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- Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:48 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ditto
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6217
Re: Ditto
In high school I was the "official" ditto person. The school was tired of breakdowns of the machine, the old "too many cooks" bit. So they had all teachers put their work in a wire basket, and after school I got to work. I knew the machine and could fix it after a number of hiccu...
- Sun Apr 10, 2022 12:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Blarney
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5348
Re: Blarney
I kissed it, but going to the top of that castle was bloody awful. And then you sit down, grab hold of the bars to hold you as you lean back and kiss the stone upside down and backwards is not something I'd recommend. I'm half Irish but more and more I'm agreeing with my mother, I've enough blarney ...
- Sat Apr 09, 2022 3:52 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Blarney
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5348
Re: Blarney
They most certainly did.
- Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Blarney
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5348
Re: Blarney
Excellent video, Doc. thanks for providing that. I have been there, kissed it, and tried to get my mother to climb to the top to do so as well, but she insisted (being a McCarthy herself) that she had enough blarney to go around without climbing all those steps necessary to kiss the thing, which as ...
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:03 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scud
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2937
Re: Scud
And we must not forget the scud missles in
the Desert Storm war.
the Desert Storm war.
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Roundheel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6956
Re: Roundheel
Or now, sadly, Ukraine.
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Funereal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6389
Re: Funereal
. One incident was with a dear teacher, who I respected greatly, but with whom I argued that a civil war poet wrote poems about the civil war. She averred that a Civil War poet lived during the civil war. The poet in question was Lanier who is one of my favorites. Most interesting Philip. I had man...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:26 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Roundheel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6956
Re: Roundheel
The movie "Cromwell" is currently on Netflix with Richard Harris
in the lead. No pushover. He ruled with an iron hand for six years, and
as the movie says at the end "Britain has never been the same".
in the lead. No pushover. He ruled with an iron hand for six years, and
as the movie says at the end "Britain has never been the same".
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:14 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Misophonia
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3616
Re: Misophonia
Good one, Deb. Certain sounds drive me insane, so I identify well.
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Furbelow
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6222
- Sat Jan 29, 2022 2:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Funereal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6389
Re: Funereal
I once saw it use in reference to an incorrigible
boy outside the principal's office where his
parents were meeting with said school head.
He sat in "funereal silence".
boy outside the principal's office where his
parents were meeting with said school head.
He sat in "funereal silence".
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Roundheel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6956
Re: Roundheel
I had totally forgotten about that make/model.
Thanks for the memory.
Thanks for the memory.
- Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:00 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ostentatious
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4721
Re: Ostentatious
Isn't the word ostentatious rather ostentatious?
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Handsel
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3976
Re: Handsel
Ditto: Happy Handsel Monday and Happy New Year to all.
- Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hogmanay
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4360
Re: Hogmanay
Debbie