Scandi Noir advice...

[BrritSki]

Which one, "Follow the money", "Thicker than water", both or neither ???

TIA

[DavidK]

On 28/03/16 10:47, BrritSki wrote:
> Which one, "Follow the money", "Thicker than water", both or neither ???
>
> TIA

Oooo, I was all excited there, until I found that "Thicker than Water"
was Channel 4 and so not available on get_iplayer.

I see that Line of Duty is back :-)

[BrritSki]

On 28/03/2016 16:03, DavidK wrote:
> On 28/03/16 10:47, BrritSki wrote:
>> Which one, "Follow the money", "Thicker than water", both or neither ???
>>
>> TIA
>
> Oooo, I was all excited there, until I found that "Thicker than Water"
> was Channel 4 and so not available on get_iplayer.

You can get it 4od though I think...

If you are familiar with it, is it any good ?

>
> I see that Line of Duty is back :-)

Yes. We watched series 2, but somehow had missed series 1 so there was
lots of background detail missing, so for Xmas (possibly 2014) we asked
Santa for a box set of the 1st 2 series. We took the DVDs to the ski
resort last week, but my old laptop wouldn't play them back reliably,
but luckily the house DVD player will read them, so we binge watched
them starting on Thursday and have just 2 epis of series 2 left before
we start on series 3. So that's our viewing for tonight sorted, together
with the final epi of The Night Manager :)

[Sid Nuncius]

Isn't Keely Hawes good? I'd never rated her much until that series, but
I thought it was a brilliant performance.

> So that's our viewing for tonight sorted, together
> with the final epi of The Night Manager :)

I suspect that I shall watch the last epi of The Night Manager tonight
starting around 9.30, when I decide that Maigret isn't worth persisting
with. But you never know...

--
Sid (Make sure Matron is away when you reply)

[BrritSki]

On 28/03/2016 19:48, Sid Nuncius wrote:
> On 28/03/2016 15:53, BrritSki wrote:
>> On 28/03/2016 16:03, DavidK wrote:
>>> On 28/03/16 10:47, BrritSki wrote:
>>>> Which one, "Follow the money", "Thicker than water", both or neither
>>>> ???
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Oooo, I was all excited there, until I found that "Thicker than Water"
>>> was Channel 4 and so not available on get_iplayer.
>>
>> You can get it 4od though I think...
>>
>> If you are familiar with it, is it any good ?
>>
>>>
>>> I see that Line of Duty is back :-)
>>
>> Yes. We watched series 2, but somehow had missed series 1 so there was
>> lots of background detail missing, so for Xmas (possibly 2014) we asked
>> Santa for a box set of the 1st 2 series. We took the DVDs to the ski
>> resort last week, but my old laptop wouldn't play them back reliably,
>> but luckily the house DVD player will read them, so we binge watched
>> them starting on Thursday and have just 2 epis of series 2 left before
>> we start on series 3.
>
> Isn't Keely Hawes good? I'd never rated her much until that series, but
> I thought it was a brilliant performance.

Yes, and so was the script/plot brilliant. Don't know how we are going
to manage with only 1 epi of series 3 per week :)

[Fenny]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:48:33 +0100, Sid Nuncius
<matron....@tesco.net> wrote:

>I suspect that I shall watch the last epi of The Night Manager tonight
>starting around 9.30, when I decide that Maigret isn't worth persisting
>with. But you never know...

Ma & I agreed last night that we couldn't watch Maigret. Rowan
Atkinson might be the best French detective evah, but he's got too
much history in other things to make it work.

"Wild??? I was livid!"

--
Fenny

[Vicky]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:48:33 +0100, Sid Nuncius
<matron....@tesco.net> wrote:

We've got that final NM to watch too, but I don't actually care much
whether I see it or not. I am not enjoying it. B wants company to
watch it or I might not bother.

We started Dr Blake Mysteries today, Miss Fisher but 30 years later.
We prefer her but he is acceptable. I said whodunnit quite early on.


--

Vicky

[kosmo richard w]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:03:57 +0100, DavidK <Dav...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> I see that Line of Duty is back :-)

Worried I may not have first episode.

--
kosmo richard w

[kosmo richard w]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:03:57 +0100, DavidK <Dav...@invalid.invalid>

wrote:
> > Which one, "Follow the money", "Thicker than water", both or
neither ???

