BS: Imponderables

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Alba
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:06 PM

aAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
guest>>why why why!!!!!
rofl

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:07 PM

In the UK "bangs" are much more fun........... I seem to remember. Ahh! The joys of youth.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:07 PM

Just because alba...:)

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Alba
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:14 PM

You Rapscallion Guest...LOL.. but did you notice that we both posted at exactly then same time...spooky eh..:>)

Don, I agree that the UK meaning for Bangs is a lot more fun that a haircut...
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:16 PM

Yes but I pressed the submit button with real conviction....:)

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:23 PM

innocuous

From Latin innocuus : in-, not; + nocuus, harmful (from nocre, to harm).


Anti british feeling?

ALL.
He is an Englishman!
BOAT.
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!
ALL.
That he is an Englishman!
BOAT.
For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!
ALL.
Or perhaps Itali-an!
BOAT.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
He remains an Englishman!
ALL.
For in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
He remains an Englishman!

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:28 PM

Is a fly without wings called a walk?

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: John O'L
Date: 29 May 05 - 08:35 PM

I watched Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand last night:

A desert island, a shipwreck, 2 Scots, 2 Irish, 2 welsh and 2 English.
After a year the 2 Scots had set up a distillery, the 2 Welsh had formed into a choir, the 2 Irish were fighting on the beach, and the 2 English were still waiting to be formally introduced.

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 May 05 - 04:41 AM

Bunnahabhain -

You reminded me of another imponderable: Why does the Dicky-bird sing 'tit willow, tit willow, tit willow'?

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 30 May 05 - 04:47 AM

Which G+S is the one about Duty?

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 May 05 - 03:48 PM

HMS Pinafore, act II, and again in the finale.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 May 05 - 02:42 PM

Why can't a woman - be more like a man?

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 31 May 05 - 02:57 PM

Before someone throws a fit - that's a line from "My Fair Lady". In high school I played Col Pickering. I should know.

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:00 PM

Why is Puffinus puffinus the latin scientific name for the Manx Shearwater - and not the Puffin?

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:09 PM

When actors get together to read their lines for the first time...is it called a hearsal?

Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:45 PM

The name 'Puffin' has an English history. It orginally referred to the cured carcesses of nestling shearwaters, which were a higly prised delicacy until the late 18th century, birds being mainly collected on the Isles of Scilly and Man. 'puffin' is related to 'puffling' and is a referance to the fat young birds.
The exchange of names seems to has arisen between shearwaters and puffins, which both nest in burrows. Puffin had taken its modern meaning by the late 19th century

   Fauna Britannica, Stefan Buczacki.