BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: DonMeixner
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 11:33 PM

Somewhere between ex and in there must be a region called ternal. I went looking for the place with just a touch of fear and worry making me a hoplessly trepid traveller. I would have said Explorer but since I'm still ploring that name wouldn't be correct. I just fumble my way through so I'm a fairly trepid and travagant plorer.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: RangerSteve
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 10:02 AM

This thread is both sipid and occuous. If someone gets the credit he deserves for a good deed, is he a sung hero?

Awesome - inspiring awe
Loathsome - inspiring loathing
Gruesome - inspiring grue

Was King Arthur's sword a originally a calibur?

If a living thing isn't an insect, is it an exsect or just a sect?

Some of you may say that my contribution to this thread is whelming.
others may be underwhelmed.

making my extrance, Steve.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: RangerSteve
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 10:06 AM

Don, it's not travagant, it's vagant, as in "I don't put anything extra into my vagance". Similarly, if I perform on stage without flashing lights, a loud band, or dancing girls, I'm putting on a vaganza.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 10:11 AM

RangerSteve, if you've made your extrance does that mean you're awake now? How long were you tranced?

This thread just proves what a slaught there's been on the Mudcat of flated egos. Makes one quite censed and dignant!

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From: Kim C
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 10:19 AM

Sheveled?

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From: Steve Parkes
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 12:17 PM

RangerSteve, a dead insect is an extinsect (or an ex-insect).Do not confuse with a former religious group, an exsect. A former state of nervous depression is defunked. (If I hadn't had to cheat a little with that one, I'd have sembled; but I won't get tressed about it.) If the cobbler sticks to his last, what did he stick to first? Is red cabbage greengrocery? [Billy Bennett; also wrote "The ball ranswiftky to and fro/And sometimes fro and to."]

Is there end to this sense?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 12:20 PM

... "swiftly" ... I've spelt it erroffeously now!

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From: RangerSteve
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 04:58 PM

Kat - extrance is the opposite of entrance, (also: enter/exter and enit/exit). Steve - a cerning man of tinction and crimination.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: DonMeixner
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 05:06 PM

Ranger Steve,

Then my spare vaganza is an extra. I don't even want to figure out the tense of a travaganza.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 07:13 PM

When I was an actor, I used to attend rehearsals, but I must have missed the first hearsal.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Alba
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 08:10 PM

We demolished an old Shed in our Veggie Garden last week.
Yesterday we started molishing a new one.
JD

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 09:25 PM

Intramural sports are played "within the walls" (of a school, for instance).

Extramural sports are played "outside the walls" -- perhaps with another school.

Intermural sports would be played inside the walls, making it cramped for most atheletes.

Submural sports would be played under the walls, perhaps by moles.

Super- or supra- mural sport would be played above or over the walls (quidditch?).

Mural sports would be played on the walls.

It follows, then, that plain ol' sports aren't played at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 12:09 AM

Well, to cary this a bit further, Orthodoxy can have a counterpart of Paradoxy, and one could jump up into a plane wearing a metachute or an orthochute.

And I once dated a young lady who refused to be dismayed (spelling doesn't work but phonetics do.)

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From: DMcG
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 03:17 AM

I expected to be innundated with visitors, but no-one turned up, so I was undated.

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From: darkriver
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 03:18 AM

Along with Wallace Stevens, I don't know which to prefer:
the beauty of flections or the beauty of nuendo.

And is this trinsically teresting or not?

doug

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Trevor
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 04:37 AM

Anyway, we used to have a farrier who told one of our nags to 'get up and lie down'.

If I had understood it I would probably have been pro-fused.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:07 AM

Rapaire: the Eton Wall Game would be ... paramural? metamural? incomprehensimural? (played with a wall, but nobody understands the rules)

Hold it -- I'm mixing my Latin and Greek roots here -- I'll be drummed out of the Linguistic Brownies ... admural? A game plyed nowhere near a wall would be proculmural (I've got all their records), while a game where the wall was very important would be ultramural. I think intermural would be a game where walls played against each other.

Pace Joseph Heller, but someone who wasn't a baptist would be an abaptist; would an ananabaptist be someone who wasn't a baptist, or someone who'd been re-baptised again? (Or a Frenchman who baptised bananas?)

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:11 AM

Spare a thought for Buzz Lightyear: "To finity -- and before!"

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From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 07:57 AM

I used to work in the bulk mailing business. Once we discovered that we had inserted some things incorrectly, so we had to outsert them again. Then they were called closures.

Has anyone here had a maculate conception?

