that we won't pass 50,000 comments in time for the anniversary on the 17th - though we are through 48,000.
Roger is in charge today - though he thought he was on a day off. Jeremy rang him at 0820 to get him in. He is still in his cycling gear. Which is odd because he takes the tube.
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Eddie
re Roger in cycling gear, so....your point being?
A lot of us just lurve wearing body hugging lycra cyclists attire...it doesn't necessarily mean we have a bicycle.
DIY
Dear Lord Mair
You might just get a little closer to the 50,000 comments if the very few I send in stop being interceopted by the BlogMastertechno inchargeperson.
Other than that have a nice day. The sun is shining today here on the Sunshine Coast.
Only recently spotted the straplines and today's is very good.
Oh, you think so Mr Mair?
2000 comments in a week must surely be within the power of the Froggers.
Some suggestions to help increase the bloggage:
* Ask for opinions on how balanced the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is.
* Get whatsisface back on the programme to defend his stance on Special Educational Needs
* Instead of the usual chat with Paddy tonight, have a bare fish fight with him (better sound effects than a fist fight)
* Pretend on air that the bosses want to move PM to four o'clock
* Ask whether Daily Mail readers have any thoughts on house prices
* Play the PM theme tune / Radio 4 theme / Sailing By / Theme to The Protectors
* Play the pips at 5:14
* Play the trailer for Eastenders (apparently some kind of drama programme set in London) which is currently infesting Radio 2
* Drink more coffee and post all night long
Perhaps he cycled along the rails?
I think the problem with covering 2000 in a week will lie with the speed of the mods, etc., in allowing posts through.
But I, for one, am game. From now on I'll divide my posts into two ;o)
Are we to let this be a challenge to us?
DIY: Ah, so that's why there are so many cycle lanes and no cyclists in them. The Council obviously saw all the gear and thought the City was full of cyclists.
Chris (5) - I'm sure it is; Eddie knows we wouldn't just let that pass by. Get those fingers warmed up!
SSC - a truly inspired list, specially re Mr Adonis ( I refuse to use an honourific in respect of that person ).
Re Roger's outfit...
Get him to come in unexpectedly again tomorrow. See if he arrives in his recycling gear.
Big Sister (4):
I'm avidly awaiting the second half of your post...
Just to revive old traditions:
sb (7)
Ok Eddie here goes.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light day.
No really it's NOT a challenge! I don't really keep daily count but it's about 200-250 I think.
Robert Grover (2) - I agree with you. Today's strapline is probably the best that we have had in ages. Yes - very,very clever.
And the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Vyle (6)
may be....but it could also be that Ken is a closet lycra fan and in the wee small hours he can be seen cycling the quiet streets of ol' London Town?
DIY
And God said,
SSC - loved the list.
But malicious post interceptor is very likely to scupper any attempt to reach 50,000.
...tries again....
SSC: Just for you Birthday Boy!
We need 2000 postings between now and next Friday, which equates to around 285 per day.
We have a veritable army of regular froggers - Here are just 27:
Little Miss Poppy
DI Wyman
witchiwoman
Wonko
The Stainless Steel Cat
Fearless Fred
Simon Worrall
silver-fox
Peej
RJD
Anne P.
Humph
Sid Cumberland
Aperitif
nikki noodle
mac
Chris Ghoti
Annasee
Vyle Hernia
jonnie
Frances O
anydcroak/andy cragg
Molly
Bedd Gelert
Gillianian
Fifi
Big Sis
ValP
and lots more besides ......
Now, we only need each regular frogger to post 10 times a day, at this rate. But, of course, we know that it is less easy for some than others. So, if we put our shoulder to the grindstone, we can easily do this.
If you're short of things to say, split your posts into two or three bites.
C'mon guys! Let's give it our best shot!
[Also posted on the Beach]
Somehow, I think we can manage 2000 posts between us by then. After all, we're averaging at about 1000 per week, and that includes the early life of the blog , before beaches were invented :)
TRG (11)
....and lo, you could see for bloody miles!
DIY
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Reverend, @9&10, what has become of verse 2?
Stuck in the approval queue?
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Eddie - Maybe Roger does a bit of cycling after he gets off the tube. There are usually plenty of available.
