Kneenibble's Knack for Knightly Knickers: a Knell for Random Banter #184
Skill in the weapon is nothing without banter, for that sets it a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till banter commences it and sets it in act and use.
Hereof comes it that the Playground is valiant; for the cold blood we did naturally inherit of our fathers, we have, like lean, sterile and bare land, manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent endeavour of speaking good and good store of fertile banter, that we are become very hot and valiant.
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to foreswear thin discourse and addict themselves to banter.
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Re: Kneenibble's Knack for Knightly Knickers: a Knell for Random Banter #184
A new thread? Woah Knellie! ACK! PUN POLICE ARE HERE TO ARREST ME NOOOOOOOOASDVAODFVNA'ERNWENGWJ
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Originally Posted by The Witch-King
THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
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Originally Posted by Mynxae
A most excellent name, Sir Nibbles. Would you like a serving of honey for your budgies? *posh voice*
Yes, but don’t forget some honey for papa bird! Lay it on me, minxy.
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Originally Posted by Elemental
Shady gardens are the best. They always seem to promote cooling breezes. But unfortunately, there's only about three metres of space between the back stairs and the fence line. Though I am jealous of the neighbours' palms, which incidentally provide the aforementioned shade.
As for bleeding heart, I think we have that under the back stairs... My Mum pulled it out because she wanted to get rid of it because it was untidy, and I take cruel satisfaction in knowing that it survived her attempts.
Oh... And I've heard things about foxglove. Do be careful with them.
They are, root to leaf, fantastically poisonous, aren’t they? I shall be careful with them, certaignly. But on the other hand they are so, so beautiful, and I have a perfect spot for them to unfurl their stalks of fingertip blooms.
Not only are shade gardens cooling and refreshing, but the garden plants that thrive in shade are usually very pretty and unusual. A thriving hosta with its graceful probisces of pale purple flowers; the bunched blue-green fronds of a bleeding heart, with its arched boughs of candy-like blossoms; dainty lacy ferns; others more exotic whose name I know not.
As to bleeding hearts, are we talking about the same plant? For some reason I thought it was a pretty exclusively cold-weather perennial which would not be able to grow in your kind of climate. This? --
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Umm... I'm going to have to say no to Mabel going any closer to my eyes than my eye brows. You know, for psychological reasons.
Elemental, you will hurt her feelings… you must let her preen you wherever she wishes, even be it the very edge of your eyelid
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Originally Posted by Dimonite
... Good lord are you ever scrawny.
He is like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he is naked, he is, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he is so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight are invincible: he is the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake.
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Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga
Not "The French" but French. The language is as obtuse as you can get for no real benefit. It's rules are lacking mind bogglingly unconnected to what is spoken, dictation in French is pretty much exclusively an exercise in having memorized what you are going to be dictated. The speaking itself is an annoyance, an exercise in producing ridiculous sounds which are better explained as "try to sound like a Frenchmen"; I am not required to sound like an English or an American when speaking English. I do not use "sh" instead of "s", do not make nasal sounds, abuse the particle "che" or go high pitched at the end of every word when it is expected of me to speak proper Spanish. My hands are not expected to convulse at every second as much as I am not expected to sound like a stereotypical Italian every time I speak Italian.
Their Acadëmie can rot with its "Immortals", which by now are more akin to "Zombies", for all I care; at least the RAE acknowledges that words such as "blue jean" are in the parlance of the people and include it, even if in insane ways like "bluyin" (yes, that's how you are supposed to write "blue jean" in Spanish, academic works prefer to keep the quotation marks to stave the ridiculous, but at least the RAE tried).
French is the Latin bastard son which thinks higher of himself than it should. I'm complacent in understanding most of it and caring not for speaking it ever as long as my tongue is on my mouth, I suffice with Spanish and Italian, and am more than willing to become learned in Latin and Portuguese; French, maybe I'll teach my new birdie pet that.
