Comments on: Plumbing in Space!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:33:44 +0000

Well, a schilling was a lot of money in those days, I mean the Dutch bought Manhattan island for 10 pounds, and at prevailing wages it wasn’t likely that an honest poor person would have more than 12 pence.

It’s logical, just like witches float because they aren’t weighed down with a soul, very scientifick.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:44:44 +0000

OK, You have a point. How about the good ol’ days in grand old London town where if you were poor and found with more than a schilling you ended up in court and usually had a hand removed or got 10 years in prison because everyone knows you must have stolen it, no matter what you said. (Or, sent to this or the US penal colony as slave labor). 😉

😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:26:19 +0000

Yes, but pennies had value in those days and no one pretended they were going to “rehabilitate you” in a dungeon. 😈

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:06:49 +0000

Cheer up Bryan! Politics has been depressing one way or another for Centuries m8! You read history… 😉

It’s just same old… The difference is, we are now *enlightened* enough to appreciate the irony and find humor in it. 😀 Could be worse… Could be the grand old days when you were thrown in a fetid dungeon for missing a penny tax and left to rot. 😉

LOL

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:39:42 +0000

It’s better than discussing the depressing world of politics.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:03:51 +0000

Sadly… that’s all too true! 😀

Then again… these days, one has to find humor where one can! 😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:33:16 +0000

As for “toilet humor” – you’re half right, Kryten.

If you add up all of the university credit hours represented in this thread, it gets really scary. Thousands of hours of undergraduate and graduate courses and we are clogging the intertubes with this – the mind boggles.

All they really need is a Dust Buster and a supply of cat litter.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:22:38 +0000

So… this must be what is known as *toilet humor* I guess. Well, not 100% sure about the humor part. LOL 😉

I guess a lot of you must be having a slow day then. 😀

Heh… don’t forget to flush!

Cheers. LOL

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:15:30 +0000

Mustang Bobby stole my gag so I have no comment other that to say if you were the astronaut in trouble it would not be very funny…much like Steve’s doggerel.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:26:58 +0000

…US plumber who would fit in a spacesuit.

They’d never do it. How can you show butt-crack in a spacesuit?