Great news for the pub!...Beans!

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:14 am

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/heal ... 624063.htm

MarkB

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:40 am

Is there no end to the kill-joys of the scientific community?

djm

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:53 am

Go ahead, pull my finger!

MarkB

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:54 pm

Sadly, I cannot find the origin of this old joke. One reference says it goes back to a similar joke in Victorian times, "pull my pudwhacker". Google doesn't seem to like "pudwhacker". Oh, those zany Victorians.

djm

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:12 pm

So this means beans won't be musical fruit any more??

(Excuse me - I've been sewing

all morning and my brain is fried!)

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:15 pm

If beans no longer will be making music, then I guess this is what we all need..

http://www.alltvstuff.com/fred1.html

MarkB

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:55 pm

I heard there was already this Mrs Connery in Boston who was famous for her "Boston Baked Beans". When people asked her what was the secret of her success, she told them it was in accurate measuring.
In fact, she said, when she made her Baked Beans, she always counted out two hundred and thirty nine beans.
"Why was that?" she was asked.
"Because one more would make it 240." came the reply.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:18 pm

... my wife will be soooooo overjoyed..........

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:45 pm

The folks over at Beano® must be freaking out big time.