While I am all for Bob's love for Dana, I feel that his attention to important matters is being diverted, and I will not stand for it a moment longer. He needs to get his priorities straight.
Sure, wooing the love of his life, the woman he was destined to be with, whom he may have been with in another life if you believe such things, is just fab.
However, he has yet to make awards for the "Medium" Pun Smackdown, has been all but absent in the "Clothing" Smackdown, and there seems to be no prize in sight there as well. In fact, the thread is starting to morph into a beer-clothing combination Smackdown. Things are out of control!
Dana, can you please stop being so smart and wonderful for just a thirty minute period, so Bob can focus on what is really important?
Thank you very much, Liz
[ June 17, 2005, 09:40 AM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
This will not go away, Bob.
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
"Slacking." Ha! I should've thought of that one when I said he was stringing us along.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
You mean, like, he's lacking? You are right, it is very appant that he is hanging us out to dry.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I think your comments are suitable to the situation. He needs a good dressing down.
Dagonee
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I feel I must comment here. Of corsets my fault about the beer thing. The thread is aleing and barley resembles itself. If this has me at lagerheads with more firmly established members I will cool it.
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Don't you mean Bob is slacksing? Or is that comment too off the rack for this tailor made thread.
edited for spelling
[ May 02, 2004, 06:51 PM: Message edited by: Derrell ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, we should not be airing our dirty laundry here, but Bob is not sewing us any sign of awarding us prices. Gosh dart it!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Sorry, I've left you with no possible way to redress the wrong I've done by not cobbling together another set of awards. I could cloak my true feelings in apologetic terms, butt frankly, I'm feeling far too crotchety.
Fact is, the awards are hanging like an albatross around my neck. They take too long and I've got no way to let it out.
So, the Pun Smackdowns can continue sans the terminal kudos or they can end with me just turning tails and running.
I hope I haven't layered it on too thickly.
[ May 02, 2004, 09:00 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Ah, I didn't participate in those, so I'm not tweed off like the others.
Dagonee
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I think Bob is sewing a pattern of not finishing what he darts.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
I think with that lost post Elizabeth just established herself as a suitable pun award-giver in the absence of Bob.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Please stop needling me, Zal. I would only do that under dress.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I gather we need to increase the pleating? Please, please, please stitch together an awards edition to the pun smackdown thread. Sew many of us are sitting on pins and needles awaiting some foam of bolstering.
[ May 03, 2004, 08:44 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Oh, pleats, PW, let it out why don't you?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Bob. New Pun Smackdown needed immediately. PLEASE! If I have to give up prize part, sew be it. But please, your people needle you. Don't let us out!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
You know, Bob is never going to catch up with Tom D's post count now that he's matched up with dkw. He posts half as much now.... so Tom will retain the title
(or maybe at least until they get married -- Christy doesn't seem to slow down Tom's post count too much)
Farmgirl
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Elizabeth, you could formulate one. Bob is distracted what with composing love poems from the cellular level. I suggest we do a matrimonial smackdown in honor of Bob and Dana's impending betrothal.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Farmgirl, Good job! Baiting Bob with the post count competition is good. He gets so many posts from punning.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Punwit, Would it be official, or a bootleg thread?
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I think it would be eloping with the idea.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I don't know which one rings true for you?
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
It’s not my fault!
Bob’s been on the road for work most of April and he’s gone again this week.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I would suggest official. What do you think? I wouldn't want to tarnish anything. Do you think it is a good idea. Seriously?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I think your attempt to blame Bob for this is thinly veiled, Dana.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
All right, who told Bob he could have a life outside of Hatrack?
I mean, sure, dating/marrying Dana was allowed, but that is keeping Bob in the family. No one said he could leave us for extended periods of time for this...this... work.
What is this "Work" thing you speak of? For me, work is an opportunity to chat on Hatrack and get paid.
Well, maybe I should just shut up now and you can ignore that last parapgraph.
That would be wrong of me.
I wouldn't do that.
nope, not at all.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Dan,
In keeping with the marriage theme, you could have said "cheating on" Hatrack.
You are slipping, sir. Aisle have to reprimand you for that.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Auuurrrgggh, I'm guessing all attempts to make this an honest thread are now gone. Our intentions were honorable but our desire ran away with us. This thread is pregnant with possibilities.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
OK, I just maid a vow to honor Bob and Dana. No more veiled references to shotgun weddings.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
So your shotgun wedding puns will now be paraded down the aisle in the presence of God and these witnesses gathered here together for this solemn occasion?
AJ
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Yes "I do" believe I've been suitably chastened. If I have wounded debride, I sincerely apologize. I promise the groom that I will clean up my act.
[ May 10, 2004, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ugh, what bad breath I have. I think I need a New Taste o' mint.
Posted by Lavalamp (Member # 4337) on :
Hi Dana!
I see you all have un-bridal'd passion for puns. I must vow to give you satisfaction, yes?
I do.
And in marrying the two topics of this thread, I have a new train of thought tuxed into this post. I hope you all are getting good reception. Now that we've gown down this path (a bridal path?) we shall don the vestments, make marry, and shine.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, Bob, it would be nice if you made it official, and gave your name to a new thread on this union.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, obviously, Bob's honeymoon period is over, and he is showing his true colors. Is he going to 'ave Maria over for dinner, now, and leave us all? Or is he going to Pack All Belle's stuff and leave with her?
What in carnation are we going to do without him?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Hehe - you wasted your best stuff in this thread.
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
Dagonee
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
It's OK, Dag, I am a pun champagne. I will come up with more.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Bob,
I cannot even remember the title of the last Pun Smackdown, it has been so long.
My desire for prizes is long since abandoned, but my brain needs exercise.
