BS: Please explain what is a string of polop

Subject: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:14 PM

onies.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:20 PM

Polo ponies, owned by the very rich for jetting around the planet to various polo matches, wearing polo clothes and using polo mallets to hit a polo ball across the polo field, are not owned singly. A well equipped polo player has several, half a dozen, even, known as a string of the lively little buggers, in case one gets worn out galloping from end of the field to the other and back again in pursuit of the polo ball.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:24 PM

REALLY. I read it as a "string of poLOPonies" and couldn't figure it out. Thanks. (Sorry to start a thread for this.)

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:34 PM

It's all part of String Theory. As you know, guitar strings (known in the trade as "g-strings") are invaluable to physicists. Physicists developed String Theory to explain to their wives and Significant Others about the g-strings found in their pockets, especially after they were physicked at a Physics Convention. The polopony (pronounced "po-LOP-o-nee") is very like a guitar, only different. First of all, the polopony can only play in two keys: flat and sharp. Each of the thirteen strings of the instrument is tuned differently, some in the traditional A440, others in G576, still others in, perhaps D9824.

The strings of the polopony have to be very, very strong and most are at least 5.56mm in diameter. They are usually made of an alloy of depleted uranium, thorium, barium, fluorine, and either ketchup or habanero pepper sauce, the last being used by those who prefer salsa music.

These strings are known, of course, as "p-strings" and are used when a physicist has to explain why he had a "p in his pants."

I hope that all is now clear.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:36 PM

LIbrarian speak with forked face.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:37 PM

He might be on something here, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:38 PM

Boy, is my face red. Small error in that post.

He might be onTO something here, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:44 PM

Oh, I forget to mention that p-strings can each be tuned to play both sharp and flat at the same time. It is one of the few instruments capable of doing this.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:46 PM

Bruce, you got it right the first time.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:50 PM

That's a banjo, Rapaire. He's pullin' our legs, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:51 PM

I think both of you (Amos actually sounds atypically sane) drank the Koolaid. Are the keys crawling off your keyboard yet?

I have a friend who tells of someone who once strung geese together. I think it was geese. If I were the last goose, I really wouldn't want to swallow that string. I wonder if you can do the same thing with poloponies, and if so, do you call what you get a polypony?

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:56 PM

But then it WOULD be a poLOPony, right? I just can't imagine a single poLOPony. A plethora maybe, but not a string. Besides, no one plays polo on horses. They'd DROWN.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 09:59 PM

It's also related to the bodhran, the banjo, and the accordion.

The "Geese String" is another instrument, a very old one, consisting of a sounding bored (or goosee) which is played by someone standing behind it (or gooser). There are several goosees, and the instrument (which fell out of favor on July 13, 1214) is played much like a marimba or xylophone. Exactly how I leave to your imagination.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 10:00 PM

I forgot to mention the alto saxophone as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 10:18 PM

There are times that I'm glad that I have a mind like mine.




I thought, though, that Peace was talking about small sausages. Not singly, of course, but a lop of them. In a string.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Genie
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 10:28 PM

Methinks someone's been watching reruns of The Honeymooners. Either that, or just remembering that Ed Norton line from way back when. LOL

G

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 03:58 AM

Hi ! Bruce, me old love. Another deep and probing enquiry.! "A string of poloponies" was used in a great Steptoe and Son episode in (I think) th early 70s. Harold (the son) had ambitions to join the local Repertory company and, of course, Albert (the father) made him look pathetic. Harold read the word as "Paloponnies" and the word "misled" as "mizled"
Ayyyyyyyyragbone.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Splott Man
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 05:56 AM

Of course the alto sax is out of reach to all but the highest pilots.
The cumulo sax is more accessible but can produce precipititation which can be a cirrus problem on the polo field.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 07:07 AM

Damn, Splott, I wish I'd thought of that.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 07:12 AM

He's a sax maniac [over saxed?], that's why he thought of it mate.

G

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 07:34 AM

Well, as long as he's a practicing saxmaniac. Because,after all, practice makes perfect, makes perfect saxmaniacs.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Splott Man
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 07:44 AM

I knew that Geography A level would come in handy one day.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Bee
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 08:05 AM

I thought it was about another GI tract examination.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:00 AM

I haven't mentioned, because of disgust, why only folks with piles can play the polopony.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:45 AM

Polo enthusiasts sometimes do actually call them polOPonies.

Also it's a called a string because horses are sometimes tied out along a string-line. You run a rope between two trailers, and clip the horses' leads onto that "string". Like a picket line, only they don't strike. A rope hitching-rail.

Or sometimes they are exercised in a group on string leads, behind a lead horse whose rider holds the string. When you exercise a horse that way it's called "ponying."

I guess horse people would find music-jargon pretty strange as well.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Cool Beans
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:50 AM

You mean like a string of polyphony? As you might hear in the musical
'String Awakening."

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Bert
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:53 AM

I thought it was somewhere in Greece.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Amos
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:57 AM

Atypically? Jeri....I don't know what to say!!! I am STUNG!! I shall send you a buquet of fine red polopeonies to win your approval.
(That's po-LOP-eo-neez).

A

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:59 AM

I'd just like to point out that it took 6 minutes for Peace to nail Amos with an April 1st silly last night. SOMEBODY had to bite.

