WE CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MOTION PICTURE
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Wow, that might as well have been written in another language.
Posted by: Layla | August 08, 2004 at 10:27 AM
it was.. Scottish
Posted by: Dave (not Barry.. calm down) | August 08, 2004 at 10:28 AM
No wonder: I don't know Scottish.
Posted by: Layla | August 08, 2004 at 10:31 AM
wow. when did this become a serious problem? what the hell is a cockle? is it like the cockles of your heart? it must be a great job if there is so much strife, right? why am i asking you all?
Posted by: queensbee | August 08, 2004 at 10:43 AM
If its not Scotish its crap
Posted by: MadScientist | August 08, 2004 at 11:06 AM
He's a good question: How many cockles, could a cockle picker pick, if a cockle picker, could pick cockles????
Posted by: BMX3 | August 08, 2004 at 11:16 AM
cockles are these shell thingies...i think.they're also found on some places in new zealand [discovery channel]
cockless is a man with cockle sized...courage.
spockless is a spaceship minus an imp crew member
Posted by: Bangi_Sizzles | August 08, 2004 at 11:18 AM
OK, someone tell me what a "tractor" is in Scotland. Does it float, and if not, how did the cockle pickers end up in the water? Totally confused in SoCal...
Posted by: Brad | August 08, 2004 at 11:51 AM
. . .but you can't pick your relatives.
Posted by: Pilsenerman | August 08, 2004 at 12:34 PM
I've been to Morecombe and believe me, it was probably suicide. On the way out of the place my friend -- British, by the way -- pretended to call in a tactical nuclear strike. Only pretended because he didn't have the ability to really do it.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 08, 2004 at 12:41 PM
Cockles are bivalve molluscs. They make soups and pies out of them.
I've never understood the Old English saying, "It warms the cockles of my heart." Cockle shells are well, sort of vaguely heart-shaped, I guess, but even that wouldn't make much sense. Sort of like saying "That really tingles the waterbugs in my brain."
Posted by: Gregg | August 08, 2004 at 12:57 PM
"...crying cockles and mussels alive alive ohhhhh.... LOOK OUT!" [Crash]
Posted by: sj | August 08, 2004 at 01:01 PM
Let's... get... ready... toooo... R-U-M-B-L-E !!
Posted by: Tim | August 08, 2004 at 01:03 PM
Oh and Brad, the tractors are just tractors, as you think of them. They pull trawlers across the sands at low tide to dredge up the cockles. Since they were stranded more than four miles out, though, and the tides were returning, they could have found themselves treading in ice-cold water.
Posted by: Gregg | August 08, 2004 at 01:04 PM
Holy cr@p Gregg!! Now that is something I never would hve guessed about the tractors. In fact, I'd never have guessed that about the tides. And the really funny part about it is that my favorite vacation story to tell is flying into Anchorage at low tide. I know how this stuff works in the northern latitudes.
LOL!! Thanks for splaining it.
Posted by: Brad | August 08, 2004 at 01:29 PM
Of course "Scottish Cockle Pickers" WBAGNFARB
Posted by: slowlayne | August 08, 2004 at 04:35 PM
It’s not quite a cockle-picking limerick but it will cockle-picking have to do:
Scottish cockle pickers picking cockles on the flats
And Chinese cockle pickers soon cooked up a spat
In copters and in hovercraft the rescuers they flew
To save the cockle pickers – yes they came in lifeboats too
But the top cop of Cumbria smelled a cockle picking rat
Posted by: slowlayne | August 08, 2004 at 04:48 PM
Oh God(s),I'm going to mitterate in my shorts!
NO MAS !!!
Posted by: Sean | August 08, 2004 at 05:36 PM
Cockle picker turf war.... well I guess you learn something new every day.
Posted by: entertainment news | August 08, 2004 at 06:21 PM
doesn't a turf war require grass?
Posted by: sj | August 08, 2004 at 06:44 PM
Yes, sj, turf wars require grass. What sport doesn't require grass?
