[answered] Possibly I'm just very thick...

No worries, m'dear, dlowan got there afore ye.
It's the Royal We that the triggers those sensitivities says he/she? So sorry! We shall commit never to err thus again.

Cheerio.

Garn.


There's a poppet in there somewhere, struggling to get out.







(Running away, very fast....)

Yeah, I'd run very fast if I were you, you widgetty wabbit... imagine calling ehBeth a poppet! I nearly spat my wine out at that one

I am not so stupid as to call her a poppet, I merely alluded to the possibility of an INNER poppet.


I am sure we all have one, just as we have an inner Genghis Khan.

One wonders how many other identities you have inside of you, you ball of fluff.

I speak of "us" not "me".

Is that the Royal Us?

No, it is the bog common "us".



Genghis, you know, was rumoured to be short, with poofity hair, and fond of gin.

Genghis was much more fertile than Victoria.

What's a poppet?

Ok, I know I can look it up. Sounds storybook, and I had a storybook spare childhood.

The word poppet is an older spelling of puppet, from the Middle English popet, meaning a small child or doll. In British Dialect it continues to hold this meaning. Poppet is also a chiefly English term of endearment.

In folk-magic and witchcraft, a poppet is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on that person.
"To some others at these times he [the Devil] teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay. That by the roasting thereof, the persons that they beare the name of, may be continually melted or die away by continually sickness."

A brand of chocolate sweet (UK)

In nautical terms it also means any of the vertical timbers bracing the bow or stern of a vessel about to be launched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppet

No relation to Poppety head which of course ehbeth is

Coo er! what singular thing have I started!

And I learn there's a Ghengis-Poppet amongst us (dispensation craved for plurals here)!

Thanks Dadpad for that very interesting "folk-magic and witchcraft" reference. In that particular context the word conjures up Sheela-na-gigs ... but p'rhaps, on reflection, that's not a path we (and I mean we) want to tread here!

A dieu, sleep tight all ye now in twilight hours

Irony, darls, irony. :wink:

Thanks, dad, that was helpful.

Its the middle of the day why would i sleep.

Or was it an invitaion?

Lawksamussy!


It's a digression thread!

Your reference earlier to OZ was not lost, hence the qualified comment: 'all ye now'. And you'll have picked up on the Sheela reference no doubt

Though, as to invitations, I'm pretty open. This forum's an invitation in itself ... to share some great crack. And what with being a night bird, the chances are we'll meet

Cheers Dadpad (a propos is that an anagram?)

*poets license, read night.

Tis only what I am most importantly.

Ps. Its "sheila". But we'll forgive you that one.

Tut, tut, Dadpad! you're for it now!

And there was I thinking you'd want to give Sheelas of all kinds a wide berth ... would that it had been so. And Lord knows I tried hard to steer clear of the ribald reference in a thread already denounced (rightly) by dlwhiterabbit as digression!

So I failed and here we go:

It may be that, on occasion, birds in OZ have been heard referred to, as Sheilas; an appellation - if I understand things correctly - of Celtic origin and one which may be, indeed is, written in a variety of ways. Take my own sister Shelagh for example (bless her) and the Celtic idol Sheelas, to list but two. And this last Sheela was precisely where I feared to tread! Rember DP, you pushed me.

Sharp outlet of breath... hesitates one last time .... takes the plunge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_Gig

You see the topic is not predisposed to clear the (any?) censors, especially not here on these squeaky clean family boards ... But you forced my hand ... and in the interest of general knowledge and culture... Don't say I didn't warn you Dadpad. Should you follow the link, you may be discouraged from ever calling anyone of the feminine gender a Sheila again!

This is all your fault, it was the fascinating bumph you turned out on the term poppet that triggered it. Just thank your stars that I don't know how to bundle in images with my posts, or I think www.able2know.org would have risked implosion!

G'day Bruce.

Nah, they're "Sheilas"...if anyone uses the term now...it's very dated.


And digreessing is good.