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Topic: Pun Smackdown II: Urbane renewal
Bob_Scopatz
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posted April 07, 2004 08:23 PM
Okay, this is where you have to pun on sophisticated city-type things. We need a classy spin on things. Sort of a gentrifical force, if you will. I'm going to waltz on out of here for a bit...have a ball. Deadline: All posts must be in by midnight Central time (1 hour later than Hatrack time) on Friday. That's Good Friday, folks, so if you'd rather I delay the deadline for a happier moment, please let me know. [ April 07, 2004, 08:31 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]
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T_Smith
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posted April 07, 2004 08:38 PM
We all know this will end in a dark Black Tie if we do this by secret Ballet. Which way will we determine the winner?
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Beren One Hand
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posted April 07, 2004 08:54 PM
"I'm going to waltz on out of here for a bit" I'll probably be offenbach myself. I need to visit to my Tiebout class to evict me from my slumber.
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 08:56 PM
I'm sure some phony will show up to orchestrate this affair.
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T_Smith
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posted April 07, 2004 08:59 PM
Yeah, but what will he have to chauffeur it?
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:07 PM
Maybe nothing and it could place a a what's the word.. er.... bane on his life.
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:14 PM
I think while I'm visiting the big city I should shout out an insult. We can call it my debut taunt.
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:15 PM
Bob, this is a vintage thread, for sure.
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:16 PM
I had some bread tonight, but the bottom was soggy, so I had to eat the upper crust.
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:17 PM
Elizabeth, quit wining.
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Beren One Hand
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posted April 07, 2004 09:19 PM
"I'm sure some phony will show up to orchestrate this affair." Nay that follows not, for such administrative powers are allusory.
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T_Smith
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posted April 07, 2004 09:20 PM
If I'm going to the city, I'd like a one night stand up. Problem is, is I'm a thespian. [ April 07, 2004, 09:20 PM: Message edited by: T_Smith ]
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:22 PM
How much does that broad weigh?
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T_Smith
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posted April 07, 2004 09:24 PM
I don't know but what a gallery!
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Beren One Hand
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posted April 07, 2004 09:27 PM
She does have pretty broad shoulders. You might want to watch out for her Feminine Wildes.
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:28 PM
Wow did anyone else see that S car go?
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:31 PM
Patty did. She had to duck or she would not have been a liver.
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:32 PM
(Bob, is there a prize for when your OWN pun makes you groan in pain?)
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:32 PM
Can I invite a friend to join this pate?
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:33 PM
Punwit, you are a bon wit. But don;t worry, I won't tell 'er.
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Beren One Hand
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posted April 07, 2004 09:34 PM
You can't caviarly invite anyone you want.
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:39 PM
wine not?
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:41 PM
I'm beginning to get disillusioned. I believe this whole event is a sham and a pain.
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 09:42 PM
They won;t let you in the door, man!
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punwit
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posted April 07, 2004 09:50 PM
I've got a buddy in the IT industry. He's asked me to help co-ordinate a big dance In LA. I get to Chair the IT Ball.
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Bob_Scopatz
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posted April 07, 2004 09:59 PM
I went to a party last night, but I must've been under-dressed because the hostess' man shunned me. I didn't have anywhere else to go, so I stayed all night under the canape. Fortunately, I had my wireless card and was able to get the net working.
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Elizabeth
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posted April 07, 2004 10:06 PM
Bob, that sounds a bit petty for you.
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Bob_Scopatz
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posted April 07, 2004 10:15 PM
Is it true that they give every UN delegation a symbolic stick? I hear they're called the country clubs.
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Shigosei
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posted April 07, 2004 10:36 PM
I'm just going to museum over and have a glance at this thread.
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fallow
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posted April 08, 2004 12:37 AM
"Say, cabbie! What's going on over there?" *jabs a finger in the direction of the guy waltzing himself out the door* "lemme off here, please!"
