A very important subject

[Stephen Whiteside]

Boy, David, you did better in the consensus than I did! All I got was one of those little packets of shredded wheat. At least it had pointy ears.

You make a good point, though, but I wonder if we should be more ambitious. It is true we are a small organisation, but perhaps we should nevertheless not restrict ourselves simply to the object. Why not go for the whole predicate? (Predicated, of course, on a sound knowledge of grammar.)

It is true we do not have aqueducts but, given the season, many of us have runny noses. And what, I ask you, did the Romans ever contribute to modern hayfever treatments? Indeed, CT scanning of mummified corpses has shown some very large polyps indeed...and that doesn't even allow for postmortem shrinkage, which can be quite considerable (as can postcoital shrinkage too, of course).

Which brings me to the fall-back position. You need to have eyes on the back of your head, or else you can end up making very unpleasant contact with somebody's left knee - and probably not your own.

Of course, if you're a chook or a duck it's quite handy to have eyes in the back of your head also, what with all those half-starved eagles patrolling the skies.

We bush poets are better off having them in the front, though. It's much easier to read the computer screen that way, and audiences much prefer it if performers' eyes, nose and mouth are all lined up on the same side of their head.

[David Campbell]

Maureen, scientists have established that men are right out of this world, but nobody has yet pinpointed precisely where.

Succinctly put, Stephen, and I couldn't agree more. Statistically speaking, there are too many shrubbery figures in bush poetry!

[Mal McLean]

Well, one shouldn't overlook the causes of cause and effect, of course, but isn't it equally important to overlook the effects if you do? I mean, the tragedy of, for example, a grossly undercooked boiled egg begs the question, doesn't it?

[Stephen Whiteside]

Yes, Mal, it does, and that's exactly why we need a strong, united ABPA.

[Mal McLean]

Absolutely Stephen. We are as one on this, and whatever that maybe, I will defend your right to express your point of view even so far as to remonstrate with those who will not listen or do not care or understand. Curse them all! Let us go Dante like into the sunset with our dignity intact.

I remain your humble and obedient servant, sir.

[Stephen Whiteside]

To quote Flanders & Swann,

"It's not irrelephant. It's a hippopotamus."

[Stephen Whiteside]

Oh. I get it, Marty. That's funny.

[Stephen Whiteside]

Marty, thinking a little more logically about your post, the timing of the procurement of time travel would remain very relevant until the time it had been procured - after which it would no longer be being demanded. So...

[manfredvijars]

Sorry - Time's up!!!!

[Ron]

Don't know if I'm barking up the wrong tree here Stephen but here goes

The apathy of empathy creates prospective enmity
Though amity with empathy creates effective lenity!
So amenity from unity to …perfect all sanity
Then humanity’s duality must reject all vanity

Ron