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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 30, 2012 10:45:27 GMT
OUCH! I'm due at the dentist this coming Thursday - thanks mate! Here's a poem what I wrote ages ago. I hope it helps. ;D The Dentist By Byron Bunkerfan The shrill of the sound of the dentist drill, The pain and the fear before the bill, I hope it was worth the cash and the trial, To ever improve your wonderful smile!
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hipflaskandy
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Post by hipflaskandy on Jan 31, 2012 9:12:02 GMT
OUCH! I'm due at the dentist this coming Thursday - thanks mate! Here's a poem what I wrote ages ago. I hope it helps. ;D The Dentist By Byron Bunkerfan
The shrill of the sound of the dentist drill, The pain and the fear before the bill, I hope it was worth the cash and the trial, To ever improve your wonderful smile!Cheers matey. Hope so!
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Post by broadsword on Jan 31, 2012 10:52:06 GMT
Is there a US version of this anywhere?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 1, 2012 10:21:18 GMT
Dave Fulton American comedian said the word w***** on the BBC Breakfast sofa this morning From his standup; "Canada's only job is to protect America from ice - we don't have a Scotland" ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 1, 2012 18:03:44 GMT
But we have a Nova Scotia...in Canada ....
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 1, 2012 18:12:33 GMT
But we have a Nova Scotia...in Canada .... Forgot about that - well you do When Scotland gets it's independance we'll have to send a fleet over to reclaim that - I'm sure it's on the To Do List.
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hipflaskandy
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Post by hipflaskandy on Feb 2, 2012 21:26:57 GMT
Here's a poem what I wrote ages ago. I hope it helps. ;D The Dentist By Byron Bunkerfan The shrill of the sound of the dentist drill, The pain and the fear before the bill, I hope it was worth the cash and the trial, To ever improve your wonderful smile!Dentist has been survived - just a missing filling replaced. Had to be drilled first (after injection) and I swear the noise was just like in the WC Fields clip posted above! The soup I had for lunch (to avoid chewing while it 'set') seemed to go more down my chin more than in my totally numbed mouth, so I'm sure that in either Brit or USA humour (humor?) I'd have looked a comic picture!
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2012 22:10:18 GMT
Here's a poem what I wrote ages ago. I hope it helps. ;D The Dentist By Byron Bunkerfan The shrill of the sound of the dentist drill, The pain and the fear before the bill, I hope it was worth the cash and the trial, To ever improve your wonderful smile!Dentist has been survived - just a missing filling replaced. Had to be drilled first (after injection) and I swear the noise was just like in the WC Fields clip posted above! The soup I had for lunch (to avoid chewing while it 'set') seemed to go more down my chin more than in my totally numbed mouth, so I'm sure that in either Brit or USA humour (humor?) I'd have looked a comic picture! Oh dear dear dear apparently painless dentistry is on the way but haven't they been saying that for years. I'm due a visit. This topic is in the right thread; i39.images obliterated by tinypic/rif8cn.jpg [/IMG] aren't they always taking the mick
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2012 22:12:46 GMT
and to keep balance on the thread ... i42.images obliterated by tinypic/jjpnjd.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 2, 2012 22:17:27 GMT
The map clears it all up...UK is England, Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland....Ireland is a different country, just south of Northern Ireland and if your grandmother has a beard, she's your grandfather, except in Armenia. And back'o beyond is in front of behind.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2012 22:18:43 GMT
The map clears it all up...UK is England, Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland....Ireland is a different country, just south of Northern Ireland and if your grandmother has a beard, she's your grandfather, except in Armenia. And back'o beyond is in front of behind. Nope wrong -try again - look closer
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 2, 2012 23:05:39 GMT
Northern Ireland is south of the Irish Republic? Is that why people make fun of the Irish ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2012 23:36:18 GMT
Northern Ireland is south of the Irish Republic? Is that why people make fun of the Irish ? Steelmonkey!! You at the back with the word Tull written all over your books - pay attention!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 27, 2012 12:47:34 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 27, 2012 17:44:42 GMT
From www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18983558To listen to a conversation between Britons about their careers, say, or educational histories, an observer from a more forthright culture might be forgiven for assuming the participants were morbidly depressed. Chances are they'd be wrong. Self-deprecation is an inescapable part of British discourse. The only socially acceptable way to talk about one's achievements is to diminish them. The affection held for that paragon of self-mockery, Stephen Fry, is testament to the national love of this brand of humour. The UK is, after all, a country where showing off is considered the height of bad form and boastfulness regarded as the very height of vulgarity. Charm and wit, by extension, are demonstrated by making oneself the butt of one's own jokes. Outsiders might conclude that this tendency to self-effacement reflects the UK's diminished global status as a former imperial power. But don't be fooled. Times columnist Matthew Parris argues that this tendency is, in fact, a subtly disguised form of self-aggrandisement. "British self-deprecation is actually quite boastful," he says. "Its primary purpose is to show how relaxed, at ease and confident you are. It's a sign of being so in command that you can undersell yourself." So is British self-deprecation just one big humblebrag? We really are useless, aren't we, utterly useless. [my italics]
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Post by futureshock on Jul 29, 2012 1:10:24 GMT
Sandy Lyle walks into a bar and before he can open his mouth, the bartender says "Get out, I'm not serving you, you'd just drink and drive!"
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Post by dragonguitar on Jan 17, 2015 5:53:20 GMT
Monty Python anyone?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 17, 2015 9:44:38 GMT
The Python quotes crop up now and again and it's good to see them. "There shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock."
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 13, 2016 20:33:39 GMT
Big Helpful Keith
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 13, 2016 21:11:32 GMT
Made me miss Michael Veith...no ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 14, 2016 8:13:40 GMT
Made me miss Michael Veith...no ? Oh Yes
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Post by bunkerfan on May 10, 2017 18:51:21 GMT
Parking Fine British humour at its best
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