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2 months ago reesetee said:

Wait--a typo? Geez, I just noticed it!

*thinks it's time for a vacation*

Yanikq, you have officially received the Wordie treatment. Welcome to the club. :-)

2 months ago chained_bear said:

*eating*

2 months ago bilby said:

We've made a lot out of poor yanikq's typo.

2 months ago bilby said:

Boo.

2 months ago reesetee said:

Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum!

2 months ago pterodactyl said:

Reesetee, reesetee, reesetee. Not only do bears bear headfish, they reduce them to fish heads!

As for the bears bearing the monks, perhaps the monks give the bears their fish and chips. (That is, of course, if they happen to be chip monks.)

2 months ago reesetee said:

Ask not how the monks bear the bears, ptero, but how the bears bear the monks. Not to mention the headfish.

2 months ago whichbe said:

I love that there's so many Joyce fans on Wordie. He is one of my favorite authors.

2 months ago pterodactyl said:

Bears dine with monks? How do the monks bear the bears?

2 months ago chained_bear said:

No, bears eat the tonsures of headfish. When dining with monks.

2 months ago reesetee said:

What about headfish? Do bears eat the monks of those?

2 months ago chained_bear said:

No, you're thinking of monkfish. That bears eat. With their heads.

2 months ago bilby said:

Do some bears leave their heads monk?

2 months ago chained_bear said:

I love it when monks leave their heads bear.

2 months ago yanikq said:

It is a word invented by James Joyce by adding the prefix un to the word tonsure "a part of a monks head left bear on top". Check this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure for a better explanation of a tonsure.

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