Re: A moment of levity from Wikipedia

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Were you trying to determine if the Boone's Farm was properly termed plonk? Or merely trying to determine the proper service to use?

max
['I bet it goes with fish. And chips.']


Posted by: max | Link to this comment | 11-28-08 9:22 PM
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I thought ben served only whine. Hmph.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 11-28-08 9:24 PM
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Very good, max; you were able to deduce the article from which I took the image and caption.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-28-08 9:26 PM
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Did I blow up your troll, Ben? I'm sorry. It didn't look like a troll.

max
['Oops.']


Posted by: max | Link to this comment | 11-28-08 9:36 PM
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Kiwi-Lime's the best flavor. The only flavor, really.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 11-28-08 10:49 PM
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Apparently your mileage may vary in Montana.

Finally, Plonk is blessed by original works of art produced not only to create historical resonance within our building, but with specific intent for the particular walls on which they reside.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-28-08 11:13 PM
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*plonk*

(at no one in particular)


Posted by: Todd | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:20 AM
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maybe i told it already, ot joke
so in the winter a bear was hitting his head against a tree: - damn, damn, damn, shouldn't have been drinking coffee in the autumn
i think it's wrong to serve plonk in the plastic cups, who knows alcohol may dissolve those estrogen like substances in plastic more powerfully than f.e water, male drinkers could be endangered, more gynecomastias or prostate cancer


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:36 AM
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LOL hibernation jokes


Posted by: Cryptec Nid | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:41 AM
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Actually, I thought it was a Does a bear shit in the woods? joke and couldn't figure it out until I read 9.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:45 AM
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:(


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:54 AM
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8: He he.

A lot of read's jokes have a rhythm that is very different than American jokes, a rhythm which I associate with Russian jokes. The jokes don't have a set up and then a punch line. Instead they are just a single funny image.

Is this something other people have noticed, or am I just making up random cultural stereotypes again?


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:55 AM
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i mean, i's disappointed at my inability to tell the joke
what's 'a Does a bear shit in the woods? joke' ?
i love to read jokes
the joke is Mongolian fyi, but i love Russian anecdotes too


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 9:59 AM
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The best success I've had with bad wine is to heat it up and add sugar ans spice -- mulled wine. Sure, it's cheating, but if you like mulled wine, it works.

Sort of like pop wine really, get the alcohol down without tasting the vehicle itself.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:00 AM
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11 -- Don't take it personally, read. Where heebie comes from the bears never sleep.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:00 AM
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6 -- Bozeman is special. I believe I've already discussed the Tater Pig with you folks.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:01 AM
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funny orchestra


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:02 AM
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13 -- [Taking the question seriously.] There are a series of rhetorical questions, that one can use to respond to a foolishly obvious question posed by someone who should know better, e.g., is the Pope Catholic, does a bear shit in the woods, is a pig's ass pork, are the Kennedys gunshy. I'm sure there are many more.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:09 AM
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White Castle liveblogging: it's everything I'd imagined it would be!

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Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:17 AM
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The liveblogging, or the White Castle?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:19 AM
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13: Oh, it was just a passing thought - I saw 9 almost simultaneously with 8 and got the joke, and I thought it was funny.

Right, as CC says, "Does a bear shit in the woods?" is supposed to be a question that's so obviously true, that you can say it as a response to a question with an obvious answer.

I just thought "coffee" -> "using the bathroom"...you all can see how my digestive process works.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:19 AM
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Further to 18: You can get extra funny by mixing and matching: "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" "Is a Kennedy's ass pork?"


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:21 AM
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My house is now buzzing with Thanksgiving related activity. We're 48 hours around the rest of the world.

Discount turkey!


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 10:35 AM
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i got a bear joke and others, combined ones including
tomorrow i'll go shopping perhaps, hopefully all the discounts are still there


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 11:13 AM
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i like to find proofs of correctness of what i guessed
ethanol increases estrogen solubility
plastic & prostate cancer


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 11:27 AM
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But think of all the fun you would miss out on if you avoided doing something just because it involved contact with a carcinogen!


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 11:42 AM
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i just feel my public duty is to warn against the possible health hazard, and one may decide for oneself what to have, fun or cancer


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 11:54 AM
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Fortunately, you can have both!


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 12:04 PM
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27: Oh, like they're mutually exclusive. Fun and cancer go together like beer and shotguns!


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 12:06 PM
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i mean i hope nobody was aware perhaps about that danger in this case, so i'm like a pioneer
if there was no that possibility i have nothing against using the plastic cups, nothing like esthetic objection, coz always think like, cheaper better
but if plastics are plus to that, non-degradeable and are environmental hazard too, maybe their use should be banned in eateries
28, 27 catatonics


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 12:08 PM
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28, 29 i meant


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 12:10 PM
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But think of all the fun you would miss out on if you avoided doing something just because it induces catatonia!

If we didn't have plastic, what would we put all of our cancer-causing soft drinks (or milk) in in our supermarkets? Glass?


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 12:12 PM
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pdf23ds


Posted by: 32 was me | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 12:12 PM
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29:like beer and shotguns!

ALCOHOL AND GUNS RULE!!


Posted by: OPINIONATED PLEXICO BURRESS | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 1:06 PM
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read is my favorite commenter. The joke upthread was great.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 1:20 PM
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thanks, i'm having fun at Unfogged too :)


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 1:35 PM
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Russian humor


Posted by: Cryptec Nid | Link to this comment | 11-29-08 7:35 PM
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ho-ho, this is great
Russian humor
a lot of jokes i did not know


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 11-30-08 8:05 AM
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