BS: When it was okay to play with gnus

Subject: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:22 AM

well ....it made me laugh!

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:42 AM

Struck me a touch as well... but, I AM a bit touched, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:43 AM

Play with gnu's what??

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:45 AM

Yeah Rap.....That was my question too. Kinda' scared me just to think about it...............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:46 AM

I think it's just a way on plurd's.
JohnB

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:48 AM

Apparently the original title used an apostrophe? Otherwise Rap's and Spaw's comments would make no sense atall, atall.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:10 PM

no, Ebbie...think anagrams

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: DMcG
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:16 PM

The emblem of our local amateur theatre is a gnu - so we see a play by gnus about every month. Does that count?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: MMario
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:16 PM

Momma always said it was okay to play with gnus as long as we didn't fire them - at least - not without a good barbecue rub.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: GUEST,little lion cub
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:22 PM

my Momma told me to go play with the gnus and bring a friend back for tea

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:32 PM

I knew this fellow who wanted a 'different' pet...so he looked all over, including wild animals parks for something interesting to adopt.
Finally, he discovered a place who had a Wildebeest who was getting on in years, and needed extra care and was in danger of being 'put down'.

Well, his sympathies were aroused, so, having a ranch with some space, he offered to adopt the poor thing and care for it.
It generally prospered with extra care, and seemed to be doing so well that the guy thought he'd try some interesting training...so he made a little obstacle course, and attempted to show his new pet how to jump a fence, run thru a tunnel, and slide down a slide. Sadly, this proved a bit much for the elderly old thing.....so he thought maybe some simple stuff like begging, rolling over, or playing dead would be easier. He tried for weeks, but the bewildered Wildebeest just stood there, waiting for feeding time and being uncooperative.

Being a kind soul, the man finally gave up and just petted 'ol Rover..(did I mention he had named it Rover?) and fed it and allowed it to wander happily about his yard for the rest of its days....

   The guy was, of course, mildly disappointed that the training had not worked out, but he managed to console himself when he remembered the old adage....




















"You can't teach an old Gnu dog tricks."

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:39 PM

ba-da boom

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:40 PM

Playing with gnus was okay in our house. But we would get in big trouble for playing with our doof.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 01:17 PM

Is it OK to play with your gnus
If you're in the loo,
Or in lieu of the loo,
Would a bidet do?

Where is Donual to illustrate this poem when we need him?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, who has nothing better to do

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 01:21 PM

I like playing with Gnu he's cuddly and growly. I would say more but it might get us both into trouble ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: MMario
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 01:23 PM

If you document it with video it won't get you in trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: GUEST,Your Mom
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 02:30 PM

It's okay to play with gnus, but you need to remember that gnus have a tendency to overindulge a bit. Gnus are frequently guilty of "PWI" (Posting While Intoxicated). If you are playing with a gnu and you say something to him and his reaction seems to have come from someplace way out in left-field, he's probably knee-walking drunk. He will look at his post in the morning and be all nice and apologetic.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 03:23 PM

But with our gnu, how can we tell if he's sober??

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 03:43 PM

Silly Rapaire! We can tell if our gnu's sober the same way we tell if Martin Gibson is being sincere or if Clinton Hammond is being sympathetic.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:36 PM

Ach it's a poor opinion ye have o the darlin beuy and him as gentle as old father OConnels lamb :)

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:55 PM

'Tis not a poor opinion, Megan dear -- what we have is based upon experience with the lad.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:58 PM

Ah sure n it must be the way ye be talking to him for isn't he always the gentleman when we are keeping company :-p

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: bobad
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 06:03 PM

"The wildebeest -also known as the gnu is a large antelope. The bull's deep grunts sound like a giant croaking frog. Because of its appearance and spirited behavior, Dutch settlers in South Africa named the animal wildebeest, which means wild beast."

Who would you want to play with this?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 06:09 PM

shoot, they won't even bring me the evening paper!

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: John O'L
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 07:11 PM

Another copygnu thread?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 08:24 PM

Tis true you can play with a gnu. Tis true you can play with a stewed gnu. Tis true a stewed gnu might rue something misconstrued and apologize in the morning. A gnu is the the same as you, who just wants to do right by you. It's the Golden Rule. Drink a little bud... chew a little cud... get down tonight.

Like George Carlin said, "Please Lord, I just want to be a cool gnu."

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 09:21 PM

Well, I said it before and I'll say it again: don't play with loaded gnus!

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 05:35 AM

"Gnor am I in the least like that dreadful hartebeest, oh gno gno gno...."


The locals don't pronounce the g so it sounds kind of silly.... no nus is ood nus.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: David C. Carter
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 08:13 AM

As a child,I suffered from "Pissed Preamble Dysanoraksia",but my favorite tv Westerns were,-James Arness/Denis Weaver,in-"gnu Smirk".And another was-"Have gnu Will Trivial".

BanJo Bandit
Bob Dylema

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 08:54 AM

who can forget Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gnu?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 09:25 AM

Or that WW2 classic film, "The Gnus of Navarrone"?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: David C. Carter
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 11:37 AM

Was it not John Lennon who wrote,"Happiness Is A Warm Gnu"?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 12:28 PM

And didn't Mao say, "Power comes out of the barrel of a gnu"?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Emma B
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 12:38 PM

"Rutted this morning by passing gnus" - John Masefield (well almost)

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 12:58 PM

the evening gnus?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 06:32 PM

I was going to say something else. but it wasn't really gnus-worthy.

Only the monstrous anger of the gnus

wilfred owen

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 09:04 PM

*Use* Gnus. *Play* with w3m.

You really ought to Know Who's Who.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: What is both obvious and disgraceful is seldom mentioned. :||

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 11:31 PM

That's all for the Gnu's.
And now for the Whether forecast.
JohnB (rather sheepishly)

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 01:54 AM

The subject line was obviously truncuated

When it was okay to play with gnus what?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 04:18 AM

then there was the Phil Ochs album, all the gnus that's fit to print.

do gnus have trunks to truncate?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 07:10 AM

Wouldn't truncuated Gnus be the Head Lions?

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 08:46 AM

bloody hell, that's clever!

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 09:50 AM

It's a pinch from the punchline of a VERY old joke - you don't think the Fooles Troupe would have new ones, do you? :-0

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 12:08 PM

As Scoop Nisker used to sign off on every "gnus" broadcast on KSAN (yeah, they spelled it that way):

"And remember, if you don't like the gnus, go out and make some of your own."

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 01:24 PM

gnus gnaw and gnar gnathicly.

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 02:19 PM

Know gnus is good gnus!

We fired our gnus but the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago;
We fired once more and they began a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico!

He died with his six-gnues a-blazin'
But only three hairs on his chest!

What a harvest this thread is!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 08:06 PM

The fastest gnu in the west (boy did it move!)

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 08:10 PM

Of course, since The Fooles Troupe lives in the 1500's - all their jokes ARE new... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 02:52 AM

Don't take your gnus to town, son, leave your gnus at home.

I'm not going into work today. The voices told me to stay home and clean the gnus.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: When it was okay to play with gnus
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 09:41 PM

Never clean a loaded gnu?