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yabba dabba doooooooooooooooo :wah:



ok yea i'm bored.

koochikoo wrote: I know why I hate being single. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night after having a freaky nightmare and I couldn't get back to sleep and I was scared and alone and there was noone there for a reassuring cuddle. Can anyone spare me a teddy bear?


crappy feeling that is.

SnoozeControl wrote: :wah:


I like your spider hat. I once saw a news item of a man wearing a little blue ring octopus in that manner. They are deadly poison..

BabyRider wrote: I'm calling roll, guys....who's here? I see lots logged in but no activity from them. If you're actually posting, let's see a show of hands, please....


I was at work so couldn't put my hand up...somone might have caught me....

I'm just awake, BR!! G'day Okie, Minks, Snooze, Sheryl, Bez - I guess Snooze's new hat is kinda like one of them racoon things. First ya shoot it, then ya wear it!! Neat. And I'll take a few of those pillows. Hugs Koochi!!

i just saw three little bastards throwing rocks at a streetlight, and i went outside and scared the snot out of them!! one of them ran and fell down and scraped his knee. boo hoo hoo :-1 they're lucky they're not at the juvenile detention center right now.

Good going LC!

I love when I leave school, and catch my students doing stuff. I caught them throwing snowballs at passing cars this winter, and right when they were winding up for the pitch at my truck, they saw it was me, and they ran as fast as they could.

They had a lovely lunch detention the next day, washing blackboards, washing desk................

our detention wouldn't be half as nice as your detention. i am going to speak to their parents tomorrow. little #$@*&^% vandals!

You are right-and tell those parents! And tell them what could happen to them if it happens again!

this is how it starts, as i'm sure you know. vandalism. then the parents say their precious baby could never do such a thing. yeah, right. we'll see them in juvenile court ultimately, then the adult jail when they turn 18. i can only hope the parents give a damn.

A cup of coffee would taste good right 'bout now.

valerie wrote:
ahahaha...what a sweet woman you are! Thanks! :-4

aaaaggghhhhh The silly season has begun in Cornwall :-5

Hi Betty, Valerie, Basco. Gosh that coffee looks good!!! You mean you're getting inundated by daytrippers and holidaymakers Betty? That must mean Easter Weekend!!! Here, I'm really looking forward to going to the National Folk Festival. This is not 'folk' like the old Woodstock - but encompasses everything from Bluesy Gospel, to Appalachian clog dancing, to Morris dancing, to French courtly dancing, to Irish song, fiddlers from Cap Breton, Kletzmer bands, sea shanties from New England, industrial working songs, good aussie yarns, didgeridoos and mouth harps, concertinas and bagpipes, insturment workshops, instrument makers (I bought a hand made wooden flute a couple of festivals ago), singing, bush poetry, food from everywhere, street theatre, kids busking, people camping out, black cockatoos the size of hens, good fun generally.

AussiePam wrote: Hi Betty, Valerie, Basco. Gosh that coffee looks good!!! You mean you're getting inundated by daytrippers and holidaymakers Betty? That must mean Easter Weekend!!!


Yes, holidaymakers or as we prefer to call them emmets :wah:

I had to look that up, Betty!!! Wasn't going to post again today, but heck, here I go:

FASCINATING!!!

"The word emmet actually means an ant. If you’re a local resident it’s an excellent term to describe the hordes of tourists that descend on your locality to enjoy the summer weather, beaches and countryside of Cornwall, in the process clogging the narrow local roads and generally getting in the way of everyday life. It comes from the Old English aemette, which developed one way into our standard English ant, another into emmet, which survived as a dialect word. The dictionaries first record it in the tourism sense from the mid 1970s, but I remember it being used some years earlier as an already well-established term.

One peculiarity is that it’s used mainly in Cornwall; if you cross the River Tamar into Devon you will instead hear grockle .. "

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-emm1.htm

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May the Good Lord protect us all from emmets and grockles !!!

Now, I'm really off.. Take care, Everyone.

AussiePam wrote: I had to look that up, Betty!!! Wasn't going to post again today, but heck, here I go:

FASCINATING!!!



"The word emmet actually means an ant. If you’re a local resident it’s an excellent term to describe the hordes of tourists that descend on your locality to enjoy the summer weather, beaches and countryside of Cornwall, in the process clogging the narrow local roads and generally getting in the way of everyday life. It comes from the Old English aemette, which developed one way into our standard English ant, another into emmet, which survived as a dialect word. The dictionaries first record it in the tourism sense from the mid 1970s, but I remember it being used some years earlier as an already well-established term.



One peculiarity is that it’s used mainly in Cornwall; if you cross the River Tamar into Devon you will instead hear grockle .. "



http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-emm1.htm



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May the Good Lord protect us all from emmets and grockles !!!



