My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Ship's Locker   » Limbo   » Circus: Use that phrase (Page 4) 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 Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        Fred liked to discuss his finances but kept forgetting which words he should use so as an amnesiac solubility was what he tended to say rather than solvency. infinite mumps -------------------- "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                        "I'll try to remember to be good," the boy said, "but what if I forget and won't let the doctor give me my shots; will you still tell the doctor to give me infinite mumps?" undulating chitin -------------------- 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 I feel like such an undulating chitin. Spaghetti jest -------------------- 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 Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        (you feel like a wiggly bit of bug exoskeleton?) -------------------- 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 Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Most people are not aware that an integral part of the Flying Monster penitential liturgy is the Litany of the Spaghetti Jest. Picasso pickax -------------------- "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 Stetson Shipmate # 9597 Posted                       Always happy to accept assistance from his fellow Spanish Communists, Ramon Mercader took out Leon Trotky with a cubist-style Picasso pickax. Christocentric ballerinas [ 02. September 2011, 21:26: 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 Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        What I know about interpretative dance could go on the back of an anorexic postage stamp, but I suspect it's best left to Christocentric ballerinas. Neolithic estate agents -------------------- 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 Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        At the neolithic estate, agents pointed out the property's millennial soundness, total greeness, and how recent trends had definitely turned to the "distressed" look. bowling for weasels -------------------- "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                        Apparently Shane Warne has written an autobiographical book on his craft, it is called Bowling for Weasels. disobedient house-elf -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       Harry Potter was annoyed with the disobedient house-elf. Forever motivation -------------------- 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 Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        Those "inspirational" speeches seemed to go on forever; motivation like that just doesn't work on me. Pixillated squirrels -------------------- 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 Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        Ah, the joys of being a grandparent - if only their favourite movie did NOT involve pixilated squirrels and chipmunks that have inhaled too much helium. cuddly sharpshooters -------------------- 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 Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          Come and play Teddy Wars! Where cuddly sharpshooters vie with each other to take over the woods today, and turn them into one enormous, chequered cloth-covered picnic site! supercilious barnacles [ 04. September 2011, 15:39: Message edited by: Chorister ] -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        He looked over the courtiers and shook his head; "What a bunch of supercilious barnacles who couldn't do a useful thing to save their lives!" incorruptible grittiness -------------------- 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 Jengie jon Semper Reformanda # 273 Posted                           After his years working the docks in Livepool and delivering coal to Newcastle he had developed an incorruptible grittiness that no amount of time in southern climes seemed to reduce. trumpet grind -------------------- "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 Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           Trumpet grind is not a good setting for making coffee. funicular ferrets -------------------- 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                        While ascending the Bergen Fløybanen funicular, ferrets were the last thing I expected to see. fundamental Rotarian -------------------- 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 Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        My father was not a fundamental Rotarian, he was a smells and bells Rotarian. glutinous gas -------------------- 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                        He had a distressing party trick of shoving bubble gum up his backside and then farting in the hope of inflating a glutinous gas balloon. freefall finality -------------------- "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                        It was only after he had jumped out of the aircraft that forgetful John recognised the freefall finality of his situation, as he thought of the parachute he had left in the hangar. meretricious hedgehog Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged EtymologicalEvangelical Shipmate # 15091 Posted                        What was Pete thinking of, when he donned a gaudy outfit full of spikes for the fancy dress ball? Because he looked rather silly when all the spikes fell out on the dancefloor. Someone called him "the meretricious hedgehog", an epithet for which he only had himself to blame! theatrically plasticizing [ 05. September 2011, 18:28: Message edited by: EtymologicalEvangelical ] -------------------- 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 Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           In the scenery shop, Burt was theatrically plasticizing the figurines that were used in the distance shots of the Snow White live-action re-make. underwater basketweaving -------------------- 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 WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       Running out of ideas to try, somebody suggested underwater basket weaving. Suddenly waterlillies -------------------- 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 Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        The drought broke, and suddenly waterlillies filled every waterhole across the Top End. [you need to live here to appreciate how true that can be] partial pregnancy -------------------- 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                           partial pregnancy does not exitst - it's malarkey Dopey dumbwaiters [ 05. September 2011, 