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Title: the wonderful english language......
Post by: matt674 on December 12, 2005, 10:38:44 AM
IS IT ANY WONDER US MONKEYS ARE EASILY CONFUSED!!!!! :'(

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France(Surprise!). Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea or is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

The only way that you can use "because" three times in a row, and still be grammatticaly correct: "she used because, because "because" was the right word to use."


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: dan on December 12, 2005, 10:45:02 AM
busy today matt??  >:?


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: matt674 on December 12, 2005, 10:48:01 AM
as always - dont you just love getting paid for this :)

and too think i'm trying to build up enough of a bankroll so i can give this up and start playing poker for a living!!  >:?


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: thetank on December 12, 2005, 10:51:13 AM
 :goodpost:

Interesting, and good to see I'm not the only wierdo with too much time to spare on the board.


The only way that you can use "because" three times in a row, and still be grammatticaly correct: "she used because, because "because" was the right word to use."


What about..

"We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
If ever oh ever a Wiz! there was The Wizard of Oz is one because,
Because, because, because, because, because.
Because of the wonderful things he does.
We're off to see the Wizard. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: mikkyT on December 12, 2005, 11:43:15 AM
Funny thing is though matt, is that with the exeption of one, I read them all perfectly without thinking  :D


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: BigArmo on December 12, 2005, 11:59:22 AM

I got 2 problems with this post.

1. Matt is Irish so he is unable to comment on the English Language !.

2. What as this got to do with Bananas or Eating fleas which are Monkey Boys favourite subjects.

Get on with some work ya slacker  ;tk;.

BA


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: matt674 on December 12, 2005, 12:04:48 PM

2. What as this got to do with Bananas or Eating fleas which are Monkey Boys favourite subjects.


Nothing but if i were to post a thread on bananas, flea eating or tyre swinging (i have 3 favourite subjects) i didn't think i'd get much of a response


Get on with some work ya slacker  ;tk;.

BA

Pot meet kettle........  :D


Title: Re: the wonderful english language......
Post by: mikkyT on December 12, 2005, 03:30:39 PM
Pot meet rizla, no!?!?!