A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30213

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    ...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.
    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.

    Comment

    • oddoneout
      Full Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 9136

      You could never call a smart speaker Boris could you?

      Comment

      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22110

        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        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!

        Comment

        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37563

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          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!

          Comment

          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22110

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            For a pun, that's unbeatable!
            I felt it behoved me to mention!

            Comment

            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22110

              Originally posted by Zucchini
              ... but then you'ld have vets bills & have to walk it twice a day
              Depends on you bass your choice!

              Comment

              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8396

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                For a pun, that's unbeatable!
                Please don't encourage him!

                Comment

                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30213

                  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.
                  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.

                  Comment

                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37563

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    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!

                    Comment

                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30213

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      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.
                      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.

                      Comment

                      • oddoneout
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2015
                        • 9136

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        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.

                        Comment

                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30213

                          Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                          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.
                          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.

                          Comment

                          • johncorrigan
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 10337

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            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.

                            Comment

                            • eighthobstruction
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 6426

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

                              Comment

                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37563

                                Originally posted by Zucchini
                                ... 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.

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X