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ArkAngel [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-25 8:01:46 PM  
I hear those things are awfully loud
 
BizarreMan [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-25 8:18:21 PM  
Yea, farkers are pretty loud.  Especially when they've been drinking.
 
Declassify Issue  
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2019-06-25 10:39:52 PM  
Can you guess which beer he is drinking?
 
Gig103  
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2019-06-25 10:40:37 PM  
What about us braindead slobs?
 
TorpedoOrca  
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2019-06-25 10:41:11 PM  
The zoo tried to get him to take the track, too, but with a chance the track could bend,

WARNING! WARNING!

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF DAD PUN LEVELS EXCEEDED!

TAB WILL AUTOCLOSE IN THREE, TWO, ON*CLICK*
 
morg  
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2019-06-25 10:44:03 PM  
I didn't read the thread from a few days ago. What's he got it sitting on? It looked like maybe just wood.
 
aevorea  
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2019-06-25 10:47:16 PM  
I love his Bitey
 
MBooda  
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2019-06-25 10:48:06 PM  
The word "monorail" is a clumsy collision between a Greek prefix and an English suffix. Make it all Greek and call it a "monoraga", or all English and call it a "one-rail". Even if you do that, it still only describes the rail, not the car that rides on it.
 
aevorea  
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2019-06-25 10:48:45 PM  

aevorea: I love his Bitey


NOT A EUPHEMISM DAMNIT

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wantingout  
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2019-06-25 10:55:10 PM  
but what about mononucleosis?
 
unsightly phlebitis  
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2019-06-25 10:58:14 PM  
The people of Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook seen shaking their yellowed, four fingered fists in rage
 
lharvey  
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2019-06-25 11:09:25 PM  
Thanks subby.  I will never get tired of reading about unconventional things being converted to human habitation.  That is all.
 
Alwysadydrmr [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-06-25 11:13:42 PM  

ArkAngel: I hear those things are awfully loud


It glides as softly as a cloud.
 
Trocadero  
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2019-06-25 11:16:55 PM  

MBooda: The word "monorail" is a clumsy collision between a Greek prefix and an English suffix. Make it all Greek and call it a "monoraga", or all English and call it a "one-rail". Even if you do that, it still only describes the rail, not the car that rides on it.


Considering English is a dirty mongrel language of mixed up conquerors tongues, including Old Norse, Old French, Latin (which itself uses a bunch of badly grafted on Greek), Old German, etc, then it really doesn't farking matter.
 
abhorrent1  
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2019-06-25 11:18:12 PM  

Declassify Issue: Can you guess which beer he is drinking?


No because it's so obscure, no one has ever heard of it.
 
DarkSoulNoHope  
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2019-06-25 11:24:43 PM  

Declassify Issue: Can you guess which beer he is drinking?


Duff
 
MythDragon  
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2019-06-25 11:35:02 PM  

wantingout: but what about mononucleosis?


Give me a kiss, and I'll tell you all about it.
 
loki021376  
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2019-06-25 11:37:28 PM  

MBooda: The word "monorail" is a clumsy collision between a Greek prefix and an English suffix. Make it all Greek and call it a "monoraga", or all English and call it a "one-rail". Even if you do that, it still only describes the rail, not the car that rides on it.


Credit to James Nicoll:
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
 
Spaceballer  
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2019-06-25 11:43:26 PM  

Gig103: What about us braindead slobs?


You'll be given cushy jobs!

/or you can be a moderator on fark
 
WTP 2  
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2019-06-25 11:59:35 PM  
and uni-sex means one sex so why is it if they cut men and women's hair that they don't call it bi-sexual ....?
 
ShonenBat  
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2019-06-26 7:17:36 AM  
Was he sent by the Devil?
 
orbister  
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2019-06-26 7:32:36 AM  

loki021376: Credit to James Nicoll:
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.


I love you and James Nicoll equally for that.
 
Bondith  
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2019-06-26 10:02:18 AM  
CSB:
My dad built and drove the monorails at Expo 86 and 88.  Hell, I got to drive it when I was 6.  You turned one know to close the doors on the left side, another knob to close the doors on the right, turned the speed dial up to 3, and then Dad took over to make sure it stopped properly at the next station.

/it's not like I needed to steer or anything
 
HairBolus  
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2019-06-26 11:45:42 AM  
CFAEU (Cool Fact About English Usage)

The preposition "on" can be used to designate location inside a vehicle only when you can you can walk around inside it. E.g. "get on the bus/yacht" vs "get on the taxi/rowboat"

However these monorail cars are not functioning as vehicles but only cabins. Thus for these you wouldn't say "we were drinking beers on the monorail".

// unless  maybe you were pretending they were taking you on a ride.
///  or got so high you thought they were moving.
 
strutin  
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2019-06-26 11:55:27 AM  

Bondith: CSB:
My dad built and drove the monorails at Expo 86 and 88.  Hell, I got to drive it when I was 6.  You turned one know to close the doors on the left side, another knob to close the doors on the right, turned the speed dial up to 3, and then Dad took over to make sure it stopped properly at the next station.

/it's not like I needed to steer or anything


i *Loved* Expo 86..had a season pass, I'd just turned 16 and it felt like the best year of my life!

/it may have been
 
Bondith  
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2019-06-26 12:20:44 PM  

strutin: Bondith: CSB:
My dad built and drove the monorails at Expo 86 and 88.  Hell, I got to drive it when I was 6.  You turned one know to close the doors on the left side, another knob to close the doors on the right, turned the speed dial up to 3, and then Dad took over to make sure it stopped properly at the next station.

/it's not like I needed to steer or anything

i *Loved* Expo 86..had a season pass, I'd just turned 16 and it felt like the best year of my life!

/it may have been


I still have a stuffed Expo Ernie somewhere, along with other odds and sods of souvenirs.
 
que.guero  
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2019-06-26 12:26:45 PM  
Forget it, this is more a Shelbyville idea.
 
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