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BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.

20 Mar 05 - 07:34 AM (#1438846)
Subject: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: The Shambles

Is a clonehead and a shambles the same thing?


20 Mar 05 - 03:18 PM (#1439092)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Ebbie

If by 'shambles' you mean a non-productive but ongoing non-issue, you may be right.

'Clonehead' in the US probably stems from the US Saturday Night Live a few years ago that had a family of cloneheads who were featured from time to time.


20 Mar 05 - 03:21 PM (#1439093)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: pdq

Ebbie - Don't you mean "conehead'?


20 Mar 05 - 03:22 PM (#1439095)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Azizi

My recollection of the Saturday Night Live 'Cloneheads' is that all they did was whine over the least little thing.


20 Mar 05 - 03:37 PM (#1439105)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: pdq

From Saturday Nite Live:


            "The Coneheads At Home"


20 Mar 05 - 04:21 PM (#1439134)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Ebbie

Of course! pdq, I'd forgotten.


20 Mar 05 - 05:22 PM (#1439171)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Bill D

"Is a clonehead and a shambles the same thing?"

hard to say...I never remember knowing what a "shambles" was.

How DID you pick that name?


20 Mar 05 - 05:37 PM (#1439182)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: The Shambles

There is (or was) a lightship - the audible warning from this we could hear from where we rehearsed. We called the band The Shanbles after this lightship - which was anchored over a sloping offshore sandbank called the Shambles Bank.

The name shambles used to describe this sandbank - comes from a gently sloping tray that butchers used to use to display slaughtered meat on. These places can look a bit messy and perhaps how the word shambles came to mean disordered?


20 Mar 05 - 06:00 PM (#1439195)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: GUEST,Jon

apparently shambles can also mean a place of carnage, the disordered meaning probably followed from that as perhaps did the butchers tray.


21 Mar 05 - 12:14 PM (#1439750)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Bill D

oh, ok! Suddenly it makes sense. I had not processed the word thru my mental thesaurus. Thanks, Roger...and creative...


21 Mar 05 - 01:22 PM (#1439796)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Noreen

The Shambles :

The name "Shambles" comes from the Saxon "Fleshammels", which means, "the street of the butchers", for it was here that the city's butcher's market was located. Notice the wide window sills of the houses; the meat for sale was displayed here.


22 Mar 05 - 06:18 AM (#1440361)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Paco Rabanne

Oi Shambles, would you mind awfully if one took the 100th post on one's thread? I wouldn't want to upset any sensitive souls who may have entered into an earnest high brow discussion on a folk/blues website!


22 Mar 05 - 08:12 AM (#1440432)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: The Shambles

Yes

'We' do mind awfully. 'We' all think that you are a bounder of the very worst sort and your subversive activities threaten this very edifice itself. Such intentionally offensive posts from a pathetic creature such as yours are only pandering for a validation - such as some sort of a response to what you say. You are only trying to be a martyr and when you have built your cross - 'we' will take great pleasure in comming along to hammer in that last nail for you.

Not that 'we' would like to sit in judgement or anything.....

*Smiles* Ted - if it make you happy - as far as I am concerned you can have every 100th post you wish to claim........


22 Mar 05 - 03:24 PM (#1440858)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: Peace

Shambles,

If you actually were to become a clone, what exactly would you change?


22 Mar 05 - 06:42 PM (#1441057)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: The Shambles

Everyday would be the first day of spring


28 Mar 05 - 05:50 PM (#1445623)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: GUEST

waht all this is about?


29 Mar 05 - 09:53 AM (#1445809)
Subject: RE: BS: Make Clonehead a Shambles.
From: GUEST,Flamenco ted

Daleks jOhn.