|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
IIRC the daftynition of a league was the traditional distance you could walk in a day...
which if true would make it a spectacularly scilly measurement at sea :)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
a spectacularly scilly measurement at sea
Take it up with those fans of the fair Spanish ladies.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
fair Spanish ladies
and come to think of it (I must be bored!) when did you last see a Spanish lady who was fair, except in the Shakespearean usage?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
when did you last see a Spanish lady who was fair…?
Don' ast me. I'm jus oney quoting from the song.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
hah!
So to do my duty by the original thread, I'll offer the phrase 'wind chill factor'.
AFAIK it's a namericanism which has nowadays prolly spread all over the world. I remember recognising it as a strange term when I worked in Moo Joisey - and soon realising its udder uniqueness when beholding a calf with ears lost through frostbite!
A Britism heard on Radio 4 a few times is the delightful "organised rain", as in 'a period of showers will be follwed by MOR spreading in from the West later...'
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
course now they say that wind chill factor t'ain't accurate, it's being replaced by "real feel"... but then I always liked a real feel better anyway... 
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,692
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,692 |
AnnaS's reference to upstate NY reminded me of a week long visit I made years ago to a town called Olean where I was told about some seriously unbelievable winter weather conditions that could arise in the Adirondacks. But the place stays in my mind mainly due to the argument I had with the waitress in the motel dining room because I required my bottle of French red at room temperature rather than chilled. She really didn't want to serve it to me that way - was sure I wouldn't like it. The Castle Motel it was. Wonder if it's still there. I remember it fondly!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,891
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,891 |
Why did she want to chill the red dxb? Was the room too hot.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636 |
Either that, or the room was colder than the refrigerator  . It was winter in the Adirondacks after all!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Was the room too hot
It was an USn room. Ya'll gots ta remember we think y'all drink your beer warm because you drink it at room temperature.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,372
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
767
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
|
|
