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Wildebeest look better in a tophat, or would the pith helmet be more appropriate, conthidering the regional climate?  Oh, sorry, some people don't like them... if you believe that "no gnus is good gnus", perhaps you should find another thread.  Cheers! Chas. (the invertebrate punster - spinelessly unable to resist a pun) |
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 04:52:26 pm » |
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Oh dear goodness! At first I thought it was a typo, but this is infinitely more awesome. I've always picked wildebeests in derby hats myself. Just a personal preference. Hyenas I think are more suited to tophats.
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 04:52:48 pm » |
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 05:00:48 pm » |
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Oh dear goodness! At first I thought it was a typo, but this is infinitely more awesome. I've always picked wildebeests in derby hats myself. Just a personal preference. Hyenas I think are more suited to tophats. And cheetahs in tweed caps, La Contessa says. Having been stalked, at night, by a real live hyena, I must say it was not fun. Don't recall a derby hat, though. Oh, and Miss Adler - wonderful find. I always liked that poster. Cheers! Chas. |
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 07:29:44 pm » |
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 07:49:36 pm » |
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Now I know the minds eye can play trick on a person... I read the topic and saw....
"Re: A Collective Thread for All Them Guns Pt. I" But the minds eye was wrong
it is a thread about large smelly horned critters....... funny how one can read something
and interpit it as someting more common .... like a gun....
Well bottom's up and here's looking at gnu.....
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2011, 07:56:32 pm » |
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There was a TV ad (for Typhoo Tea) from the '70s that had a Gnu signing the following:-
"I’m a Gnu, how do you do?
I’ve just moved into the house next door to you.
I’ve lost my Ty·Phoo, so let me ask you,
Can I borrow some of that most refreshing brew?
The flavour’s so fine — every time—
I just cannot wait to tell those friends of mine"
(& do you think that I can find it?)
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2011, 08:18:57 pm » |
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Presumably, a lion would wear a deerstalker...
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2011, 08:21:53 pm » |
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....... funny how one can read something
and interpit it as someting more common .... like a gun....
Well, to be honest, in my life I have seen more gnus than guns so far. |
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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2011, 10:28:20 pm » |
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Warning very naughty words ahead!
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2011, 01:45:17 am » |
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I like Flanders & Swann, but it's a good thing I'm not in an office now: most places disapprove of any sort of gnu-ditty on the web.
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2011, 03:15:29 am » |
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Now I know the minds eye can play trick on a person... I read the topic and saw....
"Re: A Collective Thread for All Them Guns Pt. I" But the minds eye was wrong
it is a thread about large smelly horned critters....... funny how one can read something
and interpit it as someting more common .... like a gun....
Well bottom's up and here's looking at gnu.....
Large smelly horny...er... Oh dear, Never mind. |
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2011, 07:21:03 pm » |
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"Oh, dear. This is all so gnu to me!"
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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2011, 02:02:40 am » |
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This was the fault, of course, of my own dyslexia. I kept reading the "... Guns, Pt. II" thread title this way; so I figured we should really have one for "all them gnus."
I had to put it in off-topic, though. If I had actually made a wildebeest, I could have put it in tactile - or if I had put cannons in a gnu's horns, or some such.
Ah, well.
Chas.
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« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2011, 02:07:25 am » |
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I had a dreadful urge to lock this topic, and leave a final post of: "And that was the end of the gnus."  |
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« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2011, 02:37:52 am » |
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I am pleased that you restrained yourself, or I would not be able to mention the new interspecies crossbreed, the "Bad Gnus Bears".
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« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2011, 02:41:27 am » |
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I am pleased that you restrained yourself, or I would not be able to mention the new interspecies crossbreed, the "Bad Gnus Bears".
Truly a fearsome creature. |
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« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2011, 04:46:36 am » |
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« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2011, 05:53:27 am » |
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somehow I gnu I'd post here again.
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« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2011, 07:19:45 am » |
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There was a TV ad (for Typhoo Tea) from the '70s that had a Gnu signing the following:-
"I’m a Gnu, how do you do?
I’ve just moved into the house next door to you.
I’ve lost my Ty·Phoo, so let me ask you,
Can I borrow some of that most refreshing brew?
The flavour’s so fine — every time—
I just cannot wait to tell those friends of mine"
(& do you think that I can find it?)
Ha! thats the first thing I thought of as well.  ......... Forward to 2.35 and there it be......
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« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2011, 08:39:51 am » |
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Hyenas I think are more suited to tophats.
Funny; I always pictured them in track suits and Burberry ball caps. Gnus and wildebeeste, of course, should wear fez. |
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2011, 12:23:04 am » |
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2011, 06:35:37 am » |
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If you gnu Suzy, like I gnu Suzy...
No, no, I fear I must correct you- it is not Suzy you gnu, for Suzy (SUse) is Linux! it is GNU, that you gnu and everyone gnows that GNU stands for Gnu's Not Unix and thus by extrapolation, Gnu's Not Linux Gneither - therfore We can conclude from the associative property that Gnu's Not Suzy history of the GNU open source project and the GNU O/S: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html yhs prof gmarvel |
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2011, 08:30:40 am » |
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Well, at least there hasn't been any gnratuitous gnudity in this thread yet...
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