http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 05:50:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137248 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:33:03 +0000 Oxbridge 137248@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'Appen this is not too bad </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137201 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:40:07 +0000 pinxit 137201@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Alex and charlie : thanks for your very gracious responses. My slightly tetchy post was not at all meant as a criticism of either of you, rather at my puzzlement of what is deemed funny on the biccy. Keep on doing that voodoo that you do so well.</p> <p>As a minor cruciverbalist meself, I'm partial to an anagram or two, too. =] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137106 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:42:28 +0000 charlies_hat 137106@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I suppose that's a fair point pinxit, I often think that there is not much topical on here (maybe due to slow news days), and I try to take ideas from the news most of the time, Mars Curiosity being the news item in the post you mention, although I concede that 50% of the gag is from sometime in the sixties.... I also think that a good bit of old fashioned wordplay can be joyous, which is why I starred the cat flap. The Tebbit line is good too if you want my opinion! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137104 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:32:03 +0000 Mr Target 137104@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <br /> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137094 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:40:57 +0000 Smart Alex 137094@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hi Pinxit,</p> <p>Yes - indeed a spoonerism (and also an anagram - ah the allure of alliteration), but since letters have been shuffled around I feel it's OK to use 'dyslexic' otherwise I'd have to come up with something longer and almost certainly less snappy.</p> <p>Surprised me too that it's hit the top spot - I've certainly come up with contributions that I think are totally hilarious and am disappointed when they get low (or no) ratings but that's just the way the cookie crumbles. Some will always fall on stony ground.</p> <p>(For what it's worth I seem to recall giving you 5* for the Tebbit ticker.)</p> <p>Regards </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137088 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:51:07 +0000 pinxit 137088@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is it just me, but…</p> <p>Sauntered over to the 'Top Ten' and this offering is number one!</p> <p>Lawks'a'lawdy… now, I am from Yorkshire, but isn't it just a rather lame spoonerism?</p> <p>And, after having been (rightly) lampooned for bringing up a rather less than topical ticker ('80's) with " Norman Tebbit hailed as 'visionary force' behind GB Olympic cycling success" a few weeks ago, I see that a luminary of the boards has regaled us with a nifty 'topical' gag about Marianne Faithful and Mars… * snork * * f'narr *</p> <p>I guess I just don't get the ethos, the driving force, behind the Biscuit.</p> <p>Carry on...</p> <p>PS. I've neither fived it nor given it a one. For all I know it may be the wittiest thing since Oscar Wilde said "Give 'im the money Mabel." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137081 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:35:24 +0000 button 137081@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very very good </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137079 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:30:55 +0000 Queen of Tarts 137079@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fair t middlin<br /> 5 star<br /> Still laughing </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137071 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:28:59 +0000 charlies_hat 137071@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Reet good. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137068 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:51:01 +0000 gaijintendo 137068@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ya beauty. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137060 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:10:49 +0000 Ironduke 137060@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh, indeedy jolly good </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=47740#post-137059 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:05:52 +0000 Smart Alex 137059@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>... </p>