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Post Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:10 am

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firehazard wrote:They are crashing a big rocket into the moon in some sort of experiment. Have these people never read any science fiction? We are all doomed, I tell you...


Who said the Americans can bomb the moon anyway? It belongs to me just as much to them. Didn't they ask anyone else if it was ok?



Fuck it, man. If they can bomb wedding parties "harboring" "terror" "suspects", in Afghanistan with impunity, they can bomb the moon, trust me.
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Post Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:14 am

Fr. McGreer wrote:I heard someone say that the last words to be uttered by a human sometime in the future will be by a scientist............... "Oh shit!"

No. Everyone knows the last words to be spoken will be "Hey you guys! Watch this!"
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Help with a stupid made up pub quiz

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:27 pm

I'm having some American friends over my house Thursday to do a fireworks night/Guy Fawkes style party. As part of it, I wanted to do an English style pub quiz with joke sort of questions for them to answer. For example, my English friend at work came up with this one:-

What is spotted dick?
Answer:

A) a steamed, log-shaped suet pudding studded with currants
B) a fish with (believe it or not) spots
C) a medical condition
D) what you say when you see someone called Richard

Now there will be kids so I have to keep it a bit clean. And it has to be multiple choice as they won't have a clue about most English customs etc. Anyone got any ideas for questions? :wink:
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Re: Help with a stupid made up pub quiz

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:55 pm

Jane wrote:I'm having some American friends over my house Thursday to do a fireworks night/Guy Fawkes style party. As part of it, I wanted to do an English style pub quiz with joke sort of questions for them to answer. For example, my English friend at work came up with this one:-

What is spotted dick?
Answer:

A) a steamed, log-shaped suet pudding studded with currants
B) a fish with (believe it or not) spots
C) a medical condition
D) what you say when you see someone called Richard

Now there will be kids so I have to keep it a bit clean. And it has to be multiple choice as they won't have a clue about most English customs etc. Anyone got any ideas for questions? :wink:



who was britains greatest prime minister?
answer:

a) pitt the elder
b) william gladstone
c) lord palmerston
d) the earl lloyd-george

even though we ALL know it was pitt the elder! what a LAUGH you all will have! :shock: :shock:
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Re: Help with a stupid made up pub quiz

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:27 pm

phro37 wrote:who was brittians greatest prime minister?
answer:

a) pitt the elder
b) william gladstone
c) lord palmerston
d) the earl lloyd-george

even though we ALL know it was pitt the elder! what a LAUGH you all will have! :shock: :shock:


Well, I'm not sure about Brittians :wink: greatest prime minister, but I suspect it probably wasn't The Baroness. :)
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Re: Help with a stupid made up pub quiz

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:59 pm

CraigBatty wrote:
phro37 wrote:who was brittians greatest prime minister?
answer:

a) pitt the elder
b) william gladstone
c) lord palmerston
d) the earl lloyd-george

even though we ALL know it was pitt the elder! what a LAUGH you all will have! :shock: :shock:


Well, I'm not sure about Brittians :wink: greatest prime minister, but I suspect it probably wasn't The Baroness. :)


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Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:55 am

i BUTCHERED that didn't i? i felt so bad i had to edit the damn thing :shock: i also had no idea what i was even talking about so craig and phil are WAY over my head :)

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXqUhqU7hgM
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Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:34 pm

phro37 wrote:i BUTCHERED that didn't i? i felt so bad i had to edit the damn thing :shock: i also had no idea what i was even talking about so craig and phil are WAY over my head :)

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXqUhqU7hgM


HA HA...yes I didn't really have a clue either. I have already been told by my husband this week that I am "scaring the neighbors" (they keep coming back for more though!) :twisted: so I need to try to keep things a little tame!
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:41 pm

Where Are The Songs of the Great Recession?
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Just throw my ashes in the field
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:03 pm



That's an interesting article, thanks for the posting.
And you always get better protest songs under a right-wing government.
Which is, of course, the only thing to be said in favour of such a regime.
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:07 pm

firehazard wrote:


That's an interesting article, thanks for the posting.
And you always get better protest songs under a right-wing government.
Which is, of course, the only thing to be said in favour of such a regime.


Thats cause (in the US) the libs only know how to cry artistically when their guy's not in power ! :lol:
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:15 pm

NewJerseyRich wrote:Thats cause (in the US) the libs only know how to cry artistically when their guy's not in power ! :lol:


Oh, I always assumed it was simply because the right-wingers have no soul, so obviously can't go doing the music thing themselves.

Politics in the thread for undeserving things? What is the world coming to? :shock: :wink:
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:28 pm

firehazard wrote:
NewJerseyRich wrote:Thats cause (in the US) the libs only know how to cry artistically when their guy's not in power ! :lol:


Oh, I always assumed it was simply because the right-wingers have no soul, so obviously can't go doing the music thing themselves.



I know left wingers and I know right wingers in the US.
It does seem to me those in the UK are a different breed and of course we abide by different rules so I can't speak about them with any great knowledge except what I see and read from The Guardian or BBC.

This might be as close to what you'd get as a recession/protest song today in the US today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVmRtEO18k

Now everyone don't get ready to jump on me. I realise my UK friends might get upset with all the US flag waving in the lyrics. These aren't my words, I also stated clearly in the Healthcare thread I'm against the mixing of Church and State. (per the US Constitution) I was just looking for some current crisis protest songs.
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:02 pm

NewJerseyRich wrote:
firehazard wrote:
NewJerseyRich wrote:Thats cause (in the US) the libs only know how to cry artistically when their guy's not in power ! :lol:


Oh, I always assumed it was simply because the right-wingers have no soul, so obviously can't go doing the music thing themselves.



I know left wingers and I know right wingers in the US.
It does seem to me those in the UK are a different breed and of course we abide by different rules so I can't speak about them with any great knowledge except what I see and read from The Guardian or BBC.

This might be as close to what you'd get as a recession/protest song today in the US today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVmRtEO18k

Now everyone don't get ready to jump on me. I realise my UK friends might get upset with all the US flag waving in the lyrics. These aren't my words, I also stated clearly in the Healthcare thread I'm against the mixing of Church and State. (per the US Constitution) I was just looking for some current crisis protest songs.


You mean Ted Nugent and Hank Williams Jnr don't have the chops to "cry artistically"?
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Re: Thread for things that dont deserve threads

Post Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:29 pm

NewJerseyRich wrote:This might be as close to what you'd get as a recession/protest song today in the US today.


What about this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcBWlblRDjg&feature=related
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