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Subject: Lost Consonants From: Trevor Date: 23 Aug 02 - 08:52 AM This deserves a thread of its own, and just to keep the music connection, I'll bet somebody could write a song... Ever since their school days, Jim had been one of his closet chums In the early days, Gershwin found it hard to sell his sons In the re-enactment of The Little Big Horn, Bob wanted to be Cuter More, more, more....!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: GUEST,Bagpuss Date: 23 Aug 02 - 08:56 AM The best one I have seen has to be: "Andrew Lloyd Webber writes another hit musical" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Trevor Date: 23 Aug 02 - 09:08 AM Brilliant!!! Laughed out loud causing raised eyerows in the office! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Declan Date: 23 Aug 02 - 09:58 AM T,L,N,T,S The lost consonants of Atlantis, or AAI as we know it today. - Les Barker. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Kim C Date: 23 Aug 02 - 12:29 PM Some of you have probably received, via e-mail, the photo of a Taco Bell restaurant with a marquee reading, "Now Hiring All Shits." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 23 Aug 02 - 04:42 PM Bagpuss said: The best one I have seen has to be: Maybe I'm dense, but despite reading this and rereading it and re-rereading it, I don't get it! Someone please enlighten me! Dave Oesterreich
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: MudGuard Date: 23 Aug 02 - 04:43 PM Bagpuss thinks that the s is missing at the beginning of the second last word... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: GUEST, Sibilant Date: 23 Aug 02 - 04:45 PM Um, I think there's supposed to be another letter in front of the word "hit." Sib |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Art Thieme Date: 23 Aug 02 - 04:58 PM The one singer who absolutely drives me nuts because she ALWAYS drops the final consonants from every line she sings not to mention many of the interior words, is Emmy Lou Harris. Just thought it'd be nice to bring this back to music. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Kim C Date: 23 Aug 02 - 05:02 PM Let's talk about vowels in music... Reba McEntire. I have never been able to stand her singing. There's one song - I can't think of the name of it now - where she turns "him" into "heeeeeooooohm." Argh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Don Firth Date: 23 Aug 02 - 06:06 PM Right Art. I love Emmy Lou's voice, but just yesterday I was listening to a cut from one of her records and I couldn't figure out what she was singing. And I know the song! I wish she'd learn to enunciate. Declan, it looks like Atlantis had a vowel movement. . . . Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: ciarili Date: 30 Aug 02 - 12:28 AM I love "Lily of the West" on the Chieftains' Long Black Veil, but ever since I noticed that he always comes off singing "the Lily of the We.." I have a hard time listening to it! It's such a nice track otherwise. Blah. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: dick greenhaus Date: 30 Aug 02 - 12:33 AM A Boy Scout is a fiend to all and a bother to all other scouts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Murray MacLeod Date: 30 Aug 02 - 04:04 AM Art and Don, you have now both committed the ultimate sin for which there is no forgiveness .... Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Trevor Date: 30 Aug 02 - 04:06 AM They found a late night drinking cub |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Mrrzy Date: 30 Aug 02 - 10:47 AM Dave Barry theorized once that when the islanders were canoing over to colonize Hawaii, most of their consonants were washed overboard... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Trevor Date: 30 Aug 02 - 11:25 AM Speaking of which, how are your vowels Mrrzy? In fact where are they!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 30 Aug 02 - 01:32 PM Skimming this title, I at first wondered if this was the Lost Consonant where they discovered living dinosaurs. The best true billboard I can give is when they were showing the second Star Wars Movie and on the marquee had it listed as:
"The Empire Strikes Blacks"
Maybe not politically correct, but I thought maybe it was a historical picture. :-) Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Deda Date: 30 Aug 02 - 01:42 PM I've mentioned this on another thread, but there used to be a Black Angus restaurant in the Denver area with a big neon sign outside, and the "g" in Angus was blacked out. Leaving the name of the place not so appetizing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Mrrzy Date: 30 Aug 02 - 02:04 PM Hey, it's SOMETIMES y (and w)... The common one, of course, is to black out the S of any Shell sign. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Bill D Date: 30 Aug 02 - 03:15 PM well, the kind of mind I have contemplates the United Nations turmoil when some speech has to be translated from Czech to Hawaiian.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: GUEST,John from Holl Date: 30 Aug 02 - 11:41 PM tha couple beyond pluto but i dant racon tha nam |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Amos Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:49 AM Trevor, NEVER ask a lady where her vowels are. It is supposed to be too obvious to support mentioning, and if she's bigger than you are you get end up getting a bust in the face. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Trevor Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:10 PM It's a while since I had a bust in my face. And a bus in face for that matter. Mrs Lemon, how are your vowles? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: april showers Date: 01 Sep 02 - 04:59 PM 8-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Genie Date: 02 Sep 02 - 01:52 PM Once when I had my students in a psychology course write down their proposed research topics for an assignment, one guy wrote that his topic would be "How Men Treat Women In Pubic Places." I think it was just a careless mistake. Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Mr Happy Date: 04 Sep 02 - 09:05 PM tv/radio announcers are 'professional' consonant droppers. guvverment etec. there's loads of people who instead of losing consonants, actively add them too. henry cooper [the boxer]talks about 'mountings'[mountains], using the 'kitching'[kitchen]. i've heard klaxon uttered as 'klaxton' too. any more? or shall i start a new theard for 'dese'? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Yorkshire Tony Date: 04 Sep 02 - 09:57 PM On adjusted billboards, there is a pest extermination company in Australia called Flick, with the slogan "ONE FLICK AND THEY'RE GONE". Certain wags join up the L and I on their billboards. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lost Consonants From: Blackcatter Date: 05 Sep 02 - 12:11 AM The farm down the road used to have a hand-painted sign: "Rabbis for sale" |