Wouldn't "Bale Out" be some sort of harvest-related activity, possibly taking place in WWII and involving steam tractors and Land Girls?

And I thought it would be taking blocks of hay out of the barn.

The phrase finder site is great! It is often a start for my research on the origins of phrases when I write that type of article, and often quoted as the source as many sources are mentioned on the pages.

I was at Liverpool Street station at the weekend, and was mildly shocked (although not, being me, actually offended) to walk past a (shut) kiosk proudly displaying a greetings card with the message "KEEP CALM AND FUCK OFF" to any and all passers by. I suspect that Mary Whitehouse would not have approved...

[jim] I suspect you are right. Nothing good ever came of telling that lady to keep calm.

Yes, I believe she formed a campaign originally entitled Clean Up National Television.

TLA has just been closed. Any ideas for a new game?

I think that I shall never see
A purple cow that looks like thee
This poem is a pure mess
With lots of apologies to Gilet Burgess.

Well, we could... Could someone just go over the rules quickly? It's been so long.

[KagomeShuko] See: The Obligatory Limericks Game Reincarnated

Though to be fair I saw no problem with your mother's snoring since it followed the same beat as my favourite limerick by Spike Milligan:
Things that go bump in the night
Should really not give one a fright
It's the hole in each ear
Which lets in the fear
That, and the absence of light

If we've got to the point where people would object to Spike if he were to post that, we are in trouble.

If we've got to the point where Spike posts that, then the dead are walking the earth and we have greater worries than scansion.

True. :/

Is it just me who uses the apostrophe there?

[Pen] Surely it should be 'Hallow'e'en'

Missing S & missing V? Perhaps. But it's deffo not the way Hallmark spell it.

[Pen] I was starting from 'All Hallows Eve' but then had to account for the final 'n' so I've taken Halloween to be an abbreviated form of 'All Hallows Eventide'.

[penelope] You've missed the apostrophe from penelop'

[Phil] I've missed a lot of things in my time. *sigh*