The General Chat Room

[cloughie]

I think you have put your finger on a crucial aspect of the joke there, Bbm!

And indeed of the Python brand of humour...

Have we ever linked Ilfracombe and Stalingrad on AA?

[BBMmk2]

I think you have put your finger on a crucial aspect of the joke there, Bbm!

And indeed of the Python brand of humour...

Ah Monty Python!!

One of my favourite bits there was when nthat foot came down at the end of the theeme tune!(Sousa's Liberty Bell March)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Antone know what a Spleen does? Does it serve any other purpose than that of being vented at regualr intervals?

[BBMmk2]

Ferney go to www.patient.co.uk

[amateur51]

Ferney go to www.patient.co.uk

This appears to be about hay fever, Bbm

[BBMmk2]

ah go to their homepage, sorry.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

ah go to their homepage, sorry.

Indeed, and it takes you to this:

http://www.patient.co.uk/health/the-spleen

... very informative, thanks, Bbm

The expression "venting his spleen" occured earlier today in conversation - and nobody knew what the Spleen actually did (or where it was). A quick Wiki check didn't really help - this site was much better.

[BBMmk2]

Yes it is and perhaps a useful alternative to the much demised NHS Choices site(I think that has closed down?)0

[vinteuil]

Antone know what a Spleen does? Does it serve any other purpose than that of being vented at regular intervals?

... perhaps this?

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/161

.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Spleen_de_Paris

[pastoralguy]

I heard a great joke yesterday...

Two Edinburgh ladies are travelling back to Morningside on a 16 bus via Princes Street having just had lunch at Jenners Department store when one says to the other "Lucinda, do you see that group of workmen over there - the ones working on the trams?"

"Oh yes, Effie". Lucinda replies. " You mean the ones leaning on their shovels?"

"Yes", says Effie. "Well, you'll never believe this but I was walking by the National Gallery the other day when one of them put their hand up my skirt!"

"Oh my goodness" says Lucinda. "Which one was it?"

"The grey, pleated one I got in the Jenners sale!" replies Effie.

[EdgeleyRob]

A Zebra,black with white stripes or white with black stripes?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A Zebra,black with white stripes or white with black stripes?

I dunno; but they have to pay £12 to go past the checkout at Tesco.

[Richard Tarleton]

I dunno; but they have to pay £12 to go past the checkout at Tesco.

I remember a great I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue sketch in which panellists had to identify items by their bar codes, as read out by Humph - thick, thin thin thin gap thick, etc.......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I remember a great I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue sketch in which panellists had to identify items by their bar codes, as read out by Humph - thick, thin thin thin gap thick, etc.......

[Pabmusic]

A Zebra,black with white stripes or white with black stripes?

Black with white stripes. This is because the 'natural' state is a coat with pigment (in this case, black), whereas the white stripes lack the pigmentation, showing them to be a mutant form.