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#211
22.01.2009, 22:06
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Martin Clark wrote:
> The girls looked knowingly from one to another, and explained like this: > Girl 1: "Well, you see, sir.... It's like this, sir. Boys have got > pencils and girls have got sharpeners, if you know what I mean." > Girl 2: "So when we are talking about pencils and sharpeners, we have to > say 'stationery pencils' and 'stationery sharpeners' so that people > don't think we mean the other sort." > Girl 3: "...and 'stationery rubbers'." When I was a student, I taught sailing in a summer camp in the USA. This was in the 70s, when British culture was not so common over there. Some of the girls, about 12 years old, would delight in running up asking, "What do you call an eraser?" and then running away giggling in great delight on hearing the answer. |
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#212
22.01.2009, 22:10
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In article <4978d28b$0$25803$5402220f>, gumrat
says... > Plusnet wrote: > > Is an umratic umbrella an umralla? > > > > Umralla: A device for signalling to fellow umrats that one cannot > > remember a particular word - or its spelling. > > > :-) Though I still prefer to use Marjorie's husbad's coinage of umbrella > for an object whose name one can't remember. (Dorter tells me off for > using "one", she thinks it's the hoity-toity Royal One and that I should > use you or we.) >As children grow older they are often surprised at how much more intelligent their parents become. Maybe she will adopt the same phrasing later & strongly deny any any suggestion that she once disapproved of it. |
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#213
24.01.2009, 13:02
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Jo Lonergan <jolonergan> writes:
> [1] Do pipes burst nowadays? It was a regular occurrence in my childhood. One in my garage has - I've not cleared enough junk to find out if it's split the pipe or just pushed it out of a joint. Luckily it's on a separate stop-cock - and if I had an feck I'd have turned it off before the winter anyway. |
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