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Given the anticipate average speed of today's journey - 45mph as I understood it - it might seem more like the Crawling Scotsman were it not for the fact that it's only going to York...
Possibly a little too recent - you still see some on display.
Related and much older were the green lamps that had to be displayed on the front of motor vehicles owned by undergraduates at Oxford University. They were replaced by paper permits (shaped like tax discs) in 1967, apparently after a student had been stopped by police somewhere in Europe (possibly Austria) for displaying a light of an illegal colour.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Did anyone else have Little Miss Muffet junket for pudding?
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
it has been conclusively proven that one does not need to be a gentleman to eat this.
...ah, but sir seems to have to hand one of the modern, ahem, "plastic" containers for the Relish, which, sadly, have replaced the original glass receptacles. I believe the glass ones are reserved for the Gentlemen....
It has been the source of much speculation as to what a Flacker might be.
According to the OED, it's an obsolete word for "flapper" - as in "bird", so it might just be a colloquialism for "bird shooting". It was also used to mean "to flail", so may have had something to do with shooting at birds after the beaters have got them airbourne?
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