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Andy D
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« Reply #6225 on: 22:00:41, 11-06-2008 »
I've got an iron, it looks as good as new for some reason Wink

Actually, I always iron the toilet seat to kill off all the bugs on it.
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« Reply #6226 on: 22:03:50, 11-06-2008 »
Quote from: MabelJane on 21:03:10, 11-06-2008


What I do hate having to iron is those plastic bead pictures my daughter likes to make. You think they've all melted just enough to stick together so you stop but then find that you missed a few. So you do it a bit more - and melt them too much. Angry



That takes me back MJ !!!

A Grin Grin
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« Reply #6227 on: 10:18:56, 12-06-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 21:48:12, 11-06-2008
Quote from: trained-pianist on 21:11:40, 11-06-2008
cleaning.

What's 'cleaning'?
Not sure.  I think it's something people with floor and surface space do.

I don't iron anything any more - make sure I buy clothes that don't really need ironing.  My mum still irons my dad's handkerchiefs, which I find very sweet.
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« Reply #6228 on: 10:22:15, 12-06-2008 »
Quote from: Ruby2 on 10:18:56, 12-06-2008
Quote from: martle on 21:48:12, 11-06-2008
Quote from: trained-pianist on 21:11:40, 11-06-2008
cleaning.

What's 'cleaning'?
Not sure.  I think it's something people with floor and surface space do.
Good answer Grin
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Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #6229 on: 10:26:51, 12-06-2008 »
Quote from: Stanley Stewart on 13:28:46, 11-06-2008
# 6204         Yes, Ruby2, a case of one size fits all, invariably bathetic!

                   Were you influenced by -

                   sado-masochism        Pinter - The Servant (1963)

                   cannibalism in the household   -   Tennessee Williams: Suddenly Last Summer
                   (1960)  ?       Shocked
In case anyone was curious, I dug this out last night. Here's an extract (it's very peculiar):

Cliff: Have we got enough shillings for the meter?
Alison: No I haven't.  It takes muscle and guts.  Have you got any?
Jimmy: I'll pull your ears off. That'll do.
Alison: That's going to be painful.
Jimmy: You got it.
Alison: Ooooooooh, Ooooooh!  Ugh! Stop it!  Are you going to be much longer?
Jimmy: Nearly finished, do you have to make all that racket?
Alison: I was in pain.
Cliff: I'm wondering how much longer I can go on watching you two tearing the insides out of each other. It's all so unfortunate; unfortunate and unnecessary.
Jimmy: Well I mean it gives you something to do doesn't it?
Alison: We could roast him over the gas stove.
Cliff: It won't be very pleasant.
Jimmy: No but that girl there can twist your arm off.
Cliff: I don't think I can take any more, I can't take part in all this suffering...

Interestingly it's almost indistinguishable from the original.
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« Reply #6230 on: 10:41:31, 12-06-2008 »
Quote from: Ruby2 on 10:18:56, 12-06-2008
I don't iron anything any more - make sure I buy clothes that don't really need ironing.  My mum still irons my dad's handkerchiefs, which I find very sweet.

Last year I bought a concert dress constructed entirely of petrochemical byproducts.  Its artificiality made me assume it would be perfect for throwing into hastily packed suitcases.  I was very wrong, and spent some angry hours in hotel rooms hunched awkwardly over a hot unfamiliar appliance, wondering if I was going to melt my dress.  Since then I've figured out if I roll the dress into a very tight sausage around a central core of a teeshirt, it looks perfectly acceptable.

Ruby2, I'm not sure you should be eating your dad's handkerchiefs.  But at least they taste nice.
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« Reply #6231 on: 10:45:34, 12-06-2008 »
Quote from: strinasacchi on 10:41:31, 12-06-2008
Quote from: Ruby2 on 10:18:56, 12-06-2008
I don't iron anything any more - make sure I buy clothes that don't really need ironing.  My mum still irons my dad's handkerchiefs, which I find very sweet.

Last year I bought a concert dress constructed entirely of petrochemical byproducts.  Its artificiality made me assume it would be perfect for throwing into hastily packed suitcases.  I was very wrong, and spent some angry hours in hotel rooms hunched awkwardly over a hot unfamiliar appliance, wondering if I was going to melt my dress.  Since then I've figured out if I roll the dress into a very tight sausage around a central core of a teeshirt, it looks perfectly acceptable.

Ruby2, I'm not sure you should be eating your dad's handkerchiefs.  But at least they taste nice.

Cheesy

I'm not sure you should be rolling your dress into a sausage either, won't it get sausage-meaty?  Tongue Grin
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« Reply #6232 on: 14:30:20, 12-06-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 22:00:41, 11-06-2008
I've got an iron, it looks as good as new for some reason Wink

Actually, I always iron the toilet seat to kill off all the bugs on it.

Does that mean you have flat-bottomed pans?

Tommo
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« Reply #6233 on: 19:17:44, 12-06-2008 »
You all aren't ranting, you're waffling.

That makes me grumpy for some reason.

 Wink
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Andy D
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« Reply #6234 on: 21:03:08, 12-06-2008 »
I'm sure all those of us who travel by public transport know the problem of the smelly person on the bus/train - quite often there's a free seat next to them when others are standing. Usually it's just unpleasant but on the bus tonight were 2 men, one in a wheelchair (which I would guess was why the driver had let them on, I doubt they paid) and one or both of them stank the bus out. It was awful, people were holding their noses and getting off, the driver drove along with the doors open. I must admit I was tempted to get off myself and catch the next bus but fortunately they got off after about 5 or 6 stops - much to everyone's relief.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #6235 on: 21:09:26, 12-06-2008 »
It's hard not to think 'doukipudonktan' at times like that.
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Andy D
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« Reply #6236 on: 21:37:39, 12-06-2008 »
Hadn't heard of that one Ollie

"This is in fact the phonemic transcription of the sentence D'où qu'ils puent donc tant? (What makes them stink so much? ~ What a stench!)."

One young lad who got on the bus and sat near them immediately started inspecting the soles of his shoes.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #6237 on: 21:42:57, 12-06-2008 »
It's a rather lovely word I think. It occurs to me often in the summer.

And more importantly begins this book.
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« Reply #6238 on: 21:43:59, 12-06-2008 »
Raymond Queneau. Smiley
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Stanley Stewart
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Well...it was 1935
« Reply #6239 on: 22:02:15, 12-06-2008 »
' Zazie dans le Metro' (1960), directed by Louis Malle.  A delightful film.    Smiley

        "There is someting not quite innocent or healthy
         about this film."              Bosley Crowther     Grin
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