European Tribune - Comments - Saturday Open Thread

I don't see why badly forged and obtuse puns should necessarily indicate substance abuse. A misspent childhood, perhaps? I have to write a front page B2B ad for a Korean executive audience tomorrow - so this is just limbering up ;-)

Actually we opened the patio season tonight with a barbecue, a couple of G+Ts, and a new set of deck furniture labelled 'made from 100% well-managed timber' - whatever that might mean. And a long discussion about non-Russian movies.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:54:39 PM EST
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Sven Triloqvist:

I don't see why badly forged and obtuse puns should necessarily indicate substance abuse.

Coincidence? ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:01:33 PM EST
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Subsidence, more like. I've been mining my brain for so long now, that my cranium is in imminent danger of collapse.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:09:53 PM EST
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you can tell that sort of subsidence when the lack of internal topsoil stops the roots of of whatevers growing on top from developing properly resulting in cranial desertification.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:31:11 PM EST
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Good grief! I have that problem too ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:34:46 PM EST
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Well, the young Bob Dylan, when asked why he let his curly hair grow so long... well, it's less cluttered inside if it all goes outside, or some such.

Caol Ila 15 single cask tonight, what's the opposite of bollocks?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:45:23 PM EST
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Skcollob?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 06:12:20 PM EST
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Sven Triloqvist:

I don't see why badly forged and obtuse puns should necessarily indicate substance abuse.

Who said anything about abuse?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:19:39 PM EST
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Typo: shoud have read 'substance amuse'

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:27:16 PM EST
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Who said anything about substances?

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 03:28:29 AM EST
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Prarie oysters aren't all that bad. Fry'em in a heavy skillet over the camp fire.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:13:13 PM EST
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I was in a supermarket in Narbonne and I swear I saw them on the shelf, all vacuum wrapped for "freshness".

Reeeeaally not my thing. I have an allergy to testosterone.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:16:38 PM EST
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It was a very macho Spanish thing. Picasso ate them all the time.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:26:15 PM EST
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Where do they get these half cocked ideas?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 03:39:03 PM EST
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John Wayne Bobbitt?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:56:57 PM EST
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LOL

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:10:47 PM EST
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