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1. 21 days ago on That is Priceless

   (17th Century product placement)

   “The shampoo I prefer is by Breck,

   and it leaves my hair softer than heck”

   Said Admiral Van Nes

   “and if I make a mess

   I can use it to swab the poopdeck!”

2. 21 days ago on That is Priceless

   True, but on the other hand, the pole is too short, and he has a singular lack of bells on his person ;-)

3. 28 days ago on That is Priceless

   Those French gals would probably shrink

   from a substance that has a bad stink

   Such perverted vermin

   are usually German…

   So say those who are into that kink.

4. about 1 month ago on That is Priceless

   It takes too much effort to tinker

   with a limerick about Hans Brinker

   and the need to be droll

   about plugging a hole

   almost always results in a stinker. (QED)

5. about 1 month ago on That is Priceless

   “… guaranteed to stay inflated overnight, and you won’t even want to use a pump for it when you see where I’ve hidden the blow-up valve.”

6. about 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   typo!

7. about 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   Now Mungo was once the nickname

   Of an ancient Scotch Saint of no fame.

   In a language called Cyrmic,

   It’s fit for a limerick,

   Though Saint Kentigern’s hardly to blame.

8. about 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   I remember Delaware Cash Reserve offering a CD with 16% interest back and the day, and a brief googling shows this:“In March 1980, six-month CD rates averaged 17.74% APY, and the rate rose to 17.98% in August 1981.”

9. 3 months ago on That is Priceless

   And yet by 1950 this whole concept had devolved into one of those many, many Popeye cartoons in which Olive Oyl would be shown stuck between Brutus and Popeye shrieking “boys, boys, don’t fight over me!”

10. 3 months ago on That is Priceless

    This controversy was also adressed with the updating of the 1960’s musical comedy “The Fantaskticks” which originally had a song about abduction but used the word “rape.” (A Casanova/Don Juan surrogate figure called El Gallo sings what is in essence a ‘patter-song’ about ordering up an abduction: “you can get the rape Fantastic, you can get the Rape Polite…” etc. Sensibilities have changed and the word rape is gone from current editions as of about 15 years ago.