Oof! Took me a minute
Very subtle, sir. I may have concede defeat on that one.

(At least, the mental wranglings it will require to mangle "am neurotic" with "amniotic" are just too much this late in the working day...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:09, 2 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

you deserve honorable mention for the last though

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Very kind of you, but 'tis but a consolation prize if you can't finish the job
(That's what she said!)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:15, Reply)

You missed a golden opportunity there
to have opened not with 'Oof!' but with 'Oeuf!'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:16, Reply)

Why do French people only ever eat 1 egg?

Becasue 1 egg is an oeuf!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Because
they willingly gave all their other eggs to ze Germans?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:25, Reply)

Some eggs were kept behind to run a sort of shell government called the Vichey
They had similar feelings on non-whites and poached power from the ruling egglite.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Some of those guys were pretty hard-boiled at first
But by the end of the war they'd seen so many atrocities they ended up with their brains a bit scrambled. Terribly sad, really.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:33, Reply)

hah
nice edit
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Little bit of fine tuning....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:33, Reply)

Merde.
And I thought competitive punning in one language was challenging un oeuf. This can't be good for my Ei-sight.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Owwww

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)