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# Squawwpurrrrr

click if you must
(Hibbyz Erm, what do I do with this then?, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:04, archived)
# no, i shan't
its nice is that
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:05, archived)
# YAY and WOO
I like him , but I bet he could give you a nasty peck if he got annoyed
(pod23, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:06, archived)
# I want one please
for 4.99 I think...
(funkylins, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:09, archived)
# the last time i threw up
after drinking was in whistlebinkies... in 1998

it's a dump.

(I helped save b3ta! alistair, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:11, archived)
# You shouldn't drink so much then!
It is one of the major music venues in Edinburgh and we're gonna rock it big styleeeee! :)
(funkylins, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:13, archived)
# They're nice
in a crusty roll. But then, what isn't?
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:12, archived)
# another crusty roll?
That would just be dry and unsatisfying.


Also bricks would be terrible.

As would dog poo.

or a rat.

or marmite

...
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:17, archived)
# thats where you're wrong
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:17, archived)
# where exactly am I wrong?
I demand a greater level of specification!
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:19, archived)
# Just this morning
I had a brick and dog poo roll. It was lovely. I followed it with a crusty roll in a crusty roll. Then a rat roll.

Marmite is just the exception that proves the rule.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:20, archived)
# I've never understood that phrase.
How can an exception prove a rule? Surely the mere existance of an exception causes the whole rule stucture to collapse?

bonkers.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:25, archived)
# I've never heard the phrase
an exception proving a rule. An exception TO a rule, now that's a different matter...
(funkylins, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:26, archived)
# thats because you are thinking of rules
as a linear vector marker in a subcutaneous amalgum spore, instead of an oscillating carrot.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:26, archived)
# yep.
I'm always worrying over subcutaneous vector markers instead of wobbly carrots.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:28, archived)
# I believe that 'prove' in that expression
means something like 'test'.
(I helped save b3ta! Craymen, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:28, archived)
# that makes sense then.
Oh the joys of the english language.

I'm just of to prove my dough before baking...
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:30, archived)
# here you go...
www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-exc1.htm

I just looked it up.
(I helped save b3ta! Craymen, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:30, archived)
# aah!
From now on I shall use "the exception confirms the rule in the cases not excepted" instead.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:36, archived)
# It's the old meaning of Prove:
To test something.

IE - (Orignally) The exception that proves the rule = the exception that tests the rule.

But the meaning of that saying has followed the change in the meaning of "to prove" - which makes no sense really, but we still use it.
/Bryson
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:30, archived)
# Woooooo!
But it'll hunt itself to death...
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:11, archived)
# kittens don't really hunt hawks
because hawks are a bit too shit-hard for kittens. I think it'll just terrorise the mouse population to near-extinction.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:12, archived)
# And then they'll
move on to small rabbits, and then small children, and what a mess that will be.

Photoshit will then have a lot to answer for.
(DuckieMonster, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:16, archived)
# I was thinking of the other way 'round.
I'm sure a hawk is rock enough to take a kitten...
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:16, archived)
# but why bother,
when mice are less hassle?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:17, archived)
# They don't put up as good a fight, you see.
So when the hawk goes back to his hawky mates and they say "What've you caught today?" and the hawk says "A mouse" they fall about with hawky laughter. But if he says "Hey, a kitten" they look at him with new respect.

Or some such nonsense.
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:20, archived)
# can they be friends?
(faster, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 13:12, archived)
# They
may
(Hibbyz Erm, what do I do with this then?, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 14:00, archived)