Posted in We don't know either on August 6, 2006 | 7 Comments »
As far as flyers go, well, when they drop through my letterbox they usually go straight into the recycle bin.
But not this one. It was too good an opportunity to miss. Understanding some of the stuff was easy, some a little bit more difficult.
That ones easy enough. I think it means “you [...]
Posted in General, We don't know either on April 5, 2006 | 4 Comments »
"In the event of any waterborne vehicle striking this bridge please phone…"
But if any other kind of vehicle hits it, that'll be just fine…aeroplanes, space shuttles, lorries – no problem.
"The safety of trains may be affected."
The safety of the people in the sinking waterborne vehicle isn't our concern.
Besides all that, this page isn't a bridge [...]
Posted in We don't know either on March 20, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Dog lovers say their dogs are like children. Typically, this seems to be true when they don’t have actual children. Which is cool. Caring deeply for anything almost always is.
The same thing, I’m told, goes for cats, too.
Which brings me to my point.
I’m always interested in what people name their animals. Putting aside names like [...]
Posted in Britisms, We don't know either on March 14, 2006 | 15 Comments »
So, it be winter here and it’s a tad parky outside. Exhaustive research (exhaustive being a relative term where I’m concerned) hasn’t yielded the origin of the word parky.
So, I’m going to attribute its origin to the old style parker coats people used to wear when it was…parky. Although I suspect the word’s [...]
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