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From: Snuffy
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 09:07 AM

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

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From: RangerSteve
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 10:06 AM

I guess anyone who hasn't contributed to this thread is doing their utleast to help out.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 10:11 AM

The protributers, you mean?

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From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 07:45 PM

You know...each year in Austin they have a 'pun-off'. Using the material posted on this thread, I feel confident a person could walk away with the protest.

DG

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Kim C
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 07:58 PM

So, is gress the opposite of digress?

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From: JennieG
Date: 02 Aug 03 - 06:42 AM

If the plural of mouse is mice, does this mean the plural of spouse is spice?
Cheers
JennieG who is married to her 2nd spice

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Aug 03 - 08:41 AM

I used to be in infancy, till the hormones kicked in,since when I've lived in a pemanent state of fancy.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Aug 03 - 09:23 AM

Considering that the plural of goose is geese, I always wondered why the plural of moose isn't meese.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: RangerSteve
Date: 02 Aug 03 - 09:24 AM

Yesterday started out nicely, with clement weather. Then it started to rain, but at least everyone was driving wreckfully. I noticed a crowd had started to burse, then one of them tried to incite a riot, but we managed to excite it without too much trouble. Then I got a report of a woman who said that the exhabitants of her house broke in and stole some jewelry, however, it was impensive and priceful. We caught the culprits before they crossed the state line, so they were intradited easily enough. At court, a man who was fighting a summons that I wrote couldn't come up with a good excuse, (he had an incuse), so the judge onerated him. Later, someone fell in the river, when we found him, he had stopped spirating and suscitating, but we were able to rescue him (it was his second time, we scued him last week). I was glad to hear later that he spired from his injuries. Actually, it was pretty slow last night, which is why I had time to think up this stuff.

Steve, personating a police officer.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Aug 03 - 10:01 AM

One of the latest songs in our choir's repertoire is called "Axises of Evil" - words by our own Paul Spencer and to the tune of "Brisbane Ladies". We sang it at the Dog last week for the second time ever. The first time it was in our pertoire. Hurry home Paul!

"We'll march off to war, like good little soldiers.
We'll march off to war for President Bush,
Until we destroy all the Axises of Evil,
For there's freedom to fight for and a lifestyle to push."

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 07:13 PM

I am also a master of the single entendre....

"Nice tits."

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 07:36 PM

Surely with a single entendre, that should be 'nice tit'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Joybell
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 08:07 PM

Is a triple entendre "nice tits and arse" then?

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 09:22 PM

Looking at the first message in this thread...

you know the word empty...

I saw many years ago in a BBC TV program on the history of the English Language about a North Country word

one can "emp" a cart - that is to empty it - the cart is then "empty"

one can also "unemp" it - that is to fill it ...

:-)

Kim C
The plural of "mice " is "meese"....
Ref: see the cartoons "I hate you meeces to peeces"

Robin

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From: Robin2
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 10:49 PM

I'm a hort








you are a hort








we're cohorts

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 10:57 AM

you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

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From: GUEST,reggie miles
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 11:55 AM

isn't the opposite of an insect an outsect? outebriated?

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From: Cluin
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 12:25 PM

I am feeling protinctly leanergasted at this moment.

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From: jimmyt
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 12:50 PM

I am whelmed at the responses to this thread. Dick, I enjoyed your Organic chemistry reference!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 03:03 PM

I used to work in the bulk mailing business. We had machines that could insert letters into envelopes. Once in a while we did it incorrectly, and then we had to outsert them again. No kidding.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 03:04 PM

Woops. I see I already told you that...

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From: AliUK
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 03:44 PM

After a mate of mine hurt his shoulder during a rugby match, the trainer popped it back into the socket before taking him off to hospital and told him that it was now relocated.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 06:11 PM

I was in Competent for a whole week once. Then I was in Continent for a month. Next year I figure to vacation in Sane. Sane, Alberta. Nice little place. You can drive around the whole town in a complete state of toxication and nobody says anything paraging about it. The currenthilaration I felt upon doing this for the first time was describable. I took my insignificant other on the ride, and she was so gruntled about it that she has been giving me the noisy treatment ever since.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ept? Ert? Ane? I hope so...
From: HuwG
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 09:04 PM

Well, LH, I am looking forward with prehilaration to this weekend. (I am going to Effigy, where I hope to see some of my favourite impoliticians hanged.

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From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:04 AM

Oh, dear, oh, dear- it's all been said.

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From: Ralphie
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:52 AM

After a very fine Indian meal last night I find myself feeling completely Prostipated this morning.

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From: Mark Cohen
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 06:13 AM

Thanks, LH, for starting this wonderful collection of fixes!

Aloha,
Mark