BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van

Subject: BS:ADD: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: retrancer
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:46 PM

Fat Lady in a Mini-Van (Fun Lyrics not serious folk)

I was cruising down the highway, pretty as you please
When something happened that scared the hell out of me
I looked up in my rearview and what do I see
Comin up fast, right behind me

A fat lady in in a minivan
Drivin to Mcdonald's just as fast as she can
French fries in her lap and a burger in her hand
She's a fat lady in a mini van

Got her foot on the gas and she's tail-gaiting me
Gonna get the kids to soccer and man she's gotta pee
She's still in her bathrobe and it's way past three
She's got her face in the windshield and she's screamin at me

A fat lady in in a minivan
Headed to Mcdonald's just as fast as she can
French fries in her lap and a burger in her hand
Fat lady in a mini-van

She needs an apple pie and a some McRibs for lunch
But first she has to order Egg McMuffins for brunch
She's back on the highway with her foot on the gas
She's a minivan terror with a super-sized ass

Fat lady in a mini-van
Ragin' down the highway in her sardine can
French fries in her lap and Big Gulp in her hand
Fat lady in a mini-van

Ragin down the highway in a sardine can
Fat lady in a mini-van

Ragin down the highway with a big gulp in her hand
Ragin down the highway to the promised land
Ragin down the highway to the promised land

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: GUEST,michaelr
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 08:04 PM

This is a Lyric add (though its merits may be debated), so it should be above the line.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: retrancer
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 08:11 PM

thanks michael I wasnt sure since its such a joke.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 08:29 PM

Of course it would scan just as well (and be just as true to life)
with "a fat geezer in a mini-van".

Third verse could become something like:

Got his foot on the gas and he's tail-gaiting me

Gotta get down to the boozer cos he's dyin' for a pee

He's roaring like a monkey that has fallen from his tree

He's got his face in the windshield and he's screamin at me

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 10:12 PM

Fat jokes-- the last PC discrimination.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 10:41 PM

So where's the fun part?

LQF

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 10:44 PM

Let's keep the stereotypes going, shall we?

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:39 AM

You can't say "Fat" any more - you have to say "High Body Mass Index"

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:01 AM

If she's on her way, where did she get the burger & fries? Maybe....

French fries in her eyes and a burger in her head.
Better let her by or you''ll end up dead.

Oh... re the PC, I myself am BMIC (35), and I had a BIG belly laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:28 AM

She might have passed through a drive-in junk food eatery on her way.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Bee
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:25 AM

If it was actually funny, I could likely ignore the stereotyping, but it looks like that's all it is - "Ooo! Cranky fat soccer mommy in a minivan, looking for junk food! Scary!"

You could possibly think of a situational joke or story line to make it funny, but all it is now is a single trite image. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:28 AM

I agree. It isn't that I lack a sense of humor, but rather that mine is perhaps a more highly-developed one than this effort can reach.

Which makes it a cheap shot!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:30 AM

... so much so that one Catter I ordinarily like and respect found that this made sense in the thread name game:

Fat Lady in a Mini van / Year of The Pig

Just because one can't resist a stereotype doesn't mean it ought to be promulgated, defended, and spread throughout Mudcat.

But then, that's just my opinion.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: JennyO
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:10 AM

But then, that's just my opinion.

One that I really could have done without, today. See my PM.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:31 AM

Seen and answered.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:36 AM

You can tell it's a PC discrimination in that the thread is STILL HERE and that people are defending it as humor, even some of the potential targets of it. I think the wifebeating thread went away, but this one's still here.

Fine line, unless you're one of the targets. I'm sure the wifebeating quips seemed funny to some folks, too.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:40 AM

Oh my, oh my - a political correctness in folk debate? That's just what I needed on this day (it's carneval in Germany).

Now let's talk about the lyrics: a good text immediately evokes the image described before one's inner eye. So it was with me. Well done, fellow.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM

Yes, WF, I could probably write an equally-evocative Pedophile Song, but it just isn't done, is it?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:52 AM

How about this then:

She's an averaged sized lady in in a minivan

Headed to Mcdonald's just as fast as she can

French fries in her lap and a burger in her hand

An averaged sized lady in a mini-van

And :

She's a minivan terror with a average-sized ass

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:17 PM

The point is not to make it PC. My point is that jokes aimed at overweight people, call them, us, ourselves, or you-all whatever you will, are the last acceptable form of mean, rude, nasty-assed behavior still tolerated in a society, and forum, that KNOWS BETTER when it comes to every other form of sh*t that ISN'T FUNNY. When I see it here, I'm gonna holler FOUL.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: heric
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:24 PM

That's just not true. We can poke at Christians with equal vigour.

