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[finbar]

You can laugh, it wasn't your gag that was murdered and buried!

[Alexander's Horse]

Aidan saw me type merkin into google and said, "Dad, what's a merkin?"

[finbar]

See? We've inspired a youthful interest in Shakespeare. Who said this forum was a complete and utter waste of cyberspace and a load of drivel? Apart from Mrs finbar?

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm not even going to ask what sparked your interest in merkins. I'm just glad to have learned a new word today, which I intend to use in the form of say "Hydey, you merkin!"

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
"Hydey, you merkin!"

I can think of worse things to be called

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I'm not even going to ask what sparked your interest in merkins.

Word association. Hydey + merkin = Shakespeare.

[Hydey]

finbar or Shakespere, one of them had tallent, the other plays civ

[finbar]

Tallent is something a bit taller than talent, is it?

[rah]

Yes, I'll have to use merkin in normal conversation and see if anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about,

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by finbar
Good grief, Doctor Voodo, they sure know how to kill a very simple gag, don't they?

Did you see War killing my oxymoron gag in the other thread? That was worse.

[Alexander's Horse]

I saw what I now realise might have been an incredible merkin on the SBS late movie last night.

[rah]

might have been. hmmmmmm Not touching that one.

[finbar]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Did you see War killing my oxymoron gag in the other thread? That was worse.

Face it, Doctor Voodoo, in a landscape of comedic saltbush, we are comedic Redwoods.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by finbar


Word association. Hydey + merkin = Shakespeare.

I don't get it.

Which probably explains why I'm not interested in the Fat Cow puzzles.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


I don't get it.

Which probably explains why I'm not interested in the Fat Cow puzzles.

Fair enough. The website's forums, though, are now chockers with people trying to solve the riddles. Obsessively so. In this Thursday's episode, I called the two female leads Penny Lane and Elanor Rigby. Just for fun. The episode happens to an undisguised attack - on my part - on vegetarians. The obsessives have already noted the Beatle connection via the names, made their own connection to Paul McCartney via the late Linda McCartney's vegetarianism, and are now looking for clues in Paul McCartney's solo albums. All because I had a bit of fun with the characters' names. There are some weird people out there. In here, too, for that matter.