Good Answer Credits?

I might have bumped your score as I attempted to exhaust my supply of Good Answers. Ultimately I exhausted my good answer supply and the web MASTER forbid anymore good answer ratings from my address. Must I now move to have another run a peppering the forum with good answer ratings?

Del you must continue marking your territory and spray every answer with a "good answer" rating until the web MASTER catches you and puts you back in the box. TK

You little minx...you made me do it...I've been sent back to my box now .

In a room full of rocking chairs, it's wise to protect the kitty from the possibility of an unfortunate occurrance. The box is safe. And later as always, we depend on you to venture forth and flick your ever sharp and witty claws at some foolishly impulsive thought.

Anyone putting in such an effort to help others in the Good Answer Credit thread deserves to be on topic. I bumped towards the on topic category.

TK has 6 on this one post!!! And a Rose !

"I recently lost 1 GA point". Here's one from me Sparky. You deserve more but the web master will not allow me to bestow them.

"I'm posting this off-topic because it amuses me ..."

Forget to check the box, then?

I can't help it if people vote me back up !

Nah, it amuses him even more to lie and cause confusion... Note the re-changed avatar again...

I was waiting to see if John checked how many votes 'for' and 'against' the voting button revealed. I'm not sure what would happen if 5 people voted for me if I'd posted as 'off-topic' myself - my own vote ought to count as 1 if the system is 'fair'. It's confusing, but I like being able to pop up and down. What I mean is, I think it would take 5 people to make this post on-topic, and 7 to make it 'good'. The original question was about good answers, but I'm prattling on about off-topic, so I'm now totally confused !

"...so I'm now totally confused..."

And we'd know the difference because...? Wot's the "now" for, eh?

PMSL !

What on Earth are you on about, Del?

What on Earth are you on about, Del?

I think that he referes to the bells (why not electronics?) on the cute little hat of that gentleman (Printed without permission of EnviroMan Inc.)

No permission required, I copped it from somewhere on the web myself!

Ooops wrong 2nd link ...it was that Scannivale (sic) thread ...they meant scannivalve..

Whatever...can I go home now?

Yes - back to the cat house wi' ye!

Bugger Scannivale (!), nobody asked how those coins appear to balance on a cotton thread. It wouldn't have been possible before 1991, but I'm not saying why.

Bugger Scannivale (!) Insactly my sentiminents.

Hey Kris BTW ... 'how those coins appear to balance on a cotton thread'

Superglue? A big counterballance hanging down the back? The picture is upside down? Over unity KrisDel^TM Balance-o-tron? Scannivale?

Your clue is that pre 1991 'coppers' were copper. Since then they're mainly Steel.......

This thread is cotton? I don't know as how I cotton to that 'notion'... Here I was thinking you'd levitated the coins, and now you admit it's some cheesy out-of-focus sleight of hand using thread on this thread. That's threadbare of you, sirrah!

Nobody seems to have noticed I saved it as 'mag-penny' or something like that. For your endevours, I inflict upon you ...... the amazing....wait for it.....pennies ! There's a very cool site somewhere, where I nicked the pics from, but I lost track of it. It beggers belief, but I did actually loose a boomerang once ! It landed somewhere in a long grassed field.

You know, it takes a special talent to lose a boomerang... (Charlie Drake - 1961)

(Oom-yacka-wurka, oom-yacka-wurka, oom-yacka-wurka)
[sound of a digeridoo]
In the bad backlands of Australia
Many years ago,
The aborigine tribes were meeting,
Having a big pow-wow.

(Oom-yacka-wurka, oom-yacka-wurka)

"We got a lot of trouble, Chief,
On account of your son Mack."
"My boy Mack? Why, what's wrong with him?"
MACK: My boomerang won't come back.
"Your boomerang won't come back?"
MACK:
My boomerang won't come back,
My boomerang won't come back,
I've waved the thing all over the place,
Practised till I was black in the face,
I'm a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
My boomerang won't come back.
MACK:
I can ride a kangaroo (yeah yeah)
Make kinkajou stew (yeah yeah)
But I'm a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
My boomerang won't come back.

They banished him from the tribe then
And sent him on his way,
He had a backless boomerang
So here he could not stay.

(Animal noises)
MACK:
[Spoken] This is nice, innit? Getting banished at my time of life. What a way to spend an
evening: sitting on a rock in the middle of the desert with me boomerang in me hand. I shall very
likely get bushwhacked.

(An animal roars; Mack shrieks back.)
MACK:
Get out of it! You nasty bushwhacking animal. Think I'll make a nice cup of tea. (Doing, doing,
doing...) Good gracious! There goes a kangaroo. I must have a practice with me boomerang: hit him right behind the left earhole. Now then, slowly back.

