Panache - what I'm left with when I try to make pancakes. :-(
Steve
Kumquat
Aug 01, 2006
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I like "contrafibularity" fans of Black Adder will understand if they remember the Dictionary episode...... still makes me chuckle to myself!
Dave
Sausages? SAUSAGES?!?!?!
Nerk or Nurk : Idiot doing something idiotic and probably illegal, usually wearing a baseball cap and driving a Corsa or similar.
And things like ghoti or houghpteighbteau.
Don't know if I dare ask!
That was a cocktail introduced in 1957, IIRC. Contained Sour Grapes and Vodka
Cos 'e's a plonkar
Might be safest not to.
GIYF? eek!, maybe not in this case!
with salt and vinegar one hopes (I added the G easy typo) made me think its about 40 years since I heard that one. Derek
On or around Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:21:49 +0100, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:
oh yes, Hiraeth is good. ISTR Harry Secombe talking about it in "We'll keep a Welcome..." - and saying that it can't be translated. It's closest to "longing" entomologically (there's a good word!).
Mr. Creemy's ice cream van in the Rhondda has "we'll keep a welcome" as it's chimes.
On or around Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:36:34 +0100, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:
silly sod.
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:50:01 +0100, Corp-Rat scribbled the following nonsense:
NERC - bunch of townies interfering in the country......
Aarvark - mostly harmless >aardvark never hurt anybody
Earth - mostly harmless ( H2G2 )
Derek
|| Sausages? SAUSAGES?!?!?! || || -- || Neil
Garlic? BREAD?
OK, I know the first one, but what are the "clue words" for the second?
|| oh yes, Hiraeth is good. ISTR Harry Secombe talking about it in || "We'll keep a Welcome..." - and saying that it can't be translated. || It's closest to "longing" entomologically (there's a good word!).
Entomology - study of insects Etymology - study of word origins
And if you meant the latter, I can't see how words from separate groups within Indo-European (Celtic and Germanic) can be "close", since the two groups separated in the Bronze Age.
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ObLandyRef: I'm "longing" to get my series 2 back on the road. :-)
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:45:25 +0100, "Richard Brookman" scribbled the following nonsense:
trust Di is getting stocked up for October???
Google.
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