;)

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:25 PM

A fat lady in in a minivan

Drivin to Mcdonald's just as fast as she can

She's drivin alone so there ain't no harm

When she swerves to miss a cow and buys the farm

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:29 PM

Right or wrong I think that people have less of a problem making fun of larger people because the perception is that they have a level of control over the problem. Where most people would never make fun of someone in a wheelchair, or a deaf person, or someone of color – there is a level of acceptance for making jokes about people who have "put themselves" in that situation. I think jokes about gays fall under that same category. They "chose" to be gay so we can poke fun at them. But a blind person is off limits. I could be way off. Guessing at other peoples motivations is usually a losing game.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:41 PM

OK, Wes, let's make wife beating "funny" and see how it goes over. After all, that's under the wife's control, right?

Got me a gal, they call 'er Britta--
When she wrong, I take an' hit 'er.


Get it? Shall we go on to pedophilia jokes in rhyme? I can zoom over to a website for ideas..... writing that would take about as much time and thought as this MiniVan crap did. (It doesn't even SCAN!)

But would we DO it?

I don't care what people's motives are, no need to guess-- I just OBJECT. And it's not a music thread, or it wouldn't be sitting here in BS. If it was up top, I'd probably ignore it like I do other dicey stuff, usually.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Alec
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:42 PM

I wish that were true Wesley.Sadly all of the specific types of people you mention have & do feature in too many non-jokes by too many non-comedians.
I think motivation is important however,sometimes the question of who is telling a joke & why they are telling it can in itself determine whether or not it is funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:49 PM

It's also simplistic and wrong to say it's under people's control. Big myth. It's iggerunt. And no I am not here to educate-- there is plenty of information available for people to educate themselves.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:57 PM

Relax Susan. I've never said it was right. I'm talking about perceptions. Many people have the perception that large people have a lack of control. And in their mind that gives them permission to make hurtful jokes and observations.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:21 PM

Well, here's a try...

"I am a wicked pedophile
Chasing kids across the miles,
But I am finding it unfunny
That those sprats always outrun me.
When I have to zag and zig
Even though they're much less big,
My obsession melts away
'Cuz they always get away."

...Ya know, you're right. It's not funny. Forget I posted it!! :)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:25 PM

Wes, I don't need to relax, thanks, I am having quite a lovely day. Even while swatting a few mosquitoes.

Amos, in a REAL pedophilia song, I think this would be thematically incorrect:

My obsession melts away
'Cuz they always get away."

That's the problem with pedophilia, I hear; that it just gets MORE obsessive when denied.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:28 PM

mm... I wouldn't know; I was extrapolating from my own galloping pursuit of golden-haired nineteen-year-old virgins over fields of daisies and strawberries in the bright moonlight. Not even in this universe, even!! LOL


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:29 PM

That isn't pedophilia, Amos. Mere adultery.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:30 PM

NAr, not in the universe mentioned. Different tempra, different mores, and all that. Half of those virgins are BBW, and she STILL gets away!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:47 PM

People vary, true enough. Being fat or thin isn't just a matter of self control. But I would hesitate to say the same about eating and drinking too much and too much of the wrong stuff.

Lent starts tomorrow...

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:52 PM

If I miss it, can I re-Lent later?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:53 PM

I expect many of the people who find this thread a problem, wet themselves laughing at a portrayal of a socially inadequate man, where his idiosyncrasies are held up for us to laugh at.
It's called The Office, and it's one of many so called comedy shows on TV that encourage people to mock social misfits.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:53 PM

Susan - I've been trying to tell you that we're on the same side. Nevermind....

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:57 PM

whoa Giok for a minute there I thought you were talking about yourself. But yes, I rented a DVD of the Office, and I felt terrible (Honestly.) I thought it was just me, though, sensitive guy that I am. .

