Quote: Griff @ August 11 2008, 11:13 AM BST*passionately*
See, now that is good editing!
How do you get a book published? Page 8
Quote: zooo @ August 11 2008, 10:56 AM BSTYeah, those selfish bastards!...
mmm harsh, some of them must have had married parents surely! 
..and selfish, what? Homosexuals? Surely, not..
Once, when I was fashion writing for a website, I included a pun involving strongman Jeff Capes in an article about - get this - the new trend for capes.
The sub didn't think much of it and changed it. I waited until she left the office and changed it back, so it was published on the Net in the end.
See, I'll do anything to get pun involving Jeff Capes published.
Kids In The Hall Sketch:
(Old lady talking)
"I'm all in favor of certain people having their own, you know, lifestyle, but...why did they have to take the word "gay"? It's such a lovely word! They've...they've robbed the English language of a beautiful word. I...they have. I mean, now if I say to one of my friends, or one of my friends asks me, "How is your son or daughter feeling?", and I say "Oh, they're feeling gay"...it's a scandal. I've had to stop using the word altogether. Oh. So they've taken "gay" away from us. What was wrong with "pervert"?
And you can't use the word "faggot" anymore either, you...it used to be a lovely bundle of sticks. On cold winters' nights you'd throw another faggot on the fire. But now they work in restaurants, making your salads, being snotty and still expecting fifteen percent.
"Cunnilingus"? My grandfather drove one across America. With pride. He bought the first one off the lot in 1923. Oh, but now they're all gone, forgotten - the Cunnilingus, the Rambler. Oh. I suppose "Rambler" means something filthy now too, does it, does it mean something...?
Can't use the word "fisting" anymore either, oh no. No, no. But back in the forties the girls and I used to fist every Sunday afternoon. It was a knitting stitch, and a very difficult one. I made a lovely yellow afghan full of tiny, intricate fistings, that won a, that won a grand prize at a, at a jamboree. Yeah. Gave up knitting altogether, though, in 1979, finally found out what the word meant, oh no. No, no. I took that afghan with all that lovely fisting and put it up the poop-hole. Oh, that's, that's what we used to call attic. Now they're all gone, locked away, like those beautiful words.
Well, I guess I'm just supposed to fade away, in silence...or be modern and accept it. Fine. I guess I'll just have a F**k Off. Oh, that used to be a summer drink, you know."
Quote: sootyj @ August 11 2008, 11:00 AM BSTThat is a truly pathetic gag.
Hmm...
Quote: Griff @ August 11 2008, 11:06 AM BSTThat's exactly what they did, changed it from a weak gag about sex to a complete non sequitur about food.
To be fair, they could have not got the joke.
Well you could at least give us the transcript.
Honestly, some poeple put no effort in....
Hurrah!
As did Homer in that phenomenal John Walters episode of The Simpsons.
It's a classically old joke but one good enough to be repeated endlessly.
I thought this was a good one: "A poet could not but be gay,"
Quote: Finck @ August 11 2008, 12:58 PM BSTI thought this was a good one: "A poet could not but be gay,"
That doesn't even rhyhme.
rhyhmhe.
Alwhays a fhun word to trhy and spell.
He he. My spilling is not very good today... but I did just type the best word ever.
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[But the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonnie and blythe and good and gay]
You big gay.
I was born on a Tuesday.
Did you just finish something then?
Quote: zooo @ August 11 2008, 12:18 PM BST
Kids In The Hall Sketch:
(Old lady talking)
"I'm all in favor of certain people having their own, you know, lifestyle, but...why did they have to take the word "gay"? It's such a lovely word! They've...they've robbed the English language of a beautiful word. I...they have. I mean, now if I say to one of my friends, or one of my friends asks me, "How is your son or daughter feeling?", and I say "Oh, they're feeling gay"...it's a scandal. I've had to stop using the word altogether. Oh. So they've taken "gay" away from us. What was wrong with "pervert"?
I heard about a web site where they replaced every reference to "gay" with homosexual. There was a singer called (somebody) Gay and they called him (somebody) Homosexual.
Sorry if I haven't got all the details but I think you get the idea.