Is follow the money worth catch up when we get back?

--
kosmo richard w

[Vicky]

I've seen two episodes now and am not sure. On the plus side, it's
not raining and there are no chases through depressing wood scenes.
Top business men are not Good People and they can't keep treating us
like Prawns in the Game. Policemen are always Off the Case. Nobody
wants them to solve it and they always have home issues.


--

Vicky

[BrritSki]

No idea, waiting for some advice still :/

[Fenny]

I have no advice on all these moddun broadcast tv shows, but I can
heartily recommend Mad Men and Masters of Sex. Both are well worth
the time.

And, if it weren't for the fact I have a day off and it's not raining,
so I should be out hacking bits of the garden off, I'd be watching
more McDreamy. But that will have to wait until I've procrastinated
some more, bought some milk, hung up the washing and then realised
it's raining again.

Or I may see if I can borrow Mrs End of the Block's long ladders and
see if I can sort out the problem with the aerial so that if I do
decide to watch the Olympics later in the year, I'll actually be able
to receive the signal. And hack down some of the ivy while I'm at it.

But I have no information on the initial query.

--
Fenny

[DavidK]

Ah! that's the beauty of get_iplayer. I download all episodes of
anything and then binge. Wife made me watch episode two of Thirteen last
night when I wanted to go to bed. We've just finished Trapped.

OTOH I downloaded all of The Driver and then we gave up half-way through
episode 1.

[LFS]

Me neither but when it starts raining (which the excellent Dark Sky app
tells me will be in the next fifteen minutes) I'll catch up with "Follow
the Money".

I've spent most of the day so far watching Steve the plumber do what I
thought would be two small jobs - sorting a dripping tap (will probably
need a new one!) and fixing the loo flush (which involved removing and
reinstating half the bath room). Gone are the days when one could change
a washer or fiddle with a ballcock.

--
Laura (emulate St George for email)

[BrritSki]

We'll have forgotten the details of series 1 & 2 if we wait until all
have been shown and recorded :)

Anyway, problem solved on my original ? I am missing epis 1 & 2 of FtM
but they're not downloadable, so we'll watch the first epi of TtW and
see if we bother with any more...

[Fenny]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:05:12 +0100, LFS
<la...@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:

>I've spent most of the day so far watching Steve the plumber do what I
>thought would be two small jobs - sorting a dripping tap (will probably
>need a new one!) and fixing the loo flush (which involved removing and
>reinstating half the bath room). Gone are the days when one could change
>a washer or fiddle with a ballcock.

Last time the washer on my toilet flush went, I finally found enough
tuits to take out the old flush & fill mechanisms and fit a new
push-button dual flush and quiet fill thingy. I think the most time
consuming part of the operation was finding the tools!

I still have a dripping tap in the kitchen, but that's a much bigger
job, which may involve new taps and therefore possibly a new sink. But
I did fit a set of isolation valves and a couple of extra washer taps
in the kitchen while we redid the bathroom a few years ago. That
makes things much easier.

--
Fenny

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <3r6lfbhbicqfuo367...@4ax.com>, Fenny

<umrat.de...@onetel.com> writes:
>On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:05:12 +0100, LFS
><la...@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I've spent most of the day so far watching Steve the plumber do what I
>>thought would be two small jobs - sorting a dripping tap (will probably
>>need a new one!) and fixing the loo flush (which involved removing and
>>reinstating half the bath room). Gone are the days when one could change
>>a washer or fiddle with a ballcock.

Do you mean _you_ are no longer able, or technology has changed?

I will admit that I am now more likely to pay someone else (certainly
when it comes to car matters), but I do think some aspects of plumbing
have changed for the - well, more complicated. Changing a washer doesn't
seem to fix the drip as well as it used to ...

>
>Last time the washer on my toilet flush went, I finally found enough
>tuits to take out the old flush & fill mechanisms and fit a new
>push-button dual flush and quiet fill thingy. I think the most time
>consuming part of the operation was finding the tools!

Indeed! And those push-button things I find extremely counter-intuitive:
do you press the smaller part of the button, or the larger, to get a
small flush? And to get a large one, do you press the other one, or
both?

