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From: Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Phallic Plate Heads for Oxford
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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:48:29 GMT
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elag wrote:
> Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > elag wrote:
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> > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > . Of course, the puns are often painful.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Isn't that the whole point behind a pun?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Well, some puns hurt more than others... I remember one spouted by Robin
> > > > > > > (of Batman and...) as he jumps off a statue of a lion and kicks a crook
> > > > > > > in the head he says: "my foot is LION on your jaw"... noe that's painful!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I really like word play (if you couldn't tell) and I'm one of those few
> > > > > > > that enjoys a good pun now and again... but puns have to be treated like
> > > > > > > spices... usually a little goes a long way.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Duchamp's puns for examply are often brilliant... and the Surrealists
> > > > > > > were riddled with puns.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm just into silly humour whatever it is. Serious discussions in other NGs
> > > > > > are often brought to a grinding halt by someone's inclusion of a pun in a
> > > > > > reply, setting a chain off.
> > > > >
> > > > > That doesn't bother me so much as the cats who think the be all and end
> > > > > all of usenet existance is a cascade of n 0 n sequ1turs and gibberish.
> > > > > A few silly puns never hurt anyone.
> > > >
> > > > Your cats use usenet?
> > >
> > > I don't have any cats, but if I did I'd surely let them surf the web.
> > > Too many webcats might be a catastrophe though.
> > >
> > > Actually I was thinking more about the infamous "m e o w ers".
> >
> > Nah, you were just recalling your beat days and your black turtle neck sweaters :O)
> > (clicks fingers and plays bongo to crap poetry in the background)
>
> Hey, man... I'm a hep cat, with a reet pleat, a ripe stripe, a stuff
> cuff and a drape shape. I em heep to de jive.
Tom and Jerry! :O)
--
Paul. (Love with tongues of fire)
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