If posts were sausages ----

Nothing that a prick with a fork wouldn't remedy........

I don't eat meat, otherwise a sausage post might have been on the tip of my tongue. 

Donuk posted:

Nothing that a prick with a fork wouldn't remedy........

You are mashing your tenses Adam.

'If the forum were a plate...' or (if was) '...would it have been possible to have too many sausages on the plate.'

Also, one man's 'too many' is another man's 'not enough...or just right'.

G

Ooh, bangers and mash. Lovely!

Fences would be much less effective.

Willy.

Well, it depends on the damping factor of the sausages. 

I've had about two hours sleep after an airport run for Mrs Dayjay and I really can't get my head around what is going on here.  The only bit that made sense was the 

If you can't (b)eat them, join them.... 

Adam Meredith posted:

-- and the forum was a plate.

Would it be possible to have too many sausages on the plate?

I think it odd that no one (else) has asked this.

Only if Berlin Frites were (was) the condiment

TOBYJUG posted:

I suspect he's thick skinned enough to cope with this sort of jibe...

G

...all the fences would fall down.

One can never have too many sausages on the plate.

If Ifs and Ands were pots and pans,
’Twould cure the tinker's cares:
if ladies did not carry fans,
They’d give themselves no airs:
If down the starry skies should fall,
The starlings would be cheap:
If Belles talk'd reason at a ball,
The band might go to sleep.

GraemeH posted:

You are mashing your tenses Adam.

'If the forum were a plate...' or (if was) '...would it have been possible to have too many sausages on the plate.'

 

He wasn't, actually.

If posts (plural) were - past simple plural, and the forum (singular) was - past simple singular.

He could have used the subjunctive ('were' in both cases) - but that would have been a change of mood, not tense.

Salmon Dave posted:

GraemeH posted:

You are mashing your tenses Adam.

'If the forum were a plate...' or (if was) '...would it have been possible to have too many sausages on the plate.'

 

He wasn't, actually.

If posts (plural) were - past simple plural, and the forum (singular) was - past simple singular.

He could have used the subjunctive ('were' in both cases) - but that would have been a change of mood, not tense.

Oops! 

G

I know Adam knows his onions but this is just riding the gravy train...

Toulouse are my fave.

No they should be tight!

Sausage in cider.

C.

Adam Meredith posted:

-- and the forum was a plate.

Would it be possible to have too many sausages on the plate?

I think it odd that no one (else) has asked this.

No.

if there were too many they'd simply fall off the plate.

If that were the case my Labrador would be a member.

Adam Meredith posted:

-- and the forum was a plate.

Would it be possible to have too many sausages on the plate?

I think it odd that no one (else) has asked this.

Just get a bigger plate.

Analogous to too many post on the forum - just get a bigger server!

Then get them to work in a restaurant and serve out the sausages on smaller plates!

Problem solved.

When do they count as consumed? When read, when threads are locked, never? Though some undoubtedly start out as andouillette they don't all befall the fate of sausages once eaten.