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Goodness Helen, you are in rare form tonight. First you solicit hirsute men responces -- were you by any chance referring to ponces?
Then you inform us Churchill's father was named Jennie.
Where is the gutter police?
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I've also heard the style of "sideburns" that the General wears referred to as muttonchops...but I don't know the time or etymology...oh well, ICLIU...I can look it up!  Where is the Gutter Police?Jackie...are you back in uniform, yet? 
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Jackie...are you back in uniform, yet? Hey, innuendo is my game-- In-gutter or out, it's all the same!
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no inuendo about muttonchops the whiskers on the side of the face looked had the same shape as what in this county is called a baby loin lambchop..
Who was it/ where was it(which thread) the history of frozen NZ lamb to England? what year was it?
certainly, in the 1860's mutton was all the rage.. women's dresses came with leg 'o mutton sleeves, men had mutton chop whiskers.. society ladies wore coats with mutton trim.
(not the creamy white shearling coat that were popular here 15 years ago, but, a fur like mutton skin, with curly, (rather than the normal kinky) nap, in black. but to make it la de da, it was mouton
(mutton, i think rhymes with button, mouton, with crouton)
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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The word I was looking for was lanugo.
NOUN: A covering of fine, soft hair, as on a leaf, an insect, or a newborn child. Sorry this was delayed. I just couldn't find the word I was looking for. Better late, than never!
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Oh what a good word! i don't think i have ever seen or hear it before... you are an angel
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Where is the gutter police?
OK, maybe this is cross threading, but, shouldn't this read: "Where are the gutter police?" [confused-e]
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OK, maybe this is cross threading, but, shouldn't this read: "Where are the gutter police?" [confused-e]I think so, Angel...according to "scriptural grammar" just kidding, Faldage! But since we know "the Gutter Police" is/are usually just one person hi, Jackie!, then perhaps is is preferable to are, or sumptin' like that.  [doubly-confused-e]
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You're right, Helen, about the mutton. Although hardly anyone eats it any more, it was de rigueur for Sunday dinner in England in Victorian times, and was usually referred to as "the joint". John Galsworthy, in The Forsyte Saga has a passage about how the various senior Forsytes all had differing views about what was the best mutton. One of them even earned the contempt of all the others for having the temerity to express a preference for New Zealand mutton!
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