Gruff voice: If you throw that thing at me, I'll jump right on your head. (It chuckles and bounces away.)
MACK:
Innit marvellous? Got a land full of kangaroos and I had to pick that one.

For three long months he sat there
Or maybe it was four,
Then an old old man in a kangaroo skin
Came a-knocking at his door.

"Well, I'm the local witch doctor, son,
They call me George Alfred Black.
Now tell me, what's your trouble, boy?"
MACK: My boomerang won't come back.
"Your boomerang won't come back?"
MACK:
My boomerang won't come back,
My boomerang won't come back,
I've waved the thing all over the place,
Practised till I was black in the face,
I'm a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
My boomerang won't come back.

"Don't worry, boy, I know the trick,
And to you I'm gonna show it.
If you want your boomerang to come back,
Well first you've got to... throw it."
MACK:
Ooh, yes! Never thought of that. Daddy will be pleased. Must have a go, nyuh-huh! Excuse me.
Now then, slowly back... and throw.

(Boomerang whizzes away; Sounds of a plane approaching and then falling from the sky.)
MACK:
Ooh my God! I've hit the flying doctor. Eee-hee-hee! Can you do first aid?
Witch Doctor: Don't talk to me about first aid, boy, you owe me fourteen chickens, you know, when I learned you to throw the boomerang, you know, first things first.

MACK:
Yes, I know that, but I mean, I think on this occasion, you know, you could be a bit more
perspective...........

Strewth, I hadn't heard of Charlie Drake for a long time. Like my boomerang, he won't be coming back.

So now Kris can add a bell to his prize - schweet, Del, schweet! Very thoughtful...

I suppose your next thread would involve a ball of yarn...?

Oh, for the lack of a K.

??? As in alas and alac_? Well, if THAT'S all that's wanted, here y'go:

I'll attatch them to the wool.

K-HOMESPUN

HOMESPUN-K

Right then. Makes perfectly good sense. NOT! What are ye up ta ye nasty laddie? I knows ye too well by now ta not be suspencious! Summay or another ye got four candles in mind, I knows it...

I thought Benny Hill was big in America....remember the sketch where the intro showed only part of the title 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ? It was 'accidentally' clipped on the RHS.

Benny Hill was big anywhere - but popular in America. However, during the height of that popularity (late '80s thru early '90s) I was working split shifts with the majority of my hours on the swing and graveyard shifts (evenings 4 - midnight and nights midnight - 8 respectively in case Brits have diff terms), so I seldom saw it. And never the one you mentioned, so I have no idea what was/wasn't clipped. Please feel free to enlighten this wild colonial boy... [Also 'RHS'?]

Arrrgggh.. Don't ask Kris stuff like that.....
And don't go down to the old haunted house......

Del

Phooey! I ain't askeered of no...

Wow, you guys got it late. Benny Hill had pretty much died a non-pc death by the 80's. It was a send up of the Burton/Taylor film of that name, but in the intro the last two words (aligned vertically) are clipped. RHS = Right Hand Side.

methinks the penny dropped !

You and your magnetic money... OK, let's see if I grabbed your coattail on this - so it came out saying Who's Afraid of Virgin Wool??? He may not have been PC over there, but here the show was considered avant garde. Well, by some, anyway.

Aw c'mon, you knew what I meant all along. Benny Hill was avante garde, and pretty damn funny in some ways. Trouble is, he didn't sense the change in mood with all the emerging pc garbage. Shame really that he got dropped like a hot potato. British TV has old shows (eg Black and White minstrels) that are a lot more squirm inducing. Fawlty Towers was hilarious, but some of the gags don't age that well. More than a few current comedy shows will look bad in hindsight. Most gags fall apart when analysed, but that's probably because humour evolves as a sort of social defence mechanism. Crikey, I'm going all philosophical. Best go slap myself with a wet fish!

One I did manage to catch quite a few episodes of was Are You Being Served? Some of that reparteé was absolutely brilliant! It evolved into a different program with the same characters basically. They acquired (inherited, I think) a north country manor house. The caretaker was a man named Moulterd. Upon introduction to Captain Parrot, he said "There've been Moulterds on this estate for over 600 years." To which the straightfaced Captain replied "I wouldn't wonder." Priceless AND ageless!

That show was something else. Brit sit-com has a long history of spin off shows (a bit like 'Joannie and Chachie' or whatever it was). Never in the history of TV were so many cat gags squeezed into one show. Are You Being Served jumped Fonzie's shark, and then some. Dad's Army was one of my all-time favourites, especially the Submariner episode that had the immortal exchange ; "Vatt ees your name ?" - "Don't tell him, Pike".

Another favorite, Porridge with Ronnie Barker and his side kick Godber! Enjoy

Rilk ! LMAO. That was sneaky introducing oranges via jaffa-cakes. Fletcher must have been one of the first to demonstrate planetary scale by means of oranges and stuff.

