“rar i am a DINOSAUR”
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And she bluddy knows it. Love that bird.
Soo xx
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In case anyone missed this:
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Somebody has caught that; it now reads Scientists have announced the discovery of a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo that was preparing to hatch from its egg, just like a chicken.
I still can’t be quite sure what would be wrong with “as birds do today”, though.
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Or indeed “as dinosaurs do today”. [beaky grin]
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Have just been hearing about a mysterious creature called a “water sheep”, references to which were most perplexing to the team of engineers who encountered them.
Context eventually led to the realisation that they were referring to a “hydraulic ram”
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You couldn’t make it up, Joe…
Carinthia.xx
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“Put that water sheep down!”
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Isn’t water sheep a Chinese year?
In fact my brother, born 6th January 1944, is a water sheep! But only in north China; in the south he is a water goat. I bet he doesn’t know.
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I’m rather fond of something “plunging new depths”.
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And coming back with a watch, a strand of seaweed, and a compact folding umbrella?
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Welcome to The Degeneration Game
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Numpties. Can an idea be a numpty, or is it only for foolish individuals? I have never heard it applied to an idea before today’s script.
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Nor I – definitely applied to a person. An idea could be “numptyish” I suppose. Probably Scots usage originally.
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Numpty is Scottish, yes.
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Itizz, indeed.
Soo xx
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Apparently you reap what you sew.
Sounds as if Our Chatelaine should have a rather superior life!
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cf ‘low and behold’: that’s yer basic coo staring over a gate scenario, to my mind.
Oh, and another thing - when did ‘snobbish’ become ‘snobby’? It always strikes me as sounding rather infantile (or should that be ‘childy’?)
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At some point between 1933 (it is not in the 1933 SOD) and 1988 (it is in the 1988 Chambers).
Oh, ooops; “snobby” is also in the 1926 Chambers. It may be that it’s standard Scottish usage.
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