Why didn’t anyone tell me that…?

[french frank]

Ah yes, I see what you mean. As in ' my big fat greek wedding' etc.

Y-e-e-es. Weird

The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River. But I think you could say great, greasy, grey-green Limpopo river, though.

[Pulcinella]

Y-e-e-es. Weird

The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River. But I think you could say great, greasy, grey-green Limpopo river, though.

That would certainly distinguish it from the great, greasy, blue-green Limpopo river.

[french frank]

That would certainly distinguish it from the great, greasy, blue-green Limpopo river.

Or the great Limpopo, greasy, green-grey river. Or the ...

[alywin]

Are we English-speakers ever actually taught this:



It’s certainly true, and equally certainly I wasn’t ever taught it - just sort of picked it up by osmosis and correctly followed it without being told…

Funny you should mention this, because someone quoted it to me the other day. I don't know whether it was osmosis, but, being a child of the 70s and not having had grammar lessons, I had been totally unaware of it.

[Serial_Apologist]

"I love Pink".

Does anyone else think it is a colour being referred to, not a pop star - of whom I had never heard until just now?

Apparently a woman threw her mother's ashes on the stage during a recent Pink performance.

[french frank]

"I love Pink".

Does anyone else think it is a colour being referred to, not a pop star - of whom I had never heard until just now?

Apparently a woman threw her mother's ashes on the stage during a recent Pink performance.

I thought K-Pop was a breakfast cereal.

[smittims]

Ha, well, it's no surprise I haven't heard of Pink, as my office coleagues were incredulous when I said , on their discussing Freddie Mercury's death, that I didn't know who he was.

When Alan Bennett and his producer were auditioning actors for one of his plays and asked them what they'd done , one said ' I was in George Bernard Shaw'.

'What did you play?'

'Drums'.

[gradus]

... Valencia Community Fund grants require a reciprocal payment of 10% of the capital grant.

[Serial_Apologist]

Ha, well, it's no surprise I haven't heard of Pink, as my office coleagues were incredulous when I said , on their discussing Freddie Mercury's death, that I didn't know who he was.

When Alan Bennett and his producer were auditioning actors for one of his plays and asked them what they'd done , one said ' I was in George Bernard Shaw'.

'What did you play?'

'Drums'.

He???

[Bryn]

"I love Pink".

Does anyone else think it is a colour being referred to, not a pop star - of whom I had never heard until just now?

Apparently a woman threw her mother's ashes on the stage during a recent Pink performance.

My immediate thougt was "Which one's Pink?"

[cria]

I thought K-Pop was a breakfast cereal.

No. It's a truly wonderful violinist

[cloughie]

"I love Pink".

Does anyone else think it is a colour being referred to, not a pop star - of whom I had never heard until just now?

Apparently a woman threw her mother's ashes on the stage during a recent Pink performance.

… you’re never not going to dance henceforth?

[eighthobstruction]

Ha, well, it's no surprise I haven't heard of Pink, as my office coleagues were incredulous when I said , on their discussing Freddie Mercury's death, that I didn't know who he was.

When Alan Bennett and his producer were auditioning actors for one of his plays and asked them what they'd done , one said ' I was in George Bernard Shaw'.

'What did you play?'

'Drums'.

....in my head - when ever I hear such gaps in a folks popular culture experience - my head says "Ah they are doing a Mary Chambers" ....(she was regularly expressing such gaps....)

....Lou Reed, and David Bowie being 2 of Mary's omissions

[vinteuil]

I thought K-Pop was a breakfast cereal.

... aspiring aesthete in Punch cartoon - "Botticelli isn't a wine, you juggins, —it's a cheese."

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