My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Ship's Locker   » Limbo   » Circus: Use that phrase (Page 3) Email this page to a friend or enemy.   Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7    Source: (consider it) Thread: Circus: Use that phrase Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        When it's summer in Australia, maybe it's better not to be orienting outside. gutless VC winner -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        "So," the gutless VC winner said, "I probably am the only person to be recommended for the Victoria Cross under false pretenses because of who I slept with." hungry terriyaki -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Zeke Ship's Inquirer # 3271 Posted                        When one is especially hungry, teriyaki and other Asian dishes can be attractive. (Not one of my better efforts) Refined square [ 29. August 2011, 18:03: Message edited by: Zeke ] -------------------- No longer the Bishop of Durham ----------- If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin Posts: 5259 | From: Deep in the American desert | Registered: Sep 2002  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       The refined square was where everyone wanted to be. Sugar redundancy -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        When she accidentally added a packet of C&H to her sweet tea, she found herself with a bad case of sugar redundancy. banana trilogy -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Jengie jon Semper Reformanda # 273 Posted                           Jack as he slowly worked his way through writing the covering letter to the next publisher, pondered the important issue on whether he should call his novel set in the Carribean Plantation the first instalment of a "rum trilogy" or a "banana trilogy", the fact that he had no clue how to take it any further did not seem to both him. spoiled academic -------------------- "To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge Back to my blog Posts: 20894 | From: city of steel, butterflies and rainbows | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged joan knox Knoxy is my homeboy # 16100 Posted                       Having been used to RAE, the spoiled academic threw her toys out of the research pram hoping it would make suitable enough 'impact' for the REF. accidental halibut [ 29. August 2011, 21:20: Message edited by: joan knox ] -------------------- Jesus saves, Allah protects, Buddha enlightens, Cthulhu thinks you'll make a nice sandwich Posts: 906 | From: edinburgh | Registered: Dec 2010  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        The part-ichthyologist part-artist meant to draw a lemon sole, but her drawing was a little off, so she created an accidental halibut. porcine headache -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           The prize hog developed a porcine headache and Alistair knew nothing about it. coarse dive -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Stetson Shipmate # 9597 Posted                       Having to listen to this over and over again would give one a porcine headache. Beat to the punch by Sir Kev. I'll leave my sentence up, but go with his phrase for the next sentence. [ 29. August 2011, 22:49: Message edited by: Stetson ] -------------------- I have the power...Lucifer is lord! Posts: 6574 | From: back and forth between bible belts | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Art's Bar and Grill is a coarse dive that serves the best Philly cheese-steak sandwiches and Irish nachos. narcissistic weather balloon -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        We found that the narcissistic weather balloon was rather inflated with its own self importance. healthy cigarette -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           In order to stay healthy, cigarette smoking is out! funicular courgette -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        The distinctive green colour of the carriages had earned the cable car in the Italian alpine resort of Zucchini the nickname of the "funicular courgette". substance evaluation -------------------- "We cannot leave the appointment of Bishops to the Holy Ghost, because no one is confident that the Holy Ghost would understand what makes a good Church of England bishop." Posts: 2314 | From: Croydon | Registered: Dec 2001  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        Despite saying he hadn't taken any such substance, first he had to breathe into the thingie then he had to walk a line, and do a few other things before he could be said to have passed his substance evaluation. clever brick -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Although the Dean of Physics was extremely clever, brick-laying was clearly not one of his strengths. Nominative erudition Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Bos Loquax Shipmate # 16602 Posted                        The Pope was invited to display some nominative erudition, but he declined. fallow parenthesis Posts: 58 | From: California | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       As the fields remained fallow, parenthesis was no longer needed. Chicken dynamite -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Bos Loquax Shipmate # 16602 Posted                        Our highly intelligent but sadly unoriginal rooster is best known for chicken dynamite and the Pulletzer Prize. baroque mousetrap Posts: 58 | From: California | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           The baroque mousetrap is an ineffective device, Dame Judi Dench -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Dame Judi Dench has shown remarkable breadth in playing queens: from the sizzle of a body-painted Titania, Queen of the Fairies to the forged steel of Elizabeth I. oxblood trifle -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        In fact the favourite dessert of Elizabeth I was oxblood trifle. sympathetic disarray -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        When Sharon went to see the latest Tracey Emin exhibition she ended up scattering her clothes around the gallery in sympathetic disarray. competent authority -------------------- "We cannot leave the appointment of Bishops to the Holy Ghost, because no one is confident that the Holy Ghost would understand what makes a good Church of England bishop." Posts: 2314 | From: Croydon | Registered: Dec 2001  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        Where I live, competent authority is an oxymoron. everyday vernacular -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        In order to be more relevant, the Parish Priest decided to ditch the use of everyday vernacular English in Church and hold the services in Church Slavonic instead. ocular misogyny Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged EtymologicalEvangelical Shipmate # 15091 Posted                        Fred was a strange sort. He had plenty