Brevity by Dan Thompson for February 09, 2012

The bouncer knows the guest list: A,E,I,O, U and sometimes Y….. and sometimes W.

Tonight is just not one of the times, for this Y.

Radish, W can get in if he’s following O, or A… but what I’d like to know is how you see through the wall and know he’s there.

And Dog, I’ll bite….. what is it called?Or are you asking?

K, however, cannot enter — sorry, but it just isn’t consonant with our policy.

My old English teacher, Prof. Smythe, used to tyre of the notion that Y was a vowel. “It’s a myth” he was often quoted as saying.

Aw, Picto, that’s how W gets put down.

If I don’t get in I’ll take a letter to the bar.

Aw, come on, letter in.

Time for a vowel movement.

What are the holes in “the Three Rs” called?

Not to get serious, but I believe Y is always a vowel.

You know what you call a deer with no eyes?No ideer.

Yeah, susan, don’t make him say it! He’ll get kicked off for using vowel language again!

Radish and a Half: W gets in because the rope-keeper is Welsh (it has an oo sound in Cymru).

‘Y’ seems to have a questioning look.

Y?Because we LIKE ya!

Or maybe they are called Rs’ holes.

Clever joke, but I’m not used to being spoon fed by “Brevity”. Make us work for our laugh, dang it!

It’ll be fine, it’s a Special K.

I’m worried about that i though. Looks like a minor.

W is a vowel in the Welsh language.

So one way to keep the W out is to name the place (subtitle it?) “Tootsie Roll Fudge” because for those of us old enough to remember the commercial, “There is no W in Tootsie Roll Fudge.”

I figured W got in disguised as a double U. K might sneak in silently.

And Pat would like to buy a V.O., or at least he used to.

Wow…got back here late… and there are too many good ones to note them all, when probably no one will see this anyway….

But Radish, you got it….

And Dogsniff… ooops. I guess I was looking right past the joke for something unnecessarily complicated.

and Konrad….Y is usually a consonant when it begins a syllable.

Great bunch of comments though. I’m happy that Brevity gets more attention on this site.

Hope you are, too, Guy, rOdd and Dan.