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A New Yorker cartoon depicts a secretary sitting at her desk and the caption reads: "Miss Betts, I´m going to need a hacksaw, some green glitter and a flounder for my four o´clock." (The secretary can be interpreted as looking slightly bemused or puzzled.)
Is the joke simply in the surreal assortment of objects - or is it connected with some strange, American meaning of "four o´clock"?
Is her boss referring to a four o´clock appointment, a four o´clock meal or what - and if he is, how does that "explain the joke"?
Lustig
Is the joke simply in the surreal assortment of objects - or is it connected with some strange, American meaning of "four o´clock"?
Is her boss referring to a four o´clock appointment, a four o´clock meal or what - and if he is, how does that "explain the joke"?
Lustig
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> The usual meaning would be the appointment one. Maybe there is some other clue in the cartoon such as the company name or it could just be of those cartoons that tries but fails to be funny. The point may just be having the secretary wonder why the boss could possibly need those items (and should she really get them).
- > The usual meaning would be the appointment one.
- Maybe there is some other clue in the cartoon such as the company name or it could just be of those cartoons that tries but fails to be funny.
- The point may just be having the secretary wonder why the boss could possibly need those items (and should she really get them).
- Richard Maurer To reply, remove half Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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The usual meaning would be the appointment one.
Maybe there is some other clue in the cartoon
such as the company name or it could just be
of those cartoons that tries but fails to be funny. The point may just be having the secretary wonder
why the boss could possibly need those items
(and should she really get them).
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyv
The usual meaning would be the appointment one.
Maybe there is some other clue in the cartoon
such as the company name or it could just be
of those cartoons that tries but fails to be funny. The point may just be having the secretary wonder
why the boss could possibly need those items
(and should she really get them).
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyv
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In our last episode,
(Email Removed), the lovely and talented Anders Lustig
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]A New Yorker cartoon depicts a secretary sitting at her desk and the caption reads: "Miss Betts, I´m going to ... is it connected with some strange, American meaning of "four o´clock"? Is her boss referring to a four o´clock appointment,[/nq]
Yes.
[nq:1]a four o´clo
(Email Removed), the lovely and talented Anders Lustig
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]A New Yorker cartoon depicts a secretary sitting at her desk and the caption reads: "Miss Betts, I´m going to ... is it connected with some strange, American meaning of "four o´clock"? Is her boss referring to a four o´clock appointment,[/nq]
Yes.
[nq:1]a four o´clo
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Lars Eighner filted:
[nq:1]the lovely and talented Anders Lustig broadcast on alt.usage.english:[/nq]
[nq:2]A New Yorker cartoon depicts a secretary sitting at her ... secretary can be interpreted as looking slightly bemused or puzzled.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Not everyone gets this kind of humor. Try to imagine what kind of appointment would require such items.[/nq]
Somewhere I have a cartoon
[nq:1]the lovely and talented Anders Lustig broadcast on alt.usage.english:[/nq]
[nq:2]A New Yorker cartoon depicts a secretary sitting at her ... secretary can be interpreted as looking slightly bemused or puzzled.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Not everyone gets this kind of humor. Try to imagine what kind of appointment would require such items.[/nq]
Somewhere I have a cartoon
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R H Draney falt:
[nq:1]A few weeks later when the big day rolled around, we loaded her luggage (1) into the car and she ... The vaseline proved practical later; we were bound for high elevation and she experienced chapped lips from the low humidity...[/nq]
Which ones, her ***** majora or minora?
[nq:1]when we returned, I took the chicken keychain to work with me where it remained until
[nq:1]A few weeks later when the big day rolled around, we loaded her luggage (1) into the car and she ... The vaseline proved practical later; we were bound for high elevation and she experienced chapped lips from the low humidity...[/nq]
Which ones, her ***** majora or minora?
[nq:1]when we returned, I took the chicken keychain to work with me where it remained until
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Rey filted:
[nq:1]R H Draney falt:[/nq]
[nq:2]when we returned, I took the chicken keychain to work with me where it remained until a rustler stole it from my desk one night..r[/nq]
[nq:1]And, and? Don't suppress the juicy stuff, pal! What did you do with the handcuffs up on the mountain and upon return?[/nq]
It's been fun, but really, everything exciting to tell about this particu
[nq:1]R H Draney falt:[/nq]
[nq:2]when we returned, I took the chicken keychain to work with me where it remained until a rustler stole it from my desk one night..r[/nq]
[nq:1]And, and? Don't suppress the juicy stuff, pal! What did you do with the handcuffs up on the mountain and upon return?[/nq]
It's been fun, but really, everything exciting to tell about this particu
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R H Draney falt:
[nq:1]Rey filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]R H Draney falt: And, and? Don't suppress the juicy ... with the handcuffs up on the mountain and upon return?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's been fun, but really, everything exciting to tell about this particular trip has already been divulged..[/nq]
I don't think so. Up in the mountains with a submissive chick and handcuffs.. Birch trees all around
[nq:1]Rey filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]R H Draney falt: And, and? Don't suppress the juicy ... with the handcuffs up on the mountain and upon return?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's been fun, but really, everything exciting to tell about this particular trip has already been divulged..[/nq]
I don't think so. Up in the mountains with a submissive chick and handcuffs.. Birch trees all around
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Reinhold (Rey) Aman hat gefilt:
[nq:1]R H Draney falt:[/nq]
Eroically speaking, one has to do that twice to get six.
Skitt (speaking wierdly)
[nq:1]R H Draney falt:[/nq]
Eroically speaking, one has to do that twice to get six.
Skitt (speaking wierdly)
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[nq:1]Skitt (speaking wierdly)[/nq]
Spelling it "wierdly" is spelling it weirdly.
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
Spelling it "wierdly" is spelling it weirdly.
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
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[nq:2]Skitt (speaking wierdly)[/nq]
[nq:1]Spelling it "wierdly" is spelling it weirdly.[/nq]
Exactly!
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
[nq:1]Spelling it "wierdly" is spelling it weirdly.[/nq]
Exactly!
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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[nq:1]Reinhold (Rey) Aman hat gefilt:[/nq]
[nq:2]R H Draney falt: I don't think so. Up in ... handcuffed to your stick shift while listening to Beethoven's "Erotica"....[/nq]
[nq:1]Eroically speaking, one has to do that twice to get six.[/nq]
I like it. Far more imaginative, wittier, and kinder than the 'Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong' we've seen from some when minor errors are perceived
[nq:2]R H Draney falt: I don't think so. Up in ... handcuffed to your stick shift while listening to Beethoven's "Erotica"....[/nq]
[nq:1]Eroically speaking, one has to do that twice to get six.[/nq]
I like it. Far more imaginative, wittier, and kinder than the 'Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong' we've seen from some when minor errors are perceived
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