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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

488.0. "He asked if I did WHAT??" by OXMYX::POLLAK (Counting trees, in the Sahara.) Wed Mar 02 1988 18:48

    How about collecting snappy phrases to fool the masses? 
    
     The following is an example of what my father-in-law likes to do 
    to nervous young couples to check them out (me included when I was 
    dating his daughter). Family relations only, not strangers.
    
    He strolls up to them and in a gruff and serious voice says:
    
    " Do you pratice premarital inter-digitation? "
    
     Most people stumble on the "premarital" part and say no.
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488.1moreLEZAH::BOBBITTTea in the Sahara with you...Wed Mar 02 1988 21:2920
    two from jr. high school...
    
    Do you masticate with your mandibles?
    
    (the first part sounded so dirty, the immediate answer was NO)
    
    Or you look at someone who is standing, arms at their sides, focus
    on their mid-section (where the hands are), point worriedly, and
    say "Your epidermis is showing!"   
    
    (immediate zipper-check ensued)
    
    -Jody
    
    Also, when in an argument, upon being called a liar, one can always
    respond with, "Do you have the audacity to doubt my veracity and
    insinuate that I prevaricate?"...takes 'em a step or two back if
    their vocabulary isn't that big...
    
    
488.2ouch!INK::KALLISA Dhole isn't a political animal.Thu Mar 03 1988 19:597
    One English teacher at a private school I once attended thoroughly
    frightened an unruly jock by picking up some cutting instrument
    and saying, "You need to be castigated!"   
    
    The offensive one nearly fainted.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
488.3AKOV11::BOYAJIAN$50 never killed anybodySat Mar 05 1988 15:0512
    re:.0
    
    That reminds me of a time when some friends and I were collating
    a publication and someone decided to refer to our activity as
    "collatio" (defined as "papyral-digital stimulation").
    
    re:.1
    
    I don't think anyone should be ashamed to masticate if he so
    choose.
    
    --- jerry
488.4As they say in Rugby circles - How the ruck are you?LAMHRA::WHORLOWProgress:=!(going_backwards>coping)Mon Mar 07 1988 00:4213
    G'day,
    
    A school friend used to get out of inmpelling his somewhat portly
    frame around the rugby field by producing a note which asked for
    him to be excused because he was suffering 'internal combustion
    of the cabilles (pron= cabileees)'. It worked too!
    
    As to -.whatever - an old punishment was to be hung, drawn and severely
    castigated.
    
    
    Derek
    
488.5and it was the Pastor who asked herVIA::RANDALLback in the notes life againWed Mar 09 1988 21:275
    A woman in my hometown church, who was fond of parties and coffee
    klatches, once vehemently denied that she engaged in social
    intercourse.
    
    --bonnie