BS: Staying on topic in threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:59 PM

GARLIC    GARLIC yuch phewwwwwww quick someone fetch me a wooden stake. Ooops wait a mo its not meant to be the vampire with the stake ok strike that order me a steak deffinately NO garlic of course i want it rare.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:57 PM

GOOD question, Janie.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Janie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:54 PM

The problem with anchovies is having to put something that looks like that in your mouth - on a pizza, they remind me of fox scat on the trail.

Of course, anything is good if you put enough garlic on it....

Is there garlic in Buckley's cough syrup?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:53 PM

What about

THE NAZ !!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:51 PM

Yer Welcome...

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:43 PM

HE'S GOT IT! This thread is about Buckley's Cough Syrup.

THANK YOU, Bob.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:32 PM

Peace & Posse: Sure anchovies are great. Did I ever give you my recipe for "40-clove garlic chicken?" Prepare chicken for roasting(a bit of Cajun spice & BBQ sauce)). Circle the chicken with 40 cloves of garlic with the peels left on. They turn into a spread for warm bread and your favorite salad. Add some cool ones. Instant party. A sure-fire way to find out which of your guests are vampires.
Then a recipe for German Chocolate Cheese Cake: Virst, you vill occupy a kitchen! Zen you vill be asked to show your papers to obtain..."

Passport? After seeing Rambo, we won't need one. THEY will need one...

Topics and threads are like Jazz, you start with the head/melody and everybody does their inversions and variations..."The fat jazz that a cat blows wails long after he's cut out..." Lord Buckley, who would have dug the boppinest, baddest, coolest anchovies on this here sphere... :0) bob

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: bobad
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:29 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:23 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:11 PM

"I'm trying really hard here. Is it on topic because I've mentioned anchovies and garlic or is it off topic because I've mentioned stuffed peppers?"

Well, yes and no, eanjay. As Giok said, anchovies and leather . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:10 PM

"well seasoned leather thwacking on willow" soon be cricket season !! Howzat

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:03 PM

Ah the smell of anchovies, and well seasoned leather.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:52 PM

Stuffed peppers are great when you use anchovy and garlic.

I'm trying really hard here. Is it on topic because I've mentioned anchovies and garlic or is it off topic because I've mentioned stuffed peppers?

I haven't quite grasped the rules yet!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:48 PM

It's very difficult keeping these threads on topic. Y'all gotta help out as best you can, ya know? Jeeze . . . .

Anchovy and garlic pizza is/are IT!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Stringsinger
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:46 PM

Glad to see that the posts are on topic.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Janie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:44 PM

Anchovies? Lots of Anchovies?

Oh! Puleeezzzzzz. Quick, alert the Border Patrol!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Tweed
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:42 PM

Don't be ridiculous.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:26 PM

Lots of anchovies and garlic. LOTS. Hey, do we need passports when we invade the US?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:25 PM

Peace: Your choice. And it's on me...bob

" I'd like 4000 sandwiches to go please..." Woody Allen-"Bananas"(I think)

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:21 PM

What kind of pizza?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:18 PM

Peace: Listen. It'll be a great time. First we go to see Rambo. Then we go out for a few brewski's and a pizza! Then, we invade the U.S. !!!...bob

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:07 PM

Bob, I'm startin' to worry about you . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 02:04 PM

Ah yes...To-pic or not To-pic. THAT is the question...

                                    STAYIN' ON TOPIC(A Rap Song, soon to be in theatre's everywhere)

                     Stayin' on topic, you know you want to drop it,
                     Yo yer words are flowin, ya wanna keep it goin'
                     Yeah you should be listenin', instead of kinda quislin'
                     Politician in yer pocket, how ya gonna stop it?

                     You wanna be a hero, 'stead yer battin' zero
                     Yer head is up like Nero, fiddlin' in the mirror,
                     Topic's like a gender, you wanna be a bender,
                     Get yerself a Fender, and Rockit all night long.....

O.K. O.K. O.K. Enough already! You don't think I'm INSANE do you(to be read with a British accent, usually spoken before the man/maniac starts to do some slicin' and dicein')

"Everybody's talkin' at me..." Fred Neil
"Say the secret word and the duck will come down and give you $100..."-Groucho Marx
"I did not have sex with that woman..."- Bill Clinton
"Weapons of mass destruction" - former President Bush(Soon kids. Soon. Hopefully in time. Did HE stay on topic? HA HA HA HA HA...)

O.K. Enough about me. NOW Mudcatmeisters. The topical question of the day is...
In which song did Bruce Murdoch use the word "quisling?"
The prize is the comfort of knowing...
Topicly yours...bob

Peace: I want to see the new RAMBO. Are ya with me?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 01:46 PM

People may cry "Peas! Peas!" but there are no peas. The entree has actually begun!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 01:06 PM

I am glad to see that so many folks here have stayed on the topic of this thread. Thanks to both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Stringsinger
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 01:02 PM

Straying off topic is creative not rigid. The topic can't be defined so precisely by the
topic Dictator. Who is the arbiter who can judge whether the topic is off or not?

