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Are you saying you have soft fur I can rub my face in, Ian? ::cautiously reaches out to test softness of Ian's fur::
Alecia wrote: "Are you saying you have soft fur I can rub my face in, Ian? ::cautiously reaches out to test softness of Ian's fur::"
Only in one place.
Cautiously, because Gail might be watching.
I have nice soft blonde fur on the outside of my forearms, well, two arms actually.
::pets all eight of Ian's arms...refuses to rub face in "one place" with soft fur::
Barb wrote: "Ha! Ian found a typo in Alecia's mockery of me! I LOVE it!Actually Ian, the joke was that earlier today I "stuck my tongue out of" someone, instead of at him."
Oh no, if you had to explain a joke to me, doesn't that mean that I get kicked out? (I hope Gail's not watching.)
Can someone throw an invisibility cloak over this thread?
I think I'm going to have to start a chapter "That's not a phrase, but it should be" for "I stuck my tongue out of [someone]".
It sounds like a pretty lethal tongue.
Is it something that all of our avatars should have for self-defence?
It appears that someone has beaten us to the term "Lethal Tongue".
It's a book.
When I entered it in GR though, the first entry was "Here Kitty Kitty!".
What's going on there?
Barb wrote: "I don't hold it against you Ian, it was a completely different thread. I think. I get confused sometimes."I'm pretty new and haven't ventured out very far yet.
I hope I don't get kicked out because I'm so threadbare.
I think it was the TMI thread for some reason...Barb?
Barb wrote: "Amelia wrote: "I think it was the TMI thread for some reason...Barb?"Yep. You are correct!
*hands over major award*
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3......"
I was warned I'd have to mind my peas and queues.
Am I in trouble for petting Ian, Gail? Did you know that he had eight arms?
Thank you! Thank you! *brandishes award*
Can anyone pet Ian? Does he bite?
Can anyone pet Ian? Does he bite?
Barb wrote: "Ha! Ian found a typo in Alecia's mockery of me! I LOVE it!Actually Ian, the joke was that earlier today I "stuck my tongue out of" someone, instead of at him."
That was me, not Ian. *sulks*
Yes, it was Jammies. Ian, instead, tried to justify Alecia's eronious spelling of the word!
Ian is agin'ya, Barb...Jammies is your friend ! :)
Ian is agin'ya, Barb...Jammies is your friend ! :)
Psst Amelia, Alecia has an 'e' in her name.
(Done.)
Yes, but can I pet Ian or not?
Yes, but can I pet Ian or not?
@ Amelia- Ian didn't bite me, but he did growl or purr...I couldn't tell which, when I started petting arm #6. Perhaps that arm is sensitive?@ Jammies- Yes, it was you and your most excellent typo hunting skills that caught my error ;D
Er, I'll try arm 1, it's my favorite number anyway. We'll see how it goes...
Amelia wrote: "(Done.)
Yes, but can I pet Ian or not?"
He is all yours to pet as you choose.
Yes, but can I pet Ian or not?"
He is all yours to pet as you choose.
Soft, like a kitty...no purring though. He must like Alecia better.
Did the more alert of you notice that I have been offline for a couple of hours?I was worried that Gail might have woken up and sent her ninja cyborg sock puppets after me.
No, I was actually on my walk, and some things happened that I have to tell you about.
This is by way of apology to Jammies.
This is going to be a bit of a shaggy sock puppet story, so you'd better strap in your sucker poppets.
I neglected to tell you that I have a sock puppet of my own.
I hope nobody takes this the wrong way, but he is a New York Jewish intellectual ninja sock puppet called Woody Allen.
I would show you a photo, but I haven't got his nose and glasses right yet.
Any way, I made him out of an old woollen sock, and finally he got around to asking me if his nom de sock could be Woolly, so Woolly it is.
Woolly is my dopelganger sock puppet, and when we go walking in the morning, I strap him to the side of my head.
He has one of the earpieces from my headphones and I have the other.
So this morning, I realised that the battery on my mp3 player had run out and I was too lazy to chase it.
So I decided that Woolly and I would have to listen to Radio JJJ ("the J's").
The very first thing we heard was a song sent in by a six year old girl and her father.
They had made up a little ditty that goes "Lady Ga Ga, why don't you put some clothes on?" in the girl's voice, and I'm sure it will go viral.
Hopefully, it will be bigger than "Friday".
Here is a link to where you might find it:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/tomanda...
I'll keep you up to speed, if I find it first.
Why this is sort of relevant is that one of the lines goes "Lady Ga Ga, why don't you put your jammies on?"
Any way, all this jammie action had got Woolly kind of excited.
His film career has been in a bit of a slump recently, and this morning he decided that he is going to revive it with something that will speak to the Lady Ga Ga generation.
So now, on our walk, he's decided to do a sock puppet version of one of his earliest and funniest movies, "Annie Hall".
I loved this movie when it first came out, because he told stories about people who seemed to be just like my friends and me (except without sock puppets).
Woolly looked obviously rejuvenated by this project, and he's even thought up a name for the remake.
I thought it was very six year old, which upset him.
So he asked me to get some feedback from you (I told him you were all young urban hipster sock puppets).
What do you think of this?
"La De Da Da".
Please be gentle, I don't want to hurt his feelings.
Barb wrote: "Watch them do what?"Beautiful, Barb.
In the days of telegrams, Dorothy Parker would have called that a barbed wire.
Barb wrote: "Wait ... 2 forearms ... DUDE, you have 8 arms???Freak."
I got them in a twofer deal.
Gail «Cyborg» wrote: "::keeps close eye on Ian::"Eek, a close eye?
Do you have to remove it?
Can you imagine John Cale singing "I keep a close eye on this heart of mine"?
Sounds offal.
Alecia wrote: "::pets all eight of Ian's arms...refuses to rub face in "one place" with soft fur::"Perchance to purr.
Amelia wrote: "Thank you! Thank you! *brandishes award*Can anyone pet Ian? Does he bite?"
I don't bite, I purr.
It's Woolly you've got to watch out for.
But he sleeps 20 hours a day.
He's asleep now, poor thing, he's exhausted, he just finished two hour's worth of sock puppet choreography for the movie.
Amelia wrote: "Yes, it was Jammies. Ian, instead, tried to justify Alecia's eronious spelling of the word!"
Hey, Amelia, did you know that "eronious" means a man hug?
::pets Ian again while pondering Whoolly's chances at stardom::I've never seen "Annie Hall", but everything is better with sock animals/puppets. I say Whoolly should go for it! ;)
All of the TC messages are looking out of order on my computer, so I'm not sure if I've sent the link for the Lady Ga Ga song:http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/tomanda...
It's worth a visit, and if you like it, please spread the word.
I've amended the original post as well.
Alecia wrote: "::pets Ian again while pondering Whoolly's chances at stardom::I've never seen "Annie Hall", but everything is better with sock animals/puppets. I say Whoolly should go for it! ;)"
Whoolly doolly, Alecia, you'd better watch out for Woolly's bite, if you insert a roghue "h" in his name.
Crap, I give up...today is not my day, or I guess it is when it comes to typos. Sorry, Woolly! :)::pats Woolly on the head...avoids sharp teeth::
Alecia wrote: "Crap, I give up...today is not my day, or I guess it is when it comes to typos. Sorry, Woolly! :)::pats Woolly on the head...avoids sharp teeth::"
Don't worry, Woolly just opened his left eye and grinned. He's at peace again.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Her chief weapon is surprise. Fear and surprise."What about ruthless efficiency?
Ian, honeybee, are you going to venture outside of this thread? I promise we won't bite.
iBritt wrote: "Ian, honeybee, are you going to venture outside of this thread? I promise we won't bite."Where should I go and can I strap Woolly on for the ride?
Will we meet other strange sock puppets?
Will it be like an off-world experience?
Mind you, the cricket thread is going to hot up tonight (as much as cricket can hot up), so I don't know how much time I'll have.
Barb wrote: "Sorry Jammies ... I thought you were making fun of her for correcting me after making a statement about how she hates to be corrected ... but that was Britt, not Alecia. Blonde day.."That's an awfully complicated sentence for a blonde.
But then I haven't checked out your fur.
::bumps into Barb, gets singed by her hot cotton::
Alecia wrote: "::bumps into Barb, gets singed by her hot cotton::"Speaking of typo days, one of my favourite typos was during the days when newspapers would print the Top 40 Singles every week, and my local rag (yes, a Murdoch effort) listed that week's No. 1 song by Rod Stewart as "Blondes Have More Fur".
