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Post by Tone on Jun 26, 2008 20:37:34 GMT
Paul, >Tone is referring to this. (As I knew he would!)<So who is the puppet-master? Tone
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 26, 2008 21:44:20 GMT
Don't worry, Tone; you're not becoming predictable!
(I know what your reply will be.)
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 27, 2008 3:41:57 GMT
[...] Interesting use of blatant there. A word that has added a new meaning in only the last couple of years. It's my first encounter with blatant so used; never considered it with that meaning. Perhaps it hasn't crossed the equator yet. Can't see/hear myself using it that way.
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Post by Pete on Jun 27, 2008 7:39:22 GMT
Is it just a contraction of "blatantly clear" or "blatantly obvious"?
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Post by Pete on Jun 27, 2008 7:46:24 GMT
Sorry, it's probably expected of me ... I've always enjoyed kipling - one of my favourite spare-time activities. Does anyone remember a beer called Hemmeling? It may even have been a light or non-alcoholic beer. I am sure that the advertising tag line was something like: "Wouldn't you rather be hemmeling?"
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Post by Vadim on Jun 27, 2008 9:31:24 GMT
Vadim, >but I'm assuming it's something lude?<Novel. Very novel! Tone Apologies, Tone. lude is the equivalent lewd in my head! But after searching the true meaning of lude, I see your point! I thought Barry partook in 'shrooms not pills! ;D
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Post by Vadim on Jun 27, 2008 9:31:57 GMT
Sorry, it's probably expected of me ... I've always enjoyed kipling - one of my favourite spare-time activities. Does anyone remember a beer called Hemmeling? It may even have been a light or non-alcoholic beer. I am sure that the advertising tag line was something like: "Wouldn't you rather be hemmeling?" Missed on me I'm afraid, Pete.
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Post by Pete on Jun 27, 2008 10:16:56 GMT
Missed on me I'm afraid, Pete. It must have been 25 years ago, now I think about it!
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Post by Barry on Jun 27, 2008 10:40:34 GMT
Costermonger was one of the questions in my regular pub-quiz last night. The round was 'what do the following make or sell?': currier; cordwainer; costermonger; cooper; chandler; draper; fletcher; peruker (and a coupe of others I can't remember). Oh, we won.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 27, 2008 12:12:42 GMT
Funny, I was doing a pub quiz last night (but we didn't have that round, so it can't be the same pub).
We came second.
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Post by Vadim on Jun 27, 2008 20:10:34 GMT
Funny, I was doing a pub quiz last night (but we didn't have that round, so it can't be the same pub). We came second. I didn't even manage to get to the pub!
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 27, 2008 20:20:56 GMT
But we won the raffle. I'm drinking it now.
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Post by Tone on Jun 27, 2008 21:01:51 GMT
>But we won the raffle. I'm drinking it now.<You drink used bits of paper with numbers on them? Tone
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 27, 2008 21:09:30 GMT
There will be a Greek word for what I did there, Tone. Not litotes.
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