… or does this need some manner of dyslexia reference to work?
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Gnu is sort of prounonced New so mebya that is prat of teh worlypad.
Q: What does a dyslexic agnostic insomniac do?
A: He stays awake all night, wondering if there is a dog.
It needs *something* more.
Did you ever see that AMC drama about the dyslexic chemistry teacher who takes to illegally cooking floured products? It’s called “Baking Bread”
It’s not a howler, but I think it works OK as is.
@ woozy – That one took me a very long time to parse (partly because I’ve never seen the original). Swapping 3 for 1 interior letters is rather clever, but it’s a little more than ordinary dyslexia.
But you don’t need a dyslexia reference, because there isn’t any dyslexia.
You have a man trying to buy a gnu, out of several off-the-shelf gnus, and a gnu shop.
And it has a 3-day waiting period, which as it turns out, is not that unusual (except, of course, that there aren’t a lot of gnus in America). You may not know this, but several animal shelters have waiting periods to adopt other animals, as well.
Terry Pratchett used the gun/gnu thing early in his career. I think it was in Truckers (but definitely part of the Bromeliad trilogy) where the nomes (that’s spelled right) are trying to figure out how to hijack a vehicle and determine that they have to threaten the driver with a gnu.
Back when the Sally Bananas comic was in the papers, they did a Sunday strip about gnus. I really wish I could find that again.
It’s always taken 3 days at stores, but just one day to peddle your own gnu.
Catlover: +1
So there was this zoo that had a gnu, but eventually the gnu died, as zoo gnus do. The gnu had been very popular so there was pressure to get a new gnu, but the cage was small and old and crumbling so the zoo director decided to construct a new gnu habitat for the zoo. One of the top architects in the country was hired and it was a beautiful design, airy and spacious and with a tiled floor.
While construction was going on the director started the search for a new gnu. The gnu dealer had giant gnus, tiny gnus, red green and blue gnus but the director would have none of that. “This must be a typical gnu,” said the director. “Not big, not small, not a funny color but typical of a normal gnu.”
And so a typical gnu was located and a sign, “Typical Gnu”, was put in front of the habitat still under construction.
The gnu arrived unfortunately one day before the habitat was complete. The bars and locks were all in place but the floor tiling had not been done, and a pile of tiles and bucket of tile cement and tools had been left in the corner of the habitat. “Put the gnu in the zoo anyway,” said the director. “He’ll just ignore all that stuff.”
Imagine the director’s surprise in the morning to see what the new typical gnu was up to. He had apparently got the impression that it was part of of his duties to complete his new home, and he was spreading the cement and laying the tiles with expert precision.
The director said, “He’s a typical gnu and tiler too.”
FAKE GNUS!
@ MiB – I wonder whether “Pearls Before Swine” is accepting applications for gag writers…
Didn’t we have this cartoon before? I seem to recall commenting that we know that these are not steers, because they’re gnus not eunuchs.
@ Usual John – I remember seeing a “gnu” joke here, but I don’t remember whether it was this “gnu” joke.
P.S. It was quite some time ago, which makes it harder to find anything “gnu”.
MiB reminds me that back in the 90s I think it was the Seattle zoo that acquired a pair of gnus and dubbed them Weather and Sports. They then put ads on the city buses that read “Come see our gnus, Weather and Sports”.
The following P.P.S. did not get moderated, but it did not post correctly, either: Does anyone know what happened to the “search” feature that the old CIDU site used to have?
I can’t find it anywhere. The WordPress search looks through ALL WordPress sites, and is therefore useless.
The “site:” parameter that Google supports no longer works on the new CiDU-URL.
It does find stuff using the old URL, but those pages are no longer (easily) accessible.
In my state you can buy gnus right away, but there’s a 3-day waiting period on mullets.
I heard the “typical gnu” joke in 1970. It is probably older than that, but I have pretty good evidence that it is not more than 178 years old.
I thought that joke was where they got their campaign slogan from…?
Kilby, I had no trouble using Google (or DuckDuckGo) with site:godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com and a search term.
@ Arthur – When I tried the “site” parameter three days ago, this thread had not yet been indexed, so it produced no results. Perhaps the previous “gnu” posts were on the old (crashed) CIDU site, and are therefore unfindable.
Love the typical gnu and tiler too!
Strangely old Tippecanoe was born and lived at least a good bit in Virginia (as did Tyler – nearby) but Ohio claims him as one of their 8 Presidents. (We have been to both William Henry Harrison and John Tyler’s family homes – the latter being called Sherwood Forest.)
@ Arthur – Thank you VERY MUCH for giving me a reason to take a good look at DuckDuckGo. I’ve seen the name before, but did not realize that it was a serious search engine, minus the baggage that is currently making me hate Google with a passion.