By the way, you CAN play water polo with poloponies. They swim ok, but I think the human people would have problems with the mallets. They'd be hard to swing under water and they'd probably want to float. I think the balls would float too, but I'm not sure I'm the best one to predict that.

Bruce, if you really WERE confused, stop pushing the F-whatever key that was in the other thread. (They should mark that one with an orange and purple glow-in-the-dark butterfly or something.)

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 10:08 AM

"I thought it was about another GI tract examination"
Bee beat me to that; I was thinking that a string of polop was something you didn't want them to find when they did your colonoscopy.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 11:09 AM

I'm glad I went to bed early last night....this is bad enough in the cold, clear light of day.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 12:33 PM

Is a GI tract something a preacher issues to a US soldier?

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 06:28 PM

I could swear that old joke about the po-LOP-o-nies comes from an old comedy routine, maybe Abbott & Costello.

Which reminds me of this one:

COSTELLO: (reading aloud) Paganini!

ABBOTT: (grabbing the paper) That's "Page nine"!

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 06:45 PM

LOL

You are ALL wonderful folks. Crazy as a sh#t house rat, but wonderful nevertheless.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 06:59 PM

"I forget to mention that p-strings can each be tuned to play both sharp and flat at the same time. It is one of the few instruments capable of doing this."

These instruments are unfortunately very common at Folk Music Events and Sessions, being most favoured by those Amateurs who abhor the very idea of Music Training or Practice.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 08:26 PM

Training? Practice? What are these things of which you speak?

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 08:52 PM

Black Magic, Man!

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 09:02 PM

"The strings of the polopony have to be very, very strong and most are at least 5.56mm in diameter."

BTW, Rapaire, Thongs for the Memory!

Subject: Please explain what is a string of poloponies
From: Genie
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:30 AM

Jim Dixon and fat B****rd,
I don't know if Abbott & Costello did it first, but on an episode of The Honeymooners, in the 1950s, Ed Norton was going to be in a play and was rehearsing his lines, with Ralph Cramden coaching him.   Norton, playing a character who was rich, recited one line about all his material posessions, such as "... my yacht, my mansions, my jewels, my string of polLOPanees.. ." Whereupon Ralph, after having Norton repeat the line a couple times and still totally baffled, grabbed the script, read the line, and screamed, "That's POLO ponies, you idiot!" (Slight paraphrasing.)

I've also heard the paganini line on a comedy skit quite a while back too.

Reminds me of the story of the Italian-American guy who told his friend he knew who the sexiest woman in the world was. No, not Sophia Loren, not Raquel Welch, not Angelina Jolie (pick a sex symbol from your generation), but "Georgia Pippileenay." When asked who the heck she was and why he thought she was the sexiest woman in the world, he pointed to a newspaper headline that read:

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GEORGIA PIPELINE LAID BY 1000 MEN IN 1 WEEK

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 04:36 AM

Thankyou Genie, of course I was too young to see The Honeymooners !Love the Georgia Pipeline bit. Great name for a band.
ATB from Charlie. fB

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 07:46 AM

Lots of em here.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:08 PM

Thanks for that about it coming from "The Honeymooners". I'd first heard it from an old friend of mine who smoked lots. He was reading a book and the hyphen happened thus: polop-onies. He was lost for a bit and then ended up in a ball on the floor holding his guts laughing (OK, I tried three times to write that sentence so it makes sense!).

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Genie
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:15 PM

Actually, fat B****d, that "Pipeline" gal has lots of sisters. The first time I heard that joke it was about "Alberta Pipeline"   - I lived in Canada at the time.   I've also heard it about "Sahara Pipeline" (that one really makes sense), "Virginia Pipeline," etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Genie
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 02:25 PM

Speaking of living in Canada, when I lived in Toronto, I got so used to seeing everything printed in both English and French that I started "reading" many English words through a different filter. E.g., I would see a bottle of catsup and think it said "poo-rahbl" (French pronunciation), when it merely said "pour-able" (sans hyphen).

One time I got some sort of hair straightener (back then I hated my curly hair) and on the instructions, after telling you how to set your hair, it had all these pictures of differernt styles you could do afterwards.   They kept calling the various hairdos "kohm-boohs" -- the word was, obviously, some sort of French "cognate" like "lingerie" or "vin rose" -- and I rolled my eyes and thought, "Why the heck do they have to get all fancy-schmancy and use an obscure French word!? Why not just call them "styles" or "hairdos?"

Not sure how long it took me to restructure my linguistic Gestalt and realize that the word they were using was, indeed, English, and was supposed to be pronounced


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"comb-out."

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: open mike
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 03:23 PM

per haps there is a strain of flowers
specifically designed to provide access
for disabled gardeners- the Polio Peony.

BTW- my peonies popped out this week.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 09:30 AM

oOoooooo, you naughty boy!

Put them back in and do up your zipper, straight away!

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 12:18 PM

Ah, Foolestroupe...I don't think Open Mike is a naughty boy, unless I've misadjusted the mixer for my Mikes just now;
I was tempted to ask if her peonies were as pretty as LTS's tits...

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 02:21 PM

Whaddya say, Liz... show us yer tits?

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 03:35 PM

I say...steady on, old chap.

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 05:38 PM

Gentlemen, in the words of The Bard . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Please explain what is a string of polop
From: Peace
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 05:40 PM

I forgot the words. They amounted to "Ssshhhhhhhhh."