Posted by: Doug Brockmeier | August 08, 2004 at 07:17 PM
Duh, we Americans can be sooo stoopid.
In other places, where there isn't enough land, they have
SURF Wars.
Posted by: usalaurie | August 09, 2004 at 04:28 AM
Here's a cockle. And if you act now, you can get this real CARDIIDAE Nemocardium beechei Reeve with PERIOSTRACUM for a bargain price!
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | August 09, 2004 at 04:53 AM
Ahhh, welcome back MKJ! Nice to have the eBay items showing back up. Jeff tried to fill in while you were gone, but no-one can fill your shoes (figuratively speaking)
Posted by: Higgy | August 09, 2004 at 05:18 AM
Higgy has welcomed back M K J
Who posts clever things found on e-Bay
But the real news;
M auctioned his shoes
Higgy bought them and is walking away
Posted by: slowlayne | August 09, 2004 at 05:24 AM
Welcome back Mahatma!!! We missed you!
Posted by: Leetie | August 09, 2004 at 05:33 AM
djtonyb: Yes, but I ate and/or drank all of them. Well except the books.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | August 09, 2004 at 06:36 AM
*What sport doesn't require grass?*
HMMM, how about Hockey?
Posted by: Lily | August 09, 2004 at 07:04 AM
MKJ's back! Woohoo!
And not a moment too spare, now that Dave's gone overseas to Greece.
Hope he makes it in at low tide ... otherwise, he could be shell shucked.
Posted by: MOTW | August 09, 2004 at 07:04 AM
Is bowling a sport? That would count.
Posted by: Brainy Jello | August 09, 2004 at 07:22 AM
As would ping-pong or basketball.
Posted by: Brainy Jello | August 09, 2004 at 07:23 AM
Or the high jump, pole vault, NASCAR, shuffleboard, archery, tennis (I know - sometimes), racquetball...
Posted by: Brainy Jello | August 09, 2004 at 07:27 AM
...skiiing, curling, swimming, diving - or have you mean a different kind of grass all along?
Posted by: Briany Jello | August 09, 2004 at 07:29 AM
Tennis has grass, ping pong has none.
Both games are the same except with tennis you get on the table to play.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | August 09, 2004 at 08:12 AM
With hockey, you could have dueling Zambonis.
Posted by: Lily | August 09, 2004 at 08:18 AM
EVERYone knows the ONLY TRUE SPORT is Football (soccer has nothing to do with it.)
Posted by: morty | August 09, 2004 at 08:47 AM
Nah, too much inaction in football for me. Four hours of Super Bowl, and if you edit out everything but the actual plays, it adds up to about 20 minutes. Baseball is even worse -- about 9 minutes of actual play.
Hockey blows them away with a much better real-time-to-actual-action ratio. (And no, I'm not talking about fighting, which is actually relatively rare these days in pro hockey -- the "
"goons" of yesteryear don't really exist anymore -- and virtually non-existent in college hockey.) It's also the sport that I think takes the most skill. You try accurately shooting a little piece of rubber into a net, using an actually pretty heavy curved stick, while travelling 25 mph on skates, while the people around you are actively trying to knock you off of said skates. :-)
Posted by: Gregg | August 09, 2004 at 04:37 PM
Apparently, some of us have radically different conceptions of the word "grass."
Posted by: Doug Brockmeier | August 09, 2004 at 06:14 PM
Oh I'm not a cockle picker, I'm a cockle picker's son,
and I'm sick o' suckin' cockles while the cockle pickin's done!
I'm no good at pickin' cockles, I jus' do it for me Dad,
Me Mama caught me at it, an' she said that I were bad.
They stuck me in the tractor, but they wouldna' let me steer,
so instead o' suckin' cockles, I'm jus' chuggin' all their beer!
Posted by: Andy Perrin | August 09, 2004 at 08:32 PM
Andy P - made me laugh. :)
Posted by: iolite | August 10, 2004 at 08:28 AM
Cockle picker tractor carrier drivers playing chicken is what this is all about.
Posted by: philintexas | August 10, 2004 at 03:51 PM