Barb wrote: "Sorry Jammies ... I thought you were making fun of her for correcting me after making a statement about how she hates to be corrected ... but that was Britt, not Alecia. Blonde day.* pssst, ..."
Nope, just laughing with her because the last time that happened, I was the one who did it.
Alecia, YES, my typo-hunting skills. I'm going to go put that on a business card.
"Jammies. Typo-Hunter to the Stars."
Phil, I'm not so good at ruthless efficiency, but at least no one ever expects me!
*pssst* Jammies...see post #1996 :)
Alecia wrote: "*pssst* Jammies...see post #1996 :)"Karma. ;)
Jammies wrote: "Ian, YES, my typo-hunting skills."You realise that, if we're going to take typos seriously, then if you live by the sword, you might die by the swrod.
Ian wrote: "You realise that, if we're going to take typos seriously, then if you live by the sword, you might die by the swrod."Better than death by the drows! (You're probably too young to get that one)
Jammies wrote: "Ian wrote: "You realise that, if we're going to take typos seriously, then if you live by the sword, you might die by the swrod."Better than death by the drows! (You're probably too young to get that one)"
Nice word association football, Jammies.
Also, nice attempt at flattery.
You obviously haven't looked at my profile or compared books.
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
But I am still older than the oldest drow.
Jammies wrote: "Better than death by the drows!"I am still in awe, Jammies, did you need a mirror to perform this reversal trick?
Ian, the reversal is no problem, it's getting the text upside down so you and Gail can read it that's tricky.
Jammies wrote: "Ian, the reversal is no problem, it's getting the text upside down so you and Gail can read it that's tricky."I've never known whether you turn the text upside down at your end or whether it automatically happens at our end.
So I have a little experiment for you.
Would you mind inverting this word and sending it back to me:
MOW
Thanks
Oooh, an essay question!Upside down, it's WOM. Backwards, it's WOM. Upside down AND backwards, it's MOW.
Jammies wrote: "Oooh, an essay question!Upside down, it's MOW. Backwards, it's MOW. Upside down AND backwards, it's WOM."
WOW. Thought so. Something happened at our end.
Otherwise, nice answer, Jammies.
You have more than earned this week's ration of chocolate, cinnamon bears, bbq and fried potato items. (I hope you don't eat them in that order.)
Cinnamon bears? The squashy, red-hot, sticky if they get left in your pocket kind? Ian, you've made a friend for life!
Jammies wrote: "Cinnamon bears? The squashy, red-hot, sticky if they get left in your pocket kind? Ian, you've made a friend for life!"I wouldn't expect Mustelidae Jammicus Rufus to eat an Ursus Americanus Cinnamomum.
They look too cute to eat.
Doesn't everything get sticky in your pocket?
The only thing that should go in your pocket is your hankie, although I seem to be in a tissue-obsessed family.
I guess it depends on what your Mum brought you up to do.
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::sticks tounge out AT Barb:: *snickers*"
(emphasis mine)
Alecia, remember that rule about correcting people?
..."
There appears to be a common misconception that "tounge" is not a word.
How wrong can you get!
Old GoogleFingers here has discovered that it is an obsolete version of the word "tongue" (gee, I had to type that really carefully, in case it came out "tognue" or something - Tognue is probably a town in the north island of New Zealand, I don't want to offend anyone).
Here are some uses:
1380, John Wyclif, English works (1880 edition by the Early English Text Society)
"He schal make his tounge cleue faste to þe roof of his mouþ."
(Look at all those spelling errors. Didn't they have spellcheque in the olden days?)
1536, Register of Riches, in Edward Ledwich, Antiquitates Sarisburienses; or, the history and antiquities of old and new Sarum (1771)
"Having ... two white Leopards and two dragons facing them as going to engage, their tounges are done in curiousest wyse."
(I can just imagine a ninja sock zombie going into battle with two white leopards and two dragons.)
1562, John Heywood, Woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng prouerbes and epigrammes
"Thy tounge runth before thy wit."
(This is my fave.)
1990, Phyllis Fichtelman Nentwich, Intravenous Therapy
"Rough, dry tounge"
(I call this "morning tongue", sorry I meant "morning tounge")