Speaking Of Language...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

BOB SAGET! works well in mixed company.

It took me a minute to get what you were trying to say. I have lots of those. When I was a sailor I prided myself on the number of curses I could string together in one sentence. Nowadays I pride myself on being able to string together sentences of insults without swearing at all.

So don't mess with me, you rum-running, egg-stealing, slime-swilling, two-timing, name-dropping, mud-racing, freight-hauling, coat-turning, banjo-picking, chance-taking, course-changing, back-stabbing, pragmatic prognosticator! I mean it, Bob Saget!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

So don't mess with me, you rum-running, egg-stealing, slime-swilling, two-timing, name-dropping, mud-racing, freight-hauling, coat-turning, banjo-picking, chance-taking, course-changing, back-stabbing, pragmatic prognosticator! I mean it, Bob Saget!

You forgot "nerf-herding."

[Sailor Steve]

Who's scruffy-looking?

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Who's scruffy-looking?

I am. but i'm no nerf herder.
You son of a Siberian stack of water buckets.

Frau K likes scoundrels and good kisses.

[Catfish]

A Koala walks into a bar ..
He demands a meal, then makes love to the waitress, shoots the owner and walks out of the bar.

Someone yells at him "Hey you can't do that !"
But he answers: "Of course i can. I am a Koala ! Look it up in the Encyclopdia Britannica" !"
And the man reads : "Koala. Eats roots, shoots and leaves."

So the Koala imagined a comma after 'eats', with a tragic outcome .. but of course the entire point for using correct grammar is nil, since Koalas cannot really read.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Catfish

A Koala walks into a bar ..

Since Spiced Rum already posted a link to the book itself, I'd say you're a day late and a dollar short.

Also "Eats roots, shoots and leaves" is good grammar, whereas the original "Eats, shoots and leaves" is not, hence the point of the joke.

Adding "roots" to the punch line only works if you add an extra comma: "Eats, roots, shoots and leaves".

So, your version fails on all points.

[Dan D]

I do remember that I have heard that koala joke before, but what is with the second comma in the second amendment?

Second amendment:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State "," the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Some say: "The provision’s second comma divides the Amendment into two clauses; the first is prefatory, and the second operative."

"The decision invalidating the district’s gun ban, written by Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, cites the second comma (the one after “state”) as proof that the Second Amendment does not merely protect the “collective” right of states to maintain their militias, but endows each citizen with an “individual” right to carry a gun, regardless of membership in the local militia."

Or no individual right to carry guns or what?

Others think that you should read it as “a well-regulated militia ... shall not be infringed.”

"Now that the issue is heading to the Supreme Court, the pro-gun American Civil Rights Union is firing back with its own punctuation-packing brief. Nelson Lund, a professor of law at George Mason University, argues that everything before the second comma is an “absolute phrase” and, therefore, does not modify anything in the main clause. Professor Lund states that the Second Amendment “has exactly the same meaning that it would have if the preamble had been omitted.”

"Refreshing though it is to see punctuation at the center of a national debate".

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/op...dman.html?_r=0

The Supreme Court then ruled that the second amendment offers an individual right to carry guns,right?
But what if the court changes its mind about the meaning of the comma one day?

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Since Spiced Rum already posted a link to the book itself, I'd say you're a day late and a dollar short.

Also "Eats roots, shoots and leaves" is good grammar, whereas the original "Eats, shoots and leaves" is not, hence the point of the joke.

Adding "roots" to the punch line only works if you add an extra comma: "Eats, roots, shoots and leaves".

So, your version fails on all points.

It's actually a wombat and it eats, roots and leaves.

[troopie]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

So, your version fails on all points.

Aye, koalas don't eat roots!

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Also "Eats roots, shoots and leaves" is good grammar, whereas the original "Eats, shoots and leaves" is not, hence the point of the joke.

True i was late, but you misread my post.
I wrote the man read "Eats roots, shoots and leaves" in the EB which was correct, which is why i wrote "So the Koala imagined a comma after 'eats', with a tragic outcome .. .".
It is already hard enough for a non-british writer, without you misreading my posts
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And now for something (not so) completely different:
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rgumant+clinic

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Frau K likes scoundrels and good kisses.

Yes she does and that combination has caused her nothing but trouble.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Yes she does and that combination has caused her nothing but trouble.

Hmmm Must have been the wrong scoundrels.