Getting Snickered

[Jonathan Lighter]

Shall I snatch my snoozing snickersnee ?  'Sniggers, 'tis gone on enough !

JL

"Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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Well, let's hope this -ick, -ook, -ock rant doesn't lead to anyone
getting knackered in their knickers.

dInIs

>The worst thing is to get snickered *or* snookered while snockered. Trust me.
>
>JL
>
>"Mark A. Mandel" wrote:
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>scripsit Jonathan:
>>>>
>Yes, Larry, and what's more, the "snickerer" (also the "snookerer" in such
>cases) himself, or onlooking snickerers, is bound to be snickering at the
>"snickeree," which is a hyponym for "snookeree."
>
>It would be even worse if the "snookeree"/ "snickeree" happened to be
>snacking (as "snacker") on a "Snickers" at the moment he or she was
>snookered by the snickering snickerer's "snicker."
>
>If a "Snickers" were to be snickered in a _faux_ snickering, the snookered
>snickeree would have been snickered/ snookered by the snickering snickerer's
>Snickers.
>
>Altogether a highly unpleasant concept.
><<<
>
>Hawkins (Danny Kaye): I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's
>in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from with the palace has the
>brew that is true! Right?
>
>Griselda (Mildred Natwick): Right. But there's been a change: they broke the
>chalice from the palace!
>
>Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?
>
>Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
>
>Hawkins: A flagon...?
>
>Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
>
>Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
>
>Griselda: Right.
>
>Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the
>pestle?
>
>Griselda: No!!! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon!
>The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
>
>Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the
>vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
>
>Griselda: Just remember that.
>
>
>-- The Court Jester (1956)
>Directed by Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
>Writing credits: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/quotes
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>
>
>mark by hand
>
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