BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'

Subject: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:50 AM

Heloo, at about midnight every night, the woman that lives 3 doors away from me, goes to the end of her garden and shouts "Marmalade" three times, wahts all that about then?

do any of your neighbours shout stuff?

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:54 AM

We are too polite to shout in Beverley.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Once Famous
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:56 AM

No, our neighbors are mostly sane and not drunk.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:58 AM

I named my Labrador "Stella" so I could yell that every night.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:01 PM

Maybe she is just fantasising about you John.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:02 PM

My wife's cat (thirty years ago now) was called "Trotsky". Calling him in at night was interesting ...

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:18 PM

Yeah, it's a cat. I've heard that dumb name too often not to recognize it.

I like cats; it's their "owners" I have trouble with.

I named my cats cool names, like Miro, and Javert, and Mavros, and Pink Floyd.

But if I yelled their names out every night when they were having a good time doing what every respectable cat does at night, I'd expect them to not only ignore me in the moment, but to let me know later in the way only cats can, that I'm embarrassing them in front of their mates.

I hope your neighbor likes dead mice in her tub.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:21 PM

Dunno . . . alas, my cat "Marmalade" crossed the rainbow bridge almost 10 years ago. Didn't get as many strange looks when I called him as when I called his brother, Foolish.

(Had a bebe parrot once named "Dammit" -- mostly so when she woke us at 5 a.m. we could yell, "Shut up, Dammit!" and truly mean it.)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:29 PM

our bengal is named Reavy

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:43 PM

Are you sure she isnt looking for the cat that was put in your bin a few months ago John???????.
I am lucky that my cat is called Whistle so i just whistle and she comes to me.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:44 PM

Thick cut or Oxford?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 01:09 PM

I just KNEW that if I did a search for images of Marmalade there would be cats, but this has an entire web site for one! Maybe, j0hn, the lady's cat is too fat to answer!

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 01:39 PM

I just KNEW that if I opened this thread, I would see it was started by Sir jOhn, the Whack Knight of Hull. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Dani
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 02:22 PM

We had a schnauzer named "Taxi" once. I had to stand on the balcony and yell it...

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Helen
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 02:39 PM

SCOOBY DOO,

I have acclimatised our cats to come (in their own sweet time, of course) when I whistle. But don't do it when you leave them at the animal boarding house and come to collect them. I automatically whistled to let them know I was there and all the dogs in the adjoining boarding section went off, barking & whining, and the cats all cowered in their little motel rooms. Probably one of the absolutely stupidest things I have ever done in my life. :-)

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Peace
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 02:43 PM

Named my last dog Dammit. (Makes it easier to train 'em.) Ya know, "Stop thet, Dammit." Sit, Dammit." Like that.

That's what chickens say: "Hey, look at the big egg marmalade."

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 02:48 PM

I will remember that Helen when i have a new cat,thanks for the advice.
SCOOBY

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: annamill
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 02:54 PM

It's probably an American thing, but does anyone remember when we were kids, the stupid joke about the lady who called her dog "Freeshow"?

I used to think that was really funny! Thank goodness I've matured. Sorta...

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 03:18 PM

Back before dogs were kenneled or tied up, I was living at the Oregon Coast when I boarded my brother's dog, Yankee, while he and his family were on vacation.

Yankee, a big grey-dappled smiling mutt, whenever I wasn't outdoors visited houses up and down the beach. A friend, knowing I didn't want him roaming, found herself yelling at him: Yankee, GO HOME.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 03:33 PM

Annamill, in the joke I remember, the dog's name was "Blowjob".

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: *Laura*
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 05:36 PM

I was going to call my dog 'Speedway' when we got him - because my dog is small and fat and white. And I met a guy who had a pot-bellied pig called Speedway and I though it was a GREAT name for a small white fat fluffy dog! (westie)
But then I didn't fancy yelling 'SPEEDWAY!' so we settled for Ollie instead.

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:51 PM

Ha! Ha! Ha! I just viewed the incredible cinematic epic, "Marmalade
vs. the Green Bean". It's more impressive than Lord of the Rings! It rivals Shatner! View it NOW!!!!


Marmalade versus the Green Bean!!!

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:55 PM

Just push the little start button on the video box...

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: number 6
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 08:34 PM

This post by JOhn is great !!

Named our cat Stella for that specific reason.

