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[dales]

Danger , Will Robinson.........(obscure reference, I know).

[MajGenl.Meade]

[oldr_n_wsr]

Billy Mumy

[dales]

And...he was part of barnes and barnes

[MajGenl.Meade]

Not only that but he has an autographed picture of them too!

[dales]

Does a Chinese person get hungry 2 hours after eating American food?

[The Hen]

I wore a chicken on my should-argh today, I didnae have a parrot for International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

I scuttled some butt and pooped on decks.

[MajGenl.Meade]

He ravished my fantailed pigeons and
me lily- white columbines.
And while I was locking up my budgerigar
he jumped my parrot from behind
she was sitting on my should-argh at the time

[Gob]

You see them great daft buggers up there? They'll be down in a minute or two....

[Lord Jim]

I know way more about Joe Theisman's prostate than I ever wanted to know....

[oldr_n_wsr]

Remind you to tell you about mine.

[Crackpot]

I blew my nose and lost my sense of balance

[Gob]

Check your hanky for your brain!!

[The Hen]

I was wrong. It wasn't a chicken but a cock.

Argh. I spent all day with a cock on me should-argh, and nobody noticed.

Quick! Tell Andrew.

[loCAtek]

All cocked up, and no where to go?

[Rick]

Give em enough rope and they'll paint themselves into a corner...

[Gob]

Why ropey?

I looked it up...

For those unfamiliar with the word it is a slang expression (ropey/ropy) meaning inferior or of poor quality, as a ‘ropy outfit.’ The word can also mean slightly unwell, ‘one degree under,’ as: ‘I’m feeling rather ropy.’(Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)
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ROPEY adjective [1940s and still in use] (originally Royal Air Force) second-rate, inadequate, mediocre, rundown, etc. [? RAF use, an obsolete aircraft, overburdened with a variety of ropes] (Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang)
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ROPEY, ROPY (1942): 1. Bad quality. Perhaps from earlier sense, sticky and stringy <It is, of course, very difficult to get waiters on New Year’s Eve, if you hire them outside you may get a few ropey types. (1957)—Daily Mail>. 2. Illness. From earlier sense, of poor quality <I feel a bit ropey . . . I think I’ve picked up some sort of virus (1961)—Sunday Express>. (Oxford Dictionary of Slang)
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ROPEY,ROPY 1. Applied to ‘paint drying out with a rope-like appearance’: builders’ and housepainters’ colloquialism late 19th and 20th century. —2. (of a person) inefficient or dilatory or careless of appearance; (of an action, etc.) clumsy or inefficient; (of things, e.g. an aircraft, a meal) inferior: Royal Air Force (RAF) circa 1930 Perhaps from sense one, but more probably ‘from certain obsolete types of aircraft that carried an excess—or what seemed an excess—of ropes. 3—Hence generally disliked; unpopular: Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF): WW2 (from Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English)

[MajGenl.Meade]

That's the trouble with rowing alone across the Atlantic. It's just row, pee, row, pee and it's all single-handed

[The Hen]

I thought it was the way Heston plated up his latest pre-born fish and vegetable creation?

Roe, pea, roe, pea, roe, pea ....

[Rick]

Down here the Cajuns say pirogue, pirogue, pirogue...