Conference thebay::joyoflex

    And why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Seems to me that most of the time I spend on parkways I really am effectively
parked, and that I don't park in my driveway most of the time but just use it to
drive from the street to my garage and vice versa, so in a perverse way it seems
to make sense.

					Larry
					  ~

    If you run out of cereal, can you run back into it again?
    
    Is a tablespoon to eat a table with?
    
    (these two courtesy of Maurice Sendak)
    
    -Jody
    

    Re .3
    
    > Is a tablespoon to eat a table with?
    
    Reminds me of 18 years ago and a chili con carne a friend made...
                               
    She couldn't believe the recipe with its 1/4 teaspoon of chili powder,
    so used a 1/4 tablespoon...
               
    It was more like a chili con-flagration.
        
    Nick   

    The alarm clock just went off ... 
    
       Where'd it go, and with whom, or did it just go rotten ?
    
    

    And why do you have to cut a tree down before you can cut it up?

Is it really funny to laugh your head off?

RE: .4 and .8

I like my chili to be made with at least a whole box of chili powder (a large
one for a small pot of chili).  Best part about that is that I usually get all
of the chili for myself!!!

					Larry
					  ~

    Please take this as a scientific enquiry, not intended as an offensive
    personal remark   :-)  ... but are we seeing a cause-and-effect
    relationship here?
    
< Note 643.9 by XNTRIK::MAGOON "Village idiot" >
    				^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    				!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
>I like my chili to be made with at least a whole box of chili powder (a large
>one for a small pot of chili).  Best part about that is that I usually get all
>of the chili for myself!!!

    Before we wnader too much further down this rathole, I think it
    only fair to point out that there may be some confusion here between
    chili powder and cayenne, also a powdered red pepper, which IS used
    in sub-teaspoon quantities.

    You try using cayenne the way Magoon & I use chili powder, you won't
    burn out, you'll burn UP!

    -dave

    G'day...
    
    
    .... and of course, one must sit down before one can sit up.. and
    then get up to get down from the table (although it is easier to
    get down from a duck)
    
    derek
    

    Why do things things burn up and burn down ?
    
    Speaking of things burning up .... all this talk of chili reminds
    me of a time when someone gave me a huge tin of Ground Chili pepper.
    Thinking it as feeble as the standard off the grocery shelf
    jar of chili pepper, I used a commensurate amount to tickle my tongue
    in a meal one day.  Well, I tucked in to my plateful.  After the near 
    nuclear explosion, I was dutifully peeled off the ceiling, and went
    gasping for water.  This stuff could have been the answer to the
    worlds fuel crisis.
    
    This just goes to prove that depending on the brand, your mileage
    on a 1/4 tsp of chili pepper may differ!

    
	>>
	>>Well, I tucked in to my plateful.  After the near 
	>>        ^^^^^^^^^ 
    
    	Stuart, is this where the Australians get the term 'tucker',
    	meaning 'food'?
    
    	A question which has been lately on my mind.
    
    	-- Glinch
    

    Dunno Jim,
    
    I'm just a misplaced Pom, here in the frozen northland and no real
    connections to Oz.

    There are some Aussies around this file who'd have a better idea
    on that than me like LAMHRA::(Derek)WHORLOW but I have to admit
    I do like the connection and it looks good to me
    
    I'll buy that one!
    
    Stuart

    In Pom, on the other foot, they say tuckered ... as in
    
    "I'm all tuckered out"  or "I'm tuckered"
    
    meaning "I'm exhausted", or "I'm tired"

    
    And before you ask I don't know the origin of that either. Ask a
    Brit .... well, some other Brit !
    
    Stuart

To get back on track, I remember a George Carlin skit where he asked why it
was that we could prick our fingers, but shouldn't finger our ...


Along the same vein, My music teacher in high school orchestra would regularly
dismiss us be telling us to "Go in the corner and finger your parts."

Wook

    Then there's the childrens' classic from
    
        Coddlestone Pie
    
    Why a fly can't bird, but a bird can fly ?