Good to see Guest heric named his Labrador for the same.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: GUEST,Fred
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 08:51 PM

"Wilma" would make a great name for a cat then, wouldn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 08:53 PM

I taught my cats to come when I whistled - couldn't go around shouting out their names....

My cats were named
(black) Scyllytrypx
(white) Ddyllytrypx

all cats, as you know, have a silent p at one end...

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Joybell
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 09:18 PM

Annamill and Cluin. The joke was in Australia too. The dog's name was "Tittswobble" who gets lost. It wound up with the policeman saying, "No But I'd like too!" you can easily fill in the rest.

True-love's similar American kid-joke involves a dog called "Itchyballs". No need to tell it. Can be easily made up.

                                                 Cheers Joy

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 09:37 PM

Sir jOhn, next time the woman stands in her garden at midnight and yells "Marmalade!", stick your head out the window and yell, "Yes! I'll take a pint jar. Do you deliver?"

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: GUEST,Lois Rain
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 09:53 AM

Or else fight back by yelling "Vegemite!" several times...

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 10:00 AM

ALBATROSS for christs sake.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 10:22 AM

Had a cat named Lucifer who jumped out the window one summer night as i was putting the screen in. SO once again I was out in the yard in my nighty and in a panic this time shouting "Lucifer" to the full monn.

For those who missed it: last time I was carrying a squirrel in a trash can covered with a cookie sheet. Damn thing ate through the screen.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 11:24 AM

Strangely enough my daughter (5) kept shouting Marmalade this morning and I genuinly have no idea why!

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Maija
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 11:38 AM

We were once dogsitting for a week - and the dog was called Truls. A rather common name in Norway. The neighbour's name was also Truls, and his wife was out of town for a few days. I can only imagine what sort of things the neighbours were talking about after my mum walked around in the garden, shouting for Truls and telling him she had a treat for him...

@jOhn: why don't you leave a few toasts on her doorstep for her?

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 11:39 AM

Invasion of the marmalade people from the Treacle Galaxy. Steer clear if I were you. Have the kid exorcised and surround your bed with holy water.

Mind you my neighhbour has a cockatiel called Daniel named after The O'Donnell man from the planet Donegal. She can be heard contacting base day and night.........Helloooo Daniel! Shall we watch Countdown Daniel etc.

Isn't the auld Irish cultural heritage a blessing to us all?   sure why wouldn't it not be?

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Blowzabella
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 06:10 PM

Hello jOhn.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 09:10 PM

Check out Sir Peter Ustinov's autobio of a dozen years or so back ('Dear Me')about naming his dog 'Major'. His father kept chasing down the dog yelling 'Major' and meeting so many retired English officers that Peter once came home to a reception for a number of monocled gentlemen of a certain age and set, by way of his father's apology for 'yelling' at 'em.

Personally, I always thought it would be cool to name a dog 'Rabies'.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 01:06 AM

How about "Fire"?

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 02:54 AM

I always thought of calling a cat "Cooking Fat". And after the disappearing gravy and pork last night, the reason doesn't take too much thinking about!

epn

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 05:58 AM

Our cat is Pozzie & next door's is Ozzie. They get a bit confused sometimes.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 12:08 PM

We had a cat called Marmalade. My Polish Granny had problems pronouncing it and called her Jam instead - Honest! She also used to call our twin daughters Amy and the other Amy - Because she had both problems pronouncing Catherine and couldn't tell them apart!

Current mog is Homer but I always fancied calling a cat 'Ceefor':-)

Best pun was from the Oldham Tickers. 'We called our dog Grieg. All he could do was pee agin't'suite...'

:D

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 12:09 PM

Oldham tikkas are what you get in Curry shops. Oldham TiNkers are the band I meant:-)

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 08:32 PM

The Peer Gynt suite!

You've got some cerebral humorists in Lancashire.......must be all that tripe and the Fisherman's Friends washed down with Tizer that clears the passages and feeds the brain cells.

Penny Black didn't introduce to anybody that bloody intelligent when I was over there a few weeks ago.

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Cool Beans
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 05:08 PM

The lady who went around yelling "Freeshow" must be related to the one who cried "Seymour!"

Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Marmalade'
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 06:48 PM

Annamill and Cluin -- I heard her dog's name was Tiz, so she could walk up and down the street calling, "Here, Tiz."

Linn