Oh look, it's a Rolls Kanardley...




...rolls down the hill, kanardley get up again. ;-)

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On 9-6-2009 16:20, Invisible wrote:
> Oh look, it's a Rolls Kanardley...
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> ...rolls down the hill, kanardley get up again. ;-)

???

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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:50:58 +0200, andrel wrote:

> On 9-6-2009 16:20, Invisible wrote:
>> Oh look, it's a Rolls Kanardley...
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>> ...rolls down the hill, kanardley get up again. ;-)
> 
> ???

"kanardley" = "Can Hardly".

Jim

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>> ???
> 
> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".

Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)

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Invisible wrote:
>>> ???
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>> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
> 
> Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)

Spelling it properly would probably have helped, too.

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>> Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)
> 
> Spelling it properly would probably have helped, too.

Meh. It's a linguistic joke. Apparently it doesn't work so well written 
down...

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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:41:04 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> ???
>> 
>> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
> 
> Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)

Well, yeah, if you know how to pronounce it. :-)

Jim

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On 9-6-2009 17:41, Invisible wrote:
>>> ???
>>
>> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
> 
> Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)

Ok, now I know what the joke should have been, I assume that that Rolls 
Kanardley is a type of car. Presumably from Rolls Royce. I can not find 
confirmation for that from the internet. Even if I did, why do you 
suppose that I (i.e. anybody in this group) knew that, which I didn't?

It could be something similar to Ford Prefect not working as a joke in 
the US and Macintosh not in Europe. I mean we might have a thread with a 
regional audience.

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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:33 +0200, andrel wrote:

> Even if I did, why do you suppose
> that I (i.e. anybody in this group) knew that, which I didn't?

Well, I'd never heard of it before, but the joke had some context ("down 
the hill") which made me think of a car.  That plus my best guess at the 
pronunciation identified it as a play on words.

> It could be something similar to Ford Prefect not working as a joke in
> the US and Macintosh not in Europe. I mean we might have a thread with a
> regional audience.

Maybe, but there's nothing that I'm aware of that prohibits such a thread 
in these forums.....

Jim

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On 9-6-2009 18:21, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:33 +0200, andrel wrote:
> 
>> Even if I did, why do you suppose
>> that I (i.e. anybody in this group) knew that, which I didn't?
> 
> Well, I'd never heard of it before, but the joke had some context ("down 
> the hill") which made me think of a car.  That plus my best guess at the 
> pronunciation identified it as a play on words.

Sure but even when I plugged that all in, I still did not find it funny, 
so I assumed something else was going on. Then again, the subject was a 
warning.

>> It could be something similar to Ford Prefect not working as a joke in
>> the US and Macintosh not in Europe. I mean we might have a thread with a
>> regional audience.
> 
> Maybe, but there's nothing that I'm aware of that prohibits such a thread 
> in these forums.....

No, but it would be nice to know that I am not meant to understand it. 
OTOH we have changed topics from book collections to apes even when we 
knew that some here could not understand what was going on.

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