Here's one from me to add to the collection.
Glad to see so many of you continuing to make the PM blog the success it is!
The Reverend Green - It doesn't always work in the Bible you know.
- Then the Lord cried with a loud voice,' Lazarus, come forth'. But Lazarus came fifth and the Lord lost his place money and wasn't half uspset.-
Big Sis - if you had put that those names up one at a time we could have been halfway there already.
You are all CRAZY! But I will try to help by posting over the weekend...
Big Sis (21)
magic....I am lying under Little Miss Poppy…….what a perfect day!
ok....ok.......i'll be on the naughty step......
DIY
I'm posting this one here. 'cos MY GUESS IS the Dow opening numbers in New York will be very odd indeed.
Will we see panic rushes INTO money away from shares etc? The Euro Bank thinks so.
But then these capitalists come to see the money they hold as merely paper printed by govt.
So they rush back into shares.....etc.... Chris Ghoti's pannicky days, August in New York, that can last forever....
That seemed to be the view Eddie Mair was arguing for, an oscillatory process.
Such oscillations can become undamped ,getting larger and larger.
It seems more likely however that the usual patterns will emerge.
Here, (UK), where we have concentrated on financial assets so that little productive capacity exists all will seem lost and there will be a huge run on the pound.
In countries similar but more stable the rush will be in to gold (USA)
In countries with huge production capacity that very production will seem pointless.
In both those cases depression is the real fear. How could inflation arise unless productive capacities are seen as scarce, which they just are not in the Western world and its satellites.
It is just conceivable that there will be an inflationary rush into real estate here (UK) but a rush out of the currency altogether seems more likely here.
It is difficult not to believe that Governor King is either whistling in the dark or he is just in the dark. From what I know of him ,the latter is more likely.
Anyway. Where are we? Ans. At 6000 in London. Where do markets 'want' to go? Why, back to 6,800 of course. Why should that extra 200 billion pounds sterling of spending money acrue to the minority who hold shares and who have an interest in them?
Wouldn't the spending it creates be better spent on schools, hospitals, etc, poverty allieviation etc.
Rather than give it back to the fat cats (SSC excepted of course) to use on yatchs and third homes and fourth cars lets get government to create spending it where it is most NEEDED.
The obvious answer to why Roger arrives by Tube yet wearing his cycling gear, when he's called in unexpectedly, is surely that he sleeps in that groovy lycra.
I do hope that it has not taken you 51 weeks to realise that, Eddie (30).
H.
Eddie - we are the Froggers, its what we do
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:
PM: With straplines from the headmaster's belt.
Eddie: "Sticks and Stones" etc etc.
But, haven't you wondered why we're all drawn to this site? ;o)
and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven.
RJD (29): I do have other things to do, you know!
Eddie @ 30, not having the use of a computer while I am away this weekend I won't be helping by posting on Saturday.
Eddie (30)
Sir.....I must protest....WE are not CRAZY...we are dedicated professional 'Froggers'.
Yours Sincerely
DIY
So, Big Sis @ 21, if your ideal is for each regular frogger to average 10 posts per day, and I'm away from the computer for one complete day, which would you rather: fifteen posts today, fifteen on Sunday night, or twenty today and ten on Sunday?
Oh my gawd! Sleeping in Lycra! Every time he turns over he'll be in danger of setting his mattress on fire!
Roger: Desist immediately!
I wonder did anyone else find that today's newsletter was automatically transfered to the "Junk e-mail" folder, when opening the reader software that they use? Probably based on the words: "BUY, BUY, BUY"
H.
re Comment 30
Recognition!!! At Last!!!
(although it was a bit of a sweeping generalisation, I mean, "all" ???!!!)
However, there's a song lyric there, as requested by jonnie, i think,
'Maybe I'm crazy for hanging out with you'
n-n
x
Big sis - Other things to do eh? Don't suppose you are going to tell us what they are - in a list - one at a time?
There's something very sad about celebrating, or even remembering, the anniversary of a blog. However it's all 'money well spent' in my eyes. Is there to be a prize for being the 50Kth participant? There's still time to 'blag' something on air!
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Do radio presenters now use those empty hand signals (weighing two gapefruits as if preparing to juggle, demonstating how to screw up and unscrew a plastic grapefruit at the circumference) that TV people and PR characters use all the (irritating) time?
