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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:
>>> ???
>>
>> "kanardley" = "Can Hardly".
>
> 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. ;-)
>
> 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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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.
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
Thread drift is an art form unto itself.:-)
Jim
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What's the difference between a pizza and a Jew?
A pizza is an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is usually
covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based sauce and often mozzarella
cheese, with other toppings added according to region, culture or
personal preference, whereas a Jew is a follower of the religion Judaism.
http://www.instantrimshot.com
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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On 9-6-2009 18:39, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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.
>> 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.
>
You mean like Clive Anderson asking in the last episode of Have I got
news for you after an explanation of a new cloud type: 'Are you cirrus'.
Or Stephen Fry out of character on QI with
Q: How does a chimpanzee makes toast
A: he puts it under the gorilla.
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:51:33 +0200, andrel wrote:
> On 9-6-2009 18:39, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>
> You mean like Clive Anderson asking in the last episode of Have I got
> news for you after an explanation of a new cloud type: 'Are you cirrus'.
>
> Or Stephen Fry out of character on QI with Q: How does a chimpanzee
> makes toast
> A: he puts it under the gorilla.
Pretty much, yeah. :-)
Jim
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Invisible wrote:
>>> 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...
Yes. But the actual model of Rolls Royce car was spelled "Canardly."
--
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. ;-)
>>>
>>> Spelling it properly would probably have helped, too.
>>
>> Meh. It's a linguistic joke. Apparently it doesn't work so well
>> written down...
>
> Yes. But the actual model of Rolls Royce car was spelled "Canardly."
Really? I wasn't aware there *was* such a model. I thought it was just a
made-up name that sounded plausible...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Really? I wasn't aware there *was* such a model. I thought it was just a
> made-up name that sounded plausible...
In the 1920s. GIYF.
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Tim Cook wrote:
> http://www.instantrimshot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eXj97stbG8
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On 9-6-2009 20:03, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>>> 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...
>>
>> Yes. But the actual model of Rolls Royce car was spelled "Canardly."
>
> Really? I wasn't aware there *was* such a model. I thought it was just a
> made-up name that sounded plausible...
If it disn't exist it would not be a joke, not even a lame one.
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"andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmail com> a écrit dans le message de
news:4A2### [at] hotmailcom...
> If it disn't exist it would not be a joke, not even a lame one.
A lame duck actually. Andrew is right, there was no Rolls-Royce model
called that. "Canard" means "duck" in French and "fake story" in English, so
I guess that joke is in using a foreign but posh-sounding name (like the
actual "Corniche" and "Camargue" RR models) and making a pun out of it.
G.
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On 9-6-2009 22:08, Gilles Tran wrote:
> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> a écrit dans le message de
> news:4A2### [at] hotmailcom...
>> If it disn't exist it would not be a joke, not even a lame one.
>
> A lame duck actually. Andrew is right, there was no Rolls-Royce model
> called that.
If you say so. Your Googling skills are way beyond mine.
> "Canard" means "duck" in French and "fake story" in English,
Derived from the French newspaper if I am not mistaken.
> so I guess that joke is in using a foreign but posh-sounding
> name (like the actual "Corniche" and "Camargue" RR models) and making a
> pun out of it.
My verdict: what a terrible 'joke'. Not even remotely funny, but 'de
gustibus non est disputandum' or the equivalent for humor.
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> A lame duck actually. Andrew is right, there was no Rolls-Royce model
> called that.
Well, folks are selling maintenance manuals for it. Now, granted, the manual
is out of stock, so maybe it's a joke on their site....
http://www.factoryautomanuals.com/1921-Rolls-Canardly-p/81477.htm
And painters have painted pictures of it...
http://www.dailypainters.com/paintings/16071/Rolls-Canardly-Nineteen-Thirty-Eleven/Ron-Morrison
So I think perhaps it's not as unlikely as it may seem.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> a écrit dans le message de
news:4a2ed942$1@news.povray.org...
> So I think perhaps it's not as unlikely as it may seem.
The painting's author (who's really good, BTW, I wish I could paint like
that http://watercolourproductions.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_8172.html)
works from imagination and tells the joke himself in his blog post. I guess
Andrew's post was worth discovering this guy's watercolours.
There have been relatively few Rolls models and if there was a RR with such
a (hilarious) name there would be more than a "manual" and 140000 joke pages
about it.
G.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:07:25 +0200, Gilles Tran wrote:
> The painting's author (who's really good, BTW, I wish I could paint like
> that
> http://watercolourproductions.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_8172.html)
> works from imagination and tells the joke himself in his blog post.
Wow, thanks for sharing that - I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Very
impressive watercolour work.
Jim
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> There have been relatively few Rolls models and if there was a RR with
> such a (hilarious) name there would be more than a "manual" and 140000
> joke pages about it.
Fair enough. I was also going on the fact that the year model of the painted
Rolls was claimed to be close to the same year as the manual. I didn't look
all that close. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Invisible wrote:
> Oh look, it's a Rolls Kanardley...
>
>
>
>
> ...rolls down the hill, kanardley get up again. ;-)
You deserve a firm slap for that... :P
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> You deserve a firm slap for that... :P
...or just being told by anyone and everybody that my jokes suck and I
should STFU. :-/
Note to self: Don't quote your grandad's jokes online.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:42:32 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ...or just being told by anyone and everybody that my jokes suck and I
> should STFU. :-/
Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU.
Stop running yourself down.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU.
> Stop running yourself down.
Au contraire, I think many here have said, in one way or another, for
him to Stop Thinking Frightfully Unselfworthish.
--
Tim Cook
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:06:23 -0400, Tim Cook wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU. Stop running yourself down.
>
> Au contraire, I think many here have said, in one way or another, for
> him to Stop Thinking Frightfully Unselfworthish.
LOL, good reinterpretation of the acronym. :-)
Jim
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>>> Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU. Stop running yourself down.
>> Au contraire, I think many here have said, in one way or another, for
>> him to Stop Thinking Frightfully Unselfworthish.
>
> LOL, good reinterpretation of the acronym. :-)
<span style="Darth Vader">Impressive. Most impressive.</span>
I'm thinking Jim *wasn't* talking about the Amiga's Fast File System tho...
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