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Kathleen wrote:
> Omelet wrote:
>
>> In article >, "Paco"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "Bob Muncie" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> notbob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2009-08-23, Bob Terwilliger >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Bob Muncie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> need to validate any opinion I hold with someone as little
>>>>>>> a person as you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good-bye Bob.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...And thus Bob Muncie goes from the childish argument, "I'm
>>>>>> right because you're a doody-head," to an even more childish,
>>>>>> "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LA-LA-LA-LA-LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
>>>>>
>>>>> All right! That's enough. All Bob's go stand in the corner
>>>>> till I say you can come out. <sheesh>
>>>>>
>>>>> nb
>>>>
>>>> Okay. I stepped away with the KF. In fact, I wouldn't have seen
>>>> other Bob's post had you not replied.
>>>>
>>>> But the reason why I followed up on your's is you said "all"
>>>> Bobs, does that include you? If so, there are at a minimum four
>>>> corners in a room, so there is space for you :-)
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>
>>> What happens if the room is triangular in shape?
>>
>>
>> Or round?
>
> I swear to god, some days these discussions read like Monty Python skits...
>
> ARTHUR
> It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of
> Camelot. King of all Britons, defeater of the Saxons, sovereign of all
> England!
>
> Pause.
>
> SOLDIER
> Get away!
>
> ARTHUR
> I am... And this my trusty servant, Patsy. We have ridden the
> length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join our
> court at Camelot.. I must speak with your lord and master.
>
> SOLDIER
> What? Ridden on a horse?
>
> ARTHUR
> Yes!
>
> SOLDIER
> You're using coconuts!
>
> ARTHUR
> ...What?
>
> SOLDIER
> You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together.
>
> ARTHUR (Scornfully)
> So? We have ridden since the snows of winter
> covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea.
>
> SOLDIER
> Where did you get the coconuts?
>
> ARTHUR
> Through ... We found them.
>
> SOLDIER
> Found them? In Mercea. The coconut's tropical!
>
> ARTHUR
> What do you mean?
>
> SOLDIER
> Well, this is a temperate zone.
>
> ARTHUR
> The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or
> the plover seek warmer hot lands in winter, yet these are not
> strangers to our land.
>
> SOLDIER
> Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
>
> ARTHUR
> Not at all. They could be carried.
>
> SOLDIER
> What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
>
> ARTHUR
> Why not?
>
> SOLDIER
> I'll tell you why not ... because a swallow is about eight inches long
> and weighs five ounces, and you'd be lucky to find a coconut under a pound.
>
> ARTHUR
> It could grip it by the husk ...
>
> SOLDIER
> It's not a question of where he grips it, It's a simple matter
> of weight - ratios ... A five-ounce bird could not hold a a one pound
> coconut.
>
> ARTHUR
> Well, it doesn't matter. Go and tell your master that Arthur
> from the Court of Camelot is here.
>
>
You know, one of the things I like most about having dish network for
the tv option is the BBC is on channel 135.
A number of shows have the same humor you exhibit above.
Thanks for the nice "funny" twist to the current thread. And I saw where
you where you where going.
I hope you don't mind if I just say thank-you now...
And you are right.. it is funny :-)
Bob
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