Mrs. Slocomb's pussycat - a classical cat indeed! Though never seen...

Never saw Dad's Army...

... I don't recall her ever talking about her pussycat - tho' her pussy featured (unseen!) in just about every episode.

Ummm...well...technically speaking, yes you're correct... My bad for improper pussy usage.

I know of someone who refused to get into a posse from convictions reason...

Oh, now THIS is going to degenerate rapidly! I think I'll exunt, stage right, immediately...

You'll get a giggle if you look up Dads Army on You Tube or some place. It's very Brit, but in a rose-tinted specs kind of way. Full of sterotypes but mostly in a fun, self-depricating, sort of way. Here's the Pike thing.

Kind of a Brit version of our Sgt. Bilko...only to my taste, funnier.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047763/

Bilko is well know over here. I can't remember how the story goes, but with Top-Cat I'm sure one inspired the other ? For me, I liked Bilko's 'all-american' I'm going to find a way approach. Any situation get's viewed as a potential advantage, all up-beat and can-do. Brits do 'kitchen sink' drama, where we wallow in misery and supposedly realistic humour. Contrast the aspirational 'Dynasty' with 'Coronation Street'. It may seem off-topic (and it is, here), but it partly explains why we can't alter such things as gun-regs and get the same results.

How can you say that with classics like (not Mr. Bean because that's just downright daft), Red Dwarf, HitchHikers Guide, Dad's Army, The Good Life, Are You Being Served?, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses, Red Dwarf, The Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted, Blackadder, One Foot in the Grave, Porridge (pinched the list off Wini!)

Admittedly, Coronation Street was a beast of a soap along with Eastenders and all that other brain grating rubbish they call light entertainment! So Who shot JR? Was it Henry, the mild mannered janitor....could be

It simply wouldn't DO, y'know, to forget this classic...

http://kuacentral.com/

Meet me here for coffee, promptly at 11:23, and we'll have a look through Sheridan's photo albums...

As to who shot JR...who cares?!? So long as he stays dead...

I'm sure she was an older version of Margo on 'The good life'! Really funny sitcom, much better than 'Keeping up appearances' for me!

... Have only just realized - OT is a toggle operator (like negation or inversion). If you're ON it puts you OFF & vice versa.

I've been confused for months !

Hello JohnDG

Now you have me puzzled.

What is "OT" ?

Does it refer to "Other Tab" in your Browser ? (I use Firefox)

Kind Regards....

I generally used to think it meant "Off Topic" - as in "This post is marked OT because I checked the 'off-topic' box".

Now EnviroMan (in #208) has come along with "I'm taking this post back OT because ... " (meaning back On Topic).

Hello JohnDG

Thank you for the explanation.

I was looking for a more complicated reason.

Now that you've explained, it is so obvious, and so you get a GA mark

Kind Regards....

And each got a GA vote from me - mainly for putting up with me...but also, since I must spend some time at work on a Saturday, I'm feeling muy generoso!

And since it is a toggle, I use it interchangeably - O = On or O = Off - also, this helps to confuse others...

I know JUST what you mean...sometimes putting me ON puts me OFF too!

Awww...what a cutie pie!

Words fail me !

WOW! How unusual is THAT?!? Take pictures...

.....

ROF trying not to PMSL!!!!!

Leave it to you...

Hey, it looks like somebody raised you to 2 ! It wasn't me, even though I like your answer - it's good, but I'm not sure it meets the on-topic requirement. I hope my personal admiration of your post will suffice.Somewhere else I have a post with a single good vote (at present). There's nothing special about that in itself, but the post in question only contains 3 letters ! My earnest advice to seekers of more 'good answers' is to hover near the home page. When a new thread appears, pounce quickly and the glory is there for the taking. I took a copy of the 'Green Thumb of Glory', and now have it tattooed on my ****. The diamond 'Guru' I had studded across my forehead would have looked better if I'd used a mirror.

That "'Green Thumb of Glory'... now... tattooed on..." (if tattooed where I think it is) is a pretty fancy form of the old fashioned:

Goose has got some interesting usage, the ones half-way down this are good.

You DO hang about in the oddest places, don't you? Seems appropriate though...

"Goose bumps" is met in other languages but this medieval meaning was only in English (BTW, the medical term is piloerection - Wiki). Thank you for something new (to me).

Love it ! That's going to get me into loads of trouble. A very prim woman nearly killed me once, with no more than a withering look. All I did was hesitate when she asked for the condiments.

Oi! Stop trying to muscle-in on a good racket. The double-sided sticky-tape that fell off the back of a lorry in Tilbury Market is going well. It seems to do for all my GA point customers, and goodness knows I need 'em! <Cough>.