Though I myself endeavour to improve my French constantly, so that I might one day be fluent, I am not offended by your strong opinion – rather it tickles me wonderfully. How delightfully worded!
I understand your viewpoint will be very different from mine, as a descendent of Latin culture rather than Anglo. For me the feeling of French in my mouth is elusively delicious and comprises a part of my cultural heritage as a Canadian. Though knowing that Spanish is spelt pretty much phonetically, I respect your position about French’s preposterously inefficient orthography.
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ION: In a fit of mood swinging which I decided to stabilise, my personal garden has grown by two species and I have acquired a small green chested bird which I have yet to ornithologise properly. In my traditional fashion of having every lifeform available to me eventually become able of consuming animals I have decided to experiment on feeding my small bird cooked meat, however I do not wish to see him dead; is this is a reasonable endeavour?
Cuuuuuuute! Many parrot species in the wild supplement their seed diet with larvae and insects, and can therefore digest animal proteins well: budgies, for example, can safely eat small amounts of cooked lean meat or eggs [emphasis on small]. But you should identify what kind of bird it is [pictures so we can help/squee? :D] first, just to be safe.
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I ask forgiveness for posting twice in a row: I thought it better to make two indecently long posts, rather than a single post so long as to be obscene.
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Originally Posted by LaZodiac
Woohoo, new thread.
Now I believe you had a question to answer unto the Pink Haired August fellow, yes? *posh voice*
And has thou any questions for me this day? For I have seen thy face from afar, and the fairness woven therein; and wish to impart some boon upon one whom fortune has favoured with formliness.
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Originally Posted by Cobra_Ikari
*reads thread title, wonders if this means traditional boogie is to be performed in one's undergarments*
*shrugs, boogies*
...because it's fun teasing Kneen. =3
You're going to give me anaemia, dammit. I need to lie down again.
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Originally Posted by AtlanteanTroll
You had the most excellent opportunity to put the name of our ship into the thread title and you did not. For that I am grateful.'
Our impassioned avian lust, to an onlooker so like a shrilly bursting cottonball, has disgraced the institution of your marriage enough. And, quite frankly, the pain of its revelation is too raw and tender for me to make jokes.
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Originally Posted by Heliomance
I merely pray it not be a death knell.
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Originally Posted by The Succubus
Or a deaf knell. I'd hate having to type everything IN CAPS.
Nay indeed: it summons us to Heaven, not to Hell.
However I think you will find that deaf people are quite able to read.
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Originally Posted by Sir Reingo
Delightful, I get to see a new day dawn on the dias of deadly dictation.
Be welcome to our discourse, mi squale nobilis ferens barba super os.
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Originally Posted by Kneenibble
He is like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he is naked, he is, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he is so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight are invincible: he is the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake.
He is like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he is naked, he is, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he is so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight are invincible: he is the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake.
You said that twice.
ION: I managed to get out of pun police lockup. In interrogation, they said they'd been after me for years, and I didn't help my case by saying "But my hearing's bad enough as it is!" They were going let me out on bail, but changed their minds when I dumped a bucketful of water on their floors instead of giving them money. I only managed to escape by threatening to tell my kayak pun if they didn't let me out. They'll be coming for me again soon, this time to kill.
__________________ If the above makes no sense, I probably did that on purpose. Probably.
This should make my sig less obtrusive...
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Originally Posted by The Witch-King
THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
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Originally Posted by Kneenibble
Our impassioned avian lust, to an onlooker so like a shrilly bursting cottonball, has disgraced the institution of your marriage enough. And, quite frankly, the pain of its revelation is too raw and tender for me to make jokes.
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Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga
My sympathies. I'm hopeful that this is a recoverable evaluation, even if at a later point in time.
Yes, I'll be able to retake the exam in January without any penalties or drawbacks (but I might lose my four bonus points I've earned together during the course). I'll just have to make sure that I don't forget everything until then.
