It Made I Larf!

[Philip]

David wrote: "David wrote: "I grow old"

Philip wrote: "Don't knock it, it's better than the alternative ;-) "

What alternative?

You mean setting up some secret experiments in a hospital in a search for an eli..."

Of course, that is what I had in mind all along.

[David]

Jim wrote: "You know David, there could be a novel in that....... :-)"

Maybe you're right Jim.

I have a first line already:

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that an ageing man in possession of a bad back must be in want of an elixir of life.

[Philip]

Most of the Michael Green "The Art of Coarse..." books had me chuckling.

[Marc]

David wrote: "Jim wrote: "You know David, there could be a novel in that....... :-)"

Maybe you're right Jim.

I have a first line already:

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that an ageing man in possess..."

Or some neurofen

[David]

Marc wrote: "Or some neurofen"

Don't give away the plot!

[Marc]

I wasn't, it was a red herring. It was really Ibuprofen - Doh!

[Jim]

ye gods and boarlets, we have to have plots now!

[David]

Jim wrote: "ye gods and boarlets, we have to have plots now!"

And dancing girls... don't forget the dancing girls.

[Marc]

Jim wrote: "ye gods and boarlets, we have to have plots now!"

it's set in a cemetery? or an allotment?

[Philip]

David wrote: "Jim wrote: "ye gods and boarlets, we have to have plots now!"

And dancing girls... don't forget the dancing girls."

I often try to forget the dancing girls, but the doctor says that the ointment should clear it up eventually

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Well if you will keep on going to those low dives, Philip...

[David]

Philip wrote: "I often try to forget the dancing girls, but the doctor says that the ointment should clear it up eventually "

That will teach you to stand too close when they do the high kicks.

[David]

Marc wrote: "Jim wrote: "ye gods and boarlets, we have to have plots now!"

it's set in a cemetery? or an allotment?"

Or gunpowder.

[Jim]

David wrote: "Marc wrote: "Jim wrote: "ye gods and boarlets, we have to have plots now!"

it's set in a cemetery? or an allotment?"

Or gunpowder."

OK, let's run with gunpowder.
Or rather let's walk carefully with gunpowder

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

It is the season for explosions...

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Expendable Redshirt wrote: "It is the season for explosions..."

For any intelligence services reading this I must explain that our Dublin based friend here meant 'it is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'

Nothing to look at, move along there, haven't you people got homes to go to?

[David]

Jim wrote: "
OK, let's run with gunpowder."

After, she'd applied the gunpowder, she stood back and admired her handiwork.

'Who's a pretty little cannon, now?' she said, wondering if she had time to apply some lipstick to the cannon's mouth, or even, she thought, a little dab of eye-shadow around its touch hole... if that wasn't a bit too kinky.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I was talking about Halloween. We have many explosions on that night, as Its our version of bonfire night.