23:42: Message edited by: Sir Kevin ] -------------------- 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                        In the Edifice of Machina nobody respected the dopey dumbwaiters: not the sonorous sound system, the express elevators, nor the shimmering chandeliers. vegetable pickpockets -------------------- "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 Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        Using genetically-modified asparagus as vegetable pickpockets was Fagin's latest devilish scheme; he would then steam and eat the perpetrators so they could never grass. photographic applications -------------------- "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                        I can think of many exciting videographic and photographic applications for a light robot that moves to follow voice commands. burning igloo (unmixed code) [ 08. September 2011, 11:07: Message edited by: Chorister ] -------------------- 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                        It seemed strange to George that there should bea burning igloo on the lawn in front of the Shopping Centre, until he realised that in fact it was part of an advertising display for ice-cream, constructed out of highly-flammable polystyrene blocks. He called the Fire Brigade before things got any worse. Allegorical exfoliation Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       I said 'go for allegorical exfoliation, not literal exfoliation'. Sunset critters -------------------- 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 Pre-cambrian Shipmate # 2055 Posted                        Every sunset critters along the length of the western seaboard would gather on the shore and bow as the flaming Great Sun Bear completed its descent into the waters. bijou skyscraper -------------------- "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                        1 Bligh St is truly a bijou skyscraper! fractured perfection -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       It was incomplete, a sort of fractured perfection. Lazy spikes -------------------- 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 Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        At the beginning of the day, his mohawk stabbed at the sky with angry needles that were full of defiant challenge, but after a long humid sweaty day, his head was covered with rather lazy spikes that seemed more eager to flop their way to bed on his shoulders than anything else. defiant homonyms [ 08. September 2011, 19:42: Message edited by: Gwai ] -------------------- 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                           Defiant homonyms only annoy me with their churlishness. Frumpy fantasies -------------------- 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                        Because she was so frumpy, fantasies were about as close as she got. electromagnetic dustbin -------------------- 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 Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        I knew that I had reached the depths of insomnia, when I realized I had watched the entire length of an info-mercial on a new electromagnetic dustbin. blindsided by a billabong -------------------- "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 Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       The Australian Rugby Team's adaptation of the national song to include 'blindsided by a billabong' was felt to be going a bit far. hermetic frisbee Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        When Saint Alopecia the Eremite* found the solitary life a bit dull, he entertained himself with a hermetic frisbee. * who doesn't really exist - I made him up ... pre-Raphaelite freemasonry -------------------- 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 Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The exact history is difficult to trace due to the ancient society's noted reserve, but there emerged in the late nineteenth century a Pre-Raphaelite freemasony off-shoot, distinctive for the peacock feather motif on their aprons and a preference for new members married to anorectic women with luxuriant ginger hair. elegiac gaspers -------------------- "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 Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       The Acute Pulmonary Ward was a place of elegaic gaspers, wheezing against the dying of the light. buttered antimacassars Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        Now honey, I know you warned me your brother's children aren't as well behaved as we'd like, but this is more than I can take: it appears that your delightful nephew has gone so far as that in our living room alone we have buttered antimacassars, a buttered golden retriever, and a buttered side table! -------------------- 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                           What's next, Gwai? -------------------- 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 Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        Sorry! apologetic antelopes -------------------- 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 Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        While the harried guide in the broken-down jeep waxed apologetic, antelopes and zebras grazed the savanna nearby unconcerned. illiterate chemistry -------------------- "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 Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          Although he was illiterate, chemistry between Lady Fenella and Joe Bloggs ensured that their marriage was highly successful. sublime garbage -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        More and more artists are turning their attention and skill upon what we throw away; which is why the exhibition "Sublime Garbage" has been such a tipping success. cold-hearted pyroclast -------------------- 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 Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        To the cold-hearted, pyroclast might be just the thing they're looking for: a spot of heat. unfettered stoicism -------------------- 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 WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       After the accident, the bystanders showed unfettered stoicism. Mushroom warfare -------------------- 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 agrgurich Shipmate # 5724 Posted                        The Great Fungi Attack started the mushroom warfare. annoyed rutabaga -------------------- 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 Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7    Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0