The apostrophe strikes again
Omega
Mint Clothing
Men's
Ladie's
Children's
Jeans at
Lowest
Price
Aaarrggh!
--
Omega
Village Handything and professional bad influence.
Melody S-K
"Omega" <om...@menageri.org.uk> wrote
news:4zQNitD1y+f$EA...@menageri.tele2.co.uk...
> Sign seen in a local shop door.
>
> Mint Clothing
> Men's
> Ladie's
> Children's
> Jeans at
> Lowest
> Price
>
> Aaarrggh!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK's
;)
Melody
--
BB
dragon prince
"Omega" <om...@menageri.org.uk> wrote in message
news:4zQNitD1y+f$EA...@menageri.tele2.co.uk...
> Sign seen in a local shop door.
>
> Mint Clothing
> Men's
> Ladie's
> Children's
> Jeans at
> Lowest
> Price
>
> Aaarrggh!
Bar stewards
dp.
Paul Bines
> Sign seen in a local shop door.
>
> Mint Clothing
Advertising jeans. I'd have thought polo shirts would have been more
appropriate.
Au Res.,
Paul
--
http://www.efbenson.co.uk/
http://www.paulbines.co.uk
http://www.convergent-diversity.co.uk/
anon...@firedrake.org
>Omega noted:
>> Sign seen in a local shop door.
>> Mint Clothing
>(snipped)
>Advertising jeans. I'd have thought polo shirts would have been more
>appropriate.
In case they don't exist in America, I feel obliged to point out that Polos
are the Mints With The Less Fattening Centres.
After which I feel obliged to put a green cloth over Paul's cage.
:-)
Beetle
Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
collection of dog-legs and feet. Coffee mornings a speciality.
anon...@firedrake.org
>In article <_6GdnQrzxpC...@brightview.com>,
>Paul Bines <paulsnob...@4waitroseme.thankcomyou> wrote:
>>Omega noted:
>>> Mint Clothing
>>Advertising jeans. I'd have thought polo shirts would have been more
>>appropriate.
>Mint Clothing is presumably for sheep, so perhaps wolves would find it
>useful...
Is it not the protective overalls worn by those who make coinage
officially, as opposed to those who do so in Dens in early vintage
thrillers?
Paul Bines
trends in UK confectionery:
> In case they don't exist in America, I feel obliged to point out that
Polos
> are the Mints With The Less Fattening Centres.
> After which I feel obliged to put a green cloth over Paul's cage.
Awk! zzzzzzzzzz.
Au Res.,
Pretty Pauly. (getting new glasses in a week or so...)
anon...@firedrake.org
>Beetle helpfully explaind for the benefit of those not up wit the current
>trends in UK confectionery:
[snip]
>> After which I feel obliged to put a green cloth over Paul's cage.
>Awk! zzzzzzzzzz.
>Au Res.,
>Pretty Pauly. (getting new glasses in a week or so...)
I *knew* I could rely on you to pick up on that one for me. Pauly want a
cracker?
Good news about the glasses: hurrah!
Elizabeth Fusina
> In <_6GdnQrzxpC...@brightview.com> Paul Bines wrote:
>
> >Omega noted:
> >> Sign seen in a local shop door.
> >> Mint Clothing
> >(snipped)
> >Advertising jeans. I'd have thought polo shirts would have been more
> >appropriate.
>
> In case they don't exist in America, I feel obliged to point out that Polos
> are the Mints With The Less Fattening Centres.
>
> After which I feel obliged to put a green cloth over Paul's cage.
Thank you. I had conveniently forgotten the Ukian answer to Lifesavers,
which have bred their own little punster fan group. Which meant that the
pun had gone directly over my head, eliciting no groans whatsoever,
until you felt impelled to explain.
Hur-hur-hur, less fattening centres. Hur-hur-hur.
Elizabeth
PS, This was meant to be amusing. If it has failed in its task, please
accept my apologies. I rather liked Polo mints, although I don't really
miss them as they looked and tasted rather exactly like Lifesaver mints,
except the raised lettering on them was different.
David Brain
wrote:
>Sign seen in a local shop door.
>
>Mint Clothing
>Men's
>Ladie's
>Children's
>Jeans at
>Lowest
>Price
>
>Aaarrggh!
There, there, there.
For your peace of mind, may I recommend the
Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks at
http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/
(apologies to the web-deprived.)
--
David Brain
(Apprentice Umbrella Maker)
anon...@firedrake.org
><anon...@firedrake.org> wrote:
>> In case they don't exist in America, I feel obliged to point out that
>> Polos are the Mints With The Less Fattening Centres.
