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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 14, 2008 23:15:26 GMT -5
absolutely!
welcome, we've been expecting you.
in fact, we're on pins and needles, mostly pins, of course, the scattering kind
You see, we're far from the scrum half of news teams in malton, in fact, you've just entered the deep end of the pool. Your coming heralds either an end to unity, or a return to nothingness...choose wisely.
I'd make more confounding references to your crass call number, but then I'm afraid I'll abdicate what regal reputation I have.
My name's Padre Romero, be advised, the Channel 4 News team keeps an In-house priest who makes puns,
can you top that?
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 14, 2008 23:37:04 GMT -5
I don't get any of those puns. Anyone care to explain 'em?
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 14, 2008 23:52:06 GMT -5
I don't like doing it, but I'll do it for MIA...
"Pins" ties into "Ninepins," a popular bowling event, also one of the more common gauges of needle, but no one really knows that one, the scrum half of a rugby team usually sports the number nine, and "nineball" is the most common format of billiards, related, of course, to pool.
the number nine is, in many tenants of numerology, the sign of depth, meaning, and mystery, as well as the signifier of change and division (after nine, every number has 2 or more symbols, not just one) similarly, it's also the sign of transition to destruction, as they symbols in a base 10 system go from 8, to nine, back to zero again.
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 14, 2008 23:54:35 GMT -5
Those are either very deep and meaningful plays on words, or horrible puns.
Since I didn't get any of them, I'll go for meaningful.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 15, 2008 0:12:16 GMT -5
Those are either very deep and meaningful plays on words, or horrible puns. Since I didn't get any of them, I'll go for meaningful. puns are supposed to be whoreable, they're great fun, but for them, you must pay a terrible price. |
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 15, 2008 2:09:47 GMT -5
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Post by Magatsu Taito on Jan 15, 2008 6:39:29 GMT -5
I at least got the one about pool, though not until you explained it... Probably because I'm Swedish, so I don't really think about any other meaning the words might have... Though it does explain why I find your way of writing a bit strange, lovely, but strange.
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Post by 23skidoo on Jan 15, 2008 9:56:00 GMT -5
yup, lovely but I strange is good. I always smile when I read his holy text and put it down to my subconscieous getting the joke.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 15, 2008 10:06:40 GMT -5
it's way harder to understand puns than to make them, making them just requires a defective sense of humor and an old-mannish outlook on life
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Post by Definitely Not Axe Hack on Jan 15, 2008 14:39:17 GMT -5
Heh...So now I'm not involved in the turning of this thread into a conversation thread...That's a first.
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Post by Angel on Jan 15, 2008 15:10:37 GMT -5
I <3 Padre's puns. Whenever I actually do see them. Most of the time when he writes them, I just miss the post entirely...  |
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 15, 2008 15:42:06 GMT -5
Join the club, Engel.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 15, 2008 15:47:34 GMT -5
I <3 Padre's puns. Whenever I actually do see them. Most of the time when he writes them, I just miss the post entirely... I don't talk much, one of my little tics, really. |
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Post by Angel on Jan 15, 2008 15:55:04 GMT -5
Yep, and when you do, it's overwhelmed by spam.
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Post by Definitely Not Axe Hack on Jan 15, 2008 16:04:50 GMT -5
Spam-a-lot. Like what we do on Gnome's talk page on the wiki...
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