BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch

Subject: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 09:14 PM

This is getting ridiculous -- Musician's brains ARE different!

Robin

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OK, it got tedious after "drunk," and annoying after "skank." Any additional copycat threads will be deleted.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 03:14 AM

What's next?   Getting spunk out from under the couch?

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 07:09 AM

Surely more like - Getting a Spunk on top of the Couch... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 05:55 PM

Or getting spunk out from the couch?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 06:03 PM

"Spank", you dyslexic rabble!

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 09:34 PM

"Spank" is a verb, not a noun. Therefore, it is impossible for you to have a spank under your porch, as such a thing does not exist. And if it is impossible for you to have a spank under your porch, then it is also impossible to get a spank out from under your porch.

Perhaps you meant "skank". It is quite possible to have a skank under your porch. Please send Shane (Blind Drunk in Blind River) a PM. He is an expert on skanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 09:40 PM

Damn! Just scrolled down the page and saw that Shane himself already started a thread on skanks. Nevermind.

Anybody got a monk under their porch?

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: Helen
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 09:59 PM

Or a punk? All that jangling of nose rings & safety pins is very unnerving.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 10:27 PM

The English language as practiced in common usage does not comform to limited rules of behaviour - furthermore there are other rules which can be used to override simplpe rules.

For example - verbs ARE commonly used as nouns and vice versa.

One of the meta-rules that allows this is THE METAPHOR.

Thus while "*ank" is often used as a verb, the word can be used as a noun such as

"to have a *ank"

or

"a bit of a *anker"...

:-)

Robin