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Firenze
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That's it - ignore the inestimable contribution of bears to literature. They're just nameless nonenties good for a bit of slapstick chasing in your book (or play). What about Paddington? And Pooh? And Rupert?
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Bean Sidhe
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And who are you to presume they've never chased anyone? Cute and cuddly they may be, but I never met a bear who didn't enjoy a good pursue. OK, I never met a bear of any sort, but I'll bet those guys have had a laugh or three when nobody's looking.
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Dafyd
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Pixar's new film Brave is its first to have a female protagonist. The repeated failure of anyone to mention the film while on the subject of bears is clearly an attempt to get rid of female protagonists. You're all plotting to relegate female characters back to the sphere of love interest or sidekick to the boys.
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Sylvander
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No, Dafyd, what you mean is beavers, not bears. Please keep this thread focused, once it seems to have found a topic that is clean (albeit potentially unhealthy. I wouldn't want to know what would happen to a bear devouring a giant Bean).
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Rowen
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And what is wrong with good old beans, I'd like to know.
Nothing better than a plate with a healthy helping of beans on it, for dinner.
So, now we are being told what not to eat?
Hmmmmph.
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Leaf
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I really must protest your detestable hmphing. If you are not articulate enough to voice your offense, perhaps you could resort to a smilie? A selection is provided nearby for your convenience. Otherwise kindly cease and desist from that horrible throat-snorting noise.
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Welease Woderwick
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Do we really have to suffer the tautology of "cease and desist"? It is a bit superfluous and is a massive waste of electrons who might otherwise be running my washing machine.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Ariston
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Oh come now. I thought everybody knew about reading the charges against you in both Ango-Saxon and Norman French. "Cease and desist," like "assault and battery," is perhaps the earliest example in English of inclusive language, and you want to put an end to it? Even Billy the Bastard was more enlightened than that back in 1066.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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It's William the Bastard, I'd have you know. What right have you to be so over-familiar with 11th century warlords?
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Rowen
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Right, pick upon the bastards.
Why mention their birth circumstances? Poor innocents. They can't help their lack of wedded parents.
No need to baldly state what is what....
Le us just be pleasant and polite, ok?
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Sylvander
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quote:
Originally posted by Rowen:
Le us just be pleasant and polite, ok?
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) I urgently request the installation of a faint! smiley. Plonk!
Remember: You should be offended, not deliberately gross, you dis-brained tadpole!
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justlooking
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quote:
Originally posted by Rowen:
....No need to baldly state what is what....
Le us just be pleasant and polite, ok?
So bald people are unpleasant and impolite? Is that what you're saying? I have certainly come across a few deeply unpleasant baldies but have encountered the same degree of unpleasantless among those with abundant hair. Hair has nothing to do with it IMHO.
(I've skipped the above post because there's no unintended offence in it - it's all intended to give offence)
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Bean Sidhe
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You stick up for bald people, then call them 'baldies'?? Hoist by your own, I'd say ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Danny DeVito
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Starbug
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Hoist by your own what? Certainly not by your own hair if justlooking is sticking up for bald people. Finish your sentences, please. Are you expecting us to guess what you're trying so unelequently to say?
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justlooking
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I am offended anyone on these boards wouldn't know the word 'petard' and what is being refered to in the well-known (to some) saying of being hoist by one's own petard. This is what comes of not having a thesaurus and complete works of Shakespeare to hand.
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kingsfold
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What makes you think I need a thesaurus or the complete works of Shakespeare? I'm already quite familiar with the phrase "hoist by one's own petard."
There are many things of which I'm ignorant, but I can really do without you ascribing to me more ignorance than is my due.
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Bean Sidhe
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How much ignorance are you due, Kingsfold? I mean we're all ignorant of so much, as Socrates well knew, but it's rather strange to think one has a quota of ignorance by right. Do you wake up some mornings and think 'I'm entitled to more ignorance'? What do you do about it? Take brain-damaging quantities of class A drugs? Stick a hatpin up your nose and try to knock out some relevant neurons? Stay drunk all the time? So awful of you to encourage such things.
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Danny DeVito
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TomOfTarsus
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I could scream like a banshee at Bean Sidhe's post! Assuming I'm ignorant of sooooo much! And trotting Socrates out to boot, so taking the pedantic and self-abasing route at the same time! "See how much I know! We're all so ignorant - except me, of course because I know Socrates!"
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Starbug
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Speak for yourself, TomOfTarsus - I am entirely ignorant of Socrates!
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Sylvander
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Yeah, I haven't met him either. Isn't he dead or something? All these assumptions are offensive.
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TomOfTarsus
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I am truly deeply offended that you think I'm dead. Does a dead man type so eloquently?
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Dafyd
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What's offensive about being dead? This is discrimination against vampires, zombies and mummies.
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lilBuddha
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Now I am confused. ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Shakespeare is a zombie? Tom of Taursus claiming to be The Bard? What do vampires have to do with our mums?
Side note to ToT: if you are Shakespeare, I now give full credence to those alternate theories.
And apologise to their proponents. I have called them fools; classless, classist moronic dweebs; nimrods with naught but two brain cells, incommunicado; a picnic minus a sandwich, blanket and picnic; etc. And now I must, well no, I do not rescind any of that, it is all true. But I must concede they might be broken clock correct. Unless! Unless zombie Shakespeare's brain has deteriorated to the point of writing such drivel as Tom's....No! Not possible. Nothing deteriorates that far.