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advice for robots
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posted April 08, 2004 12:42 AM
Did you hear the one about the transvestite with the singing leg? He/she had an opera shin.
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Shan
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posted April 08, 2004 12:52 AM
*groans in mock despair*
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fallow
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posted April 08, 2004 12:54 AM
*spins around to see Shan crash the urbanity* *tips the cabbie* *winks* "keep it running"
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fallow
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posted April 08, 2004 12:58 AM
*sprints after Shan, catches her on the steps* "babe, yer daisy dukes are showin'. Might wanna look presentable. It's one of those Showpatz affairs." [ April 08, 2004, 12:59 AM: Message edited by: fallow ]
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Shan
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posted April 08, 2004 01:08 AM
*blushes, giggles and tosses ribbon-bound braids behind her with a jaunty toss of her head; strips off the heels and says - let's tango! err - that is, two-step. . . *
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fallow
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posted April 08, 2004 01:11 AM
*watches Shan bound through the hotel's doors* *dials Bob* "Bob, dunno where your waltzing arse went to, but I wanted to apologize before hand. There's a birthday girl here. I hope you can join us." fallow
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Shan
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posted April 08, 2004 01:13 AM
Hey fallow! They have a mosh pit in this place! Can you believe it!!!!
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fallow
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posted April 08, 2004 01:15 AM
They do?!
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Shan
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posted April 08, 2004 01:18 AM
Well, look at those folks - they keep lurching into one another on a pretty regular basis . . . what do you make of it?
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fallow
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posted April 08, 2004 01:21 AM
Dunno. This is Showpatz we're talking about. Lecherous old fool. Could be some kind of satanic ritual of some sort! you look fantastic, by the way. *drops an arm around shannon* *beams* [ April 08, 2004, 01:22 AM: Message edited by: fallow ]
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Shan
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posted April 08, 2004 01:29 AM
Sweetie!
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Sopwith
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posted April 08, 2004 07:34 AM
Look, in this town, our polloy are as hoy as anyone's!
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jehovoid
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posted April 08, 2004 12:01 PM
Not according to what the man from Lima's seen. May-or pets be allowed to participate? Or can we not pet-agree? T_Smith made such a clever pun, everybody. So sigh at T.
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Dan_raven
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posted April 08, 2004 12:19 PM
tux, tux, such delight-Vul Gar-ish behavior. Most of our threads have been discusions of morality, debating things like what blatant deviants and Frank talk of the Sin-atra-mp may commit. Or we have political talk, like where to buy a Democrat--at the Dean Mart-in California. Or biblical discusion, like which phrophet is older. I thought Sam-my, but Dav-is Junior. Or we play on line games, like Chess, when Joe took my pawn, but I took Joey's Bishop. But these pun, pardon my Wine, are just a Rat Pack of bad taste.
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jehovoid
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posted April 08, 2004 12:28 PM
I bet one day there'll be a man who fines people for making puns. Dan_Raven, it be verily he'll bill ye for those.
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jehovoid
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posted April 08, 2004 01:15 PM
By the way, Bob, congrats on another capitol thread. I tell ya, whenever I get depressed that my life is getting choatic and out of control, when I really start to feel entropy, these threads are real fun-raisers. (edit: I just wanted to add that I don't hate fluff at all.) (edit: I really did edit "capital" because I realized that that spelling wasn't a pun. That blunder reminds me of my couch-potato dad. I call 'em both "sofa pa".) [ April 08, 2004, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: jehovoid ]
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jehovoid
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posted April 08, 2004 01:20 PM
So are a lot of people coming to this get-together? (admittedly, this pun's a little hard to find)
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MidnightBlue
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posted April 08, 2004 01:32 PM
All of the sports teams had pictures taken on Tuesday; it was really one of those Cameron Dias.
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MidnightBlue
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posted April 08, 2004 01:34 PM
I ran off a cliff and I was just falling and falling and falling... turns out it was just a Midsummer Night's Dream.
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