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mousethief

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quote:
Originally posted by Joyeux:
(psst - Mousethief - where do people in Wisconsin go to escape?)

Chicago. Once it empties out of everybody escaping to Wisconsin, it's not such a bad place.

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Kyzyl

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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
I have one that says "My Golden Retriever is smarter than your honor student" [for the non-USA readers: this is a play on the My child is an honor student at XYZ school stickers]

Actually, us non-USA readers get the Golden Retriever joke.

What we don't see is why anyone would be such a prat as to put a sticker saying "My child is an honor student at XYZ school". WTF cares? And what child could ride in such a car without dying of embarrasement, or at the very least total fear that some opther student at XYZ would see them. You'd have to crouch on the floor hiding out of view.

Ken! My point exactly!

I teach a course in the cognitive/social/emotional development of adolescents. You should hear the discussion when I mention "that" bumper sticker. It is one of the more enjoyable classes each semester [Snigger]

Are the "my child" stickers a US phenomenon or does the rest of the world also suffer?

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ken
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quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
Are the "my child" stickers a US phenomenon or does the rest of the world also suffer?

I've bever seen one. Nor heard of them until this thread.

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quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:

Are the "my child" stickers a US phenomenon or does the rest of the world also suffer?

Does "My dog is a Rottweiler" count?

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Kyzyl

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Does "My dog is a Rottweiler" count?
Does to me.

[That was close. You avoided being mocked by a mere two-posts-from-shipmate-status.]

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Kyzyl

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Ack! Damn new computer keyboard. Sorry.

Rotties deserve a bumper sticker, honor students do not. [Big Grin]

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TonyK

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quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
... Are the "my child" stickers a US phenomenon or does the rest of the world also suffer?

Not seen anything similar in the UK - where bumper stickers are not quite so common anyway.

But I have seen one that I am waiting to use:

'Retired - and living it up on our children's inheritance!'

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Slow handclap to Kyzyl, gradually quickening into applause.

And crongratulations to Kyzyl, our longest running apprentice, who has just made it to shipmate status!

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My favorite: Your karma ran over my dogma!
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auntbeast
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Ah yes MrJuice, the ever popular (in its day) "I found it". I really preferred the run of spoofs it spawned:

"It's mine"
"We never lost it" (with a star of David on it)
"I stepped in it"
"I found it.. now how the hell do I get rid of it"

I also recall a parody I liked of the old "Honk if you love Jesus". It read "If you love Jesus work for Justice, any idiot can honk". It actually caused contenion in some parking lots [Disappointed]

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Then there's the spoof ones for old people which Victoria Wood coined:

We've seen the toilets at Longleat!
I lost my dentures at Alton Towers!
My other hat's a balaclava!

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anglicanrascal
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I always liked:

My other car is a broomstick.
Today I thought of someone I could give that to. [Two face]

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auntbeast
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For all I was bemoaning the fact that I don't have a big-ass 4X4 on another thread, I really do think that most of the sissy little yuppies who drive SUV's in town only and cry if they get mud on them need to be dealt with. One good idea.....

Guerilla bumper stickering...

Or for a Christian option check out this one...

Jesus and your SUV

Happy hunting,
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I saw quite a good one the other day. It said:

"The meek will inherit the earth...
...if you don't mind"

Aaah, it made me smirk anyway.

Changing topic slightly, a friend of mine has a t-shirt with the phrase "Jesus can't skate" written on it, which I actually find, very, very funny.

[Smile]

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Here is Oregon I've seen for the first time, "Earth First--Then We'll Log the Rest of the Planets!"
sounds like the "Caution I speed up for small animals" I had on my old Mazda. [Big Grin]

{why not practice your UBB code?}

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Sine Nomine*

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Someone sent me this a while back...
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Fish on Cars

Top 10 things people won't say when they see a Christian bumper sticker or fish emblem on a car:

10. "Look! Let's stop that car and ask those folks how we can become Christians."

9. "Don't worry, Billy, those people are Christians. They must have a good reason for driving 90 miles an hour."

8. "What a joy to be sharing the highway with another car of Spirit-filled brothers and sisters."

7. "Isn't it wonderful how God blessed that Christian couple with a brand-new BMW?"

6. "Dad, how come people who drive like that don't get thrown in jail? Can we get a bumper sticker like that, too?"

5. "Stay clear of those folks, Martha. If they get raptured, that car's gonna be all over the road!"

4. "Oh, look! That Christian woman is getting a chance to share Jesus with a police officer."

3. "No, that's not garbage coming out of their windows, Bert. It's probably gospel tracts for the road workers."

