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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:46 am
by Great Plum
Mrs C. wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:Which reminds me - from time to time the whiff of muckspreading drifts into Horsham from the surrounding countryside. You should hear people squeal about it.
"Urrgh, can't the council do something about it?"......(everything's always the council's fault).
Well, I suppose the council could ban farming or control the direction of the wind.
Sometimes theres an "interesting" smell around CH, particularly in a morning - not sure if it`s the drains or not.................
It's the sewage works on the A24...
I have heard of haylage - don't know what it smells like though
Re: Palimpsest
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:36 pm
by englishangel
sejintenej wrote:and another for the day
Palimpsest
1. A manuscript, usually of papyrus or parchment, on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
2. An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface.
(The origin of my search was a reference to a brass grave plate dewscribed as palimpsest
also,
OED. monumental brass turned and engraved on the reverse side.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:05 am
by Richard Ruck
Today's word is......
amaretto
•
noun [mass noun] a brown almond-flavoured liqueur produced in Italy.
— origin Italian, diminutive of amaro ‘bitter’ (with reference to bitter almonds).
Is that really the best they can come up with?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:07 am
by englishangel
They seem obsessed with disgusting alcholic drinks, any bets on 'retsina' tomorrow?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:10 am
by Richard Ruck
They seem obsessed with random foreign words.
How about some obscure English ones to expand our vocabulary?
Perhaps I should e-mail them, although the words are probably selected by computer.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:12 pm
by Great Plum
I love amaretto especially in coffee...
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:20 pm
by Richard Ruck
Great Plum wrote:I love amaretto especially in coffee...
Prefer Calvados, myself!
Anyway, Plum, you're two posts away from 1500 - what happens then? Do you get to keep your bands undone?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:41 pm
by Euterpe13
Richard Ruck wrote:Great Plum wrote:I love amaretto especially in coffee...
Prefer Calvados, myself!
Anyway, Plum, you're two posts away from 1500 - what happens then? Do you get to keep your bands undone?
No, he implodes and turns, at last , into a prune...
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:07 pm
by J.R.
Euterpe13 wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:Great Plum wrote:I love amaretto especially in coffee...
Prefer Calvados, myself!
Anyway, Plum, you're two posts away from 1500 - what happens then? Do you get to keep your bands undone?
No, he implodes and turns, at last , into a
prune...
.......... and he gets a good 'run' for his money.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:26 pm
by Great Plum
J.R. wrote:Euterpe13 wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:
Prefer Calvados, myself!
Anyway, Plum, you're two posts away from 1500 - what happens then? Do you get to keep your bands undone?
No, he implodes and turns, at last , into a
prune...
.......... and he gets a good 'run' for his money.
I don't think anything has happened... hmmm....
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:46 pm
by Richard Ruck
Great Plum wrote:J.R. wrote:Euterpe13 wrote:
No, he implodes and turns, at last , into a prune...
.......... and he gets a good 'run' for his money.
I don't think anything has happened... hmmm....
I'm sure the cold weather will do the trick.....
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:48 pm
by AKAP
Maybe you don't know you've imploded into a prune and only someone else can tell you.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:53 pm
by Richard Ruck
Surely you would shrivel to become a prune, rather than implode....
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:03 pm
by AKAP
Maybe.
Plumb, check if you have shrivelled.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:12 pm
by Great Plum
Checks...
No, all fine!