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:09 PM

Well while I agree that it's wicked to mock the afflicted,I feel a wee bit of proportionality is called for. It's not a thread I would have started myself, but it does no harm.

G.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: retrancer
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:10 PM

Hello all, i posted this in the BS section because thats where all the other politically correct or incorrect points of view are.... pro war, anti-war etc depending on your pov so thanks for pointing out that this is insensitive to fat people. I myself am fat so lets not back off on the misogeny angle either ok?

Maybe I could have just written:

screaming white yuppie in last years beemer
Run me off the road I can still hear him screamin
Gotta make a meeting cause he's so important
got his own condo not renting an apartment

He's gonna get a trophy wife and dump her when she's thirty
And he'll stiff his kids on college loans to buy a new mercedes

He's gonna be a big success until his heart attack
Or that stripper that he's dating puts an ice pick in his back


But more to the point, please note the in last verse regarding the promised land - this caricature of an individual is pursing salvation through reckless self indulgence, its me me me all over the place, the road, the food, that is whats going on, the person believes this is the road to happiness when in fact, as the dahli llama would point out, its the road to hell. the self indulgence of it all.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:28 PM

Reminds me a little of Jeremy Taylor's classic Red Velvet Steering Wheel Cover Driver:

I remember the time I was driving along
on the Liverpool highway singing a song
and the day was as good as the road it was long
I was on my way
then up ahead a black speck appeared
and as I drew near it was just what I feared
doing twenty-five miles an hour in top gear
in the outside lane
oh dear me glory be
one of them
I could see
it was a red velvet steering wheel cover driver.

He and his wife they sat side by side
in their safety belts they were safely tied
and together they drove through the green countryside
which they did not see
they had two dingle-dangles which hung by a string
from the mirror, and on the back seat was a thing
which wobbled its head up and down with a singular
stare at me
up and down
side to side
keep your eyes open wide
for the red velvet steering wheel cover driver.

He's got three china ducks on his sitting room wall
and a bowl of pink plastic flowers in the hall
and a souvenir ashtray he bought in Porthcawl
on his holiday
and when he gets home he'll go straight to his chair
switch on the telly and all night he'll stare
at the girls and the gunfights and wish he was there
but he's here to stay
when he regrets
what he didn't see
then he'll switch to ITV
'cos he's a red velvet steering wheel cover driver.

Each Monday morning he takes his basket to town,
he goes to the supermarket he walks up and down
and thinks oh what a task
it's so hard to choose
'cos there's apple-sponge pudding all topped with taysteefreez
ready-cut loaves, instant cake-mix and frozen peas
all of those fifty seven varieties fresh today
hermetically sealed, untouched by
human hand, so easy just heat the
tin, think of those gifts
you might Win
if you're a red velvet steering wheel cover driver.

Well it's Saturday night it's the night for a fling so
let's on with our glad rags and ring-a-ding-dingo
we'll down to the Hall for a good game of Bingo
and cups of tea
then it's back home to bed, switch out the light
hug a hot water bottle, sweet dreams and sleep tight
and God keep us from things that go bump in the night
and especially
all those dreams
of the day
when our own children will say
"My dad's a red velvet steering wheel cover driver."

Words & Music Jeremy Taylor © 1968 Edwin Morris

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:38 PM

From the pens of the "Austin Lounge Lizards"

Hey Little Minivan -

On Deadman's Curve I used to shut 'em down
I had the hottest muscle car in my hometown
I could burn rubber in all four gears
But I haven't done that in a million years

Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the grocery store

She's got an automatic tranny with overdrive
And the radio's tuned to Magic 95
She gets 30 miles on a gallon of gas
And I can schlep all the girls to gymnastics class
She's got her headlights on both night and day
She's the most practical value in the USA
She's got cruise control, ABS and EFI
I keep her Michelins at 32 PSI

Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the children's museum

On icy mornings when I'm feeling my age
I'm protected and warm in my steel cage
Her climate control really pumps out the heat
And her dual air bags just can't be beat
She's rated real high by Consumer Reports
And her two front seats have got lumbar support
I've got the good driver rate and comprehensive insurance
And she's loaded with electronic theft deterrents
Step away from the car, step away from the car
Step away from the car, step away from the car

