See y'all folks in a few days.

Leaving tomorrow at noon, be back next Wednesday. I doubt I'll have the technology to pop in... But I might get to meet Geoff!!

Heading out for a couple of days...going up to Philly to catch the Elton John/Billy Joel Tour at the Spectrum Sunday night. Heard it's a great show, and that they do "Funeral for a Friend" off the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album...a great piece of music! With those two pianos blazing away it shoud be a treat! Never heard Elton John do that one in concert before. And I've never seen Billy Joel, and this is supposed to be his farewell tour, so I'm psyched that I'm finally catching him! May be some computer access at my sister's if I can get my nieces off it for 10 minutes, but not sure about that. Have a good weekend!

(Good Luck and Enjoy the hockey game, Sunday, bel & Bean! Go USA!)

I’ll be away for a few days or so, as RealLife® intrudes its ugly phizzog.

I'm outta here for a trip to Yellowstone Park with my hubby for a week. We haven't got enough snow here...so we are going out there to make a snowman!

Makin' Snowmen

Just don't make any little snow-angels, dear.
[Wonder if she'sno angel?]

I am heading into the spring buying show season (yuck). It'll keep me pretty busy for a little while. I *may check in every once in a while but I can't promise anything since I tend to just crash when I get home late.

So salut for now. Have a good time.

Gin.

OH DANG. I shouldn't have asked ASp about the "o" in mancometro. Now I'll never know cause the thread will be twenty pages down when I get back. Grrrr.

I'll be leaving for Florida on the 15th of this month to join the rents and their old fart band of gypsies for ten days. Anyone I can visit? Pm me if you'd like to meet for coffee or shrimp[licking my lips and fingers-e] I don't mind wandering away from the Interstate anywhere between Michigan and Key West.

I don't mind wandering away from the Interstate anywhere between Michigan and Key West.

Perfect!! i'd love to meet ya!!! i'm guessing you'll be taking the I-75S ~ just hop on the 1-40 and head west a bit---say, 1300 miles or so--- and i'll take you to my favorite shrimp joint. i'll even buy the cervesa!!

Well, as good as that sounds, I did say wander, not change my itinerary entirely. I had more of a 200 mile wide swath in mind, with I-75 or I-65 running right down the middle.

Well, I'd invite you to meet me, seeing as I-75 goes right through Cinci, but I'm leaving for London the same day.

Well, as good as that sounds, I did say wander, not change my itinerary entirely. I had more of a 200 mile wide swath in mind, with I-75 or I-65 running right down the middle.

Producer: And, to follow the total lack of newsworthy news of any note, including Middle C and A=440, here is a report from our Resident Weather Report Regurgitatoress, Cloudy Bay A very nice wine, especially if you've already had a bottle of something else - er, sorry, I'll read that again. Cloudy Day.

Cloudy Bay ... er, Day Hic! Haec! Hoc!: Here is the weather, or at least some twit of a meterologist's take on it. So I quote: "Hurricane Consuelo is reported to be carving a 200-mile swath..." Swath? Where's that damned dictionary? I think it's swathe myself? What? Really? ... is that your final word on the subject? I'm not allowed to check the accuracy of the wording of weather reports? So ... if that's the case, why are the damned weather forecasting people allowed to get the content so wrong? Oh! You don't say? I thought they had a couple of Crays in the basement of the National Weather Service or whatever? Is that right, just random numbers, eh? So ... those Crays do nothing but jumble up a stack of weather-forecasting-related phrases and churn out a completely made-up forecast? That does explain a lot. Thanks very much! Ahem, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls ... the weather, heh-heh. Make of it what you will.

Hurricane Consuelo is due to carve a swath - however it's spelled or spelt - from the mid-west to the south-east. The hurricane is travelling by car ... Now wait one damned minute, you twat, you don't expect that even the pea-brained general public will wear that one, do you? Hurricanes travelling by car? What next, stretch limos? Their own aircraft? Oh well ...

Folks, the weather forecast isn't making any sense at all today, so here's my personal take on it. The weather will be fine if it is fine, and it will be bad if it isn't. Snow will fall where snow falls. If you have any personal qualms or quibbles with the way that the sky looks at your place, please take an umbrella, suntan lotion or a snow shovel depending on your assessment of the likelihood of the appropriate weather event occurring. There will be a bomb over New Zealand. There's always one of those around. The New Zealand government is starting to suspect weather terrorism. Osama bin Laden is wanted for questioning in connection with the problem.

And if you happen to see a hurricane which answers to the name of "Consuelo" travelling by car from the Michigan area towards the Florida Keys, will you please let me know at AWADTV? And let me know about the swath/swathe, please. Because if you don't let me know that I'm not crazy pretty soon I'm going to jump out of the window. I'm blonde and this studio is in the basement. But I'll do it anyway!

(from Cambridge Dictionary of American English)

swath
noun [C]
a strip or belt, or a long area of something
The sheriff's department polices a wide swath of the county.

swathe was not found in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English

swath (swth, swôth) also swathe (swth, swôth, swth)
n.

The width of a scythe stroke or a mowing-machine blade.
A path of this width made in mowing.
The mown grass or grain lying on such a path.
Something likened to a swath; a strip.

Idiom:
cut a swath
To create a great stir, impression, or display: “He cut a bold and even sacrificial swath across American politics” (Gail Sheehy).
To extend in distinctive physical length and width: “the surprising 17th Arrondissement, which cuts a generous swath across northwest Paris” (Jean Rafferty).
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[Middle English swathe, from Old English swæth, track.]
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Well, CapK, we are both right, it seems. Once again, it depends which side of the pond you're on. Lucky you, if Hurricane Consuelo veers off into the ocean, she's likely to lose all her strength before reaching Merry Olde and you.

It's also a verb, at least here. (I have no Canadian dictionary on hand, so I'll define it myself.) It's what you do when you use a swather, that is, those farm machines that look like giant old-fashioned lawnmowers. The machine is a swather, the activity is swathing. The space left behind would be a swath.

Category 5, no doubt!

Well, blokes, this afternoon I'm leaving Cinci for a trip across the bloody pond and I'll be romping around London (thanks, Jo), Bath and parts in between. I'd appreciate it if y'all wouldn't do any posting as to make it considerably easier for me when I return.

Try hitting an internet café, JazzO. Have fun! Please don't come back swallowing syllables. And while in Bath, please give my regards to Sulis/Minerva.

And while in Bath, please give my regards to Sulis/Minerva.

Do think he wouldn't, AnnaS? JazzO didn't come down in the last Shower (a little known town about four miles outside Dunny-on-the-Wold famous for its leaking rooves ...)

Have a great time Jazz. Colour me jealous. I can barely get my hubby away on vacation for a week - I have to bribe him with ocean, beach & sun - so England is out of the question. *sigh*

I'm waiting for that year every couple gets to, you know, where he says, "oh, why don't you and (insert friend's name here) go to England visit your castles while me and her hubby go off on golfing spree." and nobody is insulted cause, contrary to what you believed the day you started going out, the world will not come to an end if you are one minute apart.

O come on now Jazzo, tell the truth...it's "Spring Break", folks, and he's just goin' for the babes! (Though I'm certainly impressed you chose merry old England over Florida or Can-Cun!) So watch out, all you English ladies...Jazzo and his cohorts are on the prowl!

Have a great time, Jazzo!...as I'm sure you will!

Have a great time, Jazz, and tip a few pints for me., since I did already, here in sunny FLABTW, I already tried that one about everybody hush 'til I get back. Didn't workMy cousin is at work and she's letting me use her computer