Comments on: I think I’ll wait for 103

By: Susan Heskett

Susan Heskett — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:02:04 +0000

I have a 12 year old about to enter 7th grade that probably think that the spelling is correct on that document. Thank you “No Child Left Behind” Act!!

By: DR Mac

DR Mac — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:10:25 +0000

No, probably “Gray mare riding with engrish saddle”.

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:58:41 +0000

Apparently, English 101 is for the language, don’t know what English 102 is for…

By: name

name — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:11:57 +0000

Oh lord. No matter how old it gets, it’s hard not to laugh at Squirrelking and Peter Chimaera.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:26:47 +0000

And keep a watch on the dangling modifier while typing.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:13:28 +0000

They’d have it easy, then.
Uhhhh, zero.
That kinda skews our whole graph, now don’t it?

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:09:22 +0000

just be careful where you put your lasso and your saddlebag.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:20:23 +0000

…releasing the flies only to be told that we were supposed to keep them so that the next class could count them too…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:31 +0000

Ah, Drosophila melanogaster… Takes me back to my days in the lab… The sweet smell of formaldehyde, the sound of shattering glassware…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:12 +0000

It was pretty unmanning, too!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:40:52 +0000

I tried jumping something in a Western saddle once, but I got pommeled.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:24:41 +0000

Nah, I’ll do this up close and personal. Hand me that other decanter, the lead glass one that’ll break and give me a nice razor sharp edge.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:57:23 +0000

And there’s always the “dross” connection….

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:53:35 +0000

Somebody “passed” Bandit Keith? Guess where my pun-sodden mind went with that comment. Most appropriate!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:02:13 +0000

Fruit flies happen to be a very useful model for teaching or investigating the basics of Mendelian genetics, whereas trolls have absolutely no useful function at all. Stop defaming Drosophila.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:20:47 +0000

Before you go swinging a sword, have you checked your girth lately?

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:54:15 +0000

You just passed Bandit Keith. Want to borrow my claymore, or M18a1?

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:50:37 +0000

I can make it work, but he moderators intermittantly kill them with no rhyme or reason. It makes me look stupider than I was trying for when the link is blank. I think it depends on the time of day. I tried to post instructions and they got moderated. Trolls, s#x, hate speech, and chipmunk on helium Fred videos get posted…..

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:55:36 +0000

We’re trying to neuter them, hoping they’ll mate with other trolls (who else would have them?) and eventually wipe out the breed. A bit like the boffins are doing with fruit flies, another organism with a similar IQ.

By: Bandit Keith-- IN AMERICA!

Bandit Keith-- IN AMERICA! — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:40:39 +0000

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:38:33 +0000

What are you two doing feeding the trolls?

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:37:34 +0000

I don’t Do side-saddle – riding astride is really the best way to keep your balance as you lean over to clonk someone with the sherry decanter on the way past.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:31:25 +0000

KIEFFER, you nong, KIEFFER, not Kiefer. If it does, we’ll have the groom flogged. That saddle is worth more than he is.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:26:57 +0000

Nempnett Thrubwell: the feeling experienced when driving off for the very first time on a brand new motorbike.
Throcking: the act of continually pushing down on the leverl of a pop-up toaster in the hope that you will get it to understand that you wish it to toast something.
Melton Constable: an anti-wrinkle cream that policemen use to keep themselves looking young.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:26:46 +0000

Maybe I’m going blind. You flubbed what? That’s a good joke; beware of DPH Fairies riding side-saddle!

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:19:08 +0000

I posted that link yesterday, but I could use a clue on how to embed links. They look better that way.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:09:19 +0000

Great idea! I’ll go along with that! Let’s see what we can come up with in future posts.
Have you got any personal favourites from “The Meaning Of Liff”? I tend to use Vancouver, Scrabster or Kentucky on appropriate occasions.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:59:58 +0000

Good boys, fetch the squirrel’s head. over there. Tug of war. Get the tail. into the river. get the head, into the river. Goood boys. I got to catch a coal train.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:57:07 +0000

Or Hebrew. Or Farsi. Or Kurdish. Or Turkish. Or Pashto. Or Afghani. Or Tatar. Or Kazahk. Or Uzbek. Hell, you might even want to repeat it in Esperanto.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:42:23 +0000

