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[challenge entry] Sorry I'm late, I caught the wrong bus...

From the Why I was late this morning challenge. See all 258 entries (closed)

(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:25, archived)
# woo
:)
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:25, archived)
# hey you:)
hows sunny ireland?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:33, archived)
# hey you!
am back in gloomy london - but i am muchos happier! wooo!!! and it might snow! let it snow let it snow let it snow!
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:35, archived)
# Woo.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:40, archived)
# ooooh
snowdance - start chanting!
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:41, archived)
# Whyyeeeeeeeee
won't it snooooooooow? Liiiiiiike they said it woooooooooould?
</JJ72>
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:42, archived)
# careful you
you'll have the apostrophe police on you.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:44, archived)
# nobody expects the...

oh, you did
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:46, archived)
# Didn't he
use it correctly?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:54, archived)
# I corrected
myself.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:56, archived)
# I asked Word spellcheck
and both won't and wont are acceptable.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:57, archived)
# "Wont" is a word,
but it wouldn't be acceptable in the above context, because it means something competely different.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:01, archived)
# as is the difference
between wanton and crispy wonton
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:05, archived)
# mm
crispy wantons
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:19, archived)
# I stand
utterly corrected, and enlightened. Good job I didn't post after 5:00 :)
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:21, archived)
# that's the trouble with spellchecks.
"wont" doesn't mean the same thing.

[edit]We are a pair of perfectly-matched pedantic fuckers, aren't we? :)
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:02, archived)
# Wont as in
He was wont to ask him.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:03, archived)
# Gah.
Yes. Sorry.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:05, archived)
# chinese water gardens.
...and dictionary definitions

Awww, you guys. how sweet.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:14, archived)
# To Windoze
Perhaps
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:02, archived)
# Easy where you're pointing that dance.
We've got about 12" over here in Canada.

*fnar*
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:49, archived)
# i was working at one of their gigs recently
and when they sang that one, we turned on some snow machines just to prove 'em wrong.

it's the little things which keep me amused
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:56, archived)
# what happens
if you do a Charles Dance?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:44, archived)
# your teeth start gnashing
and you can't stop talking bolloks.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:47, archived)
# It
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:51, archived)
# neece
wyh
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:26, archived)
# Splendiferous
and Fantastricosious
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:26, archived)
# That
is sheer 'kin art.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:26, archived)
# Once again,
your skills put us prols to shame.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:27, archived)
# I'm not a prol
I'm a pleb.
:)
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:28, archived)
# Ah,
sorry.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:29, archived)
# 'tis actually not too difficult
if you pick the right source images
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:33, archived)
# where
do you get yours from then? I seem always to use the wrong search terms or something in google. Takes me ages to find anything useful.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:33, archived)
# stop typing in
"scantily clad chesney hawkes" then.
try something different instead.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:35, archived)
# but he is
the one and only....
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:35, archived)
# there's nobody
i'd rather be.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:37, archived)
# *retches*
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:46, archived)
# i know someone
who was asked out by a chap. she searched his name on the interweb (don't ask me) and found out he was the chairman of the UK chesney hawkes fan club.

history doesn't relate how the date went...
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:56, archived)
# that's an excellent
chesney hawkes related anecdote. i have none. :(
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:57, archived)
# My brother
looks a bit like him.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:01, archived)
# what?
the chairman of the Chesney Hawkes fan club?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:28, archived)
# one of my best friends
snogged his sister.
it's the best I've got in my Chesney Hawkes anecdote arsenal
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:05, archived)
# I have fuck all
at least you have that.
shit.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:07, archived)
# you could always make one up
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:12, archived)
# Even better..
do you know where he lives?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:15, archived)
# i'll ask my friend
to ask the chap. i'm sure he does.

or is that the feedline to a joke?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:17, archived)
# whilst sober
i have anecdotes for all occasions
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:09, archived)
# Damn
You could have some real fun on a blind date by searching their names first...

It's almost a shame I'll never go on one again.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:59, archived)
# i think you've got to make sure
you're only asked out by people with unusual names.

having said that, googling for me does actually bring me up. but i'm not telling...
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:11, archived)
# i am an
image bank convert - much nicer quality pics... but i still use google as well :)
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:36, archived)
# what's the image bank
or more importantly where is it?
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:47, archived)
# getty images
see slims post below....
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:50, archived)
# ditto
what the good Dr just said
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:36, archived)
# I reckon
that I look at loads of images on google, pbase and other photo sites that I decide I can't use, but which other people on here would think up uses for easily.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:37, archived)
# of course
it is highly improper to borrow images from here:
creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.asp
And the Houlton Archive collection is fabulous for black & white pics.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:37, archived)
# Naughty chap.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:42, archived)
# took me ages
to work out that that page is broken in mozilla! You have to scroll down a page to see the content! Ho hum.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:44, archived)
# Yeah,
but you have the imagination and skills to put images together really well.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:34, archived)
# :)
w/y/h
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:27, archived)
# super
t'riffic.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:28, archived)
# Surreally lovely
No...Sureally is

Sir , Likealot
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:28, archived)
# a lepidomnibusterist's wet dream
and a very woo one at that :)
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:29, archived)
# Spektakulur
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:29, archived)
# Oh
lovely!
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:33, archived)
# Arf
arf arf! WYH
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:39, archived)
# That's
freakin' beautiful.
(, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:53, archived)