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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on February 10, 2008, 10:35:30 PM

Title: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 10, 2008, 10:35:30 PM
...have got lots and lots of pointy bits.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Mince on February 10, 2008, 11:02:44 PM
I find that hurtful - the pointy bits, I mean.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 11, 2008, 12:25:44 AM
Pricks.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Vulture on February 11, 2008, 07:00:30 AM
Pricks.

In plural? There's more than one Mince.....?  ???  :D :D
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Malc on February 11, 2008, 12:23:41 PM
An interesting fact about a porcupine is.....wow, that was close. I nearly launched into those four paragraphs.
Thank god I put fresh batteries in my bore alarm.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 12:37:36 PM
Pricks.

In plural? There's more than one Mince.....?  ???  :D :D

With that mirror there was.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 04:04:30 PM
Pricks.

In plural? There's more than one Mince.....?  ???  :D :D

I think the problem is that "Mince" is a word that can be singular or plural. In this case it's a name so it's singular, so it'd be "Prick".
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 11, 2008, 04:24:52 PM
Mince isn't plural. You can have a little bit of mince, or a lot of mince, but it's singular mince.

Mince plural is minces - and he does, so I believe.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 04:37:17 PM
Mince isn't plural. You can have a little bit of mince, or a lot of mince, but it's singular mince.

Mince plural is minces - and he does, so I believe.

If we both, individually, buy mince from the butcher, we each have some mince. Collectively, we still have mince, even though it's two lots of mince. It's not two minces. It's a collection of mince, plural, but still called mince.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 04:39:26 PM
and he does, so I believe.

Who does?
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 11, 2008, 04:42:58 PM
But if I bought high quality steak mince, and you bought low quality, fatty, cholesterol-inducing cheap mince, we'd have two different minces.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 11, 2008, 04:43:18 PM
and he does, so I believe.

Who does?

He does.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: peter on February 11, 2008, 04:46:57 PM
Don't mince your words Tark's get to the point,stop beating about the bush,say what you mean.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 04:51:01 PM
I like my ham in cellophane.  ;)
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 04:53:53 PM
And warm in certain situations.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 11, 2008, 06:22:42 PM
This thread started on the subject of porcupines and has reached ham in cellophane via a discussion about the plural of "mince".
What worries me is that this is the most sensible one for ages.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 11, 2008, 06:29:40 PM
Your laces are undone.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 11, 2008, 06:43:11 PM
I'm wearing slippers. HAH!
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 11, 2008, 06:43:47 PM
I still checked, though.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 07:55:35 PM
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I like my ham in cellophane.

And warm in certain situations.

A farm in Ceylon might help point you to where I was coming from, Roger!
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 08:10:48 PM
(Maybe they're a bit dim in central Scotland).  ;D
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 08:17:21 PM
Anyway, they're vermin. Celery's too good for 'em.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Vulture on February 11, 2008, 09:08:51 PM
Mince isn't plural. You can have a little bit of mince, or a lot of mince, but it's singular mince.

Mince plural is minces - and he does, so I believe.

Yes. I also heard that.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 11, 2008, 09:49:55 PM
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I like my ham in cellophane.

And warm in certain situations.

A farm in Ceylon might help point you to where I was coming from, Roger!
Ah, hidden mince. I'm incessantly annoyed by stuff like that.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 11, 2008, 10:24:01 PM
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I like my ham in cellophane.

And warm in certain situations.

A farm in Ceylon might help point you to where I was coming from, Roger!
Ah, hidden mince. I'm incessantly annoyed by stuff like that.


Well done, Roger. (And you didn't need the final two cryptic sentences).

You win a Beau Peep original strip, signed by yourself. Could you choose one, autograph it, and pick it up from your house?
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 11, 2008, 11:13:33 PM
Are you telling me you didn't manage to decode "Hidden Mince" from "Your laces are undone."

Sheesh! There are times I don't know why I bother.
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: peter on February 12, 2008, 10:13:00 AM
what's sireal
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 12, 2008, 10:43:55 AM
what's sireal

Stuff like Cornflakes and Coco Pops.  ::)
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Vulture on February 12, 2008, 11:13:23 AM
what's sireal

Stuff like Cornflakes and Coco Pops.  ::)

 :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: peter on February 12, 2008, 11:56:21 AM
what's sireal

Stuff like Cornflakes and Coco Pops.  ::)

Like it
Title: Re: Porcupines
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 12, 2008, 01:03:39 PM
what's sireal

Stuff like Cornflakes and Coco Pops.  ::)

Like it

With cold milk.