Mudcat is about Free Speech. It's one of the last places for democracy left on the net.
I see loose connections in topics that supposedly stray.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:52 PM

As Bill said, staying on topic is a one way street.

I remember driving the wrong way down a one way street in Germany. I thought that Einbahnstrasse was the name of the road.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: bobad
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:42 PM

By Jove, I think he's got it!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:37 PM

What the focus the point of this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:28 PM

Buncha the boys would go into a back-country store and ask the young woman who worked there for a loaf of raisin bread. This was kept on the top shelf, and to get it she had to turn her back on the boys and do a lot of stretching and the resulting view was terrific.

Finally, after getting eight or ten loaves down for eight or ten of the loafers, she turned to an old fella who'd been patiently waiting and asked, "Well? Is your's raisin too?"

"No," he responded, "but it's twitchin' a might."

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:18 PM

The way i heard it about dictionaries,

The plot's a bit obscure, but they do explain every word.


Chamber's is wrong, of course. They just haven't got the balls to stand up to misspellers. They just record.:-)

I lked groucho saying to a uni graduate of the opposite sexual persuasion ro myself, who was sitting on Zeppo's lap (Groucho being his father in the film),

Young lady, do you mind standing up so I can see the son rise?

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:11 AM

I think its better that its closer one then the other in a rudimentary way. I am seeing that a lot of this thread is rudimentary,

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:10 AM

Didja hear about the three brothers in Texas who inherited a cattle ranch from their father?
They decided to run it as a team...sort of a family business: but they wanted a name that would reflect the history and relevance of their unique enterprise.

After great deliberation, they decided to call it:


FOCUS RANCH




because.....












that's where the son's raise meat




(this once won a prize as one of the best puns of all time)

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 08:28 AM

And if you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in there too.
Somewhere between shit and syphilis.

G

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 08:11 AM

autolycus...focused or focussed as can be seen from this definition in 'Chambers Dictionary online' approx two thirds of the way down and in brackets...............I did go to one of those schools you know where one is expected to present with good Queens English. LOL
focus noun (focuses or foci) 1 the point at which rays of light or sound waves converge or appear to diverge. 2 optics focal point 1. 3 a the condition in which an image is sharp • The picture is in focus; b the state of an instrument producing this image • The telescope is in focus • These binoculars are out of focus. 4 geol in seismology: the location of the centre of an earthquake, where the subterranean fracture takes place and from which the elastic waves radiate outward. See also epicentre. 5 a centre of interest or attention. 6 special attention paid to something • a shift of focus. 7 pathol the main site of an infection. 8 geom a point associated with a conic section where the distance between it and any point on the curve is a fixed ratio (the eccentricity 4) to the distance between that point and a line (the directrix). verb (focused, focusing; focussed, focussing) 1 tr & intr to bring or be brought into focus; to meet or make something meet or converge at a focus. 2 to adjust the thickness of the lens of (the eye) or to move the lens of (an optical instrument) so as to obtain the sharpest possible image of a particular object. 3 to cause (electron beams) to converge or diverge by varying the voltage or current that controls the magnetic or electric fields through which they pass. 4 (often focus something on something) tr & intr to concentrate (one's attention, etc) on it • focused her energies on the problem • focused on the problem.

Anyway to get back to the thread...Dictionaries are great things aren't they.....I read one all the way through....hard to understand the story but some lovely words used!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 04:50 AM

My turn to do a turn.

It's spelt 'focused', not 'focussed', ta- taaaaaaaaaaaa ching.

And it's my claim th't that is on topic.

(But that's a topic in itself. )

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 03:42 AM

The effects of the anaesthetic from five operations over two years was devastating at that time of my life. I had been on track to run the London Marathon and could run about 14 miles without problem. Then it all started and five ops later I had problems getting breath when I ran.
Who said I was off topic????? Anaesthetic was mentioned wasn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: rangeroger
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:40 AM

If you are bored with the topic, does it then become a topical anesthetic?

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 10:34 PM

Hey-
don't complain. At last we have a thread where BB and Teribus aren';t ganging up on Bobert (or vice versa)

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 09:35 PM

Hi Janie! (Now backa to the topic.)

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Slag
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 09:20 PM

LH, if Chongo happens to read this thread, please tell him I was only kidding about him being the pet. It's the early Bonobo influence, kinda like dyslexia only worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Slag
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 09:15 PM

I need a topicgraphical map. Paradittles? Pair of dice? Paradise? Bartlet pears. Uh, now how close are we to 50 trillion?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Emma B
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 08:59 PM

who knows?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 08:51 PM

Waht's this all about, then?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 08:11 PM

Pizza all 'round.....
|_____|   |_____| |______|

NO anchovies. I don't DO anchovies.
Bring yer own beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 06:37 PM

MacKenzie SKELP

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 06:35 PM

Mary bought a little bear to eat her bacon rind
And everywhere that Mary went, you saw her bear behind.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 06:23 PM

Oy!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: bobad
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 06:21 PM

Hey, diddle diddle

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 06:11 PM

Flo was fond of Ebenezer
"Eb" for short she called her beau.
Talk of the Tides of Love, Great Caesar!
You should have seen them, Eb and Flo.