Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

Maybe it wasn't really there, and I just imagined it. All I know is that
I laughed at Arjay's post.

Perhaps easily amused,
Maria

} On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:31:49 -0500, Daniel al-Autistiqui
} <govende30@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
}
}>On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:57:59 GMT, "Maria" <marian.c-b@sbcglobal.net>
}>wrote:
}>
}>>Daniel al-Autistiqui wrote:
}>>> Maria wrote:
}>>>> R J Valentine wrote:
}>>>>> Daniel al-Autistiqui wrote:
}>>>>> } Mark Brader wrote:
}>>>>>
}>>>>> }
}>>>>> } Rare? Rare?
}>>>>>
}>>>>> Inconceivable!
}>>>>
}>>>> Oh, I like that response.
}>>>>
}>>>> (And how about you, Daniel? Did you laugh, as I did?)
}>>>
}>>> No, not really.  If that's supposed to be some sort of joke, I don't
}>>> get it.
}>>
}>>Well, not so much a joke as a kind of wordplay. Various posters in this
}>>newsgroup are very good at that.
}>>
}>Yes, but I still can't seem to figure it out.  At any rate, it wasn't
}>funny to me.
}
} Don't feel badly, Daniel.  

Oy!   (Did you really mean to say that?)

}                            I don't get it either.  I don't even see
} the wordplay Maria seems to have caught.

That's because you've only seen _The Princess Bride_ the one time.  One
must see it at least once a year and have it practically memorized to
appreciate the world at large.  It leaves sentimental stuff like the
rubby something of Omar what's his name in the dust.