PLEASE HELP ME!
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I too am craving a new smackdown thread. I really appreciate Bob's time and imagination in scripting the start of these funloving threads. If he is interested I have a suggestion. We have seen the term Crime and PUNishment several times in our threads. What about a crime an punishment thread?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
*cracks his knuckles*
A capital idea!
Edit: Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
[ June 21, 2004, 08:02 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Careful, Dag, or YOU will use your best material in this thread, and I will steal it when Bob comes to his sense and starts a new Smackdown.
Edit to not edit: I realize I said that Bob would come to his "sense" rather than his "senses," but I rather like it that way so I am leaving it.
[ June 21, 2004, 08:32 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Elizabeth,
Dag just figures he's got a lock on the competition.
It's too early the judge yet, though. The jury isn't even out, for crying out loud. It hasn't even been empaneled.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Do any of the other lawyers play in our pun threads?
[ June 21, 2004, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Oh, no! This is di vorced idea we have ever had.
[ June 21, 2004, 08:35 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Juryly think so?
(Besides, it was jurydea. I have witnesses!)
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Looking back at the title of this thread I'm thinking that you arraigned Bob on his lack of attention to a specific thread. For those of you that don't know what arraign meant here is a defintion. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
No, I was just trying to a-rein him in from all his lovie-dovie activities.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I am not guilty of this one -- he’s on the road for work.
But next week, when he doesn’t post at all from Tuesday through Friday, that will be entirely my fault. Every glorious minute of it. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
HOW CAN HAWAII BE WORK?!
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*opens care package*
*holds up thread-bare tee with cheaply-printed outline of flowers and block lettering: *
"Bob went to hawaii and all I got was this lousy lai!"
[ June 22, 2004, 12:34 AM: Message edited by: fallow ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Subject says it all, but I have more to say.
Now, Bob, I know there is a certain recovery time involved when mothers meet, but this is unacceptable.
Look, I am taking a freaking MATH CLASS. I need to exercise my brain in a different way. I need a new Pun Smackdown, and I need it now.
There is a live Railroad Earth cd in it for you if you deliver...
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Oh, heck, I was just about to give Bob a load of crap about there being no smackdown, but then I read my last post, promising a cd which I have not delivered yet.
Oh, well.
Bob, maybe some sort of traffic theme to celebrate your new presidential status?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Wow, I have not given Bob the business for a while! Well, here goes:
You know, it seems, Bob that you are not only slacking, but wallowing in prenuptial smackdown inertia. We have a new member on board, who is ready to pun, and who thinks puns are the highest form of humor, not the lowest.
Quick, before we lose her!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
(Bob's on a business trip. Why don't you start your own pun smackdown?)
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
(It's just not as fun)
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
(Why are we talking in parenthesis?)
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
(Because I wasn't the one addressed, but I had relevant information, so I gave it to Elizabeth as an aside... in my head, putting paranthesis around something means I'm leaning over and telling her quietly.)
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
(Because it's turned into a pun-ctuation thread)
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Elizabeth, don't you mean that it's just not as much pun?
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Not to mention that it'd feel like some sort of copyright infringment. I can't see Bob getting overly concerned but you just never know. Perhaps Dag could chime in on the legalities of punfringement?
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I would also like to point out that Bob is usually quite punctual when prodded to produce.
Edit to add that I would assume that dkw has already taken note of this.
[ January 31, 2005, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I think the problem is Bob no longer believes puns in a limited scope are truly reflective of the depth and beauty of the over-arching pun universe.
He's become a puntheist.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Well, he certainly qualifies as a pundit on the topic.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
We're all just waiting for the punultimate thread.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Since Bob isn't here, and Elizabeth hasn't posted in this thread for half an hour or so, perhaps we should wait tilde come back.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Personally, I'd hate to see the next to the last pun thread. How about a superpunerary one instead?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Maybe we should meet and have a puncake breakfast.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I would really enjoy an activity like that. I'm assuming most who frequent these punning threads would as well. It seems we all have a punchant for wordplay.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Although sometimes we can be too pundantic.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
True, and sometimes the puns are obscure and almost impunetrable.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Gee, I don't think my post was all that pun-native, was it?
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I don't think so, Elizabeth, but if you showed that you were truly punitent I would say it didn't matter either way.
[ January 31, 2005, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Repunt! Liz, Repunt!
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Liz, you should be sent to the punitentiary. While there, you should be pun-ished.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
We've been dicussing remorse. I'd like to focus, now, on another emotion. Have you ever read another's pun and wished that you had punned that well? Have you eyed the length and complexity of someone else's effort and felt that you were somehow lacking? If you have answered yes to either of these question then you have experienced punis envy. Not to worry, this can be overcome with a new mood altering aroma. This pun gent odor will have you drilling home devastatingly witty puns in no time. If your intense punning lasts longer than four hours please seek immediate medical attention.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I was surprised to find out how much the British liked puns. I mean, their greatest legend is Arthur Pundragon.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, perhaps, but they later deciede that the pun was mightier than the sword.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Plus, their most common coin is the punce.
[ February 03, 2005, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
How do you pununciate that, Dag?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Bump.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
And I will strike down upun thee with great vengeance and furious anger!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Are you going to suckerpunce me?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
O.O
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Listen, Bob, you are not Harvey. You are not invisible. I'm on to you, sirrah!
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I just told him I'd make supper if/while he worked on a new smackdown. You can pay me later.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Dana, thank you!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
SSIA
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, time for another Pun Smackdown Prod. Looking back at the first post, it has been a year of having to remind Bob that he has an unpaid job with no benefits to do.
Come on, Bob, you've been moving, Dana is an Elder, you got married, there must be something in there worthy of smacking down, pun style.
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