Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Michael Date: 27 Jan 07 - 11:06 AM I don't know, Bill D: give us a clue. Mike |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 27 Jan 07 - 10:54 AM well, Philosophers DO think about it. Why do you think Kant wrote "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals"? ;>) |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Jan 07 - 09:22 AM Sorry Bill...must have missed your posting of the link..yes the same. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: autolycus Date: 27 Jan 07 - 03:24 AM i rthink i made this one up. Philosophers think about it. pedant alert. I think correctly it is 'focused', not 'focussed'. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Blindlemonsteve Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:56 AM Oh Yeh, i really should read these threads first, never mind, very funny though. i once saw a sign on a printer that said "Pen is stuck in printer". But the spacing between pen and is was too small. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 26 Jan 07 - 05:22 PM "macabré"__ "macarame"??? BIIIIGGGG stretch! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 26 Jan 07 - 05:21 PM my link on the 22nd was not the sign you meant? |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 26 Jan 07 - 03:15 PM As mentioned on the 22nd, I have that sign and the one from Penrith Railway station which says...well...which ...I can't put it on here but if you want it, PM me your E-mail addy and will send them both to you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Blindlemonsteve Date: 26 Jan 07 - 03:07 PM Someone sent me an email the other day with a genuine sign from the Northampton NHS trust saying "family Planning Advice - Use the rear entrance" Says it all really!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Mrrzy Date: 26 Jan 07 - 02:45 PM Macabré humor, BillD - it ties you in knots? Practice safe snax - use condiments! (on the back of a cab in my town) |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 25 Jan 07 - 04:10 PM Top pharmacists dispense with accuracy. Don T. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: GUEST,ib48 Date: 24 Jan 07 - 03:21 PM Plumbing company in boro called R.C.AYRES |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Michael Date: 24 Jan 07 - 03:19 PM And from a physicist I once knew: Definition of sex - a couple oscillating in a field Mike |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Michael Date: 24 Jan 07 - 03:16 PM Archemedes didn't have any principals; he just liked a good screw. Mike |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 24 Jan 07 - 05:04 AM I suppose the sign outside many UK Hospitals might fit into this category...... 'Guard dogs operating'! Or the one as you enter the airport...perhaps the last sign you see before you fly is 'Terminal' |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Slag Date: 24 Jan 07 - 04:23 AM re the institution of marriage: "Anyone who gets married should be committed." Digger O'Dell the Undertaker said "Well, I must be shoveling off. My business is really going in the hole. Things are dead around here. I've got to dig up some business. I miss the good times when we were picking them up and laying them down." Submariners do it deeper than anyone. F-16 pilots do it on a higher level. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: The Walrus Date: 24 Jan 07 - 03:56 AM Seen in a metallurgical test lab. "Mechanical testing can be fatiguing" |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: frogprince Date: 23 Jan 07 - 03:30 PM I once was a cashier in a methadone clinic for a few weeks. The johns in back were labled "the Lenny Bruce Memorial Restroom" and "The Janis Joplin Memorial Restroom". Dean. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: jimlad9 Date: 23 Jan 07 - 12:33 PM Do not get a job in the Electricity Industry the wages are shocking. Undertakers are in a dying business. Gynaecologists spend all day at the orifice. My dad was in the Air Force when Pontius was a pilot. There are old pilots and there are bold pilots,but there are no old bold pilots. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 23 Jan 07 - 12:18 PM Similarly, Susan, I know a woman who worked in the neo-natal intensive care ward at a hospital. The only way they could deal with some of the stresses and sadness was macabré humor. I heard a couple of the parody songs one time, and it was an eye-opener. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 23 Jan 07 - 12:03 PM I wouldn't be seen dead in a hearse! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 07 - 12:00 PM There is nothing funnier, or scarier, than the talk in the hearse on the way back from the graveyard, between clergy and funeral directors. I can't tell you though-- they'd have to kill me. ~Susan |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 23 Jan 07 - 11:57 AM Constipated mathematicians work it out with a pencil! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Jan 07 - 07:29 AM Mathematicans work it out with pencil and paper. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: JennieG Date: 22 Jan 07 - 11:02 PM Nurses/doctors do it with patience! Cheers JennieG |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Rowan Date: 22 Jan 07 - 07:45 PM Bill D, the sense of "screw" in your "you can trade...a nail...for a screw!" is now widely understood even here in OZ but there was a time when it caused confusion and embarrassment here. Even until the late '50s, Australian slang for a good wage was "I'm on a good screw!" But during the American occupation of Australia during WWII we were exposed to the US meaning, along with similar confusion about the term "fanny". Thanks for reminding me. Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: bubblyrat Date: 22 Jan 07 - 07:38 PM Sign in Brothel---" Our Customers Come First " |
