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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 13:47:37 GMT -5
Now, now -- "spinster" connotes someone who's never married, whereas I can point to 2 women whom I managed to finagle into marriage before they came to their senses. (Though wife No. 2 is now on husband No. 5, which tells me I was part of a pattern of behavior ... No. 1 has had only 3 husbands.) the important thing is that you made a costly mistake and then made it again which is the mark of man. trouble with usa is it's so big it's hard to pick a place to go. you can see england in an afternoon if you are in a hurry.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:52:26 GMT -5
As I've noted before, I was my first wife's second husband & my second wife's third husband. At some point I need to start accepting applications from women seeking to be married a fourth time.
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 13:52:32 GMT -5
I'm Irish* via 3 of my 4 grandparents, FWIW. (The 4th was Jewish by way of, I guess, Germany, though I have no idea when his forebears came over & settled in the Philadelphia area.) *Scotch-Irish, I gather, as I know of no Catholics in my lineage, though I guess that's also in keeping with standard Southern geneaology or whatever. worst editor ever - scotch is the drink - scottish the people. reported comment to a mod.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 16, 2014 13:52:59 GMT -5
Now, now -- "spinster" connotes someone who's never married, whereas I can point to 2 women whom I managed to finagle into marriage before they came to their senses. (Though wife No. 2 is now on husband No. 5, which tells me I was part of a pattern of behavior ... No. 1 has had only 3 husbands.) the important thing is that you made a costly mistake and then made it again which is the mark of man. trouble with usa is it's so big it's hard to pick a place to go. you can see england in an afternoon if you are in a hurry. You just need to take the quintessentially American vacation - a road trip. Get a car, jump on the back roads and drive around for a month or so. You'll be able to see a lot of the country.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2014 13:53:07 GMT -5
Now, now -- "spinster" connotes someone who's never married, whereas I can point to 2 women whom I managed to finagle into marriage before they came to their senses. (Though wife No. 2 is now on husband No. 5, which tells me I was part of a pattern of behavior ... No. 1 has had only 3 husbands.) All that practice and still not very good at it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:53:51 GMT -5
I'm Irish* via 3 of my 4 grandparents, FWIW. (The 4th was Jewish by way of, I guess, Germany, though I have no idea when his forebears came over & settled in the Philadelphia area.) *Scotch-Irish, I gather, as I know of no Catholics in my lineage, though I guess that's also in keeping with standard Southern geneaology or whatever. worst editor ever - scotch is the drink - scottish the people. reported comment to a mod. According to Wikipedia, the term "Scotch-Irish" is a pure Americanism. Perhaps Americans of Irish descent are particularly fond of the beverage in question.
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 13:58:06 GMT -5
worst editor ever - scotch is the drink - scottish the people. reported comment to a mod. According to Wikipedia, the term "Scotch-Irish" is a pure Americanism. Perhaps Americans of Irish descent are particularly fond of the beverage in question. ahh.. i got caught out by another pure Americanism- pie a la mode - a la mode means chic or fashionable here - so i was what the hell is fashion pie.
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 14:03:56 GMT -5
the important thing is that you made a costly mistake and then made it again which is the mark of man. trouble with usa is it's so big it's hard to pick a place to go. you can see england in an afternoon if you are in a hurry. You just need to take the quintessentially American vacation - a road trip. Get a car, jump on the back roads and drive around for a month or so. You'll be able to see a lot of the country. yeah that's the proper way to do it. I am super nervous about driving on the right side of the road though. The number of times i've stepped out into traffic on countries who drive on right side... Some sort of travel around is definitely the way to do it though. See forests, deserts, mountains
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 14:14:35 GMT -5
You could ride while perched on the outside of the car, clinging to the passenger's-side window, a la Miz Martin's spider monkey.
The drive would be very short, but it would certainly be memorable.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 14:28:03 GMT -5
I'm Irish* via 3 of my 4 grandparents, FWIW. (The 4th was Jewish by way of, I guess, Germany, though I have no idea when his forebears came over & settled in the Philadelphia area.) *Scotch-Irish, I gather, as I know of no Catholics in my lineage, though I guess that's also in keeping with standard Southern geneaology or whatever. worst editor ever - scotch is the drink - scottish the people. reported comment to a mod. *ahem* From Wikipedia -- English author Kingsley Amis endorsed the traditional Scotch-Irish usage implicitly in noting that "nobody talks about butterscottish or hopscots,...or Scottish pine", and that while Scots or Scottish is how people of Scots origin refer to themselves in Scotland itself, the traditional English usage Scotch continues to be appropriate in "compounds and set phrases".
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 15:01:47 GMT -5
very tenuous argument - involving words such as "english author" "implicit" and ignoring "while Scots or Scottish is how people of Scots origin refer to themselves in Scotland itself" - reported again. clutching at straws is a clear infraction of rule 13.c.7 of board rules
i think scotch is an archaic term now in the British Isles - you won't see it in newspapers - but you will hear it colloquially in England - although i don't know about Scotland. I think words like Butterscotch and hopscotch were termed before scotch stopped being used. Although i think we say "scots pine" rather than "scotch pine". I'd expect a Scot to correct me if i used Scotch (and they were that way inclined to correct people) but I doubt they'd care if an American used it. Tolworthy is from Scotland? maybe he can shed some light on this.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 16, 2014 15:10:43 GMT -5
very tenuous argument - involving words such as "english author" You doubt the words of someone named Kingsley Amis? The man practically looks like an Oxford Dictionary in human form.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 16, 2014 15:12:50 GMT -5
urgh i need to go to USA again. it's one of the easiest most relaxed places to go as an english person. the perfect place for a chill out. I ain't sure we want your kind around here. Actually, when I was growing up, an older lady in town, Mrs. Martin (or maybe I should say "Miz," since I don't know if she'd ever been married), used to own a spider monkey. When she would drive around town, the monkey -- Paddy (or maybe Patty) -- would ride perched on the outside, holding onto the passenger's side window. She lived in a small, beat-up, unpainted old house near one of the yards I used to mow in my teens for pocket money. She seemed odd enough anyway for the time, since she always wore what appeared to be men's pants, which was pretty unusual back in the '60s. Hadn't heard about it till last month when I joined a Facebook group devoted to memories of the town & caught up on about 3 years of back posts, but apparently the monkey nearly bit off some neighbor lady's finger one day. The monkey was friends with a goat who lived nearby, & apparently its head got caught in a fence. When the woman tried to extract its head, the monkey thought she was attacking its friend & took violent exception. Was the lady with the goat Flannery O'Connor by any chance?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 15:17:59 GMT -5
Not that I know of, but Flannery O'Connor could've really gone to town in Stamps.
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 15:19:21 GMT -5
very tenuous argument - involving words such as "english author" You doubt the words of someone named Kingsley Amis? The man practically looks like an Oxford Dictionary in human form. I think Amis was supposed to be racist and anti-semite so there may be some undercurrents in his defense of the english use of "scotch" against the scot's preferred term for themselves. then again that might be wild accusations and outrageous extrapolations which I like to think i specialise in. I certainly wouldn't like to get into an argument with Amis about semantics though... he'd butcher me in under 3 seconds
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