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JazzO- I've been hit with a fish (in Pike Place Market no less). Gobsmacked would aptly describe how I felt. Moral of the story "when the crowd parts...MOVE".
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I've been hit with a fish (in Pike Place Market no less).Hmmm. Was the assault scripted by John Cleese and Michael Palin, and was the assaulter fishily dressed in khaki shorts and blouson jacket, long socks and boots and topped off with a solar topee? By any chance? 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Yes the finer points of my life sometimes feel scripted by John Cleese. Alas, as I stood there looking at the crowd looking back at me there was no one to yell "Cut".
Pike Place Market has a fish stall where they throw your order around and out into the crowd. A worker is supposed to catch it. Have you heard of it? It's semi-famous. Anyway I was innocently walking by... and I was gobsmacked.
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Actually®, ladymoon, you were cornobbled.
Raspberry to tsuwm!
Best raspberries,
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When visiting Ireland I went to Mayo (God Help Us) with my Irish cousin and we had tea at "Gob a macree" which was explained to me as an Irish phrase meaning "Mouth of my Heart" .... obviously it loses in translation, but it means speaking with the deepest feeling you are capable of.
I may have spelling incorrect but ... the Macree is like the song "Mother Macree" which translates roughly as mother of my heart ... making the song appropriate for any mother, natural, step or whatever in these PC times.
Mother Macree from my memory :
There's a place in my heart which no other may own,
There's a depth in my soul never sounded or known,
There's a place in my mem'ry, my life, that you fill,
No one can replace you, no one ever will.
Sure, I love the dear silver that shines in your hair,
And the brow that's all wrinkled and furrowed with care,
I kiss the dear fingers, so toilworn for me,
Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Macree.
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Raspberry to tsuwm!
dear WordStrangler,
don't make me post my e-mails again!
-joe (gobemouche) friday
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>Have you heard of it? It's semi-famous. More than semi-famous in my household! I have a picture of it on my kitchen wall! "A Pike Place Triptych" was bought in the market. I didn't get hit but I did see the flying fish - also good for signs on the stacked up fruit and veg warning people of sudden death (or worse) if they touch the carefully stacked works of art. Great place for bars too - featured in "Sleepless in Seattle" (a chick flick, I believe). Definition of chick flick: http://members.aol.com/KShaskan/chickflick.html
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jo, before there was ever a 'chick flick' designation, there was my own HMFG - hokey movie for girls. just thought you'd like to know.
-joe cool
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While 'gobsmacked' is definitely recent, my Collins dictionary refers to 'gob' as being a C16 word, possibly from Gaelic.
I wonder when the two first got combined?? (in common usage rather than in print)
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