The Non-Animated JPEG Thread (6 Viewers)

[nooleen]

 

[nooleen]

 

[Cormcolash]

Looks like my kind of alphabet. TROMP

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Jesus Hup Christ!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

 

[nooleen]

 

[pete]

Looks like someone on the internet hasn't seen Young Frankenstein

 

[nooleen]

or blazing saddles

 

[pete]

Or Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx

Ehhhh

 

[therealjohnny]

or his TV sitcom. But in fairness no one saw that.

 

[hydromancer]

Which had an episode with Alice Cooper.

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[Cormcolash]

Stir Crazy. See No Evil Hear No Evil. The Producers, for fuck sake, one of the greatest films ever made!

 

[pavlos]

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[nooleen]

very detailed

 

[ann post]

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“Bollocks” (not to be confused with the word “bollix,” meaning “to make a mess of”) is a fine old Anglo Saxon word, which means, among other things, testicles. “The dog’s bollocks” is a term which originally appears to have come out of the printing industry, and refers to the now-abandoned habit, when introducing a list, of putting a dash after a colon, to create this vivid shape :-

It is, therefore, a very early example of an emoticon. Presumably a smiley one, given the context in which it came to be used.

 

[pavlos]

“The dog’s bollocks” is a term which originally appears to have come out of the printing industry, and refers to the now-abandoned habit, when introducing a list, of putting a dash after a colon, to create this vivid shape :-

Brilliant. You've made my day with that snippet of information.

 

[nooleen]

but the dog's bollocks means something brilliant; what's brilliant about a list?

 

[hydromancer]

 

[Cormcolash]

but the dog's bollocks means something brilliant; what's brilliant about a list?

List of lists of lists - Wikipedia

 

[Unknown Convict]

“The dog’s bollocks” is a term which originally appears to have come out of the printing industry, and refers to the now-abandoned habit, when introducing a list, of putting a dash after a colon, to create this vivid shape :-

QI suggested both "dog's bollocks" and "bog standard" were derived from some board game that was sold in both "box deluxe" and "box standard" versions