Madame Defarge

OK - I'm too old and blind to see Madame's picture clearly and apparently still to dense to get the original joke. Et voila! Now if you will check out the Hampshire bus again, you'll see that it might have some difficulty in passing its emissions test at inspection time. Ooooooohhhhhhhh - now I see it. Good lord, I'm getting old. No you're not, I didn't get it either until Godot's 'flies undone' post. Me either! But now that we've all (finally) gotten it, can we agree that it deserves a nomination for DL Best Picture of 2007? Not only for the obvious () joke but for that 'Whutchoo lookin at, Sister?'expression on the face of the officer.

OK - I'm too old and blind to see Madame's picture clearly and apparently still to dense to get the original joke. Et voila! Now if you will check out the Hampshire bus again, you'll see that it might have some difficulty in passing its emissions test at inspection time.

Took me awhile - my angelic mind was looking for a blatant spelling error (on the bus) OK - elucidate. Some of us are retarded Americans. I assume it has something to do with that classic of children's literature: "Biggles flies undone." Thick? Absolutely, but angelic? 'Fraid not.. so if it were a bit more like this one ,I would have gotten it without the hint from Godot.

There was a young lady from Ghent Who was loitering once, by intent. A policeman came by with a glint in his eye but his boodle* was already spent. *No real evidence that Belgian police are more likely to take bribes, either...

One question. How, exactly, can any of your Baseball teams be crowned "World Series Champions" if the competition excludes any teams outside of North America? There are countries outside of North America? Perhaps that is what Miss South Carolina was alluding to in her eloquent acceptance speech. A/S Brit: Thank you for your kindness, guest. As you know, we are suffering from a shortage of maps in my country. I don't mean to be a fussbudget, but something seems to be, like, missing. Where's Ittlie? Regards, Grateful Yank

Madame, I just had a play with that, I actually created my interpretation of you. You saucy little minx you!! Thank you, LordDo you mind if i keep the earring?

Presumably he's got it suffixed and prefixed with some choice words too. LOL! I wish he would - last time anyone mentioned it to me it still said "Carol" in gorgeous script and looked like it was new. Some artist did a good job. *snicker* Maybe he's met some one else called Carol and decided to keep it. Excuse me for being thick(er than usual) but what happened to the Ann part of your name? Did he brillo it off or was it never there to begin with?

Je ne comprends pas either but at least you can wear short sleeves. In an hour I'll be at my workplace where the heat is turned up to a malarial 81 degrees farenheit producing a swamplike funk which is still not warm enough for some of the people who wear down vests and use space heaters. Unfortunately we have an extremely puritanical dress code and short sleeves are a no-no. Of course, this is understandable because the sight of my bare arms might drive some unfortunate employee into a lust driven frenzy etc. A cigarette break has now become an excuse to go outside and cool down. Half the time I don't even light one up.

Here is a glimpse into his future if he makes it.

It probably is. The fact that we have a system in place which promotes and rewards this type of thing doesn't help either. However I believe that evolution has a very slow and very ruthless agenda which spares only the characteristics most compatible with life, and for that reason I doubt that we are galloping headlong down a course leading back to our neanderthal cousins. Except in Staten Island.

Not adjusting his receiver, was he? Edit: No, having read the article, it seems he was blowing leaves off the roof. A bad day for irony. Bad day for irony, but gravity is batting two out of three thus far.

Max McGee, former receiver for the Green Bay Packers has fallen off his roof and died.

Have a great birthday Handrejka.

That is an interesting theory Gunjaman5000, but the marginal improvement of his spelling could be more of a subtle indicator that he is on his meds/remembering to click on spell check as opposed to all the other times when he is not.

Nice avatar, Fellate.

Any one of... Crosby, Stills & Nash? Or any one of the Stones (only because Keef doesn't like being left off of deathlists.)

Brilliant, Lady Grendel! Mine goes like this: MY LOVE Your skin glows like the pomegranite blossoms stormy as the petunia in the purest hope of spring. My heart follows your mandolin voice and leaps like a cougar at the whispers of your name. The evening floats in on a great bluebird wing. I am comforted by your shoe that I carry into the twilight of bucketbeams and hold next to my toe. I am filled with hope that I might dry your tears of Koolaid. As my finger falls from my scarf, it reminds me of your lamp. In the quiet, I listen for the last crash of the day. My heated finger leaps to my hat. I wait in the moonlight for your secret doorknob so that we may flow as one, finger to finger, in search of the magnificent red and mystical bathtub of love.

Vous m'oubiez! It's been four months since the Federal election, took over a month to decide who was going to be PM and then ever since they've been arguing over the coalition. You see there are benefits for having a two horse race (US, UK etc.) rather than 57 million parties, some which span the linguistic divide and others which blatantly don't. None of this hung coalition shenanigans at every election. To boot, these Belgians pay a fine if they don't vote, so in the effort to overcome apathy they are rewarded with this farce! I'm all up for living through a revolution as long as it doesn't involve anymore paperwork. I wouldn't want to have to re-register as a foriegner in Luxembourg, France, Quebec or wherever it is that Flandres wants to annex Wallonie to. I would like to nominate the State of Florida. Think the Walloons would mind too much if it were annexed to them, at least til the end of November, 2008?

My experience with BBC is limited to the somewhat watered down version offered by BBCA, so I'm wondering if the programs described by 'Arry are what Patrick Moore was carrying on about?

Mixed...I was... What Level Of Piety Does Your Medieval Alter-Ego Demonstrate? I was...

That looks suspiciously like the Union Flag painted on an Orangutan. Looks like Jimmy Osmond to me. i thought it was a commemorative plate. At last something from the Franklin Mint that looks real. WATCH IT! HE'S BI-POLAR!

British slang. In particular, 'sod off'.

Which Rocky Horror Character are you? Find out.

Why did you have to go and do that for, now see what you've done ! It's getting all dark, the birds have stopped singing, it's getting cold, honestly, some people! Expecto Patronum!!

Once again Madame, exquisite taste. I do find, however, that unless they are thoroughly cooked for at least 1hr 30mins at 200 degrees celsius, they can be a little tough on the palette. Be careful, my pet. Remember your lordship is not exactly enjoying a surplus of body parts as it is.