# My hovercraft is full of eels? Whaa? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227 "2003-10-08T04:46:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb8c5e/32.png) [@hanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanza)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/41 "2003-10-08T21:39:11Z")
To return to the original OP (sort of). i feel uniquely placed to inform you that the language spoken in the sketch is not Hungarian at all, just a bunch of goobledigook (sp?) that doesn’t even really sound like Hungarian. Shocking eh? Interestingly however, John Cleese’s impersonation of a Hungarian speaking English with a thick accent is almost spot on, and I like to quote it to tease my boyfriend when he mis-pronounces a word, (he will not be satisfied that he has fully mastered the English language until he sounds posher than the queen) He’s NOT the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy! ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/42 "2003-10-08T21:54:14Z")
Mind you I don’t know whether you’ve really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern encyclopaedias… You know, they can really do you wonders. Hin, Hint, Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge Say No More! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/43 "2003-10-08T22:10:23Z")
The penguin on the telly will now explode. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/44 "2003-10-08T23:11:05Z")
Jean Paul, Jean Paul?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/45 "2003-10-08T23:31:06Z")
**AND DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIME WALK UPON ENGLAND’S MOUNTAINS GREEN?** ---
**Author:** ![Skillet38](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Skillet38](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skillet38)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/46 "2003-10-08T23:33:29Z")
now read to me my pet, from Shakespear’s “Gay Boys in Bondage” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/47 "2003-10-09T00:44:35Z")
Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement! You lousy hypocritical whining toadies with your lousy colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic handshakes. You wouldn’t let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards! Well I wouldn’t become a Freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/48 "2003-10-09T01:03:30Z")
It ain’t pinin’. It’s _passed over_. It has _ceased to be._ **THIS** , sir, is an **EX** -parrot. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/49 "2003-10-09T01:07:00Z")
Thanks to the miracle of atomic mutation! (what skit is this from? I know you can do it…🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/50 "2003-10-09T01:54:08Z")
Rene Descartes was a drunken fart who said I drink, therefore I am. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/51 "2003-10-09T03:04:12Z")
Spam. Spam,spam,spam,fish,chips, and spam! ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/52 "2003-10-09T05:37:14Z")
**NCB** : …the world was finally safe from the killer cars. (It’s the one with the giant cat) But **I don’t like _SPAM_!** ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/53 "2003-10-09T05:43:52Z")
the state of this thread proves one thing: Yes, we are all individuals! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/54 "2003-10-09T13:03:53Z")
Yeay, **Skeezix**! Albatross! ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/55 "2003-10-09T13:21:27Z")
In honor of this thread, I’ve written a story called “My Lovecraft is Full of Eels:” [http://lesa.teemingmillions.com/custom.html](http://lesa.teemingmillions.com/custom.html) It’s a story as old as time, and a story that needed to be told. Ok, so it’s not. And there are pop-up ads, too. But what can I do, the eels are spreading everywhere! ---
**Author:** ![DaveX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@DaveX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveX)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/56 "2003-10-09T20:41:17Z")
Please, don’t we have worse things to worry about… I mean, just on my way over here, I distinctly saw 36 things that were not on top of other things in any way what so ever. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/57 "2003-10-09T23:10:23Z")
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I’ll tell you something my lad. When you’re walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don’t come crying to me! Mmmm…loganberries. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/58 "2003-10-10T02:10:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\ ***AND DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIME WALK UPON ENGLAND’S MOUNTAINS GREEN?** \*\* All right, who said mattress? **photopat** , come at me with a bannana! ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/59 "2003-10-10T02:41:21Z")
But what about pointed sticks? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227/60 "2003-10-10T02:42:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Moody Bastard \* > \*\*Sometimes I read these thread titles too fast. Coulda sworn it said my **Lovecraft** if full of eels. > > “The Eels in the Walls,” anyone? \*\* Nah, but **Lovecraft** full of tentacles would work nicely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels-whaa/206227.md?page=4)