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BS: Mudcat Misquotes!

07 Sep 04 - 09:09 AM (#1265893)
Subject: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

I like the rather good thread on memorable Quotes from the Mudcat Forum.

From time to time, what is sometimes seen when one's glasses are not clean (or are are empty!), or when one hasn't had that morning coffee yet - or after too many cups of, er well, coffee. Somehow the mind jiggles things around but adding or removing or swapping or substitution words, and what is seen is not what was written, or what the author intended.

For example:

"Personally I prefer to play and/or listen to the music than to have a good time."

which is not quite what was actually there, and which caused me to stop and think, then realise that I had to read that again!

What the original was:

"Personally I prefer to play and/or listen to the music to have a good time."

Robin


07 Sep 04 - 09:28 AM (#1265906)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Wolfgang

'Mudcat Mosquitos' I read and expected a thread about annoying posts.

Wolfgang


07 Sep 04 - 10:32 AM (#1265961)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: *daylia*

I've never met the Mudcat Mosquitos! WHere are they? Must be here in the BS somewhere ...


07 Sep 04 - 10:50 AM (#1265976)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Well, ACTUALLY, Wolfgang, I was sorta expecting you to talk about OTHER threads..... sigh...


07 Sep 04 - 01:06 PM (#1266064)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: JennyO

'Mudcat Mosquitos' I read and expected a thread about annoying posts.

I read what you said here Wolfgang as "annoying pests"!


07 Sep 04 - 01:47 PM (#1266089)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST

Martin Gibson is a wonderful guy


07 Sep 04 - 08:26 PM (#1266389)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Hiya, Marty The Troll Script Robot!

Non-persons are no hassle - cause they don't exist!

;-)


08 Sep 04 - 07:47 AM (#1266688)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST,Mr Red

LOL Wolfgang


08 Sep 04 - 10:14 AM (#1266768)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Dave the Gnome

Martin Gibson is wonderfuly gay! I didn't know that...

:D


08 Sep 04 - 10:27 AM (#1266780)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

ROFL....


08 Sep 04 - 11:07 PM (#1267296)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Thread titled "Children's Workshop".

Just as well I read what the thread was about before I posted my brillant suggestions about making children - I could have got into lots of trouble...


09 Sep 04 - 07:31 AM (#1267474)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST,Mingulay

Surely, "making" children is frowned upon outside most Southern States and the Fens of eastern England. What's special anyway about
children in Worksop.


09 Sep 04 - 10:24 AM (#1267588)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Snuffy

Making babies is easy - take Johnson's Baby Powder, add hot water and stir.


09 Sep 04 - 08:42 PM (#1268092)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Only trouble is making it dissolve.


09 Sep 04 - 08:48 PM (#1268099)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Joybell

I can buy "Puppy Mix" at the local feed store. Also "Wild Bird Mix" is that along the same line, Snuffy? Of course there's "Flea Powder". Why would anyone want to make fleas? Joy


09 Sep 04 - 09:12 PM (#1268117)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

I'm annoyed that they have taken dehydrated water off the market - was a great weight saver for bush walkers.


09 Sep 04 - 09:28 PM (#1268133)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Little Hawk

I'm glad you brought this subject up. foolestroupe, because I was once misquoted regarding something I said quite innocently about Spaw. Here is the quote. I'm sure you can find the obvious error in the text:

"...except of course for Spaw. He is an incompetent, simple-minded, concupiscient wretch. He is vague, obtuse, vulgar, and lacks discrimination. His attempts at what he thinks of as ribald humor are akin to the noisy wallowings of a dyspeptic hog in a cesspool, guaranteed to offend while perhaps amusing in some small peripheral way. He is silly, repetitive, pompous, licentious and vain. He bores more effectively than an auger. To peruse his inane ramblings is an experience similar to copulating with a dead porcupine, in that one suffers freqent annoying pain while attaining absolutely no personal satisfaction whatsoever. To call this man "human" in fact would be to stretch the term considerably beyond its usual compass into hitherto unglimpsed realms of sheer blundering idiocy that would have caused even the Three Stooges to feel a shuddering twinge of envy. In short, the man is a fool, a prat, a knownothing. He is the blither in blather, the riff of raff, the null of void. He makes Neil Young sound lucid! And that is why he is universally despised. It has nothing to do with the nude windsurfing incident at the marina. Nothing whatsoever."


10 Sep 04 - 04:12 AM (#1268354)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST,noddy

obvious error? Have you made a noddy typo?


10 Sep 04 - 07:47 PM (#1268898)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Ah! You didn't use a capital 'M' for Marina!

The Pedant Strikes!


10 Sep 04 - 08:02 PM (#1268911)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Little Hawk

Oh! You are SOOOO close...


11 Sep 04 - 02:46 PM (#1269400)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Genie

Wolfgang, you and I must be related. I also read this thread title as "Mudcat Mosquitos" and was poised to post that but found you'd already engaged in the same bit of dyslexia. LOL


11 Sep 04 - 04:41 PM (#1269462)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Georgiansilver

Why do so few people know how to spell dis....dysla....dyslo...dyslecs.....dyslec....dyslecs......dyslexia?
Best wishes.


12 Sep 04 - 09:02 PM (#1270577)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Does a cxat go mxioa?
Or would it go mniao?


13 Sep 04 - 07:13 PM (#1271513)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST

DNA--National Dyslexics' Association


13 Sep 04 - 09:01 PM (#1271580)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Quests that bother you


17 Sep 04 - 08:33 PM (#1274645)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Btw, Just who WAS that Obscure Irish Soldier that the Obscure Irish Soldier's Song was about?


17 Sep 04 - 08:56 PM (#1274657)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

"Arrogance - the cure for Mudcat Shunning"


17 Sep 04 - 09:10 PM (#1274663)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

"Trolling: a Cure for Shunning"


19 Sep 04 - 09:26 PM (#1276033)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Bunny Fumper Stickers


22 Sep 04 - 07:41 PM (#1278713)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: CarolC

Squirrels in my Panties...


22 Sep 04 - 10:54 PM (#1278811)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Stilly River Sage

I still like "Mudcat Mosquitoes."


23 Sep 04 - 09:28 PM (#1279516)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Great thongs for female singers.


24 Sep 04 - 03:38 AM (#1279681)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

The Doggy Doggy Few.


28 Sep 04 - 06:03 AM (#1282978)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Why don't melodeon players give good h...

You're right! it doesn't say that at all!


28 Sep 04 - 09:58 PM (#1283649)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Bastard Collection of Folk Songs - Songs of America


12 Oct 04 - 07:17 PM (#1295611)
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe

The Care And Feeding Of Moses