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Their input is greatly missed.
Would Madame Moderatrix care to rephrase that? |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #361 on: 16:55:12, 15-01-2008 » |
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However, within that context, I still think there's room for manoevre. manoevre (n): clumsy manoeuvre which in retrospect it would have been better never to have attempted |
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when I first came down her tommo
Come down her tommo (v. intr.) Decency constrains me to not stray too far into a clear definition here, beyond revealing that, on top of all the cardiovascular benefits, it is very naughty and a lot of fun. oops , sorry tommo  A |
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« Reply #363 on: 18:32:59, 15-01-2008 » |
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re-borne We feel a strong urge to comment on this presumably intentional if somewhat obscurely meaningful pun, but are resolved to restrain ourselves. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #364 on: 22:11:30, 15-01-2008 » |
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I think but a cursory glance at the lady in the picture supplied by the Member suffices to explain the pun, tinners.  |
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« Reply #365 on: 23:13:52, 15-01-2008 » |
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re-borne We feel a strong urge to comment on this presumably intentional if somewhat obscurely meaningful pun, but are resolved to restrain ourselves. Our object was to convey that there is in the situation a tiny hint of this is not there? We know it though as the Erl-King; in the original it is entitled Le Roi des Aulnes and we wonder whether the Member has read it? |
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« Reply #366 on: 23:35:21, 16-01-2008 » |
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This is,
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« Reply #367 on: 23:42:12, 16-01-2008 » |
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incompetant
- a telecom company that is incompetent
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« Reply #368 on: 15:54:44, 17-01-2008 » |
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semicola - a reduced cola caffeine drink. Alternatively ... |
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« Reply #369 on: 16:02:14, 17-01-2008 » |
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That reminds me - does anyone know whether Mentos is a singular or a plural? Is the singular "mento", or is the plural perhaps "mentoi"?
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« Reply #370 on: 16:04:30, 17-01-2008 » |
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We know it though as the Erl-King; in the original it is entitled Le Roi des Aulnes and we wonder whether the Member has read it? I like this book by Michel Tournier. It's called De Elzenkoning in Dutch. |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #371 on: 16:05:33, 17-01-2008 » |
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That reminds me - does anyone know whether Mentos is a singular or a plural? Is the singular "mento", or is the plural perhaps "mentoi"?
From apple's OED-widget: Mento - a style of Jamaican folk-music based on a traditional dance rhythm in 3/4 time. (pl. -tos)
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That reminds me - does anyone know whether Mentos is a singular or a plural? Is the singular "mento", or is the plural perhaps "mentoi"?
Well, as a musical genre, Mento is singular, but so is the freshly minted Mentos. I wonder if Linton Kwesi Johnson's "From Mento to Lovers' Rock" will ever get rebroadcast? |
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I like this book by Michel Tournier. It's called De Elzenkoning in Dutch.
I like it too. Strangely, one of the phrases which has stuck in my mind (from the English version) was one describing rampant constipation "... I see myself as a bust of human flesh standing on a plinth of faeces". |
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« Reply #374 on: 16:59:04, 17-01-2008 » |
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Sorry, I forgot to answer Mr Grew's question. I haven't read the book, I'm afraid. "... I see myself as a bust of human flesh standing on a plinth of faeces".
A candidate for Trafalgar Square, then? |
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