Conference thebay::joyoflex

Ralph:		I love - and love, alas, above my station!
Buttercup:	He loves, and loves a lass above his station.
Chorus:		Yes, yes, the lass is much above his station.

			- W.S. Gilbert, "H.M.S. Pinafore"

I'm not responsible for anything I said, as I said it under her dress.

That's because you're a pathetic apathetic.

"Know what?"

"No, what?"

Dave C.

I have to add here one of my all-time favorites, uttered by Lucille Ball
in one of the "Lucy" shows.  She was explaining to Viv how to open a broken
refrigerator door:

	"Jiggle it a little, it'll open."

Yell "Wrecked 'em ?".  (*wait a few seconds for folks to be shocked*).  Then
continue with "It nearly killed 'em!".

  From Ogden Nash:

	What noise annoys an oyster?

answer:

"ah" noise annoys.

"What a horrible end -- he was interred in turd."

"You found underwear under where?"

"Al Kaline bought an alkaline battery."  
(I know the sounds are not at all alike, but it looks good in writing...)

        -mg_

Along a similar line is the Latin pun, "Ubi, o ubi est meam sub ubi?" ("Where,
o where is my under where?")

	Jon

    this is a worthwhile note for some of you old-timers to come back
    to.  :-)
    
    how about a phrase or sentence made up entirely one set of homonyms
    (or something like that).  these need explanatory titles:
    
    fruit slicing duo:   Pear pare pair.
    
    actor john will jump a buffalo street: Herd'll hurdle Hertel.  (you may
    have heard of Hertel street from hill street blues. one of the writers
    is from buffalo, and there are often buffalo streets mentioned). 
    
    prostitute's sick mare:	Whore's hoarse horse.    

    trip to procure a top-notch score by Gabriel:
      Foray for a AAAA Faur�.		(AAAA = "four-A")

    						dd

      Re .11
      
      There are some examples of these in note 213.*.
      
      Dave C.

Re .11:

	Shouldn't that be "pair pare pear" ?  (You might be able to
	lengthen this somehow with "Pierre" and/or "pee air" (not so
	sure about that one!) and/or "P." and/or "air" as a verb
	as in radio.

/Eric

    pair pare pear 's explanatory title would be duo slice fruit, making
    it a headline...i just thought of a using that one to work in one
    more word:
    
    duo slice two fruits:  pair pare pear pair.
    
    or from bad to worse:
    
    fruit slicing duo slice fruit slicing duo slicing fruit:
    pair pare pear pare pair.
    
    			truly awful.		dd
    

From some wretched radio program a long time ago (I think they had a spot where
listeners were invited to send in these sayings):

	Toulouse to lose two loos.

	Emerge and see emergency.

There were a lot more, but these stuck in my memory.

Chris.

    
>	Toulouse to lose two loos.
    
    Isn't Toulouse too loose to lose two loos?

    I gather that "To the water, it is the hour" is the motto of the navy
    in some country where they speak French.
    
    BTW, that translates as "A l'eau, c'est l'heure"
    
    :-)

    G'day,
    
      <<< Note 66.16 by TKOV51::DIAMOND "This note is illegal tender." >>>

    
>	Toulouse to lose two loos.
    
>    Isn't Toulouse too loose to lose two loos?
    
    
    That's why inhabitants of Toulouse make a picnic of the event, and all
    travel to the next town  .....
    
    
    
    Sort of a.....
    
    Toulouse La Trek
    
    djw

    What's your opinion about Toulouse-Lautrec?
    
    Toulouse is going to win.
    		Denis.

    There's an even more amusing intro to the putative "French Nava(e?)l
    Motto" referred to in .17 available in 256.26...
    
    The problem with .17 is that when one first reads it, one might fail
    to, shall we say, grasp the full point of the matter.
    
    Hint -- Think "red lights;" think lamp-posts; think Marlene Dietrich...
    
    :-)
    
    Disingenuously,
    
    Dan Kalikow

RE: .11

I haad a high-school classmate who flunked Latin TWO years in a row, and 
later claimed the only thing he'd learned was:

		SEMPER UBI SUB UBI == always wear underwear

- Steve  ;^}