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"why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's *not* a genius? do you especially think i'm *not* a genius? you didn't even have to think about it, did you?"
"monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
"i am secretly afraid of animals.... i think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which belies it, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. why? their eyes seem to ask us."
"we've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of shakespeare. thanks to the internet, we now know this is not true..."
african monkey proverb: "the day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery."
"i'll buy a bunch of monkeys, dress them up, and make them re-enact the civil war"
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i told a funny joke once...
BenosTaylorian says:
I'd love some cheesy chips, mega portion please. I'll pass on the octopus. Where was that shoe's sign? Why do you have to leave them there?
monkey finger says:
it was outside a closed-down trampoline amusement type thingy on paignton pier. very niiice...
factotum says:
I looked scratty up in the dictionary, wondering if it was a "real" word. (I agree scratty signs ARE the best)
Scratty wasn't in the OED, but I learned a new word anyway: scran
scran 1. food, eatables 2. remains of food
bad scran = bad luck
The blue ropes make the no Entry sign my favourite photo.
monkey finger says:
aaah, scran. a word used mostly in the north i think. i remember it from school.
i like the no entry sign best as well - its got some strange colours in it thanks to the stormy sky that day.
paintist says:
I like the no entry sign...its the relaxed droop of the bottom ropes that make it look....less authoritarian, more a suggestion...
BenosTaylorian says:
A scouser friend of mines dad offered me scran once and I thought he was trying to sell me drugs...
monkey finger says:
p - its like a little ropey shrug : )
benos - he probably was...
hildegard says:
Always thought scran was military slang (where's Spoon-Lamp when we need him? He knows a few squaddies).
Cheesy chips with gravy is Canada's national dish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
monkey finger says:
i think you're absolutely right hildegard. it is military. my boss has confirmed for me :)
cheesy chips with gravy is called 'sexy chips' where i'm from :D
Sir Findo Gask says:
Scran is a northern term for food.
Port & Starboard scran spanners
Navy/Mil-knife & fork
In Stoke / Staffordshire snappin is a term used for food in particular packed lunches.
Poutine is Quebec's national dish, not really Canada's.
parabolichobo says:
"scran" is found in many traditional folk songs, particularly from the northeast of england and does seem to fit in with the geordie dialect - the scousers probably nicked it. My dad was a coalminer in west yorkshire and used to take a "snap tin" to work with him. I like keeping the old words alive, and always get strange looks when lunchtime comes around and I announce Snap Time!
parabolichobo says:
the coast is the best place to find scratty signs, especially in winter before they're tarted up for the season!
hildegard says:
Factotum, maybe national dish in the sense that chicken tikka masala seems to be the UK's national dish.. . ;)
scran,squaddies,scousers,snappin, snap tins...Great S words!