>
>I still have a dripping tap in the kitchen, but that's a much bigger
>job, which may involve new taps and therefore possibly a new sink. But

Wow!

In the meantime, if it makes a noise when dripping: tie a piece of
cotton to it to guide the drips.

>I did fit a set of isolation valves and a couple of extra washer taps
>in the kitchen while we redid the bathroom a few years ago. That
>makes things much easier.
>

Oh yes, I'm a great believer in those.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The desire to remain private and/or anonymous used to be a core British value,
but in recent times it has been treated with suspicion - an unfortunate by-
product of the widespread desire for fame. - Chris Middleton,
Computing 6 September 2011

[kosmo richard w]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:40:32 +0100, Fenny
<umrat.de...@onetel.com> wrote:
> heartily recommend Mad Men and Masters of Sex. Both are well worth
> the time.

I thought masters of sex went on a bit. We gave up somewhere in the
second series.

--
kosmo richard w

[Fenny]

I stuck with it through to the end. I agree it was somewhat
longwinded, but I did enjoy it. I liked the Allison Janney/Beau
Bridges characters. But then, I think Allison Janney is all round
amazing.

--
Fenny

[Fenny]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:53:24 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Indeed! And those push-button things I find extremely counter-intuitive:
>do you press the smaller part of the button, or the larger, to get a
>small flush? And to get a large one, do you press the other one, or
>both?

Press & release or press & hold. I can never work out the large v
small.

>>
>>I still have a dripping tap in the kitchen, but that's a much bigger
>>job, which may involve new taps and therefore possibly a new sink. But
>
>Wow!

The problem is actually with the hardness of the water and the amount
of crap on the tap.

>
>In the meantime, if it makes a noise when dripping: tie a piece of
>cotton to it to guide the drips.

No noise, I just resent any waste of water. My bill this quarter was
over Ł10!

--
Fenny

[Penny]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:36:18 +0100, Fenny <umrat.de...@onetel.com>
scrawled in the dust...

>>>I still have a dripping tap in the kitchen, but that's a much bigger
>>>job, which may involve new taps and therefore possibly a new sink. But
>>
>>Wow!
>
>The problem is actually with the hardness of the water and the amount
>of crap on the tap.

My kitchen tap (the only mains tap on the property) drips from time to
time. We have relatively soft water here - or so the water board tells me,
it's not noticeable in lather - but still get crap in the water supply. I
assume some of this gets stuck in the valve and causes the problem. The
plumber who fixed my loos was very scathing about my choice of kitchen tap
with its lever action - she's plainly never had a problem with grip.

I stayed with an old 'friend'* in Sheffield recently who claimed the water
ate kettles in the days before concealed elephants. D#1 lives a couple of
streets away from her and disagrees.

*older sister of old school friend, didn't do science past O level.
--
Penny
Annoyed by The Archers since 1959

[steveski]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:33:36 +0100, Fenny wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:15:45 +1300, kosmo richard w
> <richard....@tesco.net> wrote:


>>I thought masters of sex went on a bit. We gave up somewhere in the
>>second series.
>
> I stuck with it through to the end.

F'narr, f'narr.

--
Steveski

[kosmo richard w]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:33:36 +0100, Fenny

Did it end after 2 series or were there more?

--
kosmo richard w

[BrritSki]

On 30/03/2016 00:33, Fenny wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:15:45 +1300, kosmo richard w
> <richard....@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:40:32 +0100, Fenny
>> <umrat.de...@onetel.com> wrote:
>>> heartily recommend Mad Men and Masters of Sex. Both are well worth
>>> the time.
>>
>> I thought masters of sex went on a bit. We gave up somewhere in the
>> second series.
>
> I stuck with it through to the end. I agree it was somewhat
> longwinded, but I did enjoy it.

So many, ahem, openings and so little time....

[Vicky]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:33:36 +0100, Fenny
<umrat.de...@onetel.com> wrote:

I enjoyed all of Mad Men but we've not fancied Masters. Now you say CJ
is in it? B still doesn't fancy it and I have so many things to watch
now that he doesn't want to see and only limited watch alone time.
Currently:
Saving Hope, Nashville,re-watching West Wing and on S5, NCIS New
Orleans, Person of Interest(but might stop that although seen nearly
all), just began re-watching Roseanne plus there are current affairs
things I want to see that he doesn't, like this week Panorama on
staying warm.