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Gnu is sort of prounonced New so mebya that is prat of teh worlypad.
Q: What does a dyslexic agnostic insomniac do?
A: He stays awake all night, wondering if there is a dog.
It needs *something* more.
Did you ever see that AMC drama about the dyslexic chemistry teacher who takes to illegally cooking floured products? It’s called “Baking Bread”
It’s not a howler, but I think it works OK as is.
@ woozy – That one took me a very long time to parse (partly because I’ve never seen the original). Swapping 3 for 1 interior letters is rather clever, but it’s a little more than ordinary dyslexia.
But you don’t need a dyslexia reference, because there isn’t any dyslexia.
You have a man trying to buy a gnu, out of several off-the-shelf gnus, and a gnu shop.
And it has a 3-day waiting period, which as it turns out, is not that unusual (except, of course, that there aren’t a lot of gnus in America). You may not know this, but several animal shelters have waiting periods to adopt other animals, as well.
Terry Pratchett used the gun/gnu thing early in his career. I think it was in Truckers (but definitely part of the Bromeliad trilogy) where the nomes (that’s spelled right) are trying to figure out how to hijack a vehicle and determine that they have to threaten the driver with a gnu.
Back when the Sally Bananas comic was in the papers, they did a Sunday strip about gnus. I really wish I could find that again.
It’s always taken 3 days at stores, but just one day to peddle your own gnu.
Catlover: +1
So there was this zoo that had a gnu, but eventually the gnu died, as zoo gnus do. The gnu had been very popular so there was pressure to get a new gnu, but the cage was small and old and crumbling so the zoo director decided to construct a new gnu habitat for the zoo. One of the top architects in the country was hired and it was a beautiful design, airy and spacious and with a tiled floor.
While construction was going on the director started the search for a new gnu. The gnu dealer had giant gnus, tiny gnus, red green and blue gnus but the director would have none of that. “This must be a typical gnu,” said the director. “Not big, not small, not a funny color but typical of a normal gnu.”
And so a typical gnu was located and a sign, “Typical Gnu”, was put in front of the habitat still under construction.
The gnu arrived unfortunately one day before the habitat was complete. The bars and locks were all in place but the floor tiling had not been done, and a pile of tiles and bucket of tile cement and tools had been left in the corner of the habitat. “Put the gnu in the zoo anyway,” said the director. “He’ll just ignore all that stuff.”
Imagine the director’s surprise in the morning to see what the new typical gnu was up to. He had apparently got the impression that it was part of of his duties to complete his new home, and he was spreading the cement and laying the tiles with expert precision.
The director said, “He’s a typical gnu and tiler too.”
FAKE GNUS!
@ MiB – I wonder whether “Pearls Before Swine” is accepting applications for gag writers…
Didn’t we have this cartoon before? I seem to recall commenting that we know that these are not steers, because they’re gnus not eunuchs.
@ Usual John – I remember seeing a “gnu” joke here, but I don’t remember whether it was this “gnu” joke.
P.S. It was quite some time ago, which makes it harder to find anything “gnu”.
MiB reminds me that back in the 90s I think it was the Seattle zoo that acquired a pair of gnus and dubbed them Weather and Sports. They then put ads on the city buses that read “Come see our gnus, Weather and Sports”.
The following P.P.S. did not get moderated, but it did not post correctly, either:
Does anyone know what happened to the “search” feature that the old CIDU site used to have?
I can’t find it anywhere. The WordPress search looks through ALL WordPress sites, and is therefore useless.
The “site:” parameter that Google supports no longer works on the new CiDU-URL.
It does find stuff using the old URL, but those pages are no longer (easily) accessible.
In my state you can buy gnus right away, but there’s a 3-day waiting period on mullets.
I heard the “typical gnu” joke in 1970. It is probably older than that, but I have pretty good evidence that it is not more than 178 years old.
I thought that joke was where they got their campaign slogan from…?
Kilby, I had no trouble using Google (or DuckDuckGo) with site:godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com and a search term.
@ Arthur – When I tried the “site” parameter three days ago, this thread had not yet been indexed, so it produced no results. Perhaps the previous “gnu” posts were on the old (crashed) CIDU site, and are therefore unfindable.
Love the typical gnu and tiler too!
Strangely old Tippecanoe was born and lived at least a good bit in Virginia (as did Tyler – nearby) but Ohio claims him as one of their 8 Presidents. (We have been to both William Henry Harrison and John Tyler’s family homes – the latter being called Sherwood Forest.)
@ Arthur – Thank you VERY MUCH for giving me a reason to take a good look at DuckDuckGo. I’ve seen the name before, but did not realize that it was a serious search engine, minus the baggage that is currently making me hate Google with a passion.