# I went on a trip

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 5, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853 "2004-06-05T21:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/21 "2004-06-06T21:13:51Z")

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Damn you **vunderbob!**

I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quart of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts

(see, compromise!)

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/22 "2004-06-06T21:14:31Z")

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Damn! that was supposed to be ‘a **quartet** of quivering quackers’.

Next in line, please fix it for me. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/23 "2004-06-06T22:00:10Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits

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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/24 "2004-06-06T22:02:15Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/25 "2004-06-06T23:27:03Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,  
and twelve thousand turgid [_Tachopteryx thorei_](http://www.rlephoto.com/odes/gray_petaltail01.htm) tormenting two tired, tattooed [_Tursiops truncatus_](http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Tursiops_truncatus.html).

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/26 "2004-06-07T00:58:03Z")

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and urgently ululating uncommon ungulants,

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/27 "2004-06-07T01:31:43Z")

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_I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,  
twelve thousand turgid Tachopteryx thorei tormenting two tired, tattooed Tursiops truncatus.  
and urgently ululating uncommon ungulants_  
and violently vibrating violet vipers

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**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/28 "2004-06-07T02:18:49Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,  
twelve thousand turgid Tachopteryx thorei tormenting two tired, tattooed Tursiops truncatus.  
and urgently ululating uncommon ungulants  
and violently vibrating violet vipers

whimsical western wiccans who whip white walruses while warbling “VENITE”

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**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/29 "2004-06-07T02:26:09Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,  
twelve thousand turgid Tachopteryx thorei tormenting two tired, tattooed Tursiops truncatus.  
and urgently ululating uncommon ungulants  
and violently vibrating violet vipers

whimsical western wiccans who whip white walruses while warbling “VENITE”

and eXtraordinary X-Files eXpose’s about X-rays and xylophones

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**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/30 "2004-06-07T02:50:07Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,  
twelve thousand turgid Tachopteryx thorei tormenting two tired, tattooed Tursiops truncatus.  
and urgently ululating uncommon ungulants  
and violently vibrating violet vipers and  
whimsical western wiccans who whip white walruses while warbling “VENITE”  
and eXtraordinary X-Files eXpose’s about X-rays and xylophones  
while Yetis Yanked You and Yossarian Yellow in the Yard

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**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/31 "2004-06-07T08:20:56Z")

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I went on a trip, and I took:  
an australopithecus africanus,  
Buster Beagle’s Banjo Bagpipe Bugle Band  
carnivorous chimpanzees chomping cookies,  
Dick Dastardly,  
eighteen energetic emus,  
Farmer Fox’s Finely Feathered Fowl,  
greasy grimy gopher guts,  
happy hairy horse hooves,  
interesting items,  
jittery Japanese Jewelers,  
Krofft’s Kaptain Kool & the Kongs,  
lots of lovely lumpia, linguini and lox,  
mischievous minature Mesoplodon mirus munching many mature Mephitis mephitis,  
ninety-nine nihilistic nigricant nyctophobic necrophilliac narwhals,  
an olympic octogenarian’s orangutan,  
and plump, peevish, precintive Phocoena phocoena placidly painting pine plectrums  
a quartet of quivering quackers wrapped in a quintillion quality Queen-sized quilts  
random restaurateurs recycling rabbits,  
seventeen stacks of salacious salamanders,  
twelve thousand turgid Tachopteryx thorei tormenting two tired, tattooed Tursiops truncatus.  
and urgently ululating uncommon ungulants  
and violently vibrating violet vipers and  
whimsical western wiccans who whip white walruses while warbling “VENITE”  
eXtraordinary X-Files eXpose’s about X-rays and xylophones,  
while Yetis Yanked You and Yossarian Yellow in the Yard,  
**and finally a zillion zirconia-encrusted zebras zooming to Zimbabwe from Zeus.**  
Yay! My turn!  
I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda

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**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/32 "2004-06-07T08:28:21Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda  
and Barry Bonds.

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/33 "2004-06-07T10:49:35Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds  
and Coco Chanel

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**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/34 "2004-06-07T12:19:28Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds  
and Coco Chanel

and David Duchovny

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/35 "2004-06-07T14:02:36Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds  
Coco Chanel  
David Duchovny

and Ernie Els

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/36 "2004-06-07T14:03:20Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds,  
Coco Chanel,  
David Duchovny,  
and Easy-E.

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/37 "2004-06-07T14:23:06Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds,  
Coco Chanel,  
David Duchovny,  
and Easy-E,  
Fyvush Finkel,

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**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/38 "2004-06-07T14:43:34Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds,  
Coco Chanel,  
David Duchovny,  
and Easy-E,  
Fyvush Finkel,  
and  
[Gloria Grahame](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002108/)

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**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/39 "2004-06-07T14:55:07Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds,  
Coco Chanel,  
David Duchovny,  
and Easy-E,  
Fyvush Finkel,  
Gloria Grahame,  
and Hal Holbrook.

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-on-a-trip/248853/40 "2004-06-07T18:12:57Z")

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I went on an airplane and I met:

Alan Alda,  
Barry Bonds,  
Coco Chanel,  
David Duchovny,  
and Easy-E,  
Fyvush Finkel,  
Gloria Grahame,  
Hal Holbrook,  
and [Iman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408081/)

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