We're a wild and rowdy bunch when you pass us by
Bobby's buggin' baby sister and makin' her cry
If I have to pull over someone's gonna pay
And it was fun, fun, fun, till Bobby took her teether away
(Fun, fun, fun, fun)

Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the pediatrician

Now the wife and I hardly ever date
'Cause our baby sitter has to be home by 8
We hurry through dinner and go out and park
With the fold-down seats we can nap till dark
I dream of Barracudas and souped-up 'Vettes
Crazy games of chicken and drag race bets
Then she wakes me up and says, "Honey, don't be sad
Our van's the classic Woody you never had"

Now if I ever get tired of my minivan
A red sports car will make me young again

Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the grocery store
What did you do with the last one I gave you?
Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the grocery store
Don't make me come back there
Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the grocery store
If Bobby jumped off a cliff, would you do that, too?
Hey, little minivan, we're goin' to the grocery store
Three kids, what were we thinking?

Go little Minnie Van Gogh
Little Minnie Van Gogh
Little Minnie Van Gogh

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:43 PM

Really, McGrath, you could be a little more sensitive to those who are taste-challenged (or perhaps the term should be kitsch-advantaged). It is not THEIR fault they have terrible taste and a low sense of discrimination. For pity's sake!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: LilyFestre
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:11 PM

While I don't think the lyrics that were posted are funny I DO find it funny to watch the one person who so irreverantly posted about a woman who died as "buying the farm" have a hissy fit about something that relates to her.

I do agree that being fat is the last acceptable thing for folks to discrimate and be nasty about, sad but true. What also is sad is that there are people in the world who still think that anyone who is large has an eating problem. Sure, some folks are ridiculous about what they eat but there are also MANY with medical issues, whether it be non-functioning thyroids, screwed up metabolisms or reactions to medications....there are many reasons besides what people put in their mouths.

Do some reading or talk to a few people who really struggle with their weight and I think you'll walk away with a different perspective.

LQF

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:17 PM

GUEST 20 Feb 07 - 02:39 PM

Yer just iggerunt. Get with the program, eh? Do as I say and not as I do. Unless I do. Then, you can do as I say. Unless I don't. Then, you are.... well, just not acceptable. And, you shall have your posts deleted and your threads closed.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: retrancer
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:29 PM

I guess fat lady in a porsche wouldnt quite work??? While metabolism isnt a choice, I certainly think fast food loaded with transfats is.

Also, someone asked for a "drive thru" verse so here goes:


She saw a drive up window, empty and open
In the fast universe thats a good omen
She wheeled in fast - said "a large milkshake please"
Then she added "can you top it with cheese"?

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:29 PM

"Right or wrong I think that people have less of a problem making fun of larger people because the perception is that they have a level of control over the problem."

Ok, so who's going to start with the Type II Diabetes jokes? No? How about lung cancer jokes?

What Susan has stated is absolutely true. These days the only people you can make fun of outright in society are fat people (I say that being one myself). Sometimes we get a little tired of hearing it.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: LilyFestre
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:06 PM

Jstar,

You are missing the point entirely. Why do you think your lyrics are "fun?" If you were actually to take a look at fast food joints, you'd see that all kinds of people eat there, it's not just fat people who are making poor choices.

Your lyrics are drivel and beyond uncreative and certainly not entertaining. I'd expect this kind of stupidity from a kid in high school but who knows, maybe you are.

LQF

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:08 PM

Guest/mshp, your perspectiveness may not be lacking but your interpretations surely are.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:43 PM

Maybe if this thread moved up to the Music End where it really belongs (three songs already, plus a few snippets) it might get better tempered.   

But maybe it wouldn't, so perhaps better to keep it down here in squabble land...

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: bobad
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:50 PM

Happy Mardi Gras y'all!

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: retrancer
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:58 PM

Well, so much for a post-industrial marxist political commentary slamming corporate america's (read minivan, soccer mom, mcdonalds) promulgated weberian ideal type of a subarban 2.5 kid white bread christian universe (read minivan, soccer mom, mcdonalds, promised land). Happiness at McDonalds, Joy in the minivan, willfully embracing subjugation to capital even up to and including health and religion. So much for the rage of competetive capitalism pitting one member of society against another expressed in traffic by tailgating hornblowers. So much for an attack on consumerism and global franchises. An attack that points out the pure hell of such an existence.