of female friends, but they were all online - "e-pen pals", in other words. But he just couldn't bear the sight of them in real life. Did he have some visual aversion to the female form? Such ocular misogyny is really almost unthinkable! luxuriously debouch -------------------- You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        Despite the comforts of her amazing house, the celebrity knew it was time to luxuriously debouch via the front door. healthy sneeze -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       Sometimes my allergies cause a healthy sneeze. Riotous late -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       As the old saw has it: 'Go early in peace And your life will increase. Be riotous late And your life will abate.' intellectual sausage Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        His philosophical inspirations were varied: Hegel, The Simpsons, Alfred the Great and the Dalai Lama among others. When these ingredients were forced together into one homogeneous and indissoluble mass, they turned into a kind of unpalatable intellectual sausage. Inherent Cantabrigian [ 31. August 2011, 17:51: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ] Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       'I think it's fair to say' remarked the historian 'that since then there has been an inherent Cantabrigian distaste for murdering archbishops.' colliding dandelions Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged agrgurich Shipmate # 5724 Posted                        During the earthquake, plants were colliding, dandelions swaying back and forth. scarlet Prussians -------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole AJG Posts: 4478 | From: Michigan's Copper Country | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        When it was later discovered how close they were to Napoleon's HQ, there were some very scarlet Prussians. accidental clerestory -------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed. Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005  |  IP: Logged Persephone Hazard Ship's Wench # 4648 Posted                           We hadn't meant to do it. Our intentions had been sound, of course, but...well, we all know what architects are like. Three bottles of Chablis later and the accidental clerestory was there, literally set in stone, for all to see. unexcogitable screen -------------------- A picture is worth a thousand words, but it's a lot easier to make up a thousand words than one decent picture. - ken. Posts: 1645 | From: London | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Stetson Shipmate # 9597 Posted                       For many years, the unexcogitable screen was the major stumbling block in keeping flies and other insects out of homes. Caligulaesque Methodists [ 01. September 2011, 01:00: Message edited by: Stetson ] -------------------- I have the power...Lucifer is lord! Posts: 6574 | From: back and forth between bible belts | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        I've heard that in Montana there is a sect of Caligulaesque Methodists who vote for their horses in Senate elections. Crepuscular noon -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        The dust and smoke from the eruption had so blotted out the sun that there was a strangely crepuscular noon that day. Exegetical aviary Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged EtymologicalEvangelical Shipmate # 15091 Posted                        The birdwatching-mad professor gave all his students nicknames which reflected their character: 'hawk' was a particularly penetrating exegete, 'dove' was more easy-going on the text, while 'vulture'... errm, say no more! Not surprisingly the theology faculty came to be known as "the exegetical aviary". vacantly exfoliate -------------------- You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        Bertrand was so tied up in his philosophical musings that he would stand in front of the mirror in the morning and vacantly exfoliate for hours. hirsute imagery -------------------- "We cannot leave the appointment of Bishops to the Holy Ghost, because no one is confident that the Holy Ghost would understand what makes a good Church of England bishop." Posts: 2314 | From: Croydon | Registered: Dec 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        PETA protested outside the gallery displaying the artist's new oeuvre: hirsute imagery in relief cut from muskoxen hides. mutated baby's breath -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        Jim took such good care of his garden, but even he couldn't stop the nuclear radiation, and although he evacuated with everyone else, they say his garden is still full of mutated baby's breath. arrhythmic paradiddle -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Members of the choir, not used to the freeform Pentecostal style of "singing in the Spirit" being promoted by the new Vicar, joined in hesitantly with various styles of arrhythmic paradiddle. Antiochean elephant Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       What's that? It is an Antiochean elephant. Rumbling Monday -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Jack's pantry and frig having been emptied over the weekend by his voracious mates, his stomach was rumbling Monday morning. gloriously breaking cars -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        The director of The Blues Brothers revelled in gloriously breaking cars - a whole fleet of them - wrecked with such joyous good humour that you just knew he'd played at this as a kid with his brother's Matchbox collection. Steely humility -------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed. Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           I see a sort of steely humility in the famous admiral. semiliterate peanutbutter -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        Even to the semiliterate, peanut butter on a Jacob's Cream Cracker™ can be regarded as a Jolly Good Thing. Do we have to use the phrase that comes up when you click the phrase generator thingy? If so, then: Integral developing -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        In speaking to the bemused members of the PCC, the Diocesan Management Advisor made it very clear to them that the "integral developing" method of church administration was far preferable to the "disintegrated shambolic" pattern which they had hitherto operated. Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        Can we have a new phrase please? -------------------- "We cannot leave the appointment of Bishops to the Holy Ghost, because no one is confident that the Holy Ghost would understand what makes a good Church of England bishop." Posts: 2314 | From: Croydon | Registered: Dec 2001  |  IP: Logged Baptist Trainfan Shipmate # 15128 Posted                        Sorry, forgot. What about amnesiac solubility? 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