We should be told.
What's the body language analysis of that? A picturesque way of establishing distance?
OK RJD, here goes ,,,
mac,
thanks for that,
what i personally want to know is, will it make my mortgage cheaper or more expensive??!?!?in say, the medium term, ie, 18 months to upto a number of years.
cheers
nikki
Carl - why sad?
Carl: As one of the very fes PM prize listeners to win one of Eddie's very rare prizes, I'd hope recent broadcasting scandals don't stop him from ever offering a prize again.
By the way, Eddie, I now own the collected speeches of the current PM. I wonder if sales of the book have risen as a result?
48,200
Chris: I don't mind how you do it, just DO it! ;o)
Oh, and RJD, just at the moment I'm frogging. My other activities are much much more mundane.
Chris - How are going to manage to cut yourself down to an average of 10 posts a day? :o)
YOU
Thanks, Eddie. We're getting there ......
.... or, Eddie, was that figure you mentioned the sales from GB's book?
YOU PUT
And God called the dry land earth.
RJD Did he get knocked down by a pedestrian?
YOU PUT YOUR
and the gathering of the waters he called Seas.
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM
I had left ´óÏó´«Ã½ PM a photo of a sunset in Key Largo as a birthday present.
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
48250!
I agree with Eddie. You are all mad. Crazy froggers.
Re Roger: "he thought he was on a day off" - so he was obviously getting some training in for his Ironman event.
Can't someone devise a batch program that keeps sending in frog posts?
(A frog post is not a post against which a frog leans.)
Friday 01
(and I doubt if I'll be here over the weekend).
Who is the "I" who has enabled a device that doesn't know the difference between malicious posts and frequent ones?
Friday 03
Who is the "I" who has enabled a device that sees a difference between NH and VH?
Did you 'Buy, buy, buy' Eddie?
If so froggers all please give generously to the EMF.
NY down 140 and London in effect double that.
Eddie, n - n and me: The link may be the solution to all our problems. Though in my case it''ll be clogs to clogs on the park bench 'cos I was brought up in a council house there.
It's 15:13 and nothing has appeared since "14:24".
Eddie, have you employed extra moderators to handle the sudden rush of messages? I do hope so.
Fri 04
DIW...@ 31
OOOOOOOOOO la la!!!!
So, this is the PM Blog then.
I predict we'll pass the 42400 point today.
Will I get a prize?
Incidentally, and this for RJD, I'm currently sitting at my computer.
Eddie: If we're all mad, this must be the loony bin. Are you the shrink, or what?
Big Sis (80) - think you mean 48,400 ? otherwise we're going backwards and we really have fractured the space time continuum.
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR
A thousand green bottles
Hanging on the wall
A thousand green bottles
Hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle
Should accidentally fall
There'll be 999 green bottles
Hanging on the wall.
RJD @ 58, it'll be a sacrifice, true.
Actually, I think my average is under ten, at least it has been during August. If I were at home I could check, but I'm on the way to elsewhere and using an Alien Computer.
999 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
999 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle
Should accidentally fall
There'll be 998 green bottles
Hanging on the wall.
So is this how PM is put together? Always thought it was a random selection, but this.... this is just erm, bonkers
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Fri 04
998 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
998 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle
Should accidentally fall
There'll be 997 green bottles
Hanging on the wall.
LMP (78)
do us favour girl, can you turn over, I have been staring at the back of yer head since 12:25 and also rather prefer more 'traditional' positions when the lady is on top!
ok.....ok......alright.......i'm going back to the naughty step....
All we need now is for Eddie to frog from a train .....
Vyle (73):
Bad Vyle! Onto the naughty step with you.
Mac (76):
Donate to the EMF?
OK, let me just move this coil of wire up and down this magnet...
(Electro-Magnetic Field, or non scientific froggers.)
[Thinks: When manually typing up a lot of data all day, regular breaks are required. Typing messages to the Frog is probably not as good a break as getting away from the computer completely. My fingers may well seize up comp$(&V F£ RHV
...feel free to join in Eddie...
THERE WERE 997 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
997 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle
Should accidentally fall
There'll be 996 green bottles
Hanging on the wall.