Now, I'm really off.. Take care, Everyone.




Cheers Pam! Font of such wonderful information!! :yh_worshp

There is no Cornwall...never has been

LIES !

Me know better.

Oh they got to you too Tarzan ?

Dont buy into all this Cornwilly stuff...its a fairy tale. Trust me.

Nomad wrote: There is no Cornwall...never has been

LIES !


Yep, thats right! I'm a figment of your imagination :-4

Nomad wrote: Oh they got to you too Tarzan ?

Dont buy into all this Cornwilly stuff...its a fairy tale. Trust me.
Oh, too much jungle juice for me?

SnoozeControl wrote: Corn has willies? Its amazing what they can do with science nowadays! Is this one of your mad scientist experiments, Nomad?


If this is the case then I vote he sends some this way for thorough testing!!:sneaky:

Tarzan wrote: Oh, too much jungle juice for me?




Im think that might be it Tarz. Jane ? Sorry bud not real.

Betty Boop wrote: If this is the case then I vote he sends some this way for thorough testing!!:sneaky:


:rolleyes: ......and you with a Convent education too

Uncle Kram wrote: :rolleyes: ......and you with a Convent education too






Hell, I wish!! Those girls are even more corrupt than me!! :wah:

Betty Boop wrote: Hell, I wish!! Those girls are even more corrupt than me!! :wah:


Tell me more!

Helloooooo ?

Are we having Saturday night sex ?

Dinner ?

Drunk and passed out face in keyboard ?

Speak please.

Nomad wrote: Helloooooo ?

Are we having Saturday night sex ?

Dinner ?

Drunk and passed out face in keyboard ?

Speak please.
Two out of three of those don't sound too bad!

Yea.

I like speaking and passing out with my face in the keyboard too. :-6

SnoozeControl wrote: I'm currently reading Nora Roberts writing as JD Robb... its pretty good so far.




Im reading Tolstoy posing as Michener cloaked as Suess.

Im having trouble getting past the 1st paragraph.

There once was war

That was kind of a bore

The Cat in the Hat

Said enough with that!

SnoozeControl wrote: I'm currently reading Nora Roberts writing as JD Robb... its pretty good so far.
Snooze, is that where she writes about a female cop, like, 50 years in the future? (Maybe I'm thinking of another author, though..)

my man has been out of the country all week. last night he ate some bad fish and prayed for a quick merciful death. i felt so badly for him! :yh_sick

lady cop wrote: my man has been out of the country all week. last night he ate some bad fish and prayed for a quick merciful death. i felt so badly for him! :yh_sick
Aww...poor Bothwell. Don't you hate it when they're down and you can't get to them? Is he better today, or have you not been in contact?

BabyRider wrote: Aww...poor Bothwell. Don't you hate it when they're down and you can't get to them? Is he better today, or have you not been in contact?we were able to IM this morning, and hopefully skype tomorrow. where he is the wireless connection is very poor. he's eating chicken soup!

lady cop wrote: we were able to IM this morning, and hopefully skype tomorrow. where he is the wireless connection is very poor. he's eating chicken soup!
At least he's able to keep something down.



Oh, by the way....your sig is making me p!ss myself laughing every time I see it!!

me too, i'm leaving it up until monday. :-4

Lets try and pick up the pace here people. :rolleyes:

Nomad wrote: Lets try and pick up the pace here people. :rolleyes:
Why? Who dropped it? Let them pick it up.

Now, now BR !!! We're going to be good little FG citizens and not litterbugs. We are going to pick up the pace and put it in the trash can right now. And while we are at it we are going to try and collect all the droppings left in here by assorted emus or are they ostriches. Anyway, in case there is an earthquake, and Nomad is caught with one foot on each side and splitting his daks - we want the forum to be neat and tidy.

LC - I hope your bloke is feeling better very soon. What a pain. Glad you'll be in better touch soon.

Had a ball today at the Festival. Highlights were:


a face off between the four lots of morris dancers and the four lots of belly dancers. The morris dancers had loads of nice jingly bells, but the belly dancers with their generously proportioned shimmying stomachs, undulating everythings and wicked eyes won hands down

a couple of Italian aussie blokes dressed up as black-clad grandmas and singing crazy sendups of Italian folk songs

a bluegrass concert with an Appalachian clogger

just sitting in the sunshine - when the ice on the grass melted - and yacking to the zydeco teacher who's from Michigan.. (evil eyelash fluttering grin)

your folk festival has sounded like a wonderful time Pam! i would have loved the puppet show. but give me a break here....MORRIS DANCERS???? AGHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Bothwell almost fired me once for having the mincers in the pub! :wah:

Does anyone know what the date is today ? Just curious is all.

it's the 16th of april

Oh thanks