[ 10. August 2012, 17:28: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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Hallellou, hallellou
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TomOfTarsus
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Socrates! Not Shakespeare! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Starbug
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I am offended on behalf of dead people whose names don't begin with 'S'. All this talk of Shakespeare and Socrates is discriminatory - other initial letters are available!
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“Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor
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lilBuddha
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I am offended, sirrah, that you have hacked into the SOF servers to change the several posts preceding mine so as to discredit me. You are indeed a base knave.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Enigma
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On behalf of many of those afloat on the ship I am mightily offended at any suggestion of hacking in these safe waters. Whatever are you thinking??
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Welease Woderwick
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I am aghast at the implication that Shipmates should think before posting - you only have to look in Hell to see that this rarely occurs!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
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Now you're condemning us to Hell for simple mistakes? I shall no longer refer to you as a kindly duffer.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm offended/disgusted/distraught [delete as necessary] that you ever did!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Sylvander
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Well, THANK YOU.
I tried to do as instructed and delete as appropriate but could not access your post without hacking. Now look at the mess I made of my screen!
It's not offensive, it is shocking.
Next time you want us to "delete or tick as appropriate" please post your PW, too.
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Bean Sidhe
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Please don't shout, Syllie, even if it is to offer a very necessary 'thank you'. It's late, I've been drinking red wine and now you've given me a headache.
![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
Does anyone have paracetamol?
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Danny DeVito
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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A hangover is its own reward, Beanie. Consider the wrath of the grape part of your just deserts for being a lush. I'm offended you would pass up such an excellent reminder that vices bring about their own rewards, but would instead ask for us to bail you out. I think I'm going to need another caipirinha to deal with the outrage.
Oh, and no posting while drunk.
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Bean Sidhe
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Did I say I was drunk? The nerve of you! I can hold my liquor. AND I made Mass at 8am this morning.
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Danny DeVito
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Sylvander
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You made Massachussetts in a morning before 8 a.m.? Not bad, seeing other folk take seven days for a world.
But what was the lovely place around Boston, full of scenery which I visited a few times in recent years? It was there long before this morning... I suspect you were bragging about nothing, making it up, inflating your achievements (you probably made a mass of breakfast cereal or so). yeah, outright lying even, thinking we provincial Old Worlders wouldn't notice. I am offended you should think us so stupid. Go back to Mass and apologise.
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Bean Sidhe
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As another Old Worlder (though hardly provincial), your inability after all this time to pick up which side of the pond I'm on shows me how little notice you take of my posts before you decide to offend me. All about you, isn't it.
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Danny DeVito
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm devastated that you, dear old Bean, haven;t yet realised that it is really all about humble little ME!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Sylvander
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Oh, what a blow you have dealt me here, Beanie! How could I take note of your erudite, poetic, incomparable post when I am busy looking at ... erm .... at ... at your shapely wrists!. I had, based on experience, assumed that there was only one logically feasible explanation for a beauty bean like you consistently spurning my invitations to a date: you lived too far away and were afraid you'd miss the last train home. And now you tell me you live in the vicunity??! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) Never have I bean so disappointed!
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justlooking
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Why is it always 'humble little me'? What does height have to do with humility? Are shorter people expected to be more humble? Some of the most arrogant bastards I know are on the short side. If you are laying claim to humility please don't confuse the issue by pretending to be little with it.
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lilBuddha
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Oh now short people are arrogant and of dubious paternity?
I'll have you know all the worst characters in history were Tall!
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Smudgie
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Yet again you have deliberately played a post which prevents me from taking due offense. I can find nothing whatsoever to complain about in your contribution to this thread, for once, and I feel quite indignant that this means that I am prevented from following the rules as stated in the OP.
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justlooking
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I feel you are being rather short-sighted smudgie. Some references may have been above your head but we all face such challenges from time to time and we need to make an effort to rise to the occasion. This is what stepladders are for.
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Sylvander
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Well, I for one have never yet faced a challenge that went over my head (come to think of it ,I never face things over my head, it gives me stiff neck). I rather find that for some inexplicable reason all references, hints and allusions seem to be aimed at about 3 feet lower.
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Enigma
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I cannot believe that anything can be aimed 3 feet lower than my lowest. You must spend all your life aiming things intended for short people like me directly into a hole. What use is that?
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See here, Enigma, if you have vertical challengability issues I'm sure you can find a paranoia roolz ok thread somewhere on the ship. I'm so upset you've mmmade mmy mmouse all stcky.
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justlooking
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How cruel! Making fun of people who have a speech impediment. They're probably very sensitive about it and are crying quietly in a corner. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Stick Monitor
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Are you trying to insinuate that people with speech impediments are so emotionally retarded that they habitually hide their feelings?!
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Ariston
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For the last time, people, could you please pay attention to which thread you're posting in‽ Asking questions is somewhere underneath this one; would it really kill you to look?
[ 14. August 2012, 22:09: Message edited by: Ariston ]
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Stick Monitor
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If you must lecture people on which threads to post questions then please start by taking the plank out of your own eye.
[ 14. August 2012, 22:46: Message edited by: Stick Monitor ]
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Rowen
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So, now you pick on carpenters... Who work with planks.....
Riiiggghhhht.... What have they ever done to you?
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