Subject: RE: BS: Institutional Humour From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Jan 07 - 07:24 PM Furniture manufacturer sign in Toowoomba: MR STOOL Stools made to order. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 22 Jan 07 - 06:45 PM Ebbie. I think old hairdressers just curl up and dye. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: GUEST,heric Date: 22 Jan 07 - 06:34 PM GP during prostate exam: "That's just one finger but you can get a second opinion." |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 22 Jan 07 - 06:21 PM same old carpenter, standing in the hallway beside the open door where we were building new shelving for the storage of various samples by the Geology Dept.: "Sorry for the mess and noise...we're just helpin' the Geologists get their rocks off... (tiny pause) the floor." |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 22 Jan 07 - 06:00 PM from an old carpenter: (intoned very slowly and seriously, holding up a 16 penny nail from his nail bag) "Ya' know what a good deal is? A good deal is when you can trade...a nail...for a screw!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:57 PM I saw one on a trailer-mounted sign at a gas station in Oregon in 1975.... "An Archeologist's career lies in ruins." It took me weeks to realize it WAS humor. Thought it was a sad story by the owner. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bill D Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:47 PM Penrith Station (took me 11.4 seconds) |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Rowan Date: 22 Jan 07 - 04:34 PM Three for archaeologists; My career is in ruins! Archaeology is just a load of old rubbish. Archaeologists do it by trowel and era. And an audiologist I knew, when inserting the soft polymer to take an impression of a person's ear for the hearing aid, would always say, "Get an earful of this!" Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: pdq Date: 22 Jan 07 - 03:37 PM saying:> The garbage man says business is picking up. bumper sticker:> Entomologists Get The Bugs Out! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Ebbie Date: 22 Jan 07 - 03:21 PM Old hairdressers never retire, they just dye away. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Paul from Hull Date: 22 Jan 07 - 02:18 PM *LMAO* Not seen either the Family planning one, nor the Railway platform one! Georgian, I'm sending you my email addy! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:57 PM I have a picture of that sign on my comp and a picture of the sign on Penrith Railway station which advises people not to stand too near the platform or they may get sucked off. P/M me your E-mail address and will send pics of the signs if anyone wants them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: bubblyrat Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM Leading English song-writer & musician John Tams collects humourous signs that he has encountered whilst "on the road ". My favourite is the one he saw outside Derby Royal Infirmary in Derby,England It said " FAMILY PLANNING----PLEASE USE REAR ENTRANCE "... |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: kendall Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:07 PM State prison inmates- We stamp out license plates. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: jeffp Date: 22 Jan 07 - 09:26 AM Civil War shooters have steel rods and lead balls |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: JennyO Date: 22 Jan 07 - 09:16 AM Old songwriters never die - they just decompose. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Georgiansilver Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:57 AM Taxidermists can 'get stuffed' The local Court Judge is a real case. The optician is very focussed. My hairdresser is quite trim. The florist is a weed. Our weatherman is dull.Our train driver went off the rails. |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Leadfingers Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:55 AM Old Golfers never die ! They just lose their balls ! |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:50 AM "Potters have balls of clay" |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Micca Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:46 AM Geoff, " thought it was"..... they just reach equilibrium and cease to react" and in the same vein " Old Physicists never die.. They just emit protons and decay" |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: jeffp Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:36 AM Epee fencers touch all over |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:05 AM Working for the Inland Revenue is a taxing profession. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Instituitional Humour From: GUEST,ozchick Date: 22 Jan 07 - 07:30 AM dental nursing sucks |