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Over The Hill said:As a kid it was Nestles (Nessalls) even in the milky bar adverts but now they has gone all posh with Nes-lay
I suppose there's no such thing as nuggat anymore either...
Over The Hill said:As a kid it was Nestles (Nessalls) even in the milky bar adverts but now they has gone all posh with Nes-lay
rich p said:I get irritated if people say the him-arlia for that mountain range.
Flying_Monkey said:RR - you are a serious pedant, aren't you?
Tell you what Fnaar, by the time you get to the bottom of the page you realise she means it, but unfortunately no canute can tell wtf the she's on about. How did you find that gem? Was it by typing "utter bollocks" into a search engine?Fnaar said:I know, it doesn't work But it was meant to mildly outrage and amuse and is to be taken in the vein of "with Mars in the ascendant" or "with the waxing moon moving into Scorpio" etc
Not as daft as you might think. The original word is the Greek 'Ouranos', which was always pronounced with the stress on the first syllable and a short 'a'.NickM said:By which I mean that people on the radio nowadays generally refer to the planet Uranus when what they really mean is Uranus (as we all know)...
661-Pete said:Just remembered something else. Six-man crew of the Kon-Tiki expedition (cracking adventure book: required teenage reading). They were:
Thor Heyerdahl, Erik Hesselberg, Bengt Danielsson, **** Haugland, Torstein Raaby, Herman Watzinger.
**** is the only survivor of the six (aged 92).
(*hits 'preview'*)
Damn!
Cubist said:Tell you what Fnaar, by the time you get to the bottom of the page you realise she means it, but unfortunately no canute can tell wtf the she's on about. How did you find that gem? Was it by typing "utter bollocks" into a search engine?
Funny, the book never mentioned that.rich p said:His NickMname was Minge Haugland