So what's all this about, then?

[Driver]

... overwhelming fascination with dance as an art form.

In itself, of course, there is nothing reprehensible about taking an interest in dancing. However, in the case of the crew of the Nautilus, lack of coordination combined with total lack of rhythm and serious tone-deafness, turned their terpsichorean forays into a different art form altogether. One more reminiscent of ...

[Grunt]

Fat Lady Nude Jelly Wrestling. This is the sort of thing that Captain Nemo ...

[Driver]

... enjoyed when it involved fat ladies (think Benny Hill's character in the original movie: The Italian Job) but when it involved the scrawny male crew of the Nautilus, he found it stomach-turning. This condition is not a good pre-cursor to any meal involving fondue, and ...

[echnidna]

resulted in a techni-color yawn in the centre of the dining room floor....

[craigb]

which although disgusting, reminded the crew of that seminal Barry McKenzie song, "We Chundered in the Old Pacific Sea".

So they decided to do an all singing all dancing and further more, all puking rendition of it:
Ready mr music?

"I was down on Manly Pier
Drinking tubes of ice cold beer
With a bucket full of prawns upon the side ....

[ernknot]

and along came Manly mincing along the pier
saw me drinking my ice cold beer
and said" Hello ducks, do you have the time?"
'cause if you do you can.....

[Driver]

... (segue into another B. MacKenzie number from his time in London)

One day as I strode
Along Earl's Court Road
Into a pub I was lured
"Where do you come from?"
Said a nosey Pom.
As I sipped the amber fluid.
"Well, I'll tell ya straight.
I'm Australian, mate.
And I feel like gettin' plastered.
But this beer's crook
And the girls all look
Like you, ya Pommy bastard".

[craigb]

Which prompted the crew to do an encore of the Chunder song:


I was down by Bondi Pier,
Drinkin tubes of ice cold beer,
With a bucket full of prawns upon my knee,
When I swallowed the last prawn,
I had a technicolor yawn,
And I chundered in the old Pacific Sea.

Drink it up, drink it up,
Crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice,
Mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the old Pacific Sea.

I was sittin in the surf,
When a mate of mine called Murf,
Asks if he can crack a tube or two with me,
The bastard barely swallowed it,
When he went for the big spit,
And he chundered in the old Pacific Sea.

Drink it up, drink it up,
Crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice,
Mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the old Pacific Sea.

I've had liquid laughs in bars,
And I've hurled from moving cars,
And I've chuckled when and where it suited me,
But if I could choose the spot,
To regurgitate me lot,
Then I'd chunder in the old Pacific Sea..

Drink it up, drink it up,
Crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice,
Mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the old Pacific Sea.

[silentC]

This was all getting a bit much for Nemo, so under the pretence of going to point Percy at the porcelain, bleed the lizard, and shake hands with the unemployed, he slipped out the back for a little ...

[craigb]

straining of the potatoes.

Meanwhile, Atlantis was fast approaching.

The officer of the watch, Lieutenant Flogswell .....

[Grunt]

Susan stopped reading and addressed the other 4 members of the Thursday Book Club. "As you can see, the book is very engrossing and has the ability to envolve those reading it into the story. I was reading it a while back and was killed. It hurt a bit but I'm better now. Sometime I think that the author is a bit schizophrenic because of the way the plot changes course."

Rachael, the blonde in the group with huge gazungas, piped up and said "...

[silentC]

... Can anyone tell me what to do with this bag of gazungas? I bought them from a Jewish deli down the road but I don't have any recipes."

Susan replied "...

[Termite]

...I don't know either, stuff them up your jumper to keep them warm untill....

[Grunt]

they ripen."

Lisa said "My Dad used to make gazungas mashed with yarbles. He made a lovely sauce out of ...

[Driver]

... the remains of a discarded fondue. So there's half a chance he may ...