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a) You buy a house and your girlfiend won't move in until you get married
b) You want to have children and your girlfriend won't until you get married
c) You really love your girlfriend and want to be with her constantly
Not all need apply, not in that order anyway :)
Oh and :
d) You have broadband at the new house but you are always at your girlfriends who doesn't
Fforumites getting married ? Can I come and throw confetti/tomatos/insults ? (your choice).
My friends Ed and Krissy got married last year and had a ceilidh in the evening. It was fantastic fun.
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: March 21, 2003 04:48PM
i) when you move into a house that has a lawn that needs mowing
j) when you decide you want to be a lady of leisure and spend your days on the Fforum and you need someone to monetarily support your endeavor.
BTW, so far as the language differences go, hoovering isn't a verb here in the States. Hoover is one of many brands of vacuum cleaners (vacuums for short), and the task is called vacuuming.
So I can claim that there is a vacuum in my coat closet (which I suppose means that nature abhors it).
However, all facial tissues are referred to as kleenex, and in some parts of the south all carbonated beverages are referred to as coke.
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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith
yes, well, there is always the danger that 'hoovering' might be interpreted as a) allowing unemployment to reach record levels or b) dressing up in women's clothes whilst rooting out Communist subversion.
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