>Thank you. I had conveniently forgotten the Ukian answer to Lifesavers,
>which have bred their own little punster fan group. Which meant that the
>pun had gone directly over my head, eliciting no groans whatsoever,
>until you felt impelled to explain.
>Hur-hur-hur, less fattening centres. Hur-hur-hur.
Sorr-ree.... You probably don't remember the jingle "the choc'lates with
the less fattening centres -- Maltesers!", either.
Beetle (deliberately compounding offences a speciality)
Matthew Francis
<paulsnob...@4waitroseme.thankcomyou> wrote:
>Omega noted:
>> Sign seen in a local shop door.
>>
>> Mint Clothing
>(snipped)
>Advertising jeans. I'd have thought polo shirts would have been more
>appropriate.
Oh dear god no... How many more mint puns are there?
Surely the apostrophe isn't that difficult to use, though? I mean, I
know my grammar is by no means perfect, but I thought even I'd got the
apostrophe thing figured out now...
--
Matthew Francis
-------------------------
ABTH Village Guinea Pig
AFMP Minister for Custard
anon...@firedrake.org
>Oh dear god no... How many more mint puns are there?
Probably enough to keep us chewing them over for a while.
>Surely the apostrophe isn't that difficult to use, though? I mean, I
>know my grammar is by no means perfect, but I thought even I'd got the
>apostrophe thing figured out now...
Looks from here as if you have. Many ha'vent....
Beetle
Elizabeth Fusina
> In <1g2d9a2.c6...@ip176.sns.du.radix.net> Elizaabeth
>
> ><anon...@firedrake.org> wrote:
> >> In case they don't exist in America, I feel obliged to point out that
> >> Polos are the Mints With The Less Fattening Centres.
>
> >Thank you. I had conveniently forgotten the Ukian answer to Lifesavers,
> >which have bred their own little punster fan group. Which meant that the
> >pun had gone directly over my head, eliciting no groans whatsoever,
> >until you felt impelled to explain.
>
> >Hur-hur-hur, less fattening centres. Hur-hur-hur.
>
> Sorr-ree.... You probably don't remember the jingle "the choc'lates with
> the less fattening centres -- Maltesers!", either.
Maltesers. Would these be chocolate coated crunchy malt things? If so,
we have them by another name, and they do make a big thing of them being
less caloric than other stuff. We called them Moth Balls, (like the moth
repellent stuff, for those of you whose minds reside firmly in the
gutter) because that is what my Grandfather called them.
Elizabeth
Paul Bines
with giant Polos, spearming Popls, and even selling little round mints and
claiming they are "the bits taken out to make the holes in Polos".
An April Fool joke some years ago was to advertise a hole-less Polo, and I'm
pretty sure somone tried marketing the holes too.
The odd thing (to me at least) is that Nestle has never considered a mint
chocolate Polo...
Elizabeth, I'm sensing that you are feeling a little tense. Would a pint of
TS in The Lundy help releive your pent-up
not-happy-with-us-UKians-continually-making-jokes-at-your-nations-expense-ne
ss? If so, please feel free to order one and put it on my tab.
anon...@firedrake.org
><anon...@firedrake.org> wrote:
>> Sorr-ree.... You probably don't remember the jingle "the choc'lates
>> with the less fattening centres -- Maltesers!", either.
>
>Maltesers. Would these be chocolate coated crunchy malt things? If so,
>we have them by another name, and they do make a big thing of them being
>less caloric than other stuff. We called them Moth Balls, (like the moth
>repellent stuff, for those of you whose minds reside firmly in the
>gutter) because that is what my Grandfather called them.
Apart from the taste, which I kind of assume is not much like that of a
mothball but I am not about to bite into a mothball to find out even if I
had any which I don't because I am never sure how good or otherwise they
might be for coleoptera, they are rather similar.
(Oh, and mothballs aren't often covered in a coating of milk chocolate.
Nothing like often enough.)
I do see his point.
:-)
Beetle
Chris Suslowicz
fus...@radix.net (Elizabeth Fusina) wrote:
> Maltesers. Would these be chocolate coated crunchy malt things?
Yup!
> If so, we have them by another name, and they do make a big
> thing of them being less caloric than other stuff.
Definitely them.
> We called them Moth Balls, (like the moth repellent stuff, for
> those of you whose minds reside firmly in the gutter)
"The trouble with people lying in thev gutter is that they keep
blocking my periscope." (Peter Gutmann in asr, I think.)
> because that is what my Grandfather called them.
Q: Why do moths fly with their legs apart?
A: Have _you_ seen the size of moth balls?
IGMC
Chris.
--
If a thoroughly plonked troll enters a newsgroup, does it make a sound?
