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   sauce
   

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   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: Crossing Continents, not Cross Incontinents ...

   Does anyone else need their ears - or brain - cleaning?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   the coarse whisperer
   

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   Ah yes, a mondegreen,

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondagreen

   they are a thing of joy when you find them.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Hunter F. Thompson
   

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   Grateful for the link. Harold be thy name.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   allmyownstunts
   

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   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...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   shitsu_tonka
   

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   Glad it wasn't just me, Stunts. Thought this thread was about something else entirely until I clicked.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   sauce
   

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   I expect there's a special name for a truncated (text/email etc) message that gives entirely the wrong impression, too.*

   Thank you very much most-educated-whsiperer.

   *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".

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   rikkor
   

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   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.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   FormerlyAlOPecia
   

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   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".

   Could have been a good save, of course.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   Every one of these comments made me laugh so much a little bit of wee came out.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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    sauce
    

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    Cheers, Jeni

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    Hunter F. Thompson
    

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    One for the Wiki page? Swedish made simple without all those weird-looking letters.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    Hunter F. Thompson
    

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    Morris dancing song.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    sauce
    

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    I'd forgotten those, HFT. Thanks for the reminders; my kids are now watching TTR clips on YouTube.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    riesler
    

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    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.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    sauce
    

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    *snort*

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    riesler
    

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    it was one of those silly things that still has us giggling years later.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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