2. "Oh boy, we're in trouble now! We just rear-ended one of God's cars."

1. "Quick, Alice, honk the horn or they won't know that we love Jesus!"


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mousethief

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Here is Oregon I've seen for the first time, "Earth First--Then We'll Log the Rest of the Planets!"
The Oregon bumper sticker I found particularly -um- interesting was this one:

Welcome to Oregon. Now leave.

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SeraphimSarov
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We have the same sticker in California (probably all the refugees from Oregon! [Wink] )

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Today I followed "Caution - Blonde Thinking"

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Kyzyl

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quote:
Originally posted by sarkycow:
Slow handclap to Kyzyl, gradually quickening into applause.

And crongratulations to Kyzyl, our longest running apprentice, who has just made it to shipmate status!

Viki, hellhost

Aw shucks, thanks. Just needed the right thread and the ending of the spring term I guess.

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Papio

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quote:
Originally posted by Ann:
Today I followed "Caution - Blonde Thinking"

Isn't a bit like pigs flying? [Razz] [Big Grin] [Razz] [Big Grin] [Razz] [Big Grin]

<only joking y'know>

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auntbeast
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Saw a new one on the way to a fabulous fundraising party for a friends theater show...

"Don't pray in my school...
And I promise not to think in your church"

I was amused.

Cheers,
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I do love the sticker "Jesus is Coming, look busy!"

But is that meant to be offensive to x'ians?
Also, do you think I would get in trouble for suggesting it as the headline title of a series of youth events at my local church?

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I once saw, "If God is your co-pilot, switch seats.”

What I’d like to see is a Lamarck fish. He doesn’t usually get the respect he deserves.

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two goodies:

"Campus Crusade for C'thulu.... It Found Me."

"The meek will inheirit the earth.... the rest of us will go to the stars."

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hey Auntbeast, wanted to reply to your stuff on the Christian boozers club but they closed it (bastards) like the philosophy of leading a posse of predatory women to prey on christian guys out for a few pints. Down here in redneck country Australia where men are men (and sheep are nervous...) we could use ladies like you all... [Devil] [Help]

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mousethief

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quote:
Originally posted by Trevor:
What I’d like to see is a Lamarck fish. He doesn’t usually get the respect he deserves.

For being wrong?

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Lurker McLurker™

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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
quote:
Originally posted by Regina Caeli:
quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
I saw a t-shirt in Provincetown that read:

What if the Hokey-Pokey really is what it's all about?

But of course the humour is lost in all the annoyance caused by the insistence on changing it to 'hokey pokey'.

RC

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It's Hokey Cokey in Britain.

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Trevor
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quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
For being wrong?

Reader Alexis

Sure, his evolutionary mechanism turned out to be wrong, but it was the first important one. He deserves respect for being a pioneer of evolutionary science, as well as for originating the field of invertebrate biology. (article)
Galen and Aristotle and Copernicus and Einstein all got things wrong too.

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"Hokey Cokey"???

Just to be sure, are we talking about the same thing? A dance game for kids? "You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out..."

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mousethief

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quote:
Originally posted by Trevor:
Galen and Aristotle and Copernicus and Einstein all got things wrong too.

But also made huge advances that others built on. Lamarck seems to be mostly a dead end.

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Trevor
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quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Trevor:
Galen and Aristotle and Copernicus and Einstein all got things wrong too.

But also made huge advances that others built on. Lamarck seems to be mostly a dead end.

Reader Alexis

My opinion of the matter, though hardly expert, is that Lamarck did make such an advance in evolutionary biology: the idea that organisms evolve at all.

Darwin is quoted as writing that "...he first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all changes in the organic, as well as in the inorganic world, being the result of law..."

That seems pretty major to me, and I consider a single major insight to trump incorrect specifics. Especially so in this case, because those specifics could not be proven wrong until after yet another discovery that happened a century later.

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mousethief

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Uncle!

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sophs

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quote:
Originally posted by golden key:
"Hokey Cokey"???

Just to be sure, are we talking about the same thing? A dance game for kids? "You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out..."

You do the hokey cokey and you turn about....

yup thats the one!

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Lurker McLurker™

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quote:
Originally posted by golden key:
"Hokey Cokey"???

Just to be sure, are we talking about the same thing? A dance game for kids? "You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out..."

"In out, In out, shake it all about. Do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around. That's what it's all about. Oh! Hokey Cokey Cokey"

I had no idea it was spelt differently. Since the dance seems like it was invented by an American, perhaps our spelling originated with a misprint, like the US spelling of aluminium. Or is it because 'Poke' can have sexual connotations in Brit slang?