43,000!
SSC (82) How does Electro Magnetic Field
(I thought it was Electro Motive Force, but then, I did Latin & Greek so what would I know?)
stand as an alternative to non scientific froggers?
All we need now is for Eddie to frog from a train .....
Message for SSC, watch out for TD taking up residence near you, come October! Phew - what a relief!
I must have got the vibes that you are sorely in need of extra posts. Seeing as how this is the first time I've even been able to log on to the Blog since last week, or was that the week before? at least I've got plenty to say.
AnneP: That was what is known in the trade as a safe bet. ;o)
996 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
996 green bottles
Hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle
Should accidentally fall
There'll be 995 green bottles
Hanging on the wall.
Hmmm, thinks, should have split that last one up?
SB94 btw
And now MY (next) GUESS IS:
All markets will remain down until Europe, with its dreadful socialist instincts, closes. Then Wall Street will suddenly see the way back to capitalist nirvana.
D'you know what's fascinating me the most - I'm actually being able to post on here (for a change, no maliciousness yet) and yet I've only got time to do it because t'Internet won't let me get on to my Wiki. Server Error 500 it said, oh how it felt like the olden days! Actually I got a really nice message (unlike yours Mr Moderator Pixie) which said PBwiki had the hiccups :o)
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT
Ok Lee...
One man went to mow...went to mow a meadow.
:0)
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT ARM
going home in a minute so there may be slight pause in transmissions.....normal service will be resumed later from a pub with wifi...and that is not a wide Fifi!!
VH @ 88
I'm about to
pack my bag with six dozen liquor jugs
and head for Cambridge. See y'all on Sunday or so.
Lee: You can hang your bottles here anytime ......
Chris the Fish
Have you done your 'fair share' for the next few days? By my reckoning, you should have posted 30 times today, and will need to do another 30 on Sunday when you get back.
Oh, and have a good weekend in Cambridge :)
48,350!!!
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT ARM OUT,
in pub with wifi and a cool pint of Cider....the weekend starts here!
Hahahahaha!
We're getting there .......
By the way, I'm sure witchiwoman doesn't speak like that.
Is this or is this not evidence that Britian grinds to a halt on Fridays?
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT ARM OUT,
IN,
in pub with wifi and a 2nd cool pint of Cider....the weekend started here!
Come on froggers! You're slacking ....
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT ARM OUT,
IN,
OUT, (hic)
in pub with wifi and a 3rd cool pint of Cider....the weekend started here a bit ago!
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT ARM OUT,
IN,
OUT, (hic)
INsh,
in wifi with pub and a 3rd cool point of Cdier....thsh weekend started hare a bint ago!
...BOWL OF CHIPS PLEASE MATE.........
Ouch. Ummff. I'm lying underneath jonnie, which is probably not worrying him greatly, but on top of Andycr.
So whose elbow is that? Could you move it a bit, please?
It was Eddie's Money Fund. Its quoted at the link.
Vyle (95):
You are of course completely correct - electromotive force.
The electromagnetic field is where you find Stainless Steel Cows grazing.
Oh yes, and here's that "f" that fell on the floor from my previous post.
Val P (97):
I shall keep an eye open! (And batten down the hatches, if I can find out what "batten" means.)
Congratulations to TD!
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT ARM IN,
YOUR LEFT ARM OUT,
IN,
OUT, (hic)
INsh,
OUT,
SSSHHAKKE ISH...ALL AHBAHT......
in Cid mmmffhhh in point of sumfinkk...
......ANYONE UP FOR A INDY?.............
Bi Sis (140)
NO I AM NOT, I'VE BEEN POSTING..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
As I write, both this thread and this week's beach have already exceeded 100 comments a piece.
So, taking the Beach as an example, 100 comments over 12 hours = 8.33 posts/hour. So if we keep up this rate, the Beach should be full by Monday (600+ comments), and Eddie might have to post an emergency beach to prevent it overcrowding...
If we can fill that one up by Friday, that will be over half our total - so all we need now is for Eddie to find some nice juicy stories to keep us occupied enough to fill out the remaining 800 or so posts...
48,400! Big Sis was right!
A clever woman our Big Sis!
Great news, Mr. Mair.
