Question for Hitcher

**White trash** · 27th January 2005, 13:08

Originally Posted by Honda

Or it has something to do with the fact that its too hot to sleep, I'm awake during the day, on night shift and really should be asleep, but I just don't get it

Have a look again tomorrow. Then you'll get it.

**Hitcher** · 27th January 2005, 13:21

Originally Posted by alucard_draken

Hmmm, I don't get it, maybe because I don't know Hitcher yet. I should probably try to meet him on a ride somewhere so that I can understand this humorous joke.

I look forward to it.

**Slipstream** · 27th January 2005, 13:27

This got me thinking of Hitcher aswell as Jrandom

What would our posts be like without you guys

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" Based on the performance by Mary Poppins Soundtrack
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" Parody by Sweet Indigo

I thought I'd never do this song, but then I had the idea and had to write it before you could say flaucinoccinihilipilification. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' was invented by some smart geezer as a word to mean 'fear of long words'. In verse 1, 'vocabulary' must be pronounced with a Gilbert and Sullivan-esque emphasis on the 'lary' so that it rhymes with 'hairy'. Also, pronounce phobia 'phobe-ya'. And remember, never use a long word where a diminutive one will do!

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Means that my verbosity might cause you melancholia
I'll attempt to keep to brevity that might console ya
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

(Speak an affirmative, if you say aye
speak an affirmative, if you say aye)

My tendency to vacillate when I was but a lad
Made my patriarch pontificate that I was bad
His punitative measures were so physically cruel
For my vocabulary had rebelled against his rule

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Made my father metamorphose into a great ogre
He paddled on my derriere from May until October
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

(Lost effervescency, made rather shy
lost effervescency, made rather shy)

I flew from Great Britannia and I found Tajikistan
To cogitate and contemplate; accumulate a tan
The peoples there indigenous would listen to me talk
They'd stay there temporarily then have to take a walk

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
I diagnosed afflictions from New Zealand to Mongolia
You say "Salutations" and they just don't want to know ya
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

(Never belligerent, that I deny
never belligerent, that I deny)

So if a feline quadruped has grappled on your tongue
Be not apprehensive when you hear a word so long
Greet with jubilation every lengthy word you hear
For quantitatively rich words are nothing you should fear

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Even when intoxicated makes one rather sober
Why trust the diminutive when it's so mediocre?
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!

**Hitcher** · 27th January 2005, 13:39

Originally Posted by Slipstream

Also, pronounce phobia 'phobe-ya'.

I'm now having my granny-nap...

**inlinefour** · 27th January 2005, 13:55

Originally Posted by White trash

Have a look again tomorrow. Then you'll get it.

I'll still be the same as night shift will continue...

**crashe** · 27th January 2005, 14:00

Thanks for putting up the site for us to go and look at it....

I too can only get yesterday's and all previous issues...
So tomorrow I'm gonna check out today's issue....
Nothing like being a day behind on whats happening in this world...lol.

**White trash** · 27th January 2005, 14:31

Originally Posted by Honda

I'll still be the same as night shift will continue...

Ummmmmmm dude, I meant the cartoon will be different........

**inlinefour** · 27th January 2005, 23:10

Originally Posted by White trash

Ummmmmmm dude, I meant the cartoon will be different........

Oh, I see now. Cheers

**Waylander** · 28th January 2005, 00:42

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I look forward to it.

Thank you very much for the punctuation and spelling check. I seem to do that a lot on here, but hopefuly i can change that for the future. Maybe you could teach me.

**inlinefour** · 28th January 2005, 02:21

Originally Posted by alucard_draken

Thank you very much for the punctuation and spelling check. I seem to do that a lot on here, but hopefuly i can change that for the future. Maybe you could teach me.

punctuation? some people must be bored...

**Hitcher** · 28th January 2005, 08:03

Originally Posted by alucard_draken

Maybe you could teach me.

It's not as hard as you may think. We could do this using a series of "baby steps" until you get the hang of things.

Let's start by aiming to put a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and a fullstop at the end. A sentence is a self-contained statement that generally contains at least one verb (a doing word) and which can be read out loud with one breath.

**Slipstream** · 28th January 2005, 08:06

Hitcher....I though a capital at the beginning and a period at the end, was the polite definition of a Presidential/Mistress pregnancy scare....not a sentence....hmm, maybe that's the same thing.