BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!

Subject: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:08 PM

Rutabaga!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:10 PM

You said it! Moooooooooooooooooooom!! He said it!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Once Famous
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:22 PM

rotten bagel in Canadianspeak?

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:36 PM

Dammit, Hawk, you broke-dick mamalucca! The rutabaga bit is mine! Mine I say! You have stolen my schtick! I was supposed to start the rutabaga thread, not your sorry skinny Canuck ass!

But since you went and did it anyway...

The thing is you can't say "rutabaga" on the Mudcat. It's one of the three things you cannot do. You cannot post blatant personal attacks, you cannot post blatant racial slurs, and you cannot say the word "rutabaga". "Rutabaga" is the "Belgium" of the Mudcat Cafe.

Now, fortunatley, there is another excellent word for rutabagas. They are also known as "Swedes". You can say "Swedes" all you want.

Just watch this:

Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes, Swedes

See? The forum is still here. I'm still here. All is just fine. If I had said "rutabaga" that many times... Well, let's just say I'm not dumb enough to try it to find out what might happen.

However, there is one problem with the word "Swede". Eating Swedes is considered canibalism in some parts. Then again, if one only eats certain parts of the Swede it's not canibalism at all. In fact it can be a very enjoyable experience for both the Swede and the Swede-eater.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:50 PM

Rutabaga!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:50 PM

Yeah? Swede you, Bee-Dub!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:55 PM

Swede? Ya-shure, ya betcha!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:55 PM

Yeah, well, whaddya expeck from a broke-dick mammalucca, anyway, BeeDub?

Anyone who will flog Candian movie stars is gonna steal yore rutabaga EVVVY TIME!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:58 PM

Awright! The circus song. Thanks, Carol!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:59 PM

By the way, here,s a picture of some rutabagas: CLICK.

You will note that it is an illustration, not a photograph. Please note how much the "rutabagas" resemble either detached eyeballs or surgically removed boobies, depending on your viewpoint and/or the distance from your mind to the gutter.

Also, please note that the implement in the illustration is a knife, not a spatula. Since rutabagas are mainly diced for use in soups and such, there is no practical way to utilize a spatula in their preparation or cooking. That is sad because the rutabaga and the spatula could probably be very good friends of they only had the chance to meet.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:04 PM

Not true, Bee-dubya-ell. I use a spatula when frying leftover Jigg's dinner rutabaga slices.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Teresa
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:05 PM

Do you realize that there are no songs in the dT about the humble rutabega? Nor do I remember ever hearing any.

Well?

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:09 PM

I'm sure the Circus Song would be in the dT if it had any words. And if it had words, I'm sure rutabagas would be mentioned at least once...

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:13 PM

it is reported that 75% of the Rutabagas sold in the US are eaten by Republicans.......


.............the rest are thrown away.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:17 PM

So Bill, does that make me a defacto Republican?

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:20 PM

the exception proves the rule....





(so...the more exceptions, the better the rule?)

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:29 PM

Okay, this is the only song I know about a rutabaga:

Call Any Vegeatble by Frank Zappa

Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You've gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la

Call any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutaba...

No one will know
If you don't want to let them know
No one will know
'less it's you that might tell them so
Call and they'll come to you
Smiling and covered with dew
Vegetable dream
Vegetable dream
Vegetable dream of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide
To hide, to hide, to hide,...

Shooo, shooo, shoo, shoo ....
You know a lot of people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. they, they think: what can I say? some times they think: where can I go?
Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in burbank?
At ralph's vegetarian poodle clippin', where you can come this...
Where can I go to get organic vaseline for my ? ? ? ?
At bob and ray's swaheli restorant, where you can come this close.....
Where can I go to get my jeans embroided at fullerton? .....
At jeans, at jeans north where nothing fits
Where can I go to get my zipper repaired in hollywood?
Who gives the fuck anyway
Where can I go to get my speakers fixed?
Where can I go to get my exit lights? ,
At jack lalane hamburgers on 312 whittier boulavard.
Where can I go to get my stomach pumped?
Where can I go to colapse
Hey, de-due.

Questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. ah, but it's a great time to be alive ladies and gentlemen. and that's the theme of our program for t
T, it's so fucking great to be alive! is what the theme of our show is tonight, boys and girls. and I'm wanna tell ya, if there is anybody here who doesn't believe that it is fucking
T to be alive, I wish that they go now, because this show will only bring them down so much... ]

God bless america
Land that I love
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You've gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Oh, that the vegetable will respond to you

And if you are a consenting adult we want you to call today in los angeles, the number is richmond9-6935 , in downey it's 347-8932.

Call it direct,
Call it collect,
But call it today.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Teresa
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:41 PM

Man, he was one crazy-ass dude. :D

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:59 PM

Alas, the rutabaga and the spatula will never meat..

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: LadyJean
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:39 AM

If I ever get my books unpacked, I'll find my copy of Carl Sandburg's Rutabaga Stories. He had a marvelous feel for language, and if I have any at all, it began with that book. "Never kick a slipper at the moon, not if the moon is a dancing slipper moon. Not if the ends of the moon are fixed like the toe and the heel of a dancer's foot."

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: open mike
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 02:58 AM

a.k.a rootabaga stories..with 2 "o"'s\

i once heard that in movies in order to
approximate a crowd all speaking...the
actors (and actresses)_ would often
mumble the word rutabaga repeatedly
to make it look and sound like they were
all carrying on converstions..

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Teresa
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:06 AM

Hmmm, I often wondered what folks in movie crowds were saying to each other. ... Imagine someone overhearing gossip and having to do another take. :)

Rootabagarootabagarootabagarootabagarootabagarootabagarootabaga

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:59 AM

It's rhubarb! Rhubarb, not rutabaga, or at least it is here in Britian.

And it gives you another vegatable to play with. (or is it a fruit?)
Doesn't matter, it's suitable phallic for your warped minds...

Bunnahabhain

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Crystal
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:08 AM

Open Mike, I believe the words used were Walla-walla, hence the term "walla-walla scenes"

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: kendall
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:20 AM

Rhubarb and rutaba are two fifferent vegetables, not even related.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: kendall
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:20 AM

DIFFERENT   poof read

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:24 AM

Kendall, I know they're diffrent things. Just like Crystal, I meant that is what extras say on set. But as that one came from a RSC bloke, maybe rhubarb is for on stage?

Any other ideas?

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Crystal
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:33 AM

rhubarb is mouthed on stage. you can't say it too loud because the design of most stages means the sound carries.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Layah
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:39 AM

They always told us to say watermelon on stage. I've never been in a movie so I don't know if that differs. Watermelons taste better than rhubarb or rutabegas.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: 42
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 07:18 AM

Carrot Juice is Murder by the crazy canadian group The Arrogant Worms doesn't mention rutabagas specifically but does present a thought provoking look at the crimes committed against our friends the vegetables.
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Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM

TERMUTS!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:45 AM

Does anybody have the faintest idea what the last post could possibly mean or say?

Answers on a postcard to somebody

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:47 AM

Turnips in a sort of West Country way.

The heat must be getting to me.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:18 PM

The way *I* heard it, crowds in movies were told to say "peas and carrots"

(actually, I dont suppose it would matter much if they said "baked Alaska")

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:16 PM

If you want a really good crowd sound, you have 25% say "rutabaga", 2nd 25% say "watermelon", 3r 25% say "peas and carrots", 4rth 25% say, "Did you see the antlers on that moose?" (over and over again...)

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:37 PM

ffs, this thread is SO last year:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=74322

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:44 PM

So? That didn't stop them from having the Superbowl again, did it?

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:49 PM

Hmmm. Indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 04:52 PM

Turnip. Turnip. TURNIP ! Rutabagas cost a lot more and don't taste as good.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 04:55 PM

Rapier

he looks lick Dick Cheney.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Bert
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 04:58 PM

I am NOT going to LICK Dick Cheney.

Subject: RE: BS: The Dreadful R-word thread!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:36 PM

Nor is anyone else....