body not directly related to the punch line itself, but is made as if to be humorous by participants in a prank. The first known reference to this form of anti-humor was in the late 1940s. [1]
The joke is notable for its use as a basic sociological and psychological experiment, specifically relating to mob mentality and the pressure to conform. The basic setup is similar to the Asch conformity experiments, in which they test people's proclivity to agree with a group despite their own judgments. Huh?!? And as for this: For some reason, they often involve animals in bathtubs. ... I'm speechless! |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #80 on: 18:49:00, 01-08-2007 » |
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Nope. No-one nearly as illustrious. Somebody local - amazingly. Poor kid, you can imagine what he went through at school.
I also knew when I was a child, a tiny, puny boy with specs called...Garth. Somehow it didn't fit. One of my stepsons insisted on naming one of his five boys "Wayne" (sob  ) and as our surname begins with 'C' his initials aren't the most wonderful. I did beg, plead, remonstrate, but he was insistent and went ahead with it I'm afraid. Again, he goes through hell at school. Why don't people think of the consequences? |
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« Reply #81 on: 20:01:50, 01-08-2007 » |
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Evan, maybe my brain has become dislocated but I don't understand a word of that Wiki entry. No soap radio (often No soap, radio, No Soap Radio, sometimes "No soap... radio?", "No soap. Radio!") is the traditional punch line for a type of prank joke which has a body not directly related to the punch line itself, but is made as if to be humorous by participants in a prank. The first known reference to this form of anti-humor was in the late 1940s. [1]
The joke is notable for its use as a basic sociological and psychological experiment, specifically relating to mob mentality and the pressure to conform. The basic setup is similar to the Asch conformity experiments, in which they test people's proclivity to agree with a group despite their own judgments. Huh?!? And as for this: For some reason, they often involve animals in bathtubs. ... I'm speechless! Well, no, it's not the world's best written patch of prose, is it. The idea, as I gather, is simply that a bunch of people pick their rube, invite them to hear a joke, and then all laugh uproariously at the punchline "No soap, radio," which is in fact nonsensical but the rube laughs anyway because he doesn't want to let on that he doesn't get what's so funny. Anyway. Back to the topic at hand. What was it again? Yes. Names. |
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« Reply #82 on: 20:59:24, 01-08-2007 » |
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Um....what's a rube, please?
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« Reply #83 on: 21:13:16, 01-08-2007 » |
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Um....what's a rube, please?
Oops, perhaps I failed to clarify, then, if that's an opaque Americanism  "rube" = the butt of a joke or victim of a scam, with implications of cluelessness, naivete, etc. Derivation unknown (at least to me) |
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« Reply #84 on: 21:19:01, 01-08-2007 » |
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Nope. No-one nearly as illustrious. Somebody local - amazingly. Poor kid, you can imagine what he went through at school.
I also knew when I was a child, a tiny, puny boy with specs called...Garth. Somehow it didn't fit. One of my stepsons insisted on naming one of his five boys "Wayne" (sob ) and as our surname begins with 'C' his initials aren't the most wonderful. I did beg, plead, remonstrate, but he was insistent and went ahead with it I'm afraid. Again, he goes through hell at school. Why don't people think of the consequences? Well at least he could use Winston Churchill's dressing room without having to change the sign on the door! ;-D |
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« Reply #85 on: 21:36:33, 01-08-2007 » |
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The trouble is he can use a lot of rooms without changing the sign on the door!  |
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« Reply #86 on: 21:37:49, 01-08-2007 » |
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I read in Private Eye today about problems surrounding Wexford Opera and a man called Michael Hunt.
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« Reply #88 on: 22:11:24, 01-08-2007 » |
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Um....what's a rube, please?
Oops, perhaps I failed to clarify, then, if that's an opaque Americanism "rube" = the butt of a joke or victim of a scam, with implications of cluelessness, naivete, etc. Derivation unknown (at least to me) I'd never heard of it either but according to the OED it comes from Reuben i.e., ahem, the sort of name than naive country bumpkins give to their their naive country bumpkin children, you naughty patronising city-dwelling Americans you. On the plus side though that does mean it is squarely within the topic of this thread  . I believe I might have mentioned this before but I really, really did know someone who became (by marriage) Fanny Tickler. |
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« Reply #89 on: 02:06:54, 02-08-2007 » |
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Um....what's a rube, please?
Oops, perhaps I failed to clarify, then, if that's an opaque Americanism "rube" = the butt of a joke or victim of a scam, with implications of cluelessness, naivete, etc. Derivation unknown (at least to me) I'd never heard of it either but according to the OED it comes from Reuben i.e., ahem, the sort of name than naive country bumpkins give to their their naive country bumpkin children, you naughty patronising city-dwelling Americans you. On the plus side though that does mean it is squarely within the topic of this thread . I believe I might have mentioned this before but I really, really did know someone who became (by marriage) Fanny Tickler. What a Maroon! |
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