THE BRITISH THREAD II

Fennel makes you trump.

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I'm sure Spendy will have view on that smorgs.

I think that when the prosecutors thought the matter through they decided to let her out of the back door and put her on a boat out in the service of avoiding bringing the judicial system into disrepute. I presume she was told not to come back.



Yes- it would be an ingredient, along with aniseed, in the carmative that de Sade mixed with the aphrodaisiac he put in the chocolates. The poisoning charge was due to the lady scoffing the lot. I forget her name too. No I don't. Mme Coste . Marguerite Coste. She was not used to being presented with Dairy Box or Black Magic or even Terry's All Gold which is on a halfprice clear the stocks offer at the moment. Save £3.

Well maybe it does but I had a change of plan, and calories.
When I picked up my car at the repair shop around 4:30 the nice Greek man said it would cost about £1000 to fix the bit needed, but it would do for now.
Well our nipper was finishing work around 5 o'clock so I gave him a bell, picked him up and took him for a pub grub for his tea, as he has been a bit down in the dumps this week.
And I needed more than vegetable soup after that shock.

He lives in Moss Side now so, having to choose a pub with decent food and a car park, I chose the Old House At Home. They did us proud, and not a bit of fennel in sight.

I'm not going to go to the pictures tonight. I'm going to hear a band I like, in a pub I don't care for that much.

good for you mct

glad you and the lad are mates

snowing here, again.

Nice to see smorgs again.

The snow was fun for about one day, but now it is boring me.
It started to bore me when it turned into ice and, living at the top of a hill, I had to try and hurriedly (I'm late for everything) slide to the bottom each morning whilst retaining as much dignity as possible.

There is some British slang that I have never seen before: "trump".

Why is the nipper down in the dumps Mac? That's more interesting that which pub he exhibited it in. Perhaps we can cheer him up. Is it because Man U are going to win the title again?

He's down in the dumps because he's got teenage angst despite being a tad older.

I'm down in the dumps because when I got to that pub I don't like, the band I like were not on and a band I didn't like were on.

So I didn't hang about for long. I came back and washed the dishes which was more entertaining.

Trump is a word you'll find in The Bible, which is the christian holy book, like the Koran. It's kind of poetic, and used to describe a fart, what's that figure of speech, the opposite of bathos...doesn't spring readily to my mind.

Good night.

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There's loads of British slang wande that would make your puritan, roundhead hair stand up on end like candles in a cathedral at Christmas time during an economic boom.

"Jizzard" for example. A noun. A swirling blizzard of sticky snow sufficient to stop a train in a grumble flick. Or a "fairy hammock" . Another noun. I'll save the adjectives and verbs. A tart's dung hampers.

Thank you, McTag and Spendi.

Trump is a good word for meanings, albeit making it a hard job to avoid The Donald when you google it

http://ardictionary.com/Trump/7825

The last definition on that list is the one we want. Gold star to yours truly for spotting the connection to Scripture.
Thanks and due acknowledgement to Smorgs for opening for us that window on her cornucopia of wisdom.

I presume smorgsie had put some fennel in her stew and had been trumping all night and had put two and two together and thought that the scientific insight, not a breakthrough, was worth sharing.

I've noticed that a lot of well educated and refined pink chubbies are fascinated by trumps, trumping and Jimmy Edwards euphonium solos.

The euphonium is a valved conical bore brassy wind instrument which derives its name from the Greek word euphonos meaning "beautiful sounding" or "sweet voice".

Mr Edwards also played the tuba but mostly at private parties. . Tuba is Latin for trumpet or horn. The horn referred to would most likely resemble what is known as a Baroque trumpet. (trumpet--geddit?)

They don't make them like Jimmy anymore. He used to do overseas concert tours for the troops accompanied with some chorus girls. I saw him do the "eye on the end of the finger" sketch once. He would get arrested now for that such is the progress we have made.

Excellent research, McTag. You are correct, I should have also thanked smorgs for inspiring this intellectual quest.

I just had one of my Mcvitie's chocolate digestive biscuits cadged off me by a four year old girl who is playing with one of her friends. I told her to give her friend, Amy, a half of it. So she broke it in half. One half twice the size of the other. But the smaller half broke into two pieces. So with commendable magnaminity she said that Amy could have two pieces and she would only have one.

Imagine this little monster at 20. And wande thinks science will help us.

That's brilliant.

you just wish you had thought of that one aged 4 pq

When trumping, you don't want a breakthrough. Oh no.



Yes indeed. I played in a brass band once. The family of instruments of the British brass band was designed I believe by one of the Belgian instrument makers, the Sax family. Gustave or Adolphe I think.
The instruments are all the same conical bore, giving that smooth round sound so different from that of trumpet or trombone. They differ from each other basically only in scale (size), from highest to lowest thus:

soprano cornet in E flat
cornet B flat
tenor horn E flat
baritone horn, and euphonium B flat
Eb bass or tuba E flat
Bb bass B flat

Trombones are added, for variety of tonal colour, and sometimes a flugelhorn, of the same pitch as the cornet.

Now that's my idea of creative writing. Nothing original. Just a great laugh.

I can't stand folk who try be original.

It's so forced and that is the height of bad manners.

At 11.51 hrs tonight there were more women than men in the pub and nobody was taking a blind bit of notice of any of them.

True. I didn't get where I am today by being original.

The British don't care much for originals anyway, they patronise them, and call them eccentrics.