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Hail the Mining Councilors! | 13 comments (13 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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I guess the neuvos honorific is a Republican version of the gongs handed out by the Queen of the UK such as OBE and MBE.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 20th, 2008 at 02:28:57 PM EST

Re: Hail the Mining Councilors! (none / 1)

Around here we call OBE or MBE British Pie. In amurka, we call it Cow Pie.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Tue May 20th, 2008 at 03:04:07 PM EST
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Re: Hail the Mining Councilors! (4.00 / 2)

My father told me a rather amusing tale of a man who returned home from a night in a country pub covered in shit. When asked why, he explained that he had tried to ride his bike across the cow field at the back in the dark, fell off the bike, lost his brown beret and must have tried on 17 before he got his own back.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 20th, 2008 at 04:15:21 PM EST
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Re: Hail the Mining Councilors! (4.00 / 4)

My favourite is the Civil Service names for the various Orders of St Michael & St George which are only handed out to civil servants and are, in ascending order...

CMG = "Call Me God"

KCMG = "Kindly Call Me God"

GCMG = "God Calls Me God"

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Tue May 20th, 2008 at 07:21:17 PM EST
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