       
       
       Question:
       
       		In VMS, I can type the following:
       
       		$ MCR NCP SHO KNOWN LINKS
       
       	SO why do I get told I can't do the following:
       
       		$ MCR NCP SHO UNKNOWN LINKS
       
       				->Jay
       

Re .19

You can't do $ MCR NCP SHOW UNKNOWN LINKS for reasons similar to the
reasons for not being able to do $ SET MIDNIGHT (as opposed to $ SET
NOON) and $ PRINT/TIFY.

Dave C.

    G'day,
    
    re .15..
    
    Sorry Stuart, I'm a POM also!
    
    Served my seven years and done three more...
    
    Re tucker for grub,  According to my Australian pocket Oxford
    Dictionary..  (yes! honest)
    Tuck ~in (sl.) eat heartily; ~in, (sl.)hearty meal, (part piece
    etc.) designed to be tucked in [LG or Du. 'tukken']
    
    
    Tucker (sl orig. Aust.) food; ~ -box,-bag (Aust. sl.) receptacle
    for food ...v.t.(US colloq.)tire (out), weary [prec.]
    
          
    Thinking about it, Robin Hood had a mate, friar TUCK who loved his
    grub, also Tuck boxes have been around for a long while. My son
    suggested that from friar Tuck's name, perhaps tuck has some church
    origin ?
    
    
    derek
    
    
    

    G'day to you too Derek,
    
    Last person I had dealings with in Oz turned out to be POM too ...
    Is there any such thing as a real live Aussie in Digital down there?
    
    Obviously there is a link between Tuck as in food and Tucker bag
    as in a container for food.  Strange the addition of the -er.
    
    I can well believe that there would be an Oxford Aussie English
    Dictionary ... after all there is an Oxford Dictionary of Common
    Slang!  (I mean there are Oxford dictionaries of almost anything
    these days! ... not that AUssie English is slang!)
    
    Stuart

    	An intriguing thing is that the French word "creux" can translate
    to "tuck" in the dressmaking sense, but if you have one personally, you
    are hungry.

    Maybe I've missed something, but I'll ask the stupid question anyway...
    
    What's a "pom"?  And where did the word come from?
    
    Roy

    Property Of His/Her Majesty.
              
    P.O.H.M.
    
    Once found on the attire of convicts, a large number of whom were
    responsible for the British colonization of that land of wonder,
    down under.

    sooo, POM equals GI (Governement Issue)!
    Rudi
    

    Actually, it's a very rude term those Ozzies use to refer to migrant
    from Britain.

    As any self-respecting Aussie (is there such a thing) can attest,
    "Pom" is simply short for "Pommie Bastard."

    Sid

    Now I get it!  POM is sort of like the Confederate States use of the
    word "damnyankee".

    G'day,
    
    
    Yup' that's about the flavor of it...
    
    
    The _real_ origin of the term, we POMs keep from the Aussies, though
    ;-)
                 ....              ...
    
    
    A migrant landed at Sydney and wandered into town. He saw the building
    sites, the heat the flies and the thongs and stubbies (shorts, short
    trousers - short Translation Rathole) so he went for a drink. he
    took a swig of Fosters and left the pub looking for something to
    remove the taste. He saw a pie stall so ordered a 'pie floater'
    (TR - A meat? pie  floating in a liquid pease pudding ) covered
    in Tomato sauce. One bite was enough....
    
    
    
    "Po' Me!" , he sighed. as he looked for the way home. 
    
    
    derek
    
    
    

    Poms are an integral part of the truism that the Aussies are the
    chosen race...
    
          ....they were chosen by the finest judges of the British judicial
    system.
       
    Nick
       
    Pace all Aussies, please
    :-)

    Down in leafy Dorset, there's a bridge which bears a brass plate,
    warning that anybody damaging the fabric thereof is liable to summary
    transportation to Autralia.
    
    I've kicked s**t out of the tarmac, but I still have to take out a
    mortgage for next year's holiday !