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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

878.0. "A new name game" by SMURF::SMURF::BINDER (Simplicitas gratia simplicitatis) Sun Mar 24 1991 16:30

    I awoke this morning obsessed (as one often is upon first becoming
    conscious).  This time the fixation was on what I think is a new game;
    mods, correct me by moving this note if I err.
    
    Think of a famous person's name - first and last - such that one or the
    other name, but *not* both, fits as a word in a sentence.  Try to make
    the sentence as sensible as possible.  The two examples I woke up with
    were these:
    
        At this season, those of us who are tired of Paul Winter are
        anticipating the arrival of the first Robin Leach of spring.
    
        The average Navajo probably no longer lives in a Paul Hogan.
    
    Any takers?
    
    -d
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878.1AUSSIE::WHORLOWI brew the best koala_tea productsSun Mar 24 1991 23:5610
    G'day,
    
     I shall print all the entries in this note and store them in a -d
    Binder!
    
    ;-)
    
    
    derek
    
878.2SMURF::SMURF::BINDERSimplicitas gratia simplicitatisMon Mar 25 1991 02:2811
    Gee, I must admit I'm flattered and all - but, Derek, I don't qualify
    according to the rules I laid down in .0, because I'm not famous.  Not
    yet, anyway.  :-)
    
        At Christmas time many people burn Yul Brynner logs in their
        fireplaces.
    
        As the stock market plummeted, bankers saw their fortunes on the
        John Wayne.
    
    -d
878.3rather than go past... to the... to the back...BIGUN::HOLLOWAYStainless Steel Rats Don't RustMon Mar 25 1991 06:072
    As is usual in duck hunting season, other avian species are shot at -
    most notably the Dan Quayle.
878.4New VP?XANADU::RECKARDJon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63Mon Mar 25 1991 15:261
A Baker in hand is worth two Quayles for the Bush.
878.5ODIXIE::LAMBKERick Lambke @FLA dtn 392-2220Mon Mar 25 1991 18:221
    You should smoke Les Aspen. However, chewing is Morley Safer. 
878.6KAOFS::S_BROOKAsk Not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ME!Mon Mar 25 1991 20:262
No question, those Tom Cruise missiles sure made a hit in Iraq, and Saddam
is in a lot of hot walter Cronkite.
878.7little sickSWAM2::HOMEYER_CHNo, but you can see it from hereMon Mar 25 1991 21:104
    The President was recently asked...is George BUSHed?  He quickly
    replied, no because he has been eating special cookies made by James
    (A. Baker) in which he uses Jimmy's "Carter Little Liver Pills".
    
878.8on a rollSWAM2::HOMEYER_CHNo, but you can see it from hereMon Mar 25 1991 22:051
    Just look at Vincent's van Gogh!!!
878.9a 2� (or lessAUSSIE::WHORLOWI brew the best koala_tea productsTue Mar 26 1991 02:0615
    G'day
    
    
    The team were to Sally Ann Field on to the football Sally Ann Field,
    but the team mascot was captured by Daniel Defoe. "What the Charles
    Dickens will we do?" asked the the Captain America. "Grab a Teddy
    Roosevelt and put some football Richard Nixon it." replied a voice from
    the back of an Abraham Lincoln. "But it will weigh a Gene Tunney cried
    the half back. " A Teddy Kennedy is no good, maybe we should use 
    Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein." Chipp'nDaled in the running back.
    "What a load of Sitting Bull!" shouted the  line Dan Blocker. "We have
    to go out onto the Lorne Greene and do our Mount Rushmores without him.
    
    
         derek
878.10How (derek whor)Low can you go?BIGUN::HOLLOWAYStainless Steel Rats Don't RustTue Mar 26 1991 02:358
    While fighting the andrew Peacock, the bob Hawke mistimed its stoop,
    slammed into a tree and hurt its john Howard. "Oh $h!t" he said, "I
    neil Blewitt!!".  The ray Martin watching this fiasco called out "looks
    like you'll have to hit the frog and toad, and max Walker out of this
    one...  If you hurry, you can get back over the alan Border before
    nightfall".
    
    
878.11POWDML::SATOWTue Mar 26 1991 20:139
Was Greg Smart?  Little did he know when he married Pamela that there was 
Wojas(t) around the corner.



For those of you not in New England (or if you've been living in New England 
in a cave),  Pamela (Wojas) Smart was recently convicted of inducing three 
teenagers to kill her husband Greg.  She was having an affair with one of the 
teenagers.
878.12necropolis weatherGIDDAY::BURTDPD (tm)Mon Aug 28 1995 20:566
The freddy Mercury is rising, rick Spring(field) commences next week, and 
donna Summer is just around the corner.  Shelly Winter was quite warm and dry, 
so donna Summer is probably going to be hot, hot, hot.



878.13What?! No Gail Storm?RICKS::PHIPPSDTN 225.4959Tue Aug 29 1995 06:240