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Lurker McLurker™

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quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
Uncle!

Reader Alexis

Eh?

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Golden Key
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Here's the basic US version, with music.

http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/hokeypokey.html

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TonyK

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quote:
Originally posted by Lurker:
quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
Uncle!

Reader Alexis

Eh?
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:

" 'cry uncle, holler uncle, say uncle'
(N. Amer. colloq.) acknowledge defeat, cry for mercy."

IMHO, not a common reaction from Mousethief [Wink]

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What does a Lamarck fish look like anyway?

Re the 'my kid is...' stickers - my father was very pleased to have 'my daughter is an Air Cadet glider pilot' on his car til it faded, and that was in Canada. I haven't seen any other variants of it.

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James Mc

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quote:
Originally posted by Panda:
What does a Lamarck fish look like anyway?


Whatever the environment forces it to look like? On a bumper, I would expect it to be very flat, wind proof and with an adhesive underside to assist maintenance of position. Rather like a squished, dried Cornish Sucker Fish , really....
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mousethief

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quote:
Originally posted by TonyK:
IMHO, not a common reaction from Mousethief [Wink]

Which smilie means "pbbbbbbth"? [Razz]

quote:
Originally posted by Panda:
What does a Lamarck fish look like anyway?

It would have to have an acquired characteristic which it was about to pass on to its offspring. Try representing THAT in a 1" x 3" bumper decal!

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ken
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quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
Uncle!

No! It was Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin who popularised the idea of evolution in England!

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Lurker McLurker™

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You could have a Haeckel fish that changes over time, going from fish to amphibian to reptile to mammal.

What about Ship-related bumper stickers?

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But Haeckel was an evil proto-Nazi horrid person!

And he totally misunderstood Darwin and screwed up German evolutionary biology for 2 generations. (Though Ernst Mayr & Willi Hennig put them back on the path of righteousness)

Bloody good artist though.

This is the first thread I ever started on the Ship to get to 100 posts!

Does that say something about the nature of the Universe.

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Laudate Dominum
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About the Hokey Pokey question:

I have absolutely no sources, this is just what I was told. "Hokey Pokey" derives from "hocus pocus" and we all know that comes from people who made fun of the Latin words of the consecration at Mass. In which case, at least in the view of Roman Catholics, the "Hokey Pokey" actually is what it's all about. But I could be wrong. [Smile]

At any rate, I've absolutely no idea why ya'll seem to think the word is "cokey."

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Seen this morning: The road to Hell is paved with Liberals.

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quote:
Originally posted by Willyburger:
Seen this morning: The road to Hell is paved with Liberals.

Ah, but that means that the liberals won't be *going* to hell--only those conservatives, running roughshod over them.

[Smile] [Two face]

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Willyburger

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[Killing me] [Killing me] [Killing me]

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ken
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quote:
Originally posted by Laudate Dominum:
About the Hokey Pokey question:

I have absolutely no sources, this is just what I was told. "Hokey Pokey" derives from "hocus pocus" and we all know that comes from people who made fun of the Latin words of the consecration at Mass. In which case, at least in the view of Roman Catholics, the "Hokey Pokey" actually is what it's all about. But I could be wrong. [Smile]

At any rate, I've absolutely no idea why ya'll seem to think the word is "cokey."

I have no sources either, but on the modern rule of thumb that randomly accquired Internet sites are the source of all truth, I quote a small extract from:

take our word for it

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The two are indeed thought to be related, it being suggested that they both derive from hocus pocus (see Issue 61 for a discussion of the latter).  You, and many others, may be surprised to find that hokey pokey, spelled hoky poky also, did not originally apply to a dance.  Instead, it meant "trickery, double dealing" when it first appeared in writing in the middle of the 19th century.  Hanky panky meant the same thing when it made its appearance at about the same time.  However, in the U.S. it was taken a step further, to mean "fooling around (sexually), especially in infidelity", an extension of the "trickery" notion.

While most etymologists seem to agree that hokey pokey and hanky panky derive from hocus pocus, slang expert Eric Partridge seemed to like the explanation that hanky panky derives from handkerchief, which magicians often used in their acts of prestidigitation.

The Hokey Pokey dance originated in England where it was (and still is) called the Hokey Cokey.  It was appropriated by an American G. I. who turned it into a musical hit when he returned to the U. S.  It is still heard, especially in roller skating rinks, today.

Does the US version go

"Ra! Ra! Ra!"

at the end?

[Deleted your duplicity.]

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hoc est (enim) corpus (meum).

or so they say.

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