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Originally Posted by Dimonite
You said that twice.
ION: I managed to get out of pun police lockup. In interrogation, they said they'd been after me for years, and I didn't help my case by saying "But my hearing's bad enough as it is!" They were going let me out on bail, but changed their minds when I dumped a bucketful of water on their floors instead of giving them money. I only managed to escape by threatening to tell my kayak pun if they didn't let me out. They'll be coming for me again soon, this time to kill.
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Originally Posted by Kneenibble
I ask forgiveness for posting twice in a row: I thought it better to make two indecently long posts, rather than a single post so long as to be obscene.
And has thou any questions for me this day? For I have seen thy face from afar, and the fairness woven therein; and wish to impart some boon upon one whom fortune has favoured with formliness.
As ever, Cobra managed to sneak between you and get a post in before you double posted.
What are your opinion on the Shrike bird, more commonly known as the Butcher Bird. I'm curious since you're the resident bird guy.
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Originally Posted by Teddy
Yes, I'll be able to retake the exam in January without any penalties or drawbacks (but I might lose my four bonus points I've earned together during the course). I'll just have to make sure that I don't forget everything until then.
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Originally Posted by Qwertystop
Ummmm......
I see a reference to my earlier post is in order:
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Originally Posted by Dimonite
A new thread? Woah Knellie! ACK! PUN POLICE ARE HERE TO ARREST ME NOOOOOOOOASDVAODFVNA'ERNWENGWJ
__________________ If the above makes no sense, I probably did that on purpose. Probably.
This should make my sig less obtrusive...
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Originally Posted by The Witch-King
THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
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Gotta love that new thread smell...
ION: I'm helping out with a local Halloween/haunted trail this weekend and next weekend. Hooray for scaring little kids!
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Originally Posted by Dimonite
You said that twice.
ION: I managed to get out of pun police lockup. In interrogation, they said they'd been after me for years, and I didn't help my case by saying "But my hearing's bad enough as it is!" They were going let me out on bail, but changed their minds when I dumped a bucketful of water on their floors instead of giving them money. I only managed to escape by threatening to tell my kayak pun if they didn't let me out. They'll be coming for me again soon, this time to kill.
No I didn't
This will not march, Dimonitus. This is my thread, and here we have not pun police, but pun gestapo; paronomasia is known to be curable by electroshock therapy.
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Originally Posted by AtlanteanTroll
I want you now more than ever before.
Don't you start teasing me now. There is only so much my little birdy heart can endure.
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Originally Posted by LaZodiac
As ever, Cobra managed to sneak between you and get a post in before you double posted.
What are your opinion on the Shrike bird, more commonly known as the Butcher Bird. I'm curious since you're the resident bird guy.
I did not know of this bird, and having Googled, I must say I am partly disturbed and partly enthralled. How curiously and delightfully brutal.
Do you have this bird where you live?
Also
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Originally Posted by LaZodiac
As ever, Cobra managed to sneak between you and get a post in before you double posted.
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Originally Posted by LaZodiac
Cobra managed to sneak between you
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Originally Posted by LaZodiac
sneak between you
*dies*
He is a tricksy snake, isn't he
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Originally Posted by Kneenibble
No I didn't
This will not march, Dimonitus. This is my thread, and here we have not pun police, but pun gestapo; paronomasia is known to be curable by electroshock therapy.
Down with the pun gestapo! Pun bomb, go!
There was once an eskimo paddling his boat down a river. He got very cold, and decided to light a fire in his boat. Naturally, the boat sank, proving that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
__________________ If the above makes no sense, I probably did that on purpose. Probably.
This should make my sig less obtrusive...
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Originally Posted by The Witch-King
THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
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Originally Posted by Dimonite
Down with the pun gestapo! Pun bomb, go!
There was once an eskimo paddling his boat down a river. He got very cold, and decided to light a fire in his boat. Naturally, the boat sank, proving that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
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