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I've just read that in Scotland, different city councils have different holidays... Thankfully I've found a summary here. Just need to update my diary now. |
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« Reply #4696 on: 14:33:51, 15-09-2008 » |
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Try Germany, hh... Thursdays in May in the Catholic Bundesländer you can basically just forget.
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« Reply #4697 on: 15:09:58, 15-09-2008 » |
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I've just ordered George's recommended book of the day, "What Does it all Mean?" Thomas Nagel. I was ordering titles for my mother so I added it on the end.
I've always wondered what it all meant.
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« Reply #4698 on: 15:17:22, 15-09-2008 » |
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Try Germany, hh... Thursdays in May in the Catholic Bundesländer you can basically just forget.
That sounds potentially quite useful. Like the waters of Leith. I mean Lethe. |
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« Reply #4699 on: 15:31:44, 15-09-2008 » |
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Is 'bed-raggled' the word you are looking for, Mr S? It was years before I finally realised that (the word I'd always thought was) 'bed-raggled' was in fact 'be-draggled'!  A bit like 'misled' (the past tense of 'to misle', as I always imagined). |
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« Reply #4700 on: 15:45:54, 15-09-2008 » |
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When I was much younger I thought the word 'facetious' was something to do with the face. Duh! |
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« Reply #4701 on: 15:52:05, 15-09-2008 » |
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When I was learning the piano as a very young child I used to think that 'ad lib' meant play it if you want to ... so I didn't (being a bit lazy even then!)
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« Reply #4702 on: 15:55:18, 15-09-2008 » |
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And then there were "sundried tomatoes" - from the odds and ends bin we thought.
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« Reply #4703 on: 15:58:05, 15-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #4704 on: 16:20:20, 15-09-2008 » |
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Was I then the only one who thought the word to be pronounced "picture-skew"? |
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« Reply #4705 on: 16:25:09, 15-09-2008 » |
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My mum and dad used to speak in French when they had private things to say to each other occasionally in front of my brother and I , it was a long time however when I realised that 'street beard' was rhu barb. !!
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« Reply #4706 on: 16:30:23, 15-09-2008 » |
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My mum and dad used to speak in French when they had private things to say to each other occasionally in front of my brother and I , it was a long time however when I realised that 'street beard' was rhu barb. !!
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« Reply #4707 on: 16:35:48, 15-09-2008 » |
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street / beard (translation) rue / barbe..no??? A  P.S, you see why it took me so long to understand it now!!! |
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« Reply #4708 on: 16:41:20, 15-09-2008 » |
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Ah <light dawns>. But why was rhubarb subject to such subterfuge? Did you refuse it eat it or something?
Yours in ever increasing confusion<doh>
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« Reply #4709 on: 16:47:21, 15-09-2008 » |
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It were jus me dad's joke Mort, I presumed it was French when I was about 7 and it was only later ..... oh never mind !!!!!!!!!!!!
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