the rush, the adaptation, and the general backwardness of the act

  weed said:

i made a grilled cheese sandwich with a lil cold bruschetta on top..yum

 

want a slice?

mmmmm, thanks!

hey fax me some of that sweet sandwich

i wont eat it though, i shall preserve it in an airtight display case because weed touched it

  lumpenprol said:

congrats et, you get the award for first watmmer i've really wanted to maim. Although tarsier got close, i think you take the cake.

you got a problem with ET, you got a problem with me.

yeah tell em bcm

whatcha gonna do lumpenprol, you a tough guy?

lol

lumpenprol you know i love you, even though you think i dont exist

  weed said:

i made a grilled cheese sandwich with a lil cold bruschetta on top..yum

 

want a slice?

cold grilled bread on top of a grilled cheese sandwich? what

i think she means the bruschetta topping with diced tomatoes and whatnot

oh i see

im glad we have cleared things up

I'm not hungry any more. in fact I'm stuffed!

  Babar said:

I've got a question about the last white stripes album. At the moment, i'm playing GTA I whilst listening to Rag and Bones. What the hell is going on in this track ? I've read the lyrics, and as far as i understant jack and meg are in a mansion. What is rag ? and why "Come on, come on, come on, come on and give it to me" ?

thanks

Rag and bone man

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Rag-and-bone man is a British phrase for a junk dealer. Historically the phrase referred to an individual who would travel the streets of a city with a horsedrawn cart, and would collect old rags, (for converting into fabric and paper), bones for making glue, scrap iron and other items, often trading them for other items of limited value.

They would use a distinctive call to alert householders to their presence. The call was something similar to "rag-and-bone", delivered in a sing-song fashion. Long usage tended to simplify the words, for instance down to "raa-boh", even to the point of incomprehensibility, although the locals clearly could identify who could make the call. This was satirised by the comedian Marty Feldman in his "Ay-oh frye" sketch, where he played a rag-and-bone man who, when asked, had no idea what his call meant.

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* 1 Collectors and recycling

* 2 Literary References

* 3 Popular culture

* 4 See also

* 5 References

* 6 External links

[edit] Collectors and recycling

The rag-and-bone men were an important component of society before automotive transport. Householders had limited ability to travel to collection points, so the various customers for rags, bones, and such materials relied on the rag-and-bone men to supply some of their materials. The increasingly widespread use of cars made these dealers unneeded in many areas.

Just as the costermongers and other street-vendors formed the distributive part of the market, the rag-and-bone men supported recycling or remanufacturing, depending on one's point of view. They outlasted costermongers, who became settled market vendors when transport improved to the point where the householders could come to the market. Boarding a bus carrying rags or bones was not something the average householder wanted to do, so the rag-and-bone man could still provide a valued service.

A BBC documentary, filmed in the 1950s, followed rag-and-bone men operating in London. One surprise revelation was that old clothes found a lucrative market in countries like India where they were re-sold for wearing.

Once the world became more mechanised, some rag-and-bone men traded their horses for a lorry or pickup truck. Other social changes, such as the tendency for all members of a household to work outside the house, not to mention higher levels of traffic, made casual street-by-street pickup unworkable.

Today rag and bone men mostly operate only in very poor areas[citation needed] and in areas largely inhabited by the elderly (both groups of which are less likely to have their own transportation)[citation needed]. They also often make heavy use of telephones being called on a case-by-case basis to collect an old appliance such as a fridge, sometimes for a small charge.

In the North East of England the rag and bone man's horse often had balloons fastened to it. If a child gave what the rag and bone man considered a reasonable amount of rags for example, then they would be given a balloon as a reward. This was forbidden by the Public Health Act 1925, due to fear that the practice contributed to the spread of disease.

[edit] Literary References

William Butler Yeats' poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion" refers to "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."[1]

[edit] Popular culture

* The popular comedy television series Steptoe and Son (remade as Sanford and Son on American television) centred around family run rag and bone business.

* The White Stripes wrote a song titled "Rag and Bone" on their album Icky Thump in which Jack and Meg White sing about being rag and bone men and collecting junk. The single cover for the song had a goldfish on it because of the rag and bone men's practice of giving goldfish to children who gave them rags or other material.[citation needed]

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* The Radiohead song "Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased.)" begins with the line "Something for the rag and bone man".

* The 10th studio album by And Also The Trees is entitled The Rag and Bone Man (2007, also listed as "(listen for) The Rag and Bone Man").

* British band XTC released an album in 1990 containing "Rare Cuts and Leftovers" titled "Rag & Bone Buffet".

* The Libertines song "Skag & Bone Man" is a play on the term rag and bone man.

* In the Bob Dylan song Stuck Inside The Mobile With The Menphis Blues Again the line "The Rag Man draws circles up and down the block, I asked him what the matter is but I know that he don't talk" may be a reference to Rag and Bone men.

* The "rag man" was also a figure in American culture, as mentioned in the 1903 Arthur Collins recording, "Any Rags?" and a joking reference by Groucho Marx in the 1932 film, Horse Feathers.

* In the episode of the Dilbert animated series called "The Knack", The World's Smartest Garbage Man is a rag and bone man.

  Squee said:

  Plum said:

*lays down another phat beat*

 

Oh my lol

Shit gets funnier every time I watch it.

  weed said:

  analogue wings said:

best post ever made on watmm

why, thank you

  ET said:

it says ive got a bod you havent been seeing

pstffff any guy that made a "goodbye" thread and showed up a week later bod cant be that how....or can it?

pics or gtfo

I think ET will be either incredibly gorgeous or terribly ugly

et is living art

man, when I saw that on xltron I was all like "gee, this sure would have been funnier on watmm"

and then I thought "but wait there is no watmm anymore, is there?"

followed by "WATMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

then I took a massive shit and ate some leftover cold turkey - SIMULTANEOUSLY.

EDIT: jealous, much?

Sometimes I just sit on the toilet and eat. Eventually what I ate will make its way through my body and the cycle will continue until I fall asleep.

ps 1000 club

  Capsaicin said:

Sometimes I just sit on the toilet and eat. Eventually what I ate will make its way through my body and the cycle will continue until I fall asleep.

 

ps 1000 club

congrats on your 1k. i avg about 7 times that much a day. chew on that.

No matter how hilarious it is mocking that guy, he must have some minor brain problems to do that to himself then seek approval by posting up on the nets. Theres blood on your hands watmm....HANDS....BLOOD

K lol

  abusivegeorge said:

  Capsaicin said:

  ET said:

hey im trying to talk about my genius in here guys, keep it down

Your genius is much smaller than my genius

 

Your genius and my genius should be together and ET should be our subconscious genious.

Genius envy.

  tauboo said:

  weed said:

i made a grilled cheese sandwich with a lil cold bruschetta on top..yum

 

want a slice?

cold grilled bread on top of a grilled cheese sandwich? what

ha

grilled cheese sandwich

regarder le balade, visage du bite