--

Vicky

[Fenny]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:23:44 +0100, Penny <sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com>
wrote:

>I stayed with an old 'friend'* in Sheffield recently who claimed the water
>ate kettles in the days before concealed elephants. D#1 lives a couple of
>streets away from her and disagrees.

Never had a problem with the water in Sheffield. And all our kettles
lived to a ripe old age.

--
Fenny

[Fenny]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:18:10 +1300, kosmo richard w
<richard....@tesco.net> wrote:

>
>Did it end after 2 series or were there more?

IIRC, there was a third season. On checking, I see that there will be
S4 later this year.

--
Fenny

[Fenny]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:07:53 +0100, Vicky <vicky...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Currently:
>Saving Hope, Nashville,re-watching West Wing and on S5, NCIS New
>Orleans, Person of Interest(but might stop that although seen nearly
>all), just began re-watching Roseanne plus there are current affairs
>things I want to see that he doesn't, like this week Panorama on
>staying warm.

I finished rewatching WW after Christmas, although I may have to go
through it all again. I always struggle with S5, especially the first
half.


--
Fenny

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <3i6ofbtf742tbd22m...@4ax.com>, Fenny

OK, I give in: I was hoping someone else would ask. What are concealed
elephants? This is sort of the elephant in the room ...

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.

[Serena Blanchflower]

On 30/03/2016 20:31, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <3i6ofbtf742tbd22m...@4ax.com>, Fenny
> <umrat.de...@onetel.com> writes:
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:23:44 +0100, Penny <sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I stayed with an old 'friend'* in Sheffield recently who claimed the
>>> water
>>> ate kettles in the days before concealed elephants. D#1 lives a
>>> couple of
>>> streets away from her and disagrees.
>>
>> Never had a problem with the water in Sheffield. And all our kettles
>> lived to a ripe old age.
>>
> OK, I give in: I was hoping someone else would ask. What are concealed
> elephants? This is sort of the elephant in the room ...

Elements, I assume.

--
Best wishes, Serena
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <Gbadnb7c3cessWHL...@brightview.co.uk>, Serena

Blanchflower <nos...@blanchflower.me.uk> writes:
>On 30/03/2016 20:31, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>> In message <3i6ofbtf742tbd22m...@4ax.com>, Fenny
>> <umrat.de...@onetel.com> writes:
>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:23:44 +0100, Penny <sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I stayed with an old 'friend'* in Sheffield recently who claimed the
>>>> water
>>>> ate kettles in the days before concealed elephants. D#1 lives a
>>>> couple of
>>>> streets away from her and disagrees.
>>>
>>> Never had a problem with the water in Sheffield. And all our kettles
>>> lived to a ripe old age.
>>>
>> OK, I give in: I was hoping someone else would ask. What are concealed
>> elephants? This is sort of the elephant in the room ...
>
>
>Elements, I assume.
>

Ah. (Smites forehead, metaphorically.) Thanks.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The losses on both sides at Borodino [1812], 70 miles from Moscow, are the
equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing into an area of six square miles every five
minutes for the whole ten hours of the battle, killing or wounding everyone on
board. - Andrew Roberts on Napoleon, RT 2015/6/13-19

[Serena Blanchflower]

On 30/03/2016 21:01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <Gbadnb7c3cessWHL...@brightview.co.uk>, Serena
> Blanchflower <nos...@blanchflower.me.uk> writes:
>> On 30/03/2016 20:31, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>>> In message <3i6ofbtf742tbd22m...@4ax.com>, Fenny
>>> <umrat.de...@onetel.com> writes:
>>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:23:44 +0100, Penny <sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I stayed with an old 'friend'* in Sheffield recently who claimed the
>>>>> water
>>>>> ate kettles in the days before concealed elephants. D#1 lives a
>>>>> couple of
>>>>> streets away from her and disagrees.
>>>>
>>>> Never had a problem with the water in Sheffield. And all our kettles
>>>> lived to a ripe old age.
>>>>
>>> OK, I give in: I was hoping someone else would ask. What are concealed
>>> elephants? This is sort of the elephant in the room ...
>>
>>
>> Elements, I assume.
>>
> Ah. (Smites forehead, metaphorically.) Thanks.

