# "Hands Up, This Thread is Going To Cuba!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 1999, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483 "1999-10-14T18:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/61 "1999-10-16T05:15:00Z")
And now for something entirely different … ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/62 "1999-10-16T05:22:00Z")
On the other hand, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics suffices to account for a parasitic gap construction. Notice, incidentally, that a descriptively adequate grammar cannot be arbitrary in nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. Suppose, for instance, that the earlier discussion of deviance appears to correlate rather closely with the traditional practice of grammarians. A consequence of the approach just outlined is that an important property of these three types of EC does not readily tolerate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. What do you think? * * * “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” - _Humphrey Bogart_ ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/63 "1999-10-16T05:23:00Z")
I think that I must be a few drinks behind. * * * Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/64 "1999-10-16T05:35:00Z")
Well, no wonder if that’s what you’re living on. Uncle, the ontological implications of your last post are eschatological in scope. Speaking of which… ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/65 "1999-10-15T18:06:00Z")
Eohippuses? No, no - they’re large Mexican rats smuggled across the border by soft-hearted women. You know the kind of women I mean - the ones who are always luging and curling along Rodeo Drive. IIRC, General Chaos was replaced by Major Loss - not to be confused with Minor Inconvenience. (He had a daughter named Clementine). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/66 "1999-10-15T18:14:00Z")
On the other hand, **Poly** , the oncological implications of _your_ last comments are scatological in scope. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/67 "1999-10-15T18:14:00Z")
“Oh shit, it’s the end of the world!”, he said, blowing his final chance to prove that he knew the difference between scatology and eschatology. Where would I be without the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest? * * * Modest? You bet I’m modest! I am the queen of modesty! ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/68 "1999-10-15T18:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I think that I must be a few drinks behind. ## What does felching have to do with this thread? \>^,^\< KITTEN If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/69 "1999-10-15T18:25:00Z")
Geez, I’m gone for three weeks and you guys go right down hill. I highly approve! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/70 "1999-10-15T18:29:00Z")
Hey, It’s Bunny Girl! How the heck are ya? * * * “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” - _Humphrey Bogart_ ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/71 "1999-10-15T18:30:00Z")
Y’know what’s funny… I had this **exact** same conversation a few years ago at a party…I was entirely too stoned to follow the topics, and it was _exactly like this!!_ Di…I love the 70’s show! That thing with kelso was a scream! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/72 "1999-10-15T18:33:00Z")
Actually, that is just random text generated by a crazy utility I downloaded from “The Church of The Subgenius.” I think I’m gonna email some more of that stuff to bj(zero)rn. If any one wants to join the party, I can email you the text generator. * * * “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” - _Humphrey Bogart_ ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/73 "1999-10-15T18:35:00Z")
**Diane** : I just don’t know what to say. But my coffee this morning certainly _tasted_ like, well, you know…. **Bunny Girl’s back!** Speaking of which, did you know that Bunny Girl once mistook me for an attorney? And that I was so flattered that I’m now looking into the possibility of actually taking the bar? ## Speaking of bars, I have to catch up drinking-wise, so which is better: The hoity-toity bar or the sawdust-on-the-floor kind? Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/74 "1999-10-15T18:55:00Z")
There’s a bar in Bimini called The End of the World. It’s just corrugated metal with a sand floor. There are lots of panties taped to the walls, too. Ernest Hemingway lived in Bimini for a while and did lots of sport fishing. I like fishing. But I don’t fire .45 caliber sub machine guns at the Atlantic Ocean like he did, so I guess I’m not alot like Ernest Hemingway. As long as we’re talking about Hemingway, how 'bout that Mariel? Remember that line from Ellen’s ‘coming out’ show where she said, “I knew I shouldn’t’ve watched Personal Best?” What do you think, can watching a TV show turn someone gay? * * * " \<— My own personal quote. I call him Doug. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/75 "1999-10-15T19:08:00Z")
Hiya bunny! Sure miss ya around here! So what didya have for lunch? I had a pepsi and a steamed oscar mayer hot dog… Wally is my fave hijacker BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/76 "1999-10-15T19:53:00Z")
People who encourage Chihuahuas to felch should be forced to read this thread. Over and over and over. Then write a 500-word essay on what it all means! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/77 "1999-10-15T19:54:00Z")
P.S.: Welcome back, Bunny!!! {{{}}} \<\<-hugs TT, have you regretted starting this yet? ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/78 "1999-10-15T19:56:00Z")
Don’t you have to gret before you can regret? * * * Yes, the weather is the same up here. Yes, I play basketball. No, never heard a tall joke before. Aaaargh. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/79 "1999-10-15T20:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Diane: I just don’t know what to say. But my coffee this morning certainly tasted like, well, you know…. ## If you tell me you drank your coffee with a straw, I’m gonna hurl. \>^,^\< KITTEN If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483/80 "1999-10-15T20:14:00Z")
Ice coffee, darlin’. Keep it in 'till the seminar on that subject. 😉 * * * Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-up-this-thread-is-going-to-cuba/9483.md?page=5)