Elizabeth Fusina
> In <1g2erp0.93...@ip166.sns.du.radix.net> Elizabeth mused:
>
> ><anon...@firedrake.org> wrote:
> >> Sorr-ree.... You probably don't remember the jingle "the choc'lates
> >> with the less fattening centres -- Maltesers!", either.
> >
> >Maltesers. Would these be chocolate coated crunchy malt things? If so,
> >we have them by another name, and they do make a big thing of them being
> >less caloric than other stuff. We called them Moth Balls, (like the moth
> >repellent stuff, for those of you whose minds reside firmly in the
> >gutter) because that is what my Grandfather called them.
>
> Apart from the taste, which I kind of assume is not much like that of a
> mothball but I am not about to bite into a mothball to find out even if I
> had any which I don't because I am never sure how good or otherwise they
> might be for coleoptera, they are rather similar.
>
> (Oh, and mothballs aren't often covered in a coating of milk chocolate.
> Nothing like often enough.)
>
> I do see his point.
I'll have to send you some of my favorite brand then. Double thick
chocolate coating (for referential purposes, it is about 1/8 inch
thick)! No chocolate coating on moth balls makes it easier to tell them
from the edible sort, really.
My Grandpa was an original, no doubt about that. One of his favorite
meals was sardines on toast, limburger cheese and a beer. Certainly kept
people away from him those days.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Fusina
> Nestle (who now own the Polo brand) have expanded the range considerably,
> with giant Polos, spearming Popls, and even selling little round mints and
> claiming they are "the bits taken out to make the holes in Polos".
> An April Fool joke some years ago was to advertise a hole-less Polo, and I'm
> pretty sure somone tried marketing the holes too.
>
> The odd thing (to me at least) is that Nestle has never considered a mint
> chocolate Polo...
>
> Elizabeth, I'm sensing that you are feeling a little tense. Would a pint of
> TS in The Lundy help releive your pent-up
> not-happy-with-us-UKians-continually-making-jokes-at-your-nations-expense-ne
> ss? If so, please feel free to order one and put it on my tab.
I thank you kindly. I am tense, but it is more of an "I miss my friend
who died in April and I thought it would be getting a little less
intense as time went by but it isn't" sort of thing. I spent an hour or
so yesterday afternoon crying about it. And I feel a bit better now.
Sorry, I'll try not to be so snarky. Anyway, I think I'll get over it,
but it seems it will take a bit longer than I originally thought.
Elizabeth
anon...@firedrake.org
>I thank you kindly. I am tense, but it is more of an "I miss my friend
>who died in April and I thought it would be getting a little less
>intense as time went by but it isn't" sort of thing. I spent an hour or
>so yesterday afternoon crying about it. And I feel a bit better now.
>Sorry, I'll try not to be so snarky. Anyway, I think I'll get over it,
>but it seems it will take a bit longer than I originally thought.
<hug>
It seems to have been the case that the Victorians got it right when they
allocated a year for "deep mourning". People I know who have suffered
bereavment say that during the first year one keeps bashing up against
"this time last year" and feeling miserable. They also say that it's a
mistake not to let oneself grieve as often and as much as one needs to...
it will just come out later if one tries to keep it under wraps. I know
that isn't really a help, but it does I suppose make it more -- well,
understandable, deal-withable, if one knows that this is the common
experience rather than only oneself being excessively sorrowful or making a
fuss.
My own experience is that it does fade, after a bit, or become less
immediately painful, but it doesn't go away entirely, and every so often
one still wants to weep because someone isn't there to be told something
amusing or to share a sorrow with. I don't suppose I shall ever stop
missing my mother just a bit, at the edge of things, and sometimes very
much in the forefront of my mind too. I don't think that's a wrong way to
feel, either!
<much hug>
Elizabeth Fusina
> It seems to have been the case that the Victorians got it right when they
> allocated a year for "deep mourning". People I know who have suffered
> bereavment say that during the first year one keeps bashing up against
> "this time last year" and feeling miserable. They also say that it's a
> mistake not to let oneself grieve as often and as much as one needs to...
> it will just come out later if one tries to keep it under wraps. I know
> that isn't really a help, but it does I suppose make it more -- well,
> understandable, deal-withable, if one knows that this is the common
> experience rather than only oneself being excessively sorrowful or making a
> fuss.
>
> My own experience is that it does fade, after a bit, or become less
> immediately painful, but it doesn't go away entirely, and every so often
> one still wants to weep because someone isn't there to be told something
> amusing or to share a sorrow with. I don't suppose I shall ever stop
> missing my mother just a bit, at the edge of things, and sometimes very
> much in the forefront of my mind too. I don't think that's a wrong way to
> feel, either!
