http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=separated-by-a-comma The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 02:22:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2770#post-69561 Wed, 25 May 2011 22:54:34 +0000 Ironduke 69561@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you actually posted a terribly amusing comment Rikkor, surely the sheer novelty would make it memorable for you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2770#post-69504 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:43:52 +0000 rikkor 69504@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This thing is from so long ago, I don't remember posting my terribly amusing comment. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2770#post-69500 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:31:52 +0000 DaliMe 69500@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I am for liberation but I am against anarchy. Still there should be some system of rules. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-24408 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:31:56 +0000 arrghgarry 24408@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Bible . </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23259 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:18:06 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23259@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>unfortunately he would probably like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23258 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:11:15 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23258@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have you considered reciting some Vogon poetry to the pen-pusher behind this idea? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23254 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:06:54 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23254@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Talking of Vogons today I found that online electronic applications cannot be forwarded to me, I have to go over to Registry, where they print them out. 5 milliseconds to get it into the University, 9 days to get it to me.</p> <p>It goes something like this - Form A must be signed before the student can be admitted to the course, but must be accompanied by a completed and signed form B, agreed by the Dean. Form B can only be completed when accompanied by a signed off form C. Form C can only be completed when a signed and authorised form A is present.</p> <p>My brain is about to explode. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-23252 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:02:10 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23252@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Look what you've made me do!<br /> I've felt compelled to go and rummage in the attic to dig out HHGTTG, and the other four parts of the trilogy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22713 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:58:22 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 22713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ben Elton's "Stark" made me cry with laughter on a beach (someone having his nose bitten off I seem to recall) although his predictions of oceanic "Total Toxic Overload" are coming uncannily, and frighteningly, true. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22707 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:49:23 +0000 Doctor Moptop 22707@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oxbridge - you have the soul of a meringue! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22668 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:35:02 +0000 Oxbridge 22668@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Get your coat, Rick, you've pulled. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22629 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:30:07 +0000 rickwestwell 22629@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672"! There's a real page-turner. I can't remember the author either - lovely bloke, good-looking chap, I recall. Wasn't he on Countdown, or something?</p> <p>Dr M - If I was only allowed one book for the rest of my life, I think I could cope as long as it was Saki.<br /> Ah... (Reaching for bookcase...) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22626 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:22:01 +0000 Doctor Moptop 22626@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Garrison Keiller's Radio Romance was taken from me in hospital as I was 'disturbing the other patients'. Hmmm.</p> <p>I had Saki in bed last night. Doesn't matter how many times I read Esmé, it never fails to amuse. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22625 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:18:42 +0000 Scroat 22625@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How could we forget "Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672"? </p> <p>Such a catchy title.</p> <p>Can't remember who wrote it though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22618 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:13 +0000 Oxbridge 22618@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What was that one "Sense and Sensibility in Post-Cromwell Leicestershire 1640-1912" or something like that? That was a real knee-slapper, that was. [/quote]</p> <p>How soon they forget....</p> <p>Most 'humourous' writing ends up not being that funny IMHO, though then again I rarely read novels. That said, I just re-read Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, which is by far his best and blackly hilarious at times. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-22609 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:58:29 +0000 Chip Paper 22609@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hello all, haven't been around for ages but...</p> <p>Jeni, yes World According to Garp has GOT to be the most weird and memorable book I've ever read. Wonderful. </p> <p>Also recently read, Adolph Hitler - My part in his downfall (at long last). I thought it might be a tad dated but it was hilarious - anti-social bedtime reading... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21895 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:17:00 +0000 riesler 21895@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Christopher Brookmyre, Marshall Karp and Jasper Fforde are always amusing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21814 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:55:06 +0000 thackaray 21814@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I find Terry Pratchett novels' brilliant and I always laugh out loud at any travel guide books produced by Jetlag Travel Guides Ltd.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jetlagtravel.com/molvania/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jetlagtravel.com/molvania/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21616 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:43:54 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 21616@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"The Colour of Memory" by Geoff Dyer - I know just how he feels. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21592 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:41:36 +0000 rikkor 21592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What was that one "Sense and Sensibility in Post-Cromwell Leicestershire 1640-1912" or something like that? That was a real knee-slapper, that was. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21325 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:27:26 +0000 The All New Jeni B 21325@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Any of 'The Broons' or 'Oor Wullie' annuals ever.<br /> Especially the more recent ones where they make a valiant, but wholly unsuccessful, attempt at modernising the storylines. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21322 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:22:05 +0000 Svendo 21322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ive just read Frankie Boyles "My Shit Life So Far" while sitting in hospital waiting rooms for the last couple of days waiting to see if I have a DVT and there were several points where I actually LOL'd and made a Pfft! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21319 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:19:04 +0000 The All New Jeni B 21319@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"The World According To Garp", by John Irving.<br /> Brilliant, poignant, and lol too.<br /> The Robin Williams movie version was passable, but missed out so many important parts of the book. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21317 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:16:05 +0000 theumpire 21317@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spike M., yes ("He was a tall, handsome, cross-eyed man with eczema" - Puckoon); and Tom Sharpe too.</p> <p>Surprised nobody mentioned Catch 22 and Portnoy's Complaint.</p> <p>Must go, got to find out about Giles Smith. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5724&page=2#post-21310 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:52:47 +0000 edward hack 21310@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Giles Smith has written TWO of the funniest books of all time.<br /> OK - so I haven't read all the books ever written, ever<br /> But both<br /> Lost in Music<br /> &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;<br /> Midnight in the Garden of Evil Kenievel<br /> are masterpieces of the comedy genre<br /> page 134 of MITGOEK has the best one liner ever written<br /> OK - so I haven't read all the one liners ever written, but..... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6184#post-17580 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:17:49 +0000 andhrimnir 17580@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Overdose of sherry, fruit, cream and sponge leaves man a trifle poorly.</p> <p>(well you started it) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6184#post-17572 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:56:02 +0000 Scroat 17572@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Japanese tourists leave Paris disappointed after two-week quest for Rifle Tower</p> <p>More soon</p> <p>Well not actually, but it made me laugh. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6184#post-17515 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:41:05 +0000 Scroat 17515@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed</p> <p>To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,<br /> We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,<br /> We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,<br /> To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica<br /> Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,<br /> And to-day we have naming of parts.</p> <p>This is the lower sling swivel. And this<br /> Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,<br /> When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,<br /> Which in your case you have not got. The branches<br /> Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,<br /> Which in our case we have not got.</p> <p>This is the safety-catch, which is always released<br /> With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me<br /> See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy<br /> If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms<br /> Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see<br /> Any of them using their finger.</p> <p>And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this<br /> Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it<br /> Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this<br /> Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards<br /> The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:<br /> They call it easing the Spring.</p> <p>They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy<br /> If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,<br /> And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,<br /> Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom<br /> Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,<br /> For to-day we have naming of parts. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6184#post-17470 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:24:55 +0000 andhrimnir 17470@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Arts Festival in Glastonbury like sell out. Rye full. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6368#post-17421 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:54:51 +0000 Mr.3374 17421@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry Quaz, you forgot Di's chauffeur was infected by Legionaires by MI5 hoping the screenwash would be blamed.... </p>