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"In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit....."
A P.ie moderator stated this on June 25th 2010: P.ie tolerates very broad free speech, and thus allows sectarian bigotry etc
Malafustering?
[Pronounced Mala-foostering]
Never entirely sure what it meant.
Lazing about or fidgetting aimlessly perhaps.
A malafusterer was a real nono
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I'm old enough to remember these. A half crown was an actual coin of that value. 1/8 of a pound. I think I have one in the house somewhere.
Tanner, thruppeny bit, florin, ten bob note.
Ten bob was a lot of money back when it was paper money. Converts to about 64c.
I've lived through 3 currencies.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Well that's all fine and dandy but...
Perfect expression for the Marvins in our community who fuss over the impossibilities of life.
"Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does."
“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories.” Jesse Jackson
I don't agree that the word "swånky" has fallen into disuse. Do a Google search and limit it to documents posted in the past week.
Like this one:
Turns Out That DSK's S************************y Hotel Suite Was Stained With The Semen Of Four Other Guys | The Smoking Gun
Incidentally, your use of the term "self abuse" reveals Catholic indoctrination. In more enlightened circles, we refer to it as "self-relief".
p.s. You can always circumvent the tight-arse American censor program by using Nordic letters like ä, ö, or å.
Me too; I just about remember the farthing with a bird, kingfisher was it, on the back. I have all the other coins in a drawer somewhere.
'I haven't a make' meant 'I'm stony broke'.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain
I meant S_w_a_n_k_y seems to have fallen into disuse in Ireland.[not that it was ever used much here]I don't agree that the word "swånky" has fallen into disuse. Do a Google search and limit it to documents posted in the past week.
Its probably an American term anyway so I expect it continues to be used in that part of the world.
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Swánky;
1809, "to strut" (swánky, n., "attractive young fellow" is recorded from 1508), perhaps related to M.H.G. swánken "to sway, totter," and O.H.G.swingan "to swing." Said to have been a Midlands and southwestern England dialectal word. The noun meaning "ostentatious behavior" is recorded from 1854; adj. sense of "stylish, classy, posh" is from 1913.
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep." - The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1
Old country guy i used to work with used to call it...." Pumping tha Flat Wheel"...Its the best description I ever heard .In my day it used to be called "Being immodest with yourself"
In Spain they say 'self service'.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain
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