>
> <much hug>
Thanks. I needed that. I think part of what I am mourning is the
premature death of a friendship that was just starting to get good. I
don't make friends easily, for lots of reasons that I am not going into,
and we had started to hang out together more than we had at the
beginning.
I think part of what made me more touchy than usual was that her husband
had been going through her stuff and gave me a cross stitch kit that she
had gotten to make for someone (yup, she was also a stitcher, and a
gardener, so we talked a lot about both subjects) and I stitched it up.
Which caused me to think about her (it was very much her colors, and her
style of thing) more than usual, which caused me to miss her more than
usual.
And the next person that tells me she is in a better place,
really--well, I'll probably be polite on the outside, anyway. I have
found that just hearing, "I'm so sorry for your loss, here, let me give
you a hug," helps a darn sight more than anything else.
Elizabeth
anon...@firedrake.org
>I think part of what I am mourning is the
>premature death of a friendship that was just starting to get good. I
>don't make friends easily, for lots of reasons that I am not going into,
>and we had started to hang out together more than we had at the
>beginning.
All the things one hadn't yet said and now can't. That one is a stone bitch.
<more hug>
>And the next person that tells me she is in a better place,
>really--well, I'll probably be polite on the outside, anyway. I have
>found that just hearing, "I'm so sorry for your loss, here, let me give
>you a hug," helps a darn sight more than anything else.
Then I hope we have helped, between us! Have another TS?
ppint
anon...@firedrake.org [bombardier beetle, b.a.] reassured elizabeth:
leaves an aching hole in one's life; but while you never
forget them, the hurt *does* fade; and whilst there'll
never be anyone exactly like them, there'll be new friends
with whom to share the joys & wonders of life, as well as
its sorrows - new friends, and your old friends, too; and
sooner or later you will recover the fun of your memories
of them, and the times you had with them: a celebration of
them and their life in your memory.
><much hug>
>
- and *hugggs* to the both of you [1];
- love, a ppint. who makes friends only slowly, usually.
[the address from which this was posted bounces e-mail;
use the reply-to e-address, changing the "f" to a "g",
if you wish to cc. or e-mail me.]
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[1] - "Argh. Incoherence. Another thing I'm good at..."
- joann l. dominik, 7/2/96 (2/7/96 for merkins)
Elizabeth Fusina
> In <1g2gd4i.1v2...@ip162.sns.du.radix.net> Elizabeth wrote:
>
> >I think part of what I am mourning is the
> >premature death of a friendship that was just starting to get good. I
> >don't make friends easily, for lots of reasons that I am not going into,
> >and we had started to hang out together more than we had at the
> >beginning.
>
> All the things one hadn't yet said and now can't. That one is a stone bitch.
>
And feeling guilty at being relieved that your daughter doesn't have to
go through what her daughters do, and having a daughter who now clings
because she KNOWS that Mommies die...and lots of stuff. As far as I
know, I am still named as guardian of the girls if something happens to
her husband--I guess we were closer than I thought. She didn't have a
will, but he does, now, [as do I, actually] and asked if that would be
okay. Which is a very great honor, and yet, I hope it never happens,
although I would take the girls in a heartbeat.
> <more hug>
>
> >And the next person that tells me she is in a better place,
> >really--well, I'll probably be polite on the outside, anyway. I have
> >found that just hearing, "I'm so sorry for your loss, here, let me give
> >you a hug," helps a darn sight more than anything else.
>
> Then I hope we have helped, between us! Have another TS?
Yes. And Yes!
Elizabeth
mjri...@earthlink.net
wrote:
One large hug is now wending it's way over the Potomac!
Jackie
mjri...@earthlink.net
wrote:
>
>
>And the next person that tells me she is in a better place,
>really--well, I'll probably be polite on the outside, anyway. I have
>found that just hearing, "I'm so sorry for your loss, here, let me give
>you a hug," helps a darn sight more than anything else.
>
>Elizabeth
When I was reading the interview with Connie Willis in Locus, I was
amused with a section in which she tells the daughter of a friend who
had just died that her big goal for the day was to get through the day
without hitting someone. Daughter didn't understand at first but
later came up and said just about what you posted above. We didn't
get much of that with Mom-in-law, more of the "she's was a wonderful
person" type of thing which was okay but still makes you want to cry
sometimes. I'm thinking that 6 months is sort of a transition point
between, "What the h..... has happened" and a gradual acceptance.
There's a wonderful children's book/picture book called "Everett
Anderson says goodbye" if I've got the title correct that goes through
the stages of grief in a beautiful and easy to relate to manner. Part
of the problem with the better place line is that you probably agree
in principle but it would be nice to be able to talk to her face to
face again. More hugs coming your way.
Jackie