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09 Dec 08 - 09:32 AM (#2510673) Subject: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Mr Happy An example appeared on British TV this week. A programme titled 쳌g Take that come to town쳌h What did they mean?? |
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09 Dec 08 - 09:50 AM (#2510689) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: TheSnail Quite a long time ago - "Joan Collins comes to sedate Chichester." |
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09 Dec 08 - 09:51 AM (#2510690) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Dave Hanson Boy band [ girly dance troop really ] visiting local town. eric |
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09 Dec 08 - 09:52 AM (#2510691) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Lox get that Jizm out of my house ... bring it to town ... (?) I'll get my coat ... |
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09 Dec 08 - 09:54 AM (#2510694) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Gervase Eric's right - it's the indicative, not the imperative. That would be messy! |
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09 Dec 08 - 10:05 AM (#2510701) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Mr Happy "Oh Ruby, don't take that come to town?" |
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09 Dec 08 - 11:14 AM (#2510740) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Amos Missing italics, quotation marks, or underline. A |
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09 Dec 08 - 11:18 AM (#2510748) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: GUEST The jackets worn by the local Fire Department read: Fire Pocatello EMS in that format. I told one of them that I was against firing the Pocatello EMS. He never read it that way... -Rapaire- |
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09 Dec 08 - 11:28 AM (#2510755) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Mr Happy Another just appeared in a thread above: 'Adam Hurt at Roger and Patsy's' |
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09 Dec 08 - 06:35 PM (#2511222) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Liz the Squeak As Jimmy Carr (UK comedian) pointed out from a Mother's Day poster offering a competition for mothers... 'Enter your mother today'. LTS |
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09 Dec 08 - 08:50 PM (#2511306) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: frogprince From the immortal Benny Hill: "What is this thing called, Love?" |
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10 Dec 08 - 03:33 AM (#2511442) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Micca I always liked the Irish All Ireland final (Gaelic football I think) when County Down in Northern Ireland made it to the the Final in Croke Park and UK viewers of the live broadcast of the game on TV were treated to many signs being held up that said simply "Up Down" |
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10 Dec 08 - 07:32 AM (#2511573) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Mr Happy Micca Kind've like the [maybe urban myth] suffragette banner 'Up with skirts & down with trousers!' |
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10 Dec 08 - 07:59 AM (#2511602) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: kendall Many years ago some announcer signed off with this Sponnerism: "This is the BBC, the British broadcopping castration." |
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10 Dec 08 - 09:27 AM (#2511667) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: kendall What's that in the road...a head? |
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10 Dec 08 - 10:05 AM (#2511697) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Acorn4 The, of course there is that classic:- "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey." |
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10 Dec 08 - 05:03 PM (#2512036) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Rowan The other cricketing ones that amuse are "He's coming over the wicket." and "He's just bowled his first maiden over." Many years ago, just after Legionella was identified in Oz as a dangerous bacterium to have in your cooling system, someone checked the system in Parliament House, Canberra, and found it there. The newspaper banners the next day read "Dangerous germ in Parliament". Cheers, Rowan |
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10 Dec 08 - 05:18 PM (#2512053) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Liz the Squeak I just got a text about a raffle for a Christmas Humper.... Can't wait, but I bet I don't win. I know who sent it and English is not her first language... wonder if she realises... :D LTS |
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10 Dec 08 - 06:07 PM (#2512088) Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing From: Bainbo Back in the days when newspaper design was very different, it was the Daily Express (I think) which was said to have had to squeeze a two-line headline, with a byline, across a single-column story. It read: Nurse raped By our crime staff |