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[Jill]

YES on original thoughts!

Problem is that as soon as you tell someone else you're basically screwed!

FWIW, of course OWG didn't plagerize. I agree that it was simply a variation on a theme!

[qwerty]

Well, I thought it was completely original. I PM'd him to say that I couldn't compete and would have ended up looking just like he who I was satirizing (who shall remain nameless) if I'd tried.

[copywriter]

Original thoughts? Of course! That's the very thing that made me such OWG and Qwerty fans to begin with. I'd be rolling on the floor from the quips the two of you threw out. But now <sniff... wipes tear> I have to wonder if it's all been a lie. <reaches for another tissue>

Just tell me the truth. The entire time I've know the two of you, have you been... been... been original with me or was it all just an effort to gain my eternal admiration?

[OldWelshGuy]

But all humour is a variation,

Its like there are very few truly original thoughts, and the people who had the original thought did not have the total needed to develop to its full.

The joke i heard was along the lines of a bloke got arrested for carrying a pair of compasses a divider and a slide rule, they said they found weapons of maths instructions concealed about his person.

I still love that 'read my ellipse' that has had me giggling all night.

[OldWelshGuy]

Karon I have to say in our defence..

IT WAS BOB.. BOB I TELL YOU< HE ARRANGED IT ALL

He MADE me do it, he keeps PMing me with what to post next, said that i would suffer if i didnt do as he said, said he would strangle the kitten, (he e mailed me a picture of the kitten as well) I knew he was serious as he threatened to kill a goose once and a few weeks later a tub of Foie Gra appeared in the mail with a US postmark

PLEASE help me!

[copywriter]

Now THAT'S the original OWG humor that splits my sides every time.

[qwerty]

OWG, ixnay on the oosegay, already What have I told you about what happens to naughty tattletales?

Honestly, I've never threatened him. Or the goose. That one was self-defence.

[Jill]

strangle the kitten

Now look where OWG is stealing stuff from...

Strangle the kitten...

Can't you think for yourself for even ONE minute, OWG?

[OldWelshGuy]

For the benefit of Karon and the other whistle blowers I feel I should 'quote source' on the inspiration for the goose remark

I read about 6-10 years ago that a guy in the US held up a bakers shop by running in with a goose under his arm shouting, give me the doughnuts or the goose gets it!

That mental image has stuck with me ever sice!

[OldWelshGuy]

Damn I chose the wrong option to quote source on, knew I should have gone for the kitten strangling one :doh:

[qwerty]

Found it:

A 33-year-old man spent four months in jail before charges of extortion were dropped after he allegedly went into a Bloor Street donut store carrying a goose and demanding money "or the goose gets it." The look of sheer terror on the poor bird's face was enough to send a patron scurrying to the bank machine for $60. The same man allegedly later upgraded to a baby raccoon.

[OldWelshGuy]

Something that funny, you couldn't make it up could you.

OK so I have a warped SOH

I love the clever killer throwaway at the end "The same man allegedly later upgraded to a baby raccoon" Today has been a good day for uplifting belly laughs.

[torka]

So, a baby raccoon is considered an "upgrade" from a goose?

I guess the next step would be a nice fluffy bunny?

(Trying to work this out, as apparently the technique has met with some success in the past... might be useful someday should I find myself short of cash, near a donut shop and in possession of a small, cuddly animal...)

--Torka

[qwerty]

I think goose (ostensibly an adult goose) vs. baby raccoon deals with two separate scales of cuteness: age and surface features. Obviously a baby animal is cuter and more helpless than an adult, but we've also got the range from spiny, to fleshy, to feathered, to furry.

Fur most definitely trumps feathered, just as feathered beats out an animal covered in scales. This guy clearly knew what he was doing, and he's probably saving the cocker spaniel puppy gambit for a really big score.

[dragonlady7]

Aw, man, that's what I was doing wrong. Surface features. Of course. I need more fur...