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Title: blowing you own trumpet
Post by: paul.fr on 02/05/2008 11:25:38: Does anyone know where this saying comes from?
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Post by: neilep on 02/05/2008 14:46:07: I don't...

.....but I wish I could !!
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 02/05/2008 16:58:10: Me me me. I know!
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Post by: Nobody's Confidant on 02/05/2008 17:44:49: It comes in different forms.
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Post by: neilep on 02/05/2008 17:58:39: The Beave knows !.....
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Post by: JimBob on 02/05/2008 19:07:21: Oh sage Beaver - (that is sautéed beaver meat with sage and shallots) please enlighten we of the lower classes as to the origin of this aphorism.
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Post by: neilep on 02/05/2008 19:17:20: Hallelujah !

I can only add my lowly timbre, a mere infection of a voice that is added to JimBobs vocal vernacular. Praise be that us, the lowest of the low, the scum that dwells beneath the scum that resides beneath the rocks !!.....We plead...nay !!...we beg that the almighty shine his guiding light upon the dullness of our cerebral emptiness and fill the void with beaver knowledge and enlightenment.

Praise be.......oh my !!....I think I may speak in tongues !!.........
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 02/05/2008 20:00:40: Blame Anthony Trollope
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Post by: neilep on 02/05/2008 20:26:51: ....*all gather in a circle around the table and hold hands*

" Anthony Trollope......Anthony Trollope......can ewe hear us ?..."
" oooohhhhh.....Oh what is it now ? "
"It's all your fault "
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Post by: Karen W. on 02/05/2008 20:45:43: LOL.. you guys are killing me here!!! Wait for me... I have never been to a gathering of the spirits before!
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 02/05/2008 20:54:23: Quote from: Karen W. on 02/05/2008 20:45:43
LOL.. you guys are killing me here!!! Wait for me... I have never been to a gathering of the spirits before!

Hey, guys, check out the top shelf!
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Post by: another_someone on 03/05/2008 00:15:37: I would guess that one blows a trumpet to herald a great event (rather like ringing of the church bells, or lighting bonfires on hilltops), and to blow your own trumpet would be to herald your own achievements.
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Post by: JimBob on 03/05/2008 02:00:48: I thought Anthony Trollope a transvestite prostitute.
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Post by: JimBob on 03/05/2008 02:01:52: By the way Doctor Beaver, Herr Gott, that was no joke but spoken by the spirits.
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Post by: Karen W. on 03/05/2008 02:09:54: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 02/05/2008 20:54:23
Quote from: Karen W. on 02/05/2008 20:45:43
LOL.. you guys are killing me here!!! Wait for me... I have never been to a gathering of the spirits before!

Hey, guys, check out the top shelf!

???
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 03/05/2008 08:05:00: Quote from: Karen W. on 03/05/2008 02:09:54
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 02/05/2008 20:54:23
Quote from: Karen W. on 02/05/2008 20:45:43
LOL.. you guys are killing me here!!! Wait for me... I have never been to a gathering of the spirits before!

Hey, guys, check out the top shelf!

???

The spirits (the alcoholic drink variety thereof) in English pubs are often referred to as "the top shelf"
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 03/05/2008 08:05:37: Quote from: JimBob on 03/05/2008 02:01:52
By the way Doctor Beaver, Herr Gott, that was no joke but spoken by the spirits.

Are you a medium? I always thought you were a small!
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Post by: JimBob on 03/05/2008 16:14:12: I am actually a XX-Large but there are occasions when the spirits call on me - unbeckoned - to speak for them.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/05/2008 08:20:42: Quote from: JimBob on 03/05/2008 16:14:12
I am actually a XX-Large but there are occasions when the spirits call on me - unbeckoned - to speak for them.

Is that when you wear your Napoleon outfit and call everyone Martha?
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Post by: JimBob on 04/05/2008 17:53:37: No, it is when I truly believe that a misguided human being is actually a beaver.
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Post by: Karen W. on 05/05/2008 00:16:27: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 03/05/2008 08:05:00
Quote from: Karen W. on 03/05/2008 02:09:54
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 02/05/2008 20:54:23
Quote from: Karen W. on 02/05/2008 20:45:43
LOL.. you guys are killing me here!!! Wait for me... I have never been to a gathering of the spirits before!

Hey, guys, check out the top shelf!

???

The spirits (the alcoholic drink variety thereof) in English pubs are often referred to as "the top shelf"

AH...ha that makes so much better since! LoL....Thanks Doc!
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 05/05/2008 09:17:07: Quote from: JimBob on 04/05/2008 17:53:37
No, it is when I truly believe that a misguided human being is actually a beaver.

You impudent pup!
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Post by: Nobody's Confidant on 05/05/2008 13:16:43: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 05/05/2008 09:17:07
Quote from: JimBob on 04/05/2008 17:53:37
No, it is when I truly believe that a misguided human being is actually a beaver.

You impudent pup!
At his age he's hardly a pup.
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Post by: Make it Lady on 05/05/2008 16:59:46: My son blows his own cornet, does that count?
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Post by: JimBob on 05/05/2008 17:25:35: Sadly, no. The coronet should go back to his estate and hope he doesn't loose his peerage because of his pederasty.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 05/05/2008 20:12:29: Is a pederast a walking Jamaican?
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Post by: JimBob on 06/05/2008 02:36:25: I believe that is so.
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Post by: Make it Lady on 06/05/2008 21:35:24: Who wants a bit of muffin?
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Post by: JimBob on 07/05/2008 04:33:35: I love to eat muffins and roll the harder parts around with, and play with, them on my tongue to get all of the flavor I can out of them.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/05/2008 08:27:57: Quote from: JimBob on 07/05/2008 04:33:35
I love to eat muffins and roll the harder parts around with, and play with, them on my tongue to get all of the flavor I can out of them.

Be wary of the chocolate chips
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Post by: JimBob on 07/05/2008 10:28:08: that's the best part!
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Post by: rosalind dna on 07/05/2008 11:25:15: Could it mean a similar equivalent of blowing your nose? I am only
guessing. Or like blowing the car horn?
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/05/2008 19:45:50: Quote from: rosalind dna on 07/05/2008 11:25:15
Could it mean a similar equivalent of blowing your nose? I am only
guessing. Or like blowing the car horn?

No.
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Post by: Make it Lady on 07/05/2008 22:42:44: I blow my own trumpet after a curry.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/05/2008 23:25:09: Stop being coarse.
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Post by: JimBob on 08/05/2008 01:54:40: That's the problem, it is coarse, leaving skid marks all over the drawers.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 08/05/2008 07:59:01: [xx(]
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Post by: Nobody's Confidant on 08/05/2008 13:21:03: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 08/05/2008 07:59:01
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ditto that.