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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. ;-)
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> ???
"kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
Jim
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>> ???
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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".
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> Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)
Spelling it properly would probably have helped, too.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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>> Try saying it out loud. It becomes obvious. ;-)
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> 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:
>>> ???
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>> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
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> 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:
>>> ???
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>> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
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> 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:
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>> Even if I did, why do you suppose
>> that I (i.e. anybody in this group) knew that, which I didn't?
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> 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.
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> 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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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:34:20 +0200, andrel wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
Well, yeah, there is that too. :-)
Along the same lines:
Q. Why are you carrying that fish?
A. Just for the halibut.
>>> 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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>> Maybe, but there's nothing that I'm aware of that prohibits such a
>> thread in these forums.....
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> 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.
Thread drift is an art form unto itself.:-)
Jim
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