Howye fokes
How is things with ye all? After a bit of a abscess, I'm back treaden the bords again. Does that qualify as a informative announcmint? Well, it does now.
Be seein ya
GallantTed
welcome back, Bear. hope your dental problems are better.
Welcome forth, Gallant *one.
I have to say to ye... I feel as if I've been g-ted.
I had me best reconnaisance team over yonder in the rollin green 'ills of Gallaway, and all'n I got back was rumors 'n such of yer exsistence. It's like goin to yer favrit school marm's room on 'show and tell' day and finding a substitute teecher who "don't believe in that hogwarsh". I mean, not even a hint of cimilairity (from what I could tell)... not that there's anything wrong w/that, but.
OK, she was a big fan of teddy bears, but ya could've (at least) sent a blonde.
Welcome fifth, me belle fast Bear.
> sent a blonde
oneronaother, what's the difference win they've both got a GreaT sends a homer?
Howye fokes
Send a blonde, ya say - ya means Loxy? What sorta con artiste does ya relly think I am? A big huge case of nuts ta yerself sir.
As fer me dentil problems, I said in me "abscess", not me "abyss" - I taught this was supposed ta be a wordy sight. The tone is been lowered every day if ya asks me. Still, what does ya expects from a bunch what goes ta the Galways fer a bita culture.
Be seein ya
GallantTed
I just tought ya might send Loxy off chasin gooses... give yerself a chance to talk to Richard Burton, or maybe whisper a few nothings into a pig's ear.
Hey, thanks for the nuts! Yet I always got the impression you were pro artiste, meself... but I've been known to be often wrong Soong.
How 'bout a translator for us Irish-dialect deprived?!
I'll leave that "pig's ear" crack up to you... however... just this once...
James asks if anyone knows the origin of the expression "Gone for a burton", meaning not working or no longer with us.
John wrote that he heard the following on the radio: When a corpse was laid out for burial it was normal practice to dress the body in their best clothes. Typically it was their suit from Montague Burtons. Hence anyone who had died was described as having gone for a Burton.
Lee comments: The phrase "Gone for a Burton" derives from a pre-war advertising poster campaign for beer - Burton's best bitter - which showed a crowded workplace with someone obviously missing. The strapline was: "He's gone for a Burton", implying the person had skipped off down the pub for a quick pint.
In World War Two, during the Battle of Britain, the phrase was revived by RAF officers as a piece of black humour. Noticing blank spaces at their mess tables in the evening the RAF types would joke of their lost comrades: "He's gone for a Burton".
It later came to be applied to any situation where something was either missing or broken or busted. emphasis minehttp://www.aldertons.com/question.htmI'm not gonna make things THAT *difficult... "out of context" on the other hand...
The second line'll have to fend for itself!