Oh dear, I’m afraid that if anyone refers to hounds as “dogs”, that person immediately takes the place of the fox. Go on, then, we’ll give you a bit of a head start. If you could avoid the larger hedges we’d be grateful, because Jocasta Uppington-Self is with us today on Worthington Inbred Lunatic III, and the damned animal just keeps running straight through the hedges (we did have a lighter moment when he tried it with a hedge that had a barbed wire fence through the middle of it though, talk about laugh). Lord Grating-Chinlesswonder will be furious… Here, have a nice gin & lime before you go; sometimes we try to get the quarry drunk, because hounds occasionally like their meat well marinated.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:34:11 +0000

The ones that don’t, we should make it our business to assign them meanings, in the spirit of “The Meaning Of Liff”.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:42:16 +0000

HEY!! Your damn dogs just spilt ‘n ate all of my spongy squirrel camp stew. I’ve been working on that all day, gettin’ it just right. Umm, could you spare me a dram or two of that gin ‘n lemon? Or lime if’n you got it. I need it to clean these dog bites on my left behind, medicinal purposes only, y’know.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:16:03 +0000

Sorry, Try again. I hate repeating jokes when I flubbed a punch line. Accomplished fox hunters are directly inducted into the mounted cavalry. It is important that their composition and gramer is correct in their dispatches from their pommel mounted pc’s. They are a black ops intelligence unit only known as the Type Riders.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:03:30 +0000

Accomplished fox hunters are directly inducted into the mounted cavalry. It is important that their composition and gramer is correct in their dispatches from their pommel mounted pc's. They are a black ops intelligence unit only known as the Type Riders.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:40:23 +0000

Simple physics. There is the acceleration vectors of the running horse and roped cow, the momentum vector of the cowboy, and the overwhelming inertia acceleration vector of gravity.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:31:17 +0000

I found the greatest laptop holder that attaches to the pommel. It also has side shades to keep the horse from trying to read the postings instead of watching the road.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:23:37 +0000

I’m sorry, could you repeat that in Arabic?

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:20:28 +0000

I’m sorry. I use the western terminology after I got slapped for pointing out that someone had let their girth get too large. The whole sight is more entertaining if the lemonaid is sweetened with rum or triple sec. They keep trying to save weight by substituting straight lemon juice and gin.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:16:26 +0000

Does the mud stay there for 24 hours?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:14:34 +0000

If Western riding’s a cinch, why do cowboys fall off their horses?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:11:22 +0000

Thanks! I never shy away from googling ANY strange word that appears in Engrish. Some of them get hits.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:55:56 +0000

Mummy, Mummy, I’ve got mud on the Kieffer! Oh, send the groom out to clean it, do! (I say, Tarquin, is there any more of that sherry left?)

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:55:36 +0000

Mummy, Mummy, I’ve got mud on the Kieffer! Oh, send the groom out to clean it, do!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:54:20 +0000

Girths, PG, girths – if we’re hunting, we’re riding English/European, in which case the saddle is held in place by a girth. If we were riding Western it would be a cinch. You definitely do not want to try jumping anything in a Western saddle, that pommel will unman you, if not disembowel you. These things are teddibly important, tally ho, pip pip and all that, what – I say, have hounds spotted something? Oh, look, they’ve scented an unemployed person, view holloah! Oh dear, will someone take the sherry away from the pony club contingent, they know perfectly well they’re supposed to have lemonade as a stirrup cup, wretched little blighters… come on then, a harmless animal needs to be torn to shreds, have at it!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:49:26 +0000

Also hunting, tentpegging, and my personal favourite, hacking.

By: PointsOutTheObvious

PointsOutTheObvious — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:31:17 +0000

John Freeman ramped off the building and did a backflip and landed.

John Freeman went off road and did backflips and landed on back wheels but kept going too.

Apparently this class is also offered in Canada.

By: Tice with a J

Tice with a J — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:49:03 +0000

…That would explain a lot, actually (win for you, finding that definition).

By: dardub

dardub — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:47:54 +0000

No. Obviously spelling doesn’t come till much later.

By: tea

tea — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:32:18 +0000

Well, one of the most significant parts of English culture and history is the good ol’ fox hunt. I have no idea what “gramer” is meant to signify, though.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:01:25 +0000

A gue in a pla?
Tion in a fect… no, wait, that sounds like a hip hop song.