I have to admit that it was only after you posted that I even realised
that the original read "elephants" rather than "elements".

--
Best wishes, Serena
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity
(Dorothy Parker)

[Penny]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:31:33 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> scrawled in the dust...

>In message <3i6ofbtf742tbd22m...@4ax.com>, Fenny
><umrat.de...@onetel.com> writes:
>>On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:23:44 +0100, Penny <sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I stayed with an old 'friend'* in Sheffield recently who claimed the water
>>>ate kettles in the days before concealed elephants. D#1 lives a couple of
>>>streets away from her and disagrees.
>>
>>Never had a problem with the water in Sheffield. And all our kettles
>>lived to a ripe old age.
>>
>OK, I give in: I was hoping someone else would ask. What are concealed
>elephants? This is sort of the elephant in the room ...

:)
Sorry, another friend always calls the element an elephant (quite possibly
something her daughter once said), I rather like it so have adopted the
term.

[Jenny M Benson]

On 30/03/2016 21:35, Penny wrote:
> Sorry, another friend always calls the element an elephant (quite possibly
> something her daughter once said), I rather like it so have adopted the
> term.

It's funny how some of the children's baby words just stick, isn't it.
My son will be 40 this year, so it has been for nearly 40 years that I
have persistently referred to a window silf, a wardrove, Christmas
deshinations and furshance.

If you're stuck on the last one, think tables and chairs!
--
Jenny M Benson

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <dm37de...@mid.individual.net>, Jenny M Benson

(-:

Slightly different, but same sort of thing: my mother's first husband
had a maid (or ...) whose first language wasn't English (German I
suspect), and Mum always referred to certain flowers in memory of her as
"tulps and icings".

I can think of words that threw me when younger: there was this word I
saw often enough in print, and understood what it meant, but it wasn't
until I once said it how I thought it was pronounced - "mizzled" - that
my mother enlightened me! And I always thought another word (which my
Mum used a lot) was spelt kayos.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Often at work I wish they'd pay me what I'm worth, but sometimes I'm glad they
don't. (BrritSki, in uk.media.radio.archers, on 2000-12-25.)

[kosmo richard w]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:28:41 +0100, Fenny
<umrat.de...@onetel.com> wrote:
> IIRC, there was a third season. On checking, I see that there will
be
> S4 later this year.

Good lord really all that sex?

--
kosmo richard w

[BrritSki]

To swerve back to the original thread, we watched the first epi of
Thicker than Water last night. Interesting, but very slow and we were in
two minds about it, and then the signal was obviously bad at the time of
recording and the picture broke up so badly we couldn't even read the
sub-titles. This made a difficult setup/plot ompossible, so we've
deleted the lot.

[Jenny M Benson]

On 31/03/2016 01:11, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>
> I can think of words that threw me when younger: there was this word I
> saw often enough in print, and understood what it meant, but it wasn't
> until I once said it how I thought it was pronounced - "mizzled" - that
> my mother enlightened me! And I always thought another word (which my
> Mum used a lot) was spelt kayos.

I remember the time I first saw "as a matter of fact" written down and
light dawned. Hitherto I had been saying something like "a smattrafact."

--
Jenny M Benson

[Penny]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:11:43 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"

<G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> scrawled in the dust...

>I can think of words that threw me when younger: there was this word I
>saw often enough in print, and understood what it meant, but it wasn't
>until I once said it how I thought it was pronounced - "mizzled" - that
>my mother enlightened me!

There was a sketch based upon that - I think John Cleese and Eric Idle so
probably Monty Python.
One was a judge, the other a barrister who had learnt all his law from
books but never been in a courtroom before. Pronunciation of mizzled and
aleebee are the bits I remember.

[Jim Easterbrook]

Not The Nine O'Clock News, I think.

"His entire testimmonnee is a tisway of lies."
"A tissue! A tissue!"
"Bless you, your honour."
--
Jim <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>
1959/1985? M B+ G+ A L- I- S- P-- CH0(p) Ar++ T+ H0 Q--- Sh0

[the Omrud]

Not The Nine O'Clock News, it was. Nary a Cleese or Idle to be seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO569fBzUO8

--
David

[Penny]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:54:54 +0100, the Omrud <usenet...@gmail.com>
scrawled in the dust...

