Monday, 23 May 2011

No, Stop, You’re Killing Me!

A sizeable, irritated beaver has thrown caution to the wind, stretched its legs and taken itself for a jaunt around town.
LOL!
‘There's a beaver holding up [the] main street,’ said Jason Mercredi on the video he captured of the event.
SNORK!
‘It looked huge. I always thought beavers would be smaller,’ Mr Keizer told CBC News...
*gasps for breath*
‘All the beavers I've ever seen have been in water, so you only ever see pieces of them; like, you don't get to see the whole beaver.’
*collapses*
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16 comments:

  1. Macheath23 May 2011 at 14:40

    Just spare a thought for the local TV newsreaders - in NWT, this will be headline news for days.

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  2. Richard23 May 2011 at 14:40

    I can't think of anything to say ('snork' covers most of it), but thanks for the post. Brightened my day.

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  3. Shinar's Basket Case23 May 2011 at 15:14

    Not being American it took me a moment....like that old joke: "What's the difference between Meat and Fish?" Answer- "if you beat your fish it dies"!

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  4. Richard23 May 2011 at 16:05

    I thought that was fairly well-established UK slang by now.

    Armour covering the lower part of the face => beard by the early C20. (I'm pretty sure there is a reference to a man with a 'fine beaver' in Sherlock Holmes somewhere.) Beard => female naughty bits by not long afterwards, from the obvious analogy.

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  5. Funny bone23 May 2011 at 16:37

    The late Leslie Neilsen was in a movie (Naked Gun) and stands at the foot of a ladder in a library while a young woman (Priscilla Presley) goes up. She is wearing a skirt and he looks up, and says: "Nice beaver."

    The girl descends and hands him a large, stuffed beaver and thanks him for the compliment.

    Almost as good as the old radio joke: "Tits like coconuts and sparrows like breadcrumbs."

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  6. Shinar's Basket Case23 May 2011 at 16:48

    "sizeable, irritated beaver "

    Canesten?

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  7. Shinar's Basket Case23 May 2011 at 16:54

    "I thought that was fairly well-established UK slang by now."

    Probably. It sounds almost as stupid as the cringe worthy 'front bottom' (way to guilt trip a generation of women).

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  8. Richard23 May 2011 at 17:13

    Still not as bad as 'foo-foo', which I heard once.

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  9. Mrs Erdleigh23 May 2011 at 17:19

    For anyone who hasn't seen the clip that Funny bone mentions

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyCL-ELRxg

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  10. Angry Exile23 May 2011 at 17:36

    Sometimes they just write themselves, don't they?

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  11. blueknight23 May 2011 at 20:50

    nearly as good as 'I want to complain about woken up every morning by the farmer's cock....'

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  12. Pavlov's Cat23 May 2011 at 23:15

    No please, stop. it's funnier than Huge inflatable beavers at the Winter Olympics

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  13. spadger23 May 2011 at 23:51

    My toolbox has a sticker on it that says


    "save a tree, eat a beaver"

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  14. JuliaM24 May 2011 at 06:38

    "Just spare a thought for the local TV newsreaders..."

    Heh! I had that one in mind as I was reading this :)

    "I thought that was fairly well-established UK slang by now."

    Yup, the Leslie Neilsen film helped :)

    "Sometimes they just write themselves, don't they?"

    This one pretty much did, that's for sure.

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  15. Ross24 May 2011 at 07:09

    Fnarr fnarr

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  16. MTG24 May 2011 at 07:43

    Just as a teacup stains a polished table, time spent in the company of Gadget's vulgar rabble leaves its mark.

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