And lovely to see you here ..... Do you come here often? ;-)
Apologies to Fifi, AnneP and Humph for this one...
Hmmm...if Eddie thinks we're all crazy, and we post on a frog...
A ring ding ding ding d-ding baa aramba baa baa barooumba!
(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
(Yes, I know it's a terrible joke)
(Cue cushion fight - be aware, Fifi's getting very good at aiming after plenty of practice on CamStreams!)
Big Sis (116) I did sound quite posh didn't I!
The minister's cat was an affable cat and her name was Ava
The minister's cat is a bountiful cat and her name is Bertha....
Oh blow - it's put the minister's cat in in the wrong order - that will really screw it up....and now the maliciousness fairy is back casting nasty spells
right off to get a drink.....
mittfh, are you mad!! heh? why you bring up dis crazy frog??!!!
Frances O - it wasn't my 'elbow'...
DiYMAN - if you can order a me chitty shashlick, two spoona pharts, and a nibock, that'd be great, - no poppodums, thanks - I'm on a spelling course!!
n-n
x
Anybody know what time it is?
Good grief!!
What it is to have 'power and influence' and, of course, a blogsite!!
Come on, sir, we are sheep, it seems, bidable and eager to do what pleases you!!
Today 48,400, tomorrow, a lot more, and then this time next week...
...Chairman Mair!!
tee hee!!
what a hoot!!
RJD (132) : it's about 2007, somewhere in the pleisytecene era. (!?). And half twelve in Ankara.
n-n
[sniff]
Big Sis has forgotten me. [21]
[sniff] - I know its my fault but still..... I'm sooooooo... unloved....
I'm sorry Big Sis.... please don't hate me....
whisht she has forgotten me too. Let's creep off together somewhere and drown our sorrows...and possibly dream up curses for people who don't appreciate us - tossed aside we are like the proverbial worn glove!
whisht and admin annie:
How could I ever forget either of you? My list was hastily put together and based on the most recent posts (as I explained elsewhre) and I did say there were many others.
Whisht, dearest, I thought it was you who had forgotten me. How could I forget the sight of that lovely towel folded in the shape of a swan? Those wonderful days in Seville? A shared love of London club football? Ah, so many happy memories!
But where, dear boy, have you been hiding these many weeks?
Lovely to see you!
Admin - of course it's great to see you too. It's just that Whisht and I, well, we have a 'special relationship'
aw... Hi Big Sis!
i was just fishing for attention! and now i'm blushing!!
I've been busy (and this week will be baaaad!) destroying the NHS from within.
Not intentionally mind...
and yes - the footie season has finally begun! (as a mate confessed, its somewhat pathetic that we were so bereft for the few weeks when it wasn't on!)
The minister's cats a cautious cat and his name is Corky!
Good grief I haven't played this since tedious car journeys with the kids. Interestingly skip back a generation to tedious car journeys as a kid when sibling and I discovered that only he and I out of the family saw words in colours (see other thread/Belinda).
I went to the market and brought home an aardvaark.......
all together now....
You put your left arm in, your left arm out
In out, in out, you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around
That's what it's all about
Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey
Knees bent, arms stretched
Raa raa raa
You put your right arm in, your ......
blimey have i got a the worlds biggest 'angover......cor the things i do for froggin!!!!
Val P (138):
The minister's cat is a dynamic cat and his name is Dixie.
I went to the market and brought home an aardvaark and a balalaika...
I'm currently watching my new Morcambe and Wise DVD (the 1968/69 series)
"I was a sergeant in the King's Own."
"The King's Own what?"
"That's nothing to with you..."
The minister's cat is an elegant cat and her name is Eudora.
I went to the market and brought home an aardvaark, a balalaika and a cucumber
(mind you cut and paste is cheating rather...)
The minister's cat is a fearless cat and his name is Fred. ;o)
I've never played this game and don't know the rules. Can anybody help?
The minister's cat is a ginormous cat and his name is Geoffrey
no?
well alright
The minister's cat is a gregarious cat and his name is Goofy
You've NEVER played it...really?
A game beloved of parents wanting to entertain children on long car journeys or just after Sunday lunch. You can require the cat be of the same sex every time or not, you can be flexible about their answers, but basically it helps with adjectives and alphabets.
