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| From | Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: What animals need oiling? |
| Date | 2015-12-26 12:19 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <de7behFthqpU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2015-12-26 07:14:57 +0000, Ross said: > On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 5:26:22 PM UTC+13, Tony Cooper wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 20:15:28 -0800 (PST), David Kleinecke >> <dkleinecke@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:04:55 PM UTC-8, Peter T. Daniels wrote: >>>> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:52:57 PM UTC-5, Peter Moylan wrote: >>>>> On 2015-Dec-26 00:48, Harrison Hill wrote: >>>>>> Christmas as we experience it here in England, was invented >>>>>> by the Victorians. You can mark the transition (I am told) >>>>>> by comparing Christmas in "The Pickwick Papers" with Christmas >>>>>> in "A Christmas Carol" - a transition related directly to >>>>>> Albert marrying Victoria. >>>>>> >>>>>> You are all at various stages of your Christmas Day. We no >>>>>> longer have Victorian "Parlour Games" in our Christmas >>>>>> routine - "Consequences" anyone? - otherwise Christmas >>>>>> is as it has always been. That include the crackers and >>>>>> mottos :) Please test us with your best: >>>>>> >>>>>> What animals need oiling? >>>>> >>>>> Do all English-speaking countries have the tradition of corny jokes >>>>> inside the cracker? The ones we had yesterday were scraping the bottom >>>>> of the barrel. Nobody even bothered groaning. I suppose the merely bad >>>>> jokes had been used up in previous years. >>>> >>>> The US doesn't have "crackers," so _a fortiori_ it doesn't have corny jokes >>>> inside them. (Nor in fortune cookies, the other locus for little printed >>>> slips of paper.) >>> >>> Help - I'm trapped in Chinese cookie factory. >> >> What brand was it? Bazooka? Some bubble gum wrappers used to have a >> corny joke on each piece. > > Dubble Bubble actually had a (corny) comic strip wrapped around each piece. > >> Crackers never, to my knowledge, crossed the pond. I don't think I've >> ever seen them for sale here. > > Um, they managed to cross the pond to Canada, on the experience of my youth. > I don't see wny they shouldn't have been popular south of the border, where > hand-held explosive devices are positively cherished. Yes, but when you've got real explosives in almost every house why would you bother with pretend ones? -- athel
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What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 05:48 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-26 11:52 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2015-12-26 01:03 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-25 19:04 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 20:15 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 23:26 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? Ross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2015-12-25 23:14 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-26 11:13 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 11:55 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 05:38 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 14:13 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 06:48 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:28 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 15:45 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:55 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Paul Wolff <bounceme@two.wolff.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 10:35 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:41 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-29 12:28 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-02 14:29 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:15 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:04 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 08:08 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 16:41 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 00:36 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-28 12:03 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? snidely.too@gmail.com - 2015-12-28 12:00 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:49 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-26 19:00 -0700
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:38 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-26 12:19 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-26 07:07 -0330
Re: What animals need oiling? msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2015-12-26 16:52 -0600
Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-27 12:55 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-02 14:27 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 09:49 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 18:17 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 10:50 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 14:17 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-02 15:41 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:03 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-04 04:58 -0700
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 13:18 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-04 08:46 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-04 17:40 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 23:30 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-05 10:44 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:17 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:04 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 06:47 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 16:16 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:58 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 20:18 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 20:16 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 06:57 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 08:43 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2015-12-29 15:33 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-29 19:24 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2015-12-29 20:57 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-30 10:29 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-31 12:08 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-30 18:18 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 08:32 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:21 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 20:44 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? ErrolC <Errolgc@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-06 00:52 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 16:30 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2015-12-26 00:09 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 09:54 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-26 16:35 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Dingbat <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-26 00:10 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 01:11 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 12:16 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 06:51 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 15:27 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:31 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:03 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 14:14 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2015-12-26 23:31 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:23 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-05 17:26 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 13:41 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 18:46 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-05 19:40 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-05 22:35 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-05 21:47 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:44 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:47 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-06 13:48 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-06 16:19 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-07 09:12 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 22:20 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-27 10:51 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 10:53 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:24 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-04 22:51 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:43 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 19:21 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 15:38 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 13:19 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 09:10 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 12:17 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-27 18:12 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2015-12-27 18:15 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-27 14:01 -0700
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 13:14 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 17:42 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-28 02:24 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-28 10:54 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-28 11:53 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-27 00:28 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 12:04 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2015-12-29 01:43 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-28 20:44 -0700
Re: What animals need oiling? Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2015-12-29 09:28 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 13:17 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? snidely.too@gmail.com - 2015-12-28 18:03 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 21:47 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-31 09:53 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-30 16:43 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 13:13 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 14:16 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 07:00 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-29 11:37 -0330
Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 21:41 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-29 19:21 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:28 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:31 -0500
Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 11:33 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:05 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 12:20 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:44 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Dingbat <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 23:54 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-28 14:22 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 06:20 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-28 18:49 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 10:29 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-29 10:42 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 11:03 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-30 19:22 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 07:19 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-29 20:00 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 07:16 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2016-01-01 23:22 -0600
Re: What animals need oiling? musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> - 2015-12-29 21:14 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 12:08 +1100
Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 14:16 +0100
Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 10:56 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-26 19:03 -0700
Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 00:21 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 12:30 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-28 15:52 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 20:13 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-30 11:31 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-29 12:11 +0000
Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-29 08:11 -0800
Re: What animals need oiling? grabber <gr@bb.er> - 2015-12-28 10:09 +0000
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