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In the loch was stuck our Nessie, Boy, the bottom must be messy!
[Why don't they just search for the dung!...d'oh!...and DNA it?]
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Imagine the size of the catfish!
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Imagine the size of the catfish!There you go, Wordwind! Open up a Southern Fried Catfish stand on the shores of Loch Ness, and you're rich! if y'all can cook, that is!...not a very gentlemanly thing to say to a Southern lady, is it? Of course you're a wizard in the kitchen, right?
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Everything I cook is Blackened.
Speaking of lochs, why, "You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland a-fore ye"? Which roads were these?
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Which roads were these?
The high road was the road through the mortal realms, the low road the one through Faerie.
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Interesting, Faldage. That's since gotten twisted, eh? Far as I know, in today's parlance to take "the high road" means to do the noble, good thing.
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Yes, AS, but i think that is because the High Road-- (or more common High Street) is the UK (but not scotish) equiviant of Main street-- and both main street, or high street, would be the location of the "better shops" and where the "betters" would shop. Taking the high road could be acting like nobility..
i just got around to reading the first Harry Potter book, and the bit about "Diagon Alley" is an updated version of many irish (and i suspect scotish) fairytales-- the secret, underground world of fairies and 'little people' was alway faster, than above ground.. Rowling's books plays on many themes of celtic myth, in a delightful way.
interesting how High road can have very different meaning one little island, isn't it? Its a wonder than we can understand anything said by a english language speaker from an other country!
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Speaking of lochs, why, "You take the high road, and I'll take the low road ..."? Which roads were these?
Here too the "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" -- apparently leading to Goldi-lochs.
As noted, the road chosen "made all the difference". Thus at this fork of the road, one choice is the best of tines, the other the worst of tines.
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the road chosen "made all the difference".
How much easier the Yog' had it.
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Here too the "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" -- apparently leading to Goldi-lochs.Hmmm...I didn't know Robert Frost was talking about Gallant Ted's friend. Who else do you know, GT? The Only WO'N!
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In reply to:
but i think that is because the High Road-- (or more common High Street) is the UK (but not scotish) equiviant of Main street
No, of troy. High road and high street are two very different things. The high street is, as you say, the generic equivalent of the USn Main Street. The high road is a long distance road -- think Tolkein's The Road Goes Ever On.
Traditionally to be a street, a thoroughfare had to have buildings on both sides, but that distinction is sadly declining. Oxford Street is a main shopping street in London, but when it leaves the city it used to be called the Oxford Road, until by bureaucratic whim it became the A40.
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Ah, Bingley, you wrote:
Traditionally to be a street, a thoroughfare had to have buildings on both sides, but that distinction is sadly declining. Oxford Street is a main shopping street in London, but when it leaves the city it used to be called the Oxford Road, until by bureaucratic whim it became the A40.
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and it's just this kind of distinction that makes language so exciting and truly helpful. I regret that these kinds of distinctions die out for whatever reasons. They would do much good to those of us who have no sense of direction. If I were looking for Oak Street and were driving around on a road with buildings on one side, I'd have a most excellent clue that I wasn't in the right place!
Some good things do go by the wayside. Wonder what exactly was a wayside, come to think of it??
Best regards, WanderingWonderer
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