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« Reply #135 on: 14:26:30, 15-03-2008 » |
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We await with bated/baited breath for a report.
I'm off for a hot chocolate with chilli.
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« Reply #136 on: 15:40:17, 15-03-2008 » |
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I indulged a bowl of those [plantains], peeled, sliced and fried in ... butter ... with lots of pepper cracked on to, with a good friend last week. He was the one who did the frying, and I was the one who had ran out of olive-oil. That sounds like one of those 'sighted once' personal ads in the London free papers: '8am Thursday on the southbound Victoria line. Me, shy girl with the Barbie briefcase. You, got on at Seven Sisters, cropped hair, dungarees. Gave me that "Mona Lisa" smile at regular 6-minute intervals until you surprised me by crossing your legs around your elderly companion's walking stick. Would love to be there to catch you when you slide off. Drink?' Erm, that sort of thing. But usually less plausible. (The often unlikely gender alignments seem to be a key feature.) |
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« Reply #137 on: 15:45:45, 15-03-2008 » |
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unlikely gender alignments What is an unlikely gender alignment? |
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« Reply #138 on: 15:54:57, 15-03-2008 » |
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 I know 'sighted once' classified as 'missed connections', courtesy of craigslist. (The often unlikely gender alignments seem to be a key feature.)
(eh?) unlikely gender alignments What is an unlikely gender alignment? Now that I think of it, it's probably the sort of thing makes an obsessive-type start wondering if they should whip out a spirit-level out prior to engaging in sexual intercourse.  |
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« Reply #139 on: 15:59:36, 15-03-2008 » |
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What is an unlikely gender alignment?
Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys. Things like that, I suppose. But remember: always should be someone you really love. |
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« Reply #140 on: 16:08:56, 15-03-2008 » |
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Good heavens, tinners.....what with all that and increpatio's recent posting on What's that Burning, I'm getting very confused. Just as well I'm off to see Peter Grimes, which isn't disturbing at all. is it?  |
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« Reply #141 on: 16:12:47, 15-03-2008 » |
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I wonder what incre can have said. 'What's that burning?' is one of those threads I don't read, on the grounds that I can't possibly keep up with every post on every thread and I'd rather follow some threads properly and others not at all than skip chunks from within a thread.
(Skip? Chunks? Thread? Is this a mixed metaphor I see before me?)
Oh, and I think 'Missed Connections' is right, incre. I just wrote 'Sighted Once' because I couldn't remember the real name.
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« Reply #142 on: 16:31:59, 15-03-2008 » |
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(Skip? Chunks? Thread? Is this a mixed metaphor I see before me?)
I honestly don't know, for one. |
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« Reply #143 on: 21:44:07, 15-03-2008 » |
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I bought a mango today.
For 69p.
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« Reply #144 on: 21:50:30, 15-03-2008 » |
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I bought a mango today.
For 69p.
Oh, come on, hh! That's just a Sainsbury's chat-up line. |
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« Reply #145 on: 22:00:50, 15-03-2008 » |
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I bought mushrooms for 69p as well.
Do you think that the co-op are trying to tell me something?
Actually that reminds me about a recent conversation about figs....
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« Reply #146 on: 22:10:49, 15-03-2008 » |
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Now, if it had been a pomegranate for 69p, that might have caused me to prick up my ears.
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« Reply #147 on: 22:17:37, 15-03-2008 » |
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 'I say! Ding Dong! Do you need a pin for that pomegranate?' |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_apple (tomato?) Pomegranite seeds are the only thing that Persephone eats (6 of the tasty morsels) during the time that she's abducted by Hades. They are the thing that seal the time-share deal that H strikes up with her mum. Some versions of the story say she only ate three seeds (hence is only gone for the three months of winter). Other versions of it say she only ate one (a single seed is all it takes to be tied to the underworld forever). But in every subsequent myth that mentions her, she's always in the underworld. Doesn't seem right to me. Dark chocolate covered ginger biscuits. (now munching - or was very recently) |
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« Reply #149 on: 00:42:16, 16-03-2008 » |
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Pomegranate seeds are the only thing that Persephone eats (6 of the tasty morsels) during the time that she's abducted by Hades. They are the thing that seal the time-share deal that H strikes up with her mum.
Some versions of the story say she only ate three seeds (hence is only gone for the three months of winter). Other versions of it say she only ate one (a single seed is all it takes to be tied to the underworld forever). But in every subsequent myth that mentions her, she's always in the underworld. You seem to be an expert in this subject, strina. |
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