Someone who thinks of an interesting but unrealted comment to inject, but doesn't because they are too shy to do so is an introblert. Egon isn't a lert, but just rather extroblerted.

Midiblert?

Are you a NSW-er injecting beer into threads BwH?

Good work, another revolution in fForum

Maybe Egon is a Superblert.

Covered covert coblerting: weaving together multiple threads to create a multicoloured tapestry in secret under a blanket.

Attempts to convert covered covered coblerter into uncovered covert coblerter.

Wonders if we have any introblerters left, or whether they have all been tempted out by promises of free chocolate, pies and the occasional Australian beer.

I thought those were threats...

<Clucking sounds emanate from the cellar>
<some chicken down blows up from the cracks in the floorboards>

[Time Passes ...... ]

Would anyone like chooken pie?

Enough time passes to reflect that even CR's careful coblerting isn't tempting out the introblerters.

CR, only fair to warn you that I think those are moorhens in the cellar.

The moorhens were evacuated after the last specified chocolate was consumed in 1984. Any birds in the cellar are explicitly and specifically not moorhens.

buschblerting: catching chooks at the end of coblerted threads

[de.wikisource.org] (German original)
[www.fln.vcu.edu] (English)

<Puts some moorhens in the cellar just for novelty's sake>

<Walks away whistling ... notices path made of yellow bricks>

<Detects faint aroma of chocolate, follows path ...>

<wonders whether Egon could have put lesshens in the cellar instead>
<remembers great sitticosus scare of 2008>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/2009 04:19AM by annie.

Well, lesshens are endangered at this time. I'm not sure it would be ethical. We could just put Bruce the Janitor down there.

What happened to the more grammatically correct Fewerhens?

I bow to geg and his more correct grammar.

I have tried to explain less and fewer to my workmates and the best metaphor that I can use ie "Fewer drinks; less alchohol.

That example has probably confused them.

In the back of their minds they'd know that the fewer the drinkers, the more alcohol to go round: an inverse proportion scenario.

Try using something neutral, like marzipan, as the example to avoid SSS (spontaneous salivation side-effect) and see if that works; eg, 'fewer almonds, less marzipan, no retching'.

(Using 'his' and 'Geg' to refer to the same person may also be an anatomical inverse proportion scenario if my memory of a previous post is correct.)

again, my apologies....

I shall try to keep both my metaphors and personal pronouns correct.

<Awards robert disused "knight in shining armour" trophy. Apologises for rust, dust and unidentifiable stains.>

"Fewer mistakes, less pain", seems to work best.

<starts gluing horns onto his knight helmet>