As for the shopping game it is cumulative, so a sort of 'Kims's Game' - except instead of things being taken away they are added each time. But at least they are added in alphabetical order which helps with remembering.
:-) I'm honoured, BigSis!
Other games are of course available...
Why has Eddie's Twitter one back in time to when he was gasping for tea?
The Minister's cat is a half-siamese cat and her name is Hansolo.
I went to the market and brought home an aardvaark, a balalaika, a cucumber and a dinosaur.
Jeremy Hardy on the News Quiz mentioned a version played by nurses...
Last night a man came into A&E and we removed from him a carrot...
Last night a man came into A&E and we removed from him a carrot and a lamp shade...
Last night a man came into A&E and we removed from him a carrot, a lamp shade and a bust of Napoleon...
So something along the lines of
The minister's cat is an fragrant cat and her name is Fiona
I went to the market and brought home an aardvaark, a balalaika, a cucumber, a dulcimer and a foghorn.
Ok I got it now!
The minister's cat is an honorary cat and his name is Horace ....
Forget about the Aardvarks!
Stainless - Steel - Cat
The minister's cat is an indescribable cat and his name is Ignatius
Big Sis (153):
I can never forget about the aardvarks, they haunt my dreams and plague my days...
The Minister's cat was unavailable for comment.
The minister's cat is a joyful cat, & his name is Jehosephat, well whatever way I try to spell that it looks wrong. Maybe he was known as Joseph.
The minister's cat is a killng cat, & his name is Karl.
Stainless Steel Cat:
The minister's cat is a knavish cat and his name is Kenneth
The aardvarks are coming to get you .....
The minister's cat is a loud cat, and his name is Lawrence.
Here, have some earplugs - that miaow is *VERY* penetrating...
The minister's cat is a marmalade cat, and his name is Martin.
The minster's cat is a happy cat, and his name is Tiger....
.....beware the aardvarks of March?
I think there's been a bit of cheating here. Where did the other letters of the alphabet go?
The minister's cat is a NornIron cat, and his name is Numpty.
160 (and its ancestors) Yeah, but whats the cat's names?
They always have 9 like creative bloggers.
And ministers are always called martin
Quite right Big Sis, the minister's cat is a nauseating cat and his name is Nathan.
Here come the aardvaarks:
I went to market and I brought home an aardvaark, a balalaika, a cucumber, a dulcimer, a foghorn and George Clooney. :o)
(What a combination)
Well, that's very odd, the pixies are moderating the minister's cat so that we don't get doubles! Before I posted 165, I did an N one too, nauseating Nigel, but they seem to prefer yours RJD??
Val P - it has made it now,
The minister's cat is an obedient cat, and his name is Oi!_get_off_the_table!
I went to market and I brought home an aardvaark, a balalaika, a cucumber, a dulcimer, a foghorn, George Clooney and a hippopotomus
The minister's cat is an ostrich-chasing cat, and his name is Ompha.
I went to market and I see that my complaining did some good for a change, they brought my post back. Anyway I brought back an aardvaark, a balalaika, a cucumber, a dulcimer, and oh yeh by the way RJD e comes after d not f so I brought an encyclopaedia, a foghorn, George Clooney, a hippopotamus and an inkwell.
Val P (171) - You made a mistake and I'm to blame - OK that's logical!
I went to the market and all I brought back was this lousy t-shirt.
The minister's cat is an pedant cat, and his name is Particularly Prescriptive.
The minister's cat is an quiet cat, and his name is Qsshhhhh!
The minister's cat is a radio-controlled cat, and his name is Roger, Over!
Just given up watching Medium (Beeb 1). Alison Dubois doesn't seem to be the least interested in tomorrows markets.
What with RJD's cat complaining about how inappropriate his own name is because pedantry isn't particularly prescriptive and how appropriate it is 'cos he's a pedant and not an pedant at all and the whole thing being RJD trawling a fly anyway, On the Beach just now is like having a pen knife in your pocket and getting on the yatch in Knife in the Water.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Well, last week everyone wanted to get into money. So the Banks made it freely available. Cheaper. And markets aren't inherently perverse?
Oh, yeah,
The minister's cat is a rascal cat and his name is Ragged Road Runner, the rascal.
And I bought a U boat at the market. View its periscope in the Water.
Salute the campers. Bet Ed is there.
The minister's cat is an silent cat and his name is .
The minister's cat is a troubled cat and his name is Towser.
The minister's cat is a union cat and his name is Unison.
The minister's cat is a venerable cat and his name is Vernon.
The minister's cat is a wily cat and her name is Wendy
When we've got to Z, could we please go back and plug the holes in the alphabet? There are rather too many of them missing, for my liking, which kind of undermines the purpose of the game ......
The minister's cat is a xenomorphic cat and her name is Xanthe.
Big Sister, panic ye not: all we need are Y and Z, there aren't any holes.
The minister's cat was an affable cat and her name was Ava
The minister's cat is a bountiful cat and her name is Bertha....
The minister's cats a cautious cat and his name is Corky!
The minister's cat is a dynamic cat and his name is Dixie.
The minister's cat is an elegant cat and her name is Eudora.
The minister's cat is an fragrant cat and her name is Fiona
The minister's cat is a ginormous cat and his name is Geoffrey
The minister's cat is a gregarious cat and his name is Goofy
The Minister's cat is a half-siamese cat and her name is Hansolo.
The minister's cat is an honorary cat and his name is Horace ....
The minister's cat is an indescribable cat and his name is Ignatius
The Minister's cat was unavailable for comment.
The minister's cat is a joyful cat, & his name is Jehosephat, well
whatever way I try to spell that it looks wrong. Maybe he was known as
Joseph.
The minister's cat is a knavish cat and his name is Kenneth
The minister's cat is a loud cat, and his name is Lawrence.
The minister's cat is a marmalade cat, and his name is Martin.
The minister's cat is a NornIron cat, and his name is Numpty.
the minister's cat is a nauseating cat and his name is Nathan.
The minister's cat is an obedient cat, and his name is
Oi!_get_off_the_table!
The minister's cat is an ostrich-chasing cat, and his name is Ompha.
The minister's cat is an pedant cat, and his name is Particularly
Prescriptive.
The minister's cat is an quiet cat, and his name is Qsshhhhh!
The minister's cat is a radio-controlled cat, and his name is Roger, Over!
The minister's cat is a rascal cat and his name is Ragged Road Runner, the rascal.
The minister's cat is an silent cat and his name is .
The minister's cat is a troubled cat and his name is Towser.
The minister's cat is a union cat and his name is Unison.
The minister's cat is a venerable cat and his name is Vernon.
The minister's cat is a wily cat and her name is Wendy
The minister's cat is a xenomorphic cat and her name is Xanthe.
The minister's cat is a youthful cat and her name is Yolande
And finally .....
The minister's cat is a zealous cat and his name is Zorro.
Okay, now how about this;
The cat's minister is an able minister and his name is Alan.
Over to you.
Big Sister @188, and I suppose he lives in Ambridge. How can you do this to us?
The cat's minister is a bellicous minister and his name is Brian (and he doen't live in Ambridge, btw)
C'mon Chris! you know it makes sense ;o)
Okay, let's try this again:
The cat's minister is a bountiful minister and his name is Brian
But not Aldridge.
Oh all right then Big Sister @190, the cat's minister is a conscientious minister, his name is Clarence and he lives in Compton.
Big Sis - Is bellicous an alternative spelling of bellicose?
The cat's minister is a delinquent minister, his name is Damian and he lives in Desertmartin. (Yes! it does exist)
The cat's minister is an Evangelical minister; his name is Earnest (and he is!) and he lives in Essex.
Now who's being a pedant???
The cat's minister is an egregrious minister, his name is Eric and he lives in Eaglesham.
The cat's minister is a freethinking minister, his name is Forthesque and he lives in Falmouth.
The cat's minister is a fervant minister and her name is Fiona. Are we allowed female (or indeed feline) vicars in this church?
Oh and she lives in Faversham.
H.
Humph @ 198, Hmmmm... not sure about feline vicars, but I don't see why we shouldn't have a feline rector or two.
The cat's minister is a gracious minister and his name is Gregory. He (and the cat) live in Giggleswick.
The cat's minister is a Hare Krishna minister, his name is Hainjeed and he lives in Halifax.