I guess I left out walmart.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:59 PM

Becca.... darlin... not you too? You don't know my history... sooooory about this one. But, I gotta draw the line in the dirt somewhere.

I can quit smokin anytime I want. But, it takes a real man to face cancer. That's a fuckin joke. And I don't care if it don't make anybody else laugh. Made me and my buddies at the clinic laugh... for a minute. It takes my mind off of more pressing matters.

Now... seriously. Would you bunch of PC, holier than thou twits, allow the rest of us poor, afflicted with life mortals to have a few laughs?

BTW... that was a rhetorical question. The obvious answer to your "no", if you don't know, is.... as it always was and shall be... fuck you if you can't take a joke.

Lighten up eh!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:15 AM

Seen and answered.

Wrong Susan. I haven't seen a PM from you since the one I sent you. Where has it been answered?

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:40 AM

So what. I'm fat, I have lop ears, and when somebody makes a good joke about it I'm the first to give a hearty laugh.

I HAVE difficulties to enter a Porsche, but not a Mini Cooper. Oaklet knows, how easily I slipped in his car, and didn't even have to take off my high topped broad brimmed hat. Must have been a funny sight, and you are kindly invited to write a song about that big fat guy with the giant hat in the minivan (no pedophily and wife beating, please - but at second thought - if she deserves it?).

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amergin
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:54 AM

Who gives a fuck who it's aimed at? If it is funny, it's funny....this political correctness shit gets irritating....some people need to step down from their pedestal and join the rest of us peons.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:55 AM

Why, I PMed you, Jenny, in reply. I'll write again.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Alba
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:14 AM

Wasn't this Thread closed?
Should of stayed that way imo.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Peace
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:13 AM

It's had a few posts deleted. The clean and NEW edition is what is here now.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:33 AM

My feet stink, and you're welcome to make fun of that if you like. No skin off my nose.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:52 AM

Feet -- skin -- nose? Not quite a mixed metaphor but close. The mind's boggling. There must be a lot more of those songs out there!

Jenny - short fat lady in a Ford station wagon.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:30 PM

Amos, if your feet smell, and your nose runs, you're upside down!
G. ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:50 PM

Giok:

You need to go out and find some mnew jokes, mate. First time I heard that, I fell off my brontosaurus, laughing.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:53 PM

Well I knew you were mat chewer but stone age?

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:44 PM

Okay, then. Lots of PMs. Thanks for most.... hehehe.

Yes, I was rude. Yes, I should apologize - for being rude. Seems you can take the boy out of the country but, there it ends.

Yes, I agree deprecating humour can be hurtful, but only to a certain extent. Surely, as adults, we have passed beyond the stage where "names can hurt us." I thought that was the lesson we were to learn in that old adage about sticks and stones and names.

Anyway, there are lots of other threads to read, or start. There is even the option of TV. And, if you don't like whatever is on one channel, you can turn to another one.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: bobad
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:49 PM

Illegitimi non carborundum gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Peace
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:56 PM

That's Latin for "Don't let your nuts get frozen."

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 09:05 AM

How many fat ladies can you fit in a mini van?



4 - two in the back and two in the front

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Midchuck
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 11:46 AM

...jokes aimed at overweight people, call them, us, ourselves, or you-all whatever you will, are the last acceptable form of mean, rude, nasty-assed behavior still tolerated in a society, and forum, that KNOWS BETTER...

Blondes?

Lawyers?

Banjo players?

Politicians?

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 12:45 PM

..and you refreshed this why, Peter?

I seem to have missed it first time around, and I can't see what new there is to be said.

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Midchuck
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 01:32 PM

I didn't refresh it on purpose. It came up on my main screen, even though the filter was set at the standard 24 hours. I don't know what that means. Could it be that someone has been posting "nasty" stuff and it was deleted by those in power, but the last post still triggered the filter even though it was gone?

There's so much random censorship on here lately, of anything that doesn't conform to good folkie knee-jerk liberalism, that half the time I can't figure out what some of these posts were replying to.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Fat Lady in a Mini van
From: Wesley S
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 01:49 PM

I saw a post from a guest that was blank.That's what refreashed the thread. It's been deleated.