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Conference back40::soapbox

Title:Soapbox. Just Soapbox.
Notice:No more new notes
Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUEONS
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:862
Total number of notes:339684

173.0. "Sniglets" by CONSLT::MCBRIDE (aspiring peasant) Mon Dec 12 1994 20:07

    We have all sorts of entertainment topics why not sniglets.  You know
    what they are, you've heard a bunch, maybe even made a few up.  Post your
    favorites here, or don't.
    
    Brian
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173.1MPGS::MARKEYPee Wee Herman for Surgeon General!Mon Dec 12 1994 20:093
    Regurgitape: what happens when you push the eject button on your VCR.
    
    -b
173.2to practice safe sippingCONSLT::MCBRIDEaspiring peasantMon Dec 12 1994 20:116
    That little  paper wrapper that goes over the top of a straw when 
    ordering a drink in a restaurant. 
    
    
    
    Strawndom
173.3AIMTEC::MORABITO_PHotlanta RocksTue Dec 13 1994 00:488
Barkuuming...

	Let ones dog eat all of the crumbs dropped on the floor so you do 
not need to vacuum.  

Paul

173.4GAVEL::JANDROWAu naturelle..back 2 basicsTue Dec 13 1994 10:518
    
    
    mlach:
    
    that tast/feeling you get in your mouth after sleeping for many hours
    (ie: morning breath/mouth).
    
    
173.5CONSLT::MCBRIDEaspiring peasantTue Dec 13 1994 13:513
    Bivet: Any foreign, unidentifiable object floating in your drink.
    
    
173.6must we?SMURF::BINDERvitam gustareTue Dec 13 1994 13:556
    dregs: what a notesfile turns into when it begins to suffer from
    terminal cuteness.
    
    forpetesake, people, there's a WHOLE NOTESFILE devoted to language and
    wordplay, couldn't this topic have been added to topic 178 in
    thebay::joyoflex???
173.7LJSRV2::KALIKOWCyberian-AmericanTue Dec 13 1994 13:597
    Shame on ya, BinderSan.  You wanna ruin the only remaining refuge for
    we, the sophistos???
    
    Delete .1 forthwith, else grid your lions for my Solicitors!!
    
    |-{:-)
    
173.8SMURF::BINDERvitam gustareTue Dec 13 1994 14:023
    avast and belay, drdan!  solicit what you will, but don't stand too
    close to the front door or me and scrooge'll dump our thundermugs on
    yer beanie.
173.9LJSRV2::KALIKOWCyberian-AmericanTue Dec 13 1994 14:334
    Gardyloo, eh?  
    
    I'll take that under advisement...  TYVM.
    
173.10SMURF::BINDERvitam gustareTue Dec 13 1994 14:366
    .9
    
    > Gardyloo, eh?
    
    the student literary zine at plymouth (nh) state college is titled
    gardyloo.
173.11PSC, eh?LJSRV2::KALIKOWCyberian-AmericanTue Dec 13 1994 14:3910
    Mine esteemed elder syster wuz Dean & Acting Prexy of PSC until this
    academic year, when she moved up to Prexy of U. Maine/Farmington.
    
    So wnyncha enlighten the 'BoxRabble as to the enchanting etymology of
    "Gardyloo!"?  Boli before swine donchaknow.
    
    As fer me, it's off to sell Mother DEC...  
    
    DECUS ex machina, here I come.
    
173.12SMURF::BINDERvitam gustareTue Dec 13 1994 14:466
173.13WAHOO::LEVESQUEprepayah to suffahTue Dec 13 1994 15:031
    most amusing thing I've read in here in weeks.
173.14LJSRV2::KALIKOWCyberian-AmericanTue Dec 13 1994 15:593
    And YOU a Phranqueophone?  And you've NEVER hoid of that??
    
    Turn in your Doctah's badge, forthwith!  
173.15WAHOO::LEVESQUEprepayah to suffahTue Dec 13 1994 16:041
     I didn't connect gardyloo to gardez l'eau.
173.16POWDML::LAUERLittle Chamber of PerditionTue Dec 13 1994 16:052
    
    <-- sure, sure 8^).
173.17PENUTS::DDESMAISONStoo few argsTue Dec 13 1994 16:126
    
>>    <-- sure, sure 8^).

	8^)  so i guess he thought that "gardyloo" meaning "gardez l'eau"
	was one of the most amusing things he'd read in here in a long
	time.  ;>
173.18SMURF::BINDERvitam gustareTue Dec 13 1994 17:033
    he prolly found it amusing cuz it'd be an appropriate injunction at a
    meeting of les amis du vin due to the known allergy to water of most
    oenophiles.
173.19PENUTS::DDESMAISONStoo few argsTue Dec 13 1994 17:073
	er, yah, that would be my second guess...

173.20GAVEL::JANDROWAu naturelle..back 2 basicsTue Dec 13 1994 18:026
    
    yeah, but ...loo is not pronounced the same as ...l'eau...
    
    
    
    
173.21POWDML::LAUERLittle Chamber of PerditionTue Dec 13 1994 18:112
    
    What about brooch?
173.22MPGS::MARKEYPee Wee Herman for Surgeon General!Tue Dec 13 1994 18:131
    People rarely throw them out of windows...
173.23LJSRV2::KALIKOWCyberian-AmericanWed Dec 14 1994 02:0611
173.24WAHOO::LEVESQUEprepayah to suffahWed Dec 14 1994 11:051
    Je pense que non.
173.25KERNEL::PLANTCAre you trying to get under my cape doctor?Mon Jul 31 1995 14:1830
    
    
    
    I think the note digresses:
    
    
    Skrittles = the tiny crumbs and flakes left over at the bottom of
                a corn flakes box
    
    
    Lactomangulation = the act of crushing a milk carton after it has been
                       used.
    

    dognut = the centre bolt on a fire hydrant that all dogs use as a
             target for peeing on.
    
    
    Tanenbum = the bare side of a Christmas tree that everyone turns
               towards the wall.
    
    
    	
    Neutron pea = the hard unedible peas you get when you over-cook
                  peas or t.v dinners in a microwave oven.
    
    
    
    Chris
    :)
173.26MAIL2::CRANEMon Jul 31 1995 14:273
    .25
    As a fire man I will have to remeber the "Dognut" and use my gloves
    more often.
173.27SMURF::BINDERNight's candles are burnt out.Mon Jul 31 1995 16:482
    Grassoline = the immediately recognizable smell of a lawn being cut
    with an engine-powered mower.