http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 22:58:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-30504 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:01:03 +0000 riesler 30504@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>it was one of those silly things that still has us giggling years later. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-30494 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:21:34 +0000 sauce 30494@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>*snort* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-30461 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:46:09 +0000 riesler 30461@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My wife and I were in the garden centre. She said that she would meet me by the compost and bark, but I didn't hear her. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-30360 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:06:34 +0000 sauce 30360@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd forgotten those, HFT. Thanks for the reminders; my kids are now watching TTR clips on YouTube. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-30358 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:41:49 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 30358@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqfb12h4y4"><strong>Morris dancing song.</strong></a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29905 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:04:33 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 29905@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>One for the Wiki page? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ&amp;feature=related">Swedish made simple</a> without all those weird-looking letters. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29795 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:34:04 +0000 sauce 29795@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers, Jeni </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29763 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:30 +0000 The All New Jeni B 29763@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Every one of these comments made me laugh so much a little bit of wee came out. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29752 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:42:15 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 29752@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I got a text from my wife that alarmed me - "See you at home Don", since my name isn't Don. Five minutes later I got one that said "See you at home Don't forget to pick up the groceries". </p> <p>Could have been a good save, of course. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29748 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:43:19 +0000 rikkor 29748@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I worked at a bank were "follow-up date" on hundreds of reports was abbreviated "f/u date". Being a bank, no one thought it was funny but me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29745 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:34:25 +0000 sauce 29745@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I expect there's a special name for a truncated (text/email etc) message that gives entirely the wrong impression, too.*</p> <p>Thank you very much most-educated-whsiperer. </p> <p>*In the '70s my future m-il was amazed to see "AVID SEX" advertised on a poster outside a respectible London theatre. Approaching, eagerly, she discovered the posters had partly wrapped around the pillars; in full they promised "DAVID ESSEX". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29736 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:47:55 +0000 shitsu_tonka 29736@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Glad it wasn't just me, Stunts. Thought this thread was about something else entirely until I clicked. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29733 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:43:13 +0000 allmyownstunts 29733@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dearest Sauce, Your post stops at a really unfortunate point on the board, if nobody clicks on it to read the whole thing (though heavens, their loss an' all) - I had to squint at the remainder of it through clenched fists as I was expecting a veritable torrent of wee-wee in the footwell of your car... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29730 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:34:41 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 29730@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Grateful for the link. Harold be thy name. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29729 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:18:49 +0000 the coarse whisperer 29729@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah yes, a mondegreen,</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondagreen" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondagreen</a></p> <p>they are a thing of joy when you find them. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=10859#post-29723 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:06:39 +0000 sauce 29723@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Years ago, I remember hearing R4 references to a program about grumpy folks with bladder control problems and I remember thinking, well I'd be cross, an' all, if I suffered that. Then I was driving and it came on the radio and there was Sandi Toksvig chatting about the Orient Express: <em>Crossing Continents</em>, not <em>Cross Incontinents</em> ... </p> <p>Does anyone else need their ears - or brain - cleaning? </p>