Only if she wasn't a slapper.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

so if she was a slapper, you wouldn't get slapped, but if she wasn't a slapper you would get slapped.

OK, I'll go with that. My mind hurts.

But if you want a slapper to slap you, it costs more.


Does this make any sense to Americans ?

Just think of all the fabulous new slang you are learning and can baffle your friends, family and co-workers with. You too can mutter 'bollocks' in front of the boss.

I mutter 'bollocks' in front of the boss most days.

other way of getting slapped by a slapper is to go up to them and say 'do you do Pot Noodle?'

Has anyone seen me? I think I'm lost.

ps, Dave, I think the reason those two posts were blank in your email was because they were inside left and right arrows. So your browser was interpreting them as HTML tags.

I've personally quit having email replies to things I post because all the replies fill up my inbox and it all gets confusing! Besides, things go off topic so quickly, it's hard to remember what the original idea of the thread was!

Being an innocent sort I'm not sure what you meant by 'Pot Noodle' in the context of getting (or not getting) slapped... However... Somebody whom I know (although I can't actually remember whom :-( ) has been known to refer to the "food" that's labelled 'Pot Noodles' as "Not Poodles... hopefully".

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"Some days I diet, other days they serve lasagne."

The 'Not Poodles' being produced as the same company that makes
'Unlucky Fried Kittens', perhaps.

Went shopping again yesterday and managed to be a bit more restrained in book-buying.

The Horseman's companion -£2.- Selection of essays about horses and man
Foxes Three -50p- Beautifully illustrated account of raising fox cubs
The Desk Drawer Anthology -£1- compiled and selected by Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Theodore Roosevelt. Lots of poetry.
Card games for 1 or 2 -50p- Over 30 games to choose from

Only four books this time and just as well

Yes, but are you actually planning to come back before you manage to buy up every second-hand book in Norfolk? ;-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Skiffle _ Re "Unlucky Fried Kittens" _
> When a former pupil of the school where I work returned on a brief visit a few years ago he told us how he'd been working in a veterinary laboratory in Liverpool (or maybe Manchester, it was certainly one of those two cities anyway...) when the local public health inspectorate asked them to check the identity of the meat in various local restaurants' & take-aways' dishes... DNA testing of samples from the suspected products did indeed reveal that "Domestic Cat" was (sadly for those of us who like their cats alive & purring... or talking) quite a common ingredient in recipes where the cut of the meat and the levels of spices added made disguisng its identity easy, but the real surprise came when they checked one particular batch of curry... And confirmed the first test's results by testing a second sample from the same batch, separately, because they didn't believe the first result...
> When confronted with their evidence by the inspectors the owner of the establishment responsible did finally confess that they were right about the species from which the meat had come, but still refused to explain how & where he had actually acquired the carcass...
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> And to WHAT species DID the source of that curried meat actually belong?
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> LION!

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"Some days I diet, other days they serve lasagne."

*shudders*

Thank the Lord I've been a vegetarian for the last twenty years.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Thank god I can't eat curry.

It's meat, isn't it? Stop being squeamish - I'd eat it just to say I had.

I won't eat horse again though - there's something wrong about eating anything you could have called Dobbin



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Interesting British prejudice, not eating horses. After all, cows can be called 'Daisy' or 'Buttercup' but they taste good all the same.
(Apologies to veggie fforumites who may be wincing at this point).
Reasons for prejudice ?
Possible to form closer bond with horse than other domesticated herbivores. (Can't think of many poems written in honour of cows).
Ancient British worship of horse/pony Goddess eg: Epona. Goddess of ponies and possibly fertility.

And if I was going to eat lion, I'd like to know it was lion. Never been keen on mystery meats, me.

i know an old scottish poem about a cow:

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There was a coo upon a hill,
There was a coo upon a hill.
It's no' there noo -
It must hae shifted.

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

That's an authentic, old Scottish poem, huh ? I'll believe you (thousands wouldn't).

As far as I am concerned, a lion is a distant relative of Minsky and therefore entitled to all due respect. Which includes not being eaten.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Lions have huge big claws, and therefore deserve respect.

You wouldn't want one in the raw, breathing state, for sure



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Definitely not. Cat's breath can be bad enough, so having a real, live lion breathe over you..... *cringes*

H'mm, yes, I can relate to that... *turns round and gives Minsky a significant look*



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah