To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.funOpen lugnet.off-topic.fun in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Fun / 2510
2509  |  2511
Subject: 
Re: Great Scott! (was Re: What is this all about...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:22:18 GMT
Viewed: 
507 times
  
Or to be unemcumbered by George C. Scott..

In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John Neal writes:
Maybe that was too idiomatic.  Here in the colonies (;) scot-free means
free from conditions or obligations; gratis of course means free....
kinda loses what little humor it had in the first place in
translation:-(  Oh well.

When you dissect jokes they die.

Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:

OK, I don't get it! :) Enlighten me, John!

Scott Sanburn

John Neal wrote:

If you were gratis, you'd be scot-free;-)

(follow-up to .fun)

Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:

Yes I do, you're a double Scott! :)

Scott Sanburn

Scott-A wrote:

Scott "Scott's are everywhere!" Sanburn

But I am a Scott who is a Scott... if you know what I mean?

--
Scott A
Edinburgh, Scotland.

http://www.encore.ms.tarahill.net/00/scottarthur/LEGO.htm



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Great Scott! (was Re: What is this all about...
 
IMPOSTER!! What have you done with the *real* Thomas McSpamcake??? You may be able to fool Lugnet, but not me. Nnnnnnnnnoo. Confess, or face the consequences, counterfeit interlocutor! -John "Sherlock" Neal (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Great Scott! (was Re: What is this all about...
 
(...) Gasp! TOM? what's happened? u diddnt ad a spamcake jokE!!! Ahh! u've been abducted by the Insectoids! AHHH...HHH!!! Alex "Give me an idiotic spamcake joke now!!!!!!!" Roode (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Great Scott! (was Re: What is this all about...
 
(...) Gasp! TOM? what's happened? u diddnt ad a spamcake jokE!!! Ahh! u've been abducted by the Insectoids! AHHH...HHH!!! Alex "Give me an idiotic spamcake joke now!!!!!!!" Roode (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Great Scott! (was Re: What is this all about...
 
Maybe that was too idiomatic. Here in the colonies (;) scot-free means free from conditions or obligations; gratis of course means free.... kinda loses what little humor it had in the first place in translation:-( Oh well. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

20 Messages in This Thread:








Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR