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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 24 Mar, 2007 02:34 pm
And then there's football ... :wink:
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 24 Mar, 2007 03:40 pm
Nice: football (Germany) and this from the Observer (25.03.07, page 10)

http://i10.tinypic.com/44acy03.jpg
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 24 Mar, 2007 04:15 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:
And then there's football ... :wink:


Yes, 2-1 at Hampden Park.

The Vogts Academy triumphs as McBertie's old boys march on to Italy.

Rolling Eyes
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 03:15 am
Her indoors said this morning,

"Who were England playing last night? Was it the ISRAELITES?"

Laughing

Yes, and they were smitten hip and thigh and banished from the promised land amid weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, I should have said but ....l'esprit de l'escalier.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 05:50 am
UK number one single on April 16, 1969 :wink:
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smorgs
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 09:41 am
McTag wrote:
Her indoors said this morning,

"Who were England playing last night? Was it the ISRAELITES?"

Laughing

Yes, and they were smitten hip and thigh and banished from the promised land amid weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, I should have said but ....l'esprit de l'escalier.


Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DOROTHY PARKER!

Hope you have a lovely day and a nice, home-made cake!

xxx
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 10:17 am
In the Christian calendar, Lady Day is the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) and the first of the four traditional Irish and English quarter days.

I was thinking about the word "ladyship" as used in 18th century society to denote a female person of quality. For example- "Yes your Ladyship, thank you your Ladyship".

I wondered if its use was similar to that in "grainship" or "oil tanker" or "banana boat" in the sense of some contrivance for carrying cargo from A to B. The "Lady" being the cargo and the female person the "Ladyship".

In Olde English it meant "to knead".
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Clary
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 10:29 am
hlaf + dige = loaf kneader - so hard to know why lady is so much higher in the social scale than woman

-ship cognate with shape - create(d)
But if it were boat -

worship = Holy Grail
fellowship = ship of fools
guardianship = sloop
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 11:07 am
Clary wrote-

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so hard to know why lady is so much higher in the social scale than woman


Maybe they knead more efficiently.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 11:51 am
A lady is Knever knowingly kneedy .
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 12:25 pm
So "ship-shape" is really tautological? Jeez.

Happy Birthday DP, and many happy returns.

Anyone watching Jo Brand on the organ this evening? Possibilities.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 12:27 pm
"Your ladyship"- that was Parker in The Thunderbids, wuntit?
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 12:53 pm
Thanks for the birthday wishes gang. I had a lovely day.

xxx
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 01:15 pm
Clary wrote-

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A lady is Knever knowingly kneedy .


I'm not sure what to laugh at with that.

Mac wrote-

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So "ship-shape" is really tautological?


It means perfectly balanced with nothing to disturb the symmetry which is why a man in a boat stands in the mddle so he doesn't end up in the water.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 03:25 pm
Dough kneaders and dough needers, good night.

Quite apposite this today, because I got (apparently) the wrong kind of yeast this morning for our bread machine and the resulting loaf came out all wrong. Quite tasty actually, but wrong. If we fed it to the ducks, they would sink.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 25 Mar, 2007 04:32 pm
Ducks won't ever sink Mac no matter what you feed them on.

They are well defended from sinking by evolution.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 26 Mar, 2007 10:58 am
well hello

I've been off line courtesy of Richard Branson

I've taken a large mallet and whacked the Virgin engineer and my computer every day for nearly 3 weeks.

Clearly I was not laying into it hard enough, because I'VE FINALLY BASHED IT REAL GOOD.


Did I miss anything?
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spendius
 
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Reply Mon 26 Mar, 2007 12:24 pm
Obviously you have missed Sky TV's generous Broadband offer to their fans.

Mr Murdoch runs a ship-shape ship.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 26 Mar, 2007 01:10 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
well hello

I've been off line courtesy of Richard Branson

I've taken a large mallet and whacked the Virgin engineer and my computer every day for nearly 3 weeks.

Clearly I was not laying into it hard enough, because I'VE FINALLY BASHED IT REAL GOOD.


Did I miss anything?


Well, you've been sorely missed, Steve, of course. The proceedings of the on-line Pickwick Club aka this thread are all there for the assiduous researcher.

Welcome back.
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Mon 26 Mar, 2007 01:36 pm
I am almost afraid to ask.

Has anyone heard from Lord Ellpus?
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