A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum

[french frank]

...and ff you insult me

Rapidly descending into farce here : I was asking how Bryn would "insult" (winkeye) someone like me who had never heard of a smart speaker. But I thank you for your contribution: I now know what Mozart speakers are.

[oddoneout]

You could never call a smart speaker Boris could you?

[cloughie]

Rapidly descending into farce here : I was asking how Bryn would "insult" (winkeye) someone like me who had never heard of a smart speaker. But I thank you for your contribution: I now know what Mozart speakers are.

Sorry I thought you meant me, but I’m wondering if we could develop the Mozart speaker by introducing a subwoofer and it becoming a Beathoven!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry I thought you meant me, but I’m wondering if we could develop the Mozart speaker by introducing a subwoofer and it becoming a Beathoven!

For a pun, that's unbeatable!

[cloughie]

For a pun, that's unbeatable!

I felt it behoved me to mention!

[cloughie]

... but then you'ld have vets bills & have to walk it twice a day

Depends on you bass your choice!

[LMcD]

For a pun, that's unbeatable!

Please don't encourage him!

[french frank]

Went to lunch at my brother's today and discovered it was the Festival of QingMing or Ancestor Tomb-sweeping Day. My nephew married an Anglo-Chinese lady, so my brother thought we could meet up with them after lunch and sweep my late sister-in-law's tomb. Pulled out all the weeds and then lit incense sticks. There was a bit of a breeze so it took quite a while to light the incense sticks as the matches kept going out. There were other people at the cemetery but nobody else seemed to be lighting incense sticks.

[Serial_Apologist]

Went to lunch at my brother's today and discovered it was the Festival of QingMing or Ancestor Tomb-sweeping Day. My nephew married an Anglo-Chinese lady, so my brother thought we could meet up with them after lunch and sweep my late sister-in-law's tomb. Pulled out all the weeds and then lit incense sticks. There was a bit of a breeze so it took quite a while to light the incense sticks as the matches kept going out. There were other people at the cemetery but nobody else seemed to be lighting incense sticks.

That's the sort of thing for which I keep a number of old gas-fuelled cigarette lighters - they still work, 8 years after my giving up smoking!

[french frank]

That's the sort of thing for which I keep a number of old gas-fuelled cigarette lighters - they still work, 8 years after my giving up smoking!

Must remember that for next year. I don't think it's always on Easter Sunday.

[oddoneout]

Must remember that for next year. I don't think it's always on Easter Sunday.

It wouldn't be in China, so is that a western convenience? In which case does it matter that Easter is a moveable feast.

[french frank]

It wouldn't be in China, so is that a western convenience? In which case does it matter that Easter is a moveable feast.

It just happened to be on Easter Sunday this year. Next year, apparently, it's on Tuesday 5th April, 15 days after the spring equinox.

[johncorrigan]

It just happened to be on Easter Sunday this year. Next year, apparently, it's on Tuesday 5th April, 15 days after the spring equinox.

Had me thinking of the Malagasay tradition of Famadihana, ff, where every seven years families gather to turn over the bones of their ancestors. Lucy Duran did a great programme about it for World Routes in 2009 which is still in the R3 archives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ps0sh

[eighthobstruction]

....I've had steel and flint on my bucket list for years now....but I fear that combination may never be struck....

[Serial_Apologist]

... but you need incense sticks & they're in great demand & often out of stock at Aldi

With all those INCENSED shoppers there'll be a lot of JOSSling in shopping centres, then.