Quickies part 2

[onetrack]

Oh, how appropriate! "Snouts in the trough"?

[facthunter]

Does that qualify as a Porker?. I reckon we judge the Pollies harshly by the worst ones. For the "Thankless" job they do they aren't Paid much.  There's a FEW rotten apples. The Media is not helpful.  It serves It's own Ends. Nev

[old man emu]

 

Il Porcellino, meaning ‘the little pig’, is a larger than life-sized bronze wild boar, anatomically realistic and resting on its left haunch and front legs. It sits outside Sydney Hospital, facing Macquarie Street. The monument in Florence is believed to bring good luck if visitors put a coin into the boar’s gaping jaws. The intent is to let it fall through the underlying grating while they rub the boar’s snout.

 

The sculpture was a gift to the City of Sydney from the Marchesa Fiaschi Torrigiani, who donated the artwork in 1968. It is a memorial to Thomas Fiaschi and Piero Fiaschi, her father and brother respectively. Both worked as honorary surgeons at Sydney Hospital and both had distinguished military careers. Thomas served in the Boer War and World War 1, reaching the rank of general. Piero became a colonel during the same war. 

[Marty_d]

58 minutes ago, old man emu said:

 

..visitors put a coin into the boar’s gaping jaws. The intent is to let it fall through the underlying grating while they rub the boar’s snout.

Maybe the Dublin city council should modify Molly's cleavage to do the same.  They'd make a fortune!

[red750]

Here's one for you. What is unusual about the following sentence.

 

Are you as bored as I am.

[old man emu]

What might seem obvious is the use of the full-stop instead of a question mark, but Red is too cunning to make it so easy. 

[Marty_d]

It can be said both forwards and reversed.

[facthunter]

 Sounds like one of my opening lines at a party.  Or one engine block to another. Should have a question mark?  nev

[facthunter]

You're a fart  smeller, Marty. Nev

[Marty_d]

Just now, facthunter said:

You're a fart  smeller, Marty. Nev

With kids like mine, I don't have a choice.

[facthunter]

Beans means Farts.  Nev

[facthunter]

When my newly designed  car goes on the road it will be a Flatus, "You have just passed another Flatus". Drive carefully.  Nev

[nomadpete]

43 minutes ago, facthunter said:

When my newly designed  car goes on the road it will be a Flatus, "You have just passed another Flatus". Drive carefully.  Nev

Not as painful as Passing Another Fox

[red750]

Marty is right. Makes sense, read forwards or backwards.

[facthunter]

Smart Feller. Our resident genius.  Nev

[old man emu]

I disagree., While the sentence on its own makes sense if read as "Are you as bored as I am", or "Am I as bored as you are", they imply different things.

 

The first form implies a question posed by another person. The second implies a question from "me". As for me, able I was ere I saw Elba.

[facthunter]

Well that fell flat as ( 5 hours ago)

 

 My computer is playing up guys. It's not me. Nev

[red750]

OME, no-one said it had to mean the same thing in reverse, just that the reverse made sense. How many other sentences can do that?

 

You're such a wet blanket.

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, red750 said:

 

 

You're such a wet blanket.

teknalb tew a hcus er'uoy.

 

Nah sorry Peter, that one doesn't work.

[spacesailor]

Eye to eye 

See 

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

This popular bronze is also losing its patina.

[red750]

My wife used to compare me to Chris Hemsworth.

 

She used to say, "You're no Chris Hemsworth."

[spacesailor]

Not a lot of ' patina ' on the " Blaney stone " .

As it was pert of the " toilet " .

spacesailor

[red750]

What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?        I am.

 

And the longest?                          I do.