The cat's minister is an infelicitous minister, his name is Iolanthe and he lives in Iwerne Courtney or Shroton
The cat's minister is a jolly minister and he lives in Jericho (the Oxford one, that is!)
Big Sis - Ain't he got a name?
The cat's minister is kinky minister, his name is Kenneth and he lives in Kidderminister.
The cat's minister is a Kaballah minister, called Kris, from Kendal.
D'you know, RJD, I cannot explain that one as I definitely typed a name in there (well, I'm almost certain I did). His name, for the record, is Joe.
So, for the record:
The cat's minister is a jolly minister, his name is Joe and he lives in Jericho
The cat's minister is a lesser minister, his name is Lester and he lives in Leicester.
The cat's minister is a open-minded minister, her name is Ophelia and she lives in Oldham.
(Assuming someone posts before this one...????)
The cat's minister is a miserly minister, his name is Malcolm and he lives in Mansfield
(NB, NikkiNoodle - you've skipped two letters, you devil!)
ooops
nobody did!!!
Right, just to fill in:
The cat's minister is a minor minister, his name is Maurice and he lives in Minehead.
The cat's minister is a nother minister, his name is Norman and he lives in Norminton-on-Sea.
the cat's minister is a pedantic minister, his name is Peter and he lives in Petworth
the cat's minister is a questioning minister, his name is Quincey and he lives in Quebec - he emigrated, OK?
The cat's minister is a quiet minister, his name is Quentin and he lives in Quebec.
OOOF - the cat's minister is a quotable minister, he's called Quentin and he lives near Quothquan. Wow, not easy.
The cat's minister is a rogueish minister, his name is Roger and he lives in Rochester.
The cat's minister is a silent minister, his name is
and he lives in .
The cat's minister is a tautological minister, his name is Terence Terry and he lives in Two Dales, Derbyshire.
The cat's minister is an unctuous minister, his name is Urqhart, and he lives in Upwaltham
The cat's minister is a veracious minister, her name is Vera and she lives in Ventnor
The cat's minister is a wicked minister, his name is Wykeham and he lives in Wycombe.
The cat's minister is a xenophobic minister, his name is Xerxes and he lives in eXmouth.
(go on! allow it! I'm using Just a Minute rules here, you know!)
The cat's minister is a xylophonist, his name is Xerxes and he lives under the X-ray machine
The cat's minister is a yammering minister, his name is York and he lives there too.
The cat's minister is a xenophobic minister, his name is Xerxes and he live in eXmouth.
(I'm using Just a Minute rules here - if it sounds right, it is right!)
I've already tried posting this twice in the last 60 + minutes, but as it hasn't appeared yet, I'm going to try yet again .....
Time of this posting: 12.10
The cat's minister is a zoomorphic minister. His name is Zabia and he lives in Zambia.
And he closely resembles his cat!
Well done everybody!
Now, who's going to start the next one?
Okay, then BigSis(225):
The minister's dog is an Alsatian and his name is Adipose and I should say that he came from Altringham.
H.
The minister's dog is a Basset Hound and his name is Bingo and I should say he came from Bunbury
The minister's dog is a cur whose name is Charlie, but I am pretty sure that he comes from Canterbury
H.
The minister's dog is a corgi and his name is Cei and he comes from Cardiff.
The minister's dog is a Doberman Pinscher called "don't mess with me, pall". Nuff said. I am not going to tell you where to find 'im.
H.
The minister's dog's an easygoing elkhound called 'enry, he lives near Edinburgh and by the way Aunt D I'm not forgetting I owe you one!
The minister's dog is a Dingo and his name is Dwayne and he comes from Darwin.
OK I missed one
The minister's dog is a Elk-hound and his name is Ethelred and he comes from Ednindurgh.
The minister's dog is a fox terrier, her name is Fluffles and she come from Fife.
Oh-Oh RJD - spooky! you and I must've posted about the same time and we both had elkhounds who came from Edinburgh(ish, allowing for you not being able to spell) and - wait for it my Mum's name was Ethel.
Val P - Your mum may have been Ethel, but I assume she wasn't red or you would gve said.
And I've always had trougle spelling Edinbrubh.
Nah, she wasn't red. She was dark like me :o)