h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've heard that. I've also heard from a reliable source that any self-respecting ship wouldn't keep their balls on deck, because of the danger of having a 20-pound shot rolling around under people's feet. Break a few ankles, it would. Plus they'd get all rusty, and they needed to be nice and smooth. Have a read - it's interesting!

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm

can we have a foot in mouth smiley please .

best fishes .....tod

What am I doing still up?

G'night all

[mr]

Besides Aqua, with 'Barbie Girl' and 'Disneyland After Dark', Denmark also had a very good all female (slightly political and feministic) rock group called 'Shit and Chanel' - they were of course threatened with a lawsuit and ended up as Shit and Chalou.

Hello Jolly.

Dialects and idiosyncracies, you've got to love them. Even in this small country with about 5 mio. native speakers we have several dialects, different ways of wording and several kinds of expressions for the same subject. With at least three of the dialects I have to tune in and listen carefully to understand.

It must be the same in Sweden, Ti?

Hello jollywinegums
Don't worry if the flow of conversation appears a bit random - it's because we're carrying on multiple threads of conversation across the Atlantic and North Sea. If you hang around, you'll pick it up.
If you go to the first post in this thread it'll give you a link which explains some of what's going on.

PWM - Jings Crivens is used mainly in the Central Belt of Scotland and means Jesus Christ defend us. It's often followed by "and help ma boab", especially in tales of The Broons and Oor Wullie.
As for donkey's years? I always assumed it was because donkeys lived a long time. Probably wrong.

*waits for Agapanthus to come along - as she's usually a fount of all etymological knowledge.

So - clean cups at tea time today? Is that afternoon tea - or high tea?

* quietly circumnavigates the salon, removing stray bits of spaghetti in a nonchalant fashion

Hi Jolly.

Even we have dialects in our 1 million. We never call anyone 'love' or anything in that line though. Not even 'sir' or 'mister' etc.

durr i will be needing 2 of those then ,

looks like somebody being sick. yuk.
thanks wilma
hi jollywinegums

i am in total limbo at the moment . iv'e just done a week of nights and then they asked me to do a nights overtime on tuesday { tonight } its so a work colleague can go sit an exam . leaving 24 hours of limbo . i stayed up half the night watching nascar and ice hockey . as well as setting up my web page the result can be seen here> http://www.kipperbox.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ then back to bed , now back up again . probably back to bed again later. aaarrrgh


best fishes.......tod

just previewed this .how come the website comes up as a hyperlink here but not on my space ? oh well

I may as well not have gone to bed at all. Sleepy does not come close. I am dangerous, verging on the catatonic. Some serious snooze catch-up activity is required soon, methinks, but not today. Tonight maybe. If i last that long

Tod, you need to put the url into the GuideML link tag. If you can bear it, change your skin preference to Brunel for a moment, press to edit your space, highlight the link in the text box and click on 'link' in the menu on the right hand side above it.

I have to fill out some forms today.

*eyes the stack of forms*

Maybe not today. I need some sleep first.

'laters.... (a new addition to our household verbiosity these days...)

Huu ? Your still here. Looks furtively around in case pasta traps have been set, hmm no, checks webs, still independent, flaps impressive wingspan to set off any other devices and slips into Salon.

Mornin All

Well that was an unexpected start to proceedings. Early appointment at Dentist revealed a cracked filling. How you fixed for time? Good, we'll do it now, gentle close, ah good, tap together good, leave it for an hour before using, bye see you in six months. By which time I hope the nurse has improved her mouth hoover technique. I could have drowned down there.

Never seen a beak with a filling have you?

I loved the first Matrix film... and am willing to watch it again and again. In fact it's the only one of the trilogy I've seen more than once... the reason being is that the sequels were totally unnecessary, at the end of the first Neo found out he was The One and there was that System Failure message. Seems like an ending to me, but noooooo... they have to try and make it all seem mystical and philosophical.

I still maintain that Keanu Reeves' best film is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Hello Tod!
The reason why the hyperlink doesn't appear in your PS is because of GuideML, which is the in-house page code whatsit. On posts hyperlinks are automatically done.

And there I was hoping that the new convo would have started yesterday so I could use
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals when it was checked by a violent gust of wind"
as an opener - A22547829 was placed on the front page yesterday.

Morning all.

Bu**ery-bu**ery-bol***ks

I think, in present circumstances I may be excused my intemperate language. Am just back from seeing the specialist and have been diagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis. There's now no doubt, since the blood tests showed RF to be six times higher than normal.

I've just had a prescription filled for some heavy-duty meds which we hope will kick its a** into remission. I can only hope. Without remission, my professional days are over.

Jings Crivens and help ma boab, indeed.

*wafts large fan around to disperse the blue air

My toe - I am a terrible old hypochondriac so in the teeth of all the evidence will insist that my mild injury is worse than anyone elses' health problems. So there - is jogging along fine.

Until I go down on one knee to talk to a trainee, which involves squatting so the toe in quesiton is bent right back, feel the pain (the _pain_) shooting right through it, and fall over sidewides with a loud squeak of agony, disturbing everybody.

I've done that twice now.

Sorry, that was a simulpost, and a very insensitive one at that.

Fingers crossed for the medication.

Oh, Teuchter, damn damn damn and damn again. So the not-gin-and-tonic won't work after all? Damn. I'm so sorry. Your poor hands. Fingers very crossed indeed for the heavy duty stuff. Have they been telling you about special diets and the like? My grandmother was on a special diet and it really did help a lot. Something about avoiding potatoes, tomatoes, aubergines and citrus fruit. Oh, and red meat. Rather tedious, as her idea of heaven was roast beef and tatties, and/ or marmalade by the cup-ful on toast.

Sorry, diets are rather on my mind at the moment, as I am supposed to be losing a bit of weight before surgery. S has vetoed the old black-coffee-and-fingernails one, despite my pleading thatit actually works if he doesn't mind me being killer-irritable the entire time. It turns out he *does* mind, so I am now eating more greenery than an elephant would know what to do with, and weighing (weighing, for bob's sake) my protein and carbohydrate portions.

Sol, toes highly uncooperative little beasts that never get better in a straight-forward and normal pattern. When I broke a smallish one of mine, it spent several weeks being absolutely fine unless I walked downstairs. Err, don't squat down for a bit, maybe?

The burn on my tummy is peeling. Yuk.

Oh no Teuchter. I do hope you can get some remission from the meds you've been given

Hi jolly!

In response to tartaronne's question about dialects in Sweden - oh yes, our dialects are as varied and different from each other as the weather (with temperature differences of 20ºC or more between the north and the south parts).

Personally, I even have difficulties understanding some of the dialects - especially those spoken in the very south of Sweden, and the very north. Not to mention the dialect of Sweden's biggest island Gotland; 'gutamål' - it's so special as to almost being an entirely different language.

And then there's the age old minorities that speak Finnish and Sami...

Blast and damnation, Teuchter. I'm so sorry to hear that. Let's hope the meds help. You may have to switch to managing the practice. I know that wouldn't be as rewarding, but it would keep you connected.

Hi Jolly. Nice to meet you.

Ag, am sending you an e-mail.