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By Shit Sandwich | November 26, 2007 - 11:09 pm - Posted in General, or uncategorized due to sloppy editing, Grammar, Ha flipping ha.
It’s not often I dispense with my own prattle and simply big up another blog, but for this one, I will. My thanks - and a pint of cider, if she’s not fed up of that “gag” already - go to Rosie for sending me the link.
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
I simply had no IDEA that there were so many sarcastic signwriters out there…
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… that’s excellent! The author’s been written about on the Chicago Tribune site as well, where is says that she is a “doctoral student in rhetoric at the University of Georgia”.
Anyone know what exactly you do if you’re a doctoral student in rhetoric?
I take it that’s a rhetorical question, TM… (guffaw!)
ten meaty/quorn chunks to the first SS reader who gets a sign on that site…..
… incidentally, as a total aside, the gentleman opposite me on the train just asked the staff
“As a matter of interest” ??!! Surely, as far as matters pertaining to trains are concerned (or, at least, the the train upon which one is currently travelling) this is a matter of FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE?!
Equally, I shall now try to give this particular construct more widespread usage, same to be achieved through the medium of written communication using electronic personal computers [sic], predominantly at my place of employ, and this web log.
As a matter of interest, there are also ten Sandwich points on offer to the first person to explain the cider-related “gag” to which I refer in my original post. Just to check you’re still reading occasionally.
I need only mention that it has something to do with a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock, except in this case the aforementioned would be set aside for the parking, storage or substantially similar of articulated vehicles.
Top-notch obliquery, Pal. TWENTY Sandwich points to you, and ten more to anyone (apart from Pal) who can explain what he’s on about.
… do you need us to explain what he’s on about in a general sense?
… is it either a reference to the Random House published book Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee? Or Old Rosie Cider brought to you by the special people at Westons Cider Est. 1880 (see below)?
… either way, I only know this by using Google (which, in case I haven’t mentioned, is Evil and I hate), and thus have cheated. What’s the Shit Sandwich policy on people cheating? Can I suggest that future riddles are Google proofed … or should I just shut up and have minus 20 Shit Sandwich points for being a dick?
… on a complete side note, did I miss the post that related to the new poll? I can’t seem to find one relating to it in the Poll’s category …
Re. your comment “7″ - you are correct with one of your Google-inspired answers, but only in response to my original question. You haven’t deconstructed Pal’s top-notch obliquery of post 5, which will give you the definitive answer. You “dick”.
Re. your comment “8″ - there was a passing reference to the Spazz Girls in the Fraud Almighty post. Thanks for keeping me honest, though. And yes, I did spot your “deliberate” apostrophe / s.
… or was it “deliberate” … doesn’t the category belong to the Poll?
Cloudy? Extra strong? OLD? Why I oughtta…
TM - I believe you. Thousands wouldn’t. (Have you recently edited the name of the category in order to lend credence to your outlandish grammatical claim? I’m sure it used to be “PollS“…)
Rosie - a very hearty “bienvenue” to the land of the Sandwich; sorry that my deputy appears to have roundly slandered you via the medium of scrumpy before you’d even posted a comment.
Everyone - I’m still waiting for clarification on Pal’s post 5. It’s worth you making the effort, because if you haven’t responded by tomorrow, I’ll have to claim the points myself, and will furthermore explain it in the most patronising tones possible in order to show you how clever I am. I’ll probably even forget to mention that Pal thought of it in the first place.
Oh alright, it’s a pun or “pune” on Laurie Lee…
Lea is the Middle English word for field, and also forest clearing. And I didn’t even have to google that, as “Laurie” (the articulated bit) and I share a surname. In fact, he was my grandfather.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
Good work, Chez - you’ve saved me (and everyone else) from myself.
yep, that age-old phrase “sticks like shit to a blanket” should now be re-written to “sticks like Shit to a two-bit pun(e)”
Sorry everybody. May I now please reclaim the intellectual low ground that is mine by rights.