Thanks (to Jim as well), my unforgettery is getting worse :(

[Penny]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:56:27 +0100, Jenny M Benson <nemo...@hotmail.co.uk>
scrawled in the dust...

>It's funny how some of the children's baby words just stick, isn't it.
>My son will be 40 this year, so it has been for nearly 40 years that I
>have persistently referred to a window silf, a wardrove, Christmas
>deshinations and furshance.
>
>If you're stuck on the last one, think tables and chairs!

:)
Yes, sometimes it's children, sometimes husbands.
The child who announced she'd been learning at school about nakeds in
Africa.
Ray used a Spaniard to tighten nuts and bolts and goods arrived with a
devilry note.
Husgod1 had lots of similar deliberate Malapropisms too but my brain won't
drag any out today.
Family language is a binder of sorts - I'm a fan.

[the Omrud]

We always announce "One Point Disqualished" if somebody has to suffer a
forfeit in a game.

Daughter sat on the swing singing for hours about Happy Wendy Wool.

Irritation is met with "Ni!", after the Knights.

Eggs are turned over in a frying pan with a Bachelor.

--
David

[DavidK]

On 31/03/16 01:11, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <dm37de...@mid.individual.net>, Jenny M Benson
> <nemo...@hotmail.co.uk> writes:
>> On 30/03/2016 21:35, Penny wrote:
>>> Sorry, another friend always calls the element an elephant (quite
>>> possibly
>>> something her daughter once said), I rather like it so have adopted the
>>> term.
>>
>> It's funny how some of the children's baby words just stick, isn't it.
>> My son will be 40 this year, so it has been for nearly 40 years that I
>> have persistently referred to a window silf, a wardrove, Christmas
>> deshinations and furshance.
>>
>> If you're stuck on the last one, think tables and chairs!
>
> (-:
>
> Slightly different, but same sort of thing: my mother's first husband
> had a maid (or ...) whose first language wasn't English (German I
> suspect), and Mum always referred to certain flowers in memory of her as
> "tulps and icings".
>
> I can think of words that threw me when younger: there was this word I
> saw often enough in print, and understood what it meant, but it wasn't
> until I once said it how I thought it was pronounced - "mizzled" - that
> my mother enlightened me! And I always thought another word (which my
> Mum used a lot) was spelt kayos.

My mum has been Oofle for 50 years, ever since she asked my exchange
student whether he liked scrambled eggs in broken French.

[Sam Plusnet]

In article <b60qfb9g6n5ivoot2...@4ax.com>,
sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com says...

>
> Thanks (to Jim as well), my unforgettery is getting worse :(
>
>

No problem.

Many of us have outsourced unforgettery to Google.

[Fenny]

Yep!

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Fenny

[Penny]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:53:59 +0100, Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> scrawled in
the dust...

I did try but often umra gives more reliable results (depending upon how
much I've forgotten) :)

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <dm4ae9...@mid.individual.net>, Jim Easterbrook

<ne...@jim-easterbrook.me.uk> writes:
>Penny wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:11:43 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
>> <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> scrawled in the dust...
>>
>>>I can think of words that threw me when younger: there was this word I
>>>saw often enough in print, and understood what it meant, but it wasn't
>>>until I once said it how I thought it was pronounced - "mizzled" - that
>>>my mother enlightened me!
>>
>> There was a sketch based upon that - I think John Cleese and Eric Idle so
>> probably Monty Python.
>> One was a judge, the other a barrister who had learnt all his law from
>> books but never been in a courtroom before. Pronunciation of mizzled and
>> aleebee are the bits I remember.
>
>Not The Nine O'Clock News, I think.

Yes.

>
>"His entire testimmonnee is a tisway of lies."
>"A tissue! A tissue!"
>"Bless you, your honour."

...
"His client has no aleebee."
(Opposing solicitor, in exasperation:) He has no ALIBI!
"Even my learned friend agrees ..."

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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

782.55 - The Number of The Beast (including VAT)

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <dm548c...@mid.individual.net>, DavidK
<Dav...@invalid.invalid> writes:
[]

>My mum has been Oofle for 50 years, ever since she asked my exchange
>student whether he liked scrambled eggs in broken French.

Reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) tale of the downed airman, who
told some French villagers

I have spat in a field of kidneys ...

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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf