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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:56 pm
by loophead
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:35 pm
by Meffy
Handy Conversion Table for Less Common Units of Measurement
10^12 Microphones = 1 Megaphone
10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
500 millinaries = 1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 whod unit = amount of suspense in a mystery novel
10^12 pins = 1 terrapin
10^21 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost
10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
1 milli-Helen (of Troy) = amount of face that can launch one ship
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:02 pm
by conny
kennerb wrote:
I love that one because it sounds so un-PC at first then just ends up being stupid.
[Pic of Gert Jonnys]
Funny to see it here - it's has been on my start page on my work for some years.
Think the guys are Swedish or Norwegian.
My best friend is named Gert and I'm Conny, so it comes quite near...
// C
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:51 am
by subbasshead
subbasshead wrote:
We got rumbled doing the 'My colleague just, etc'. They actually threatened to arrest
a link to the source
http://www.avigsidan.com/avigsidan/airport.html
Was this really youy. When this hit the net a few years back We fell over ourselves !!
Had it on my old machine but lost it in the transition...
no no it wasn't me - i was just quoting from the site i found it on
i wouldnt want to take credit for something so simultaneously
inspired, funny and juvenile
a vaguely similar prank i've heard on the net are those celebrity phone pranks
where someone loads up snippets of dialog (eg arny or al pacino) intoa sampler
then calls up a restaurant or something & tries to have a conversation
when they work it is very funny - some are here:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/morepranks.shtml
and for anyone brave enough, go here & click on the red square
http://www.jimpunk.com/-colorheXaequo.-/
its quite funny - i've never seen a web browser do stuff like this!
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:21 am
by geralds
subbasshead wrote:subbasshead wrote:
We got rumbled doing the 'My colleague just, etc'. They actually threatened to arrest
a link to the source
http://www.avigsidan.com/avigsidan/airport.html
Was this really youy. When this hit the net a few years back We fell over ourselves !!
Had it on my old machine but lost it in the transition...
no no it wasn't me - i was just quoting from the site i found it on
i wouldnt want to take credit for something so simultaneously
inspired, funny and juvenile
a vaguely similar prank i've heard on the net are those celebrity phone pranks
where someone loads up snippets of dialog (eg arny or al pacino) intoa sampler
then calls up a restaurant or something & tries to have a conversation
when they work it is very funny - some are here:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/morepranks.shtml
and for anyone brave enough, go here & click on the red square
http://www.jimpunk.com/-colorheXaequo.-/
its quite funny - i've never seen a web browser do stuff like this!
It was Paul Garner on the Chris Morris GLR radio show.
Nice.
the classic beta joke
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:19 am
by mikemc
Three women, close friends, have recently married about the same time and meet for lunch once a week. One day, their conversation turns to their new spouses' amorous capabilities and pecadillos.
"Well, my Willie, he's a carpenter, you know-- and there is something about his hands that just drives me wild."
"Well, Edgar, he's a doctor, and he seems to really be able to apply his knowlege of every aspect of the female anatomy."
They turn to the third, "Well, Susie, what about your Howard?"
She's a bit embarrassed.. "Well, Howard, hmm..."
"Yes?" the other two lean in...
Susie collects herself: "Well, Howard is a software designer, and he sits on the edge of the bed talking in detail about how good it's going to be when we finally make love, and then he falls asleep. But he always apologizes the following day and promises it will be better the next time around."
