The treating of tradesmen

[ahinton]

Must remember to book an appointment with my doctress.

Well, if you do and if you keep it I just hope that she doesn't have cause to refer you to a consultant neuropsychopathologistress...

[amateur51]

Must remember to book an appointment with my doctress.

My personal preference is for 'actrine' and 'waitrine' but you've hit upon the fly in that particular pot of ointment with 'doctor', Bryn - 'may I see the doctrine please?'

[ahinton]

My personal preference is for 'actrine' and 'waitrine' but you've hit upon the fly in that particular pot of ointment with 'doctor', Bryn - 'may I see the doctrine please?'

Indeed - but then another potential fly in the same pot is the aural similarity between "waitress" and "Waitrose"...

[amateur51]

Indeed - but then another potential fly in the same pot is the aural similarity between "waitress" and "Waitrose"...

Are you breaking those teeth in for a friend, ahinton

[Serial_Apologist]

My personal preference is for 'actrine' and 'waitrine' but you've hit upon the fly in that particular pot of ointment with 'doctor', Bryn - 'may I see the doctrine please?'

Sounds too much like "latrine"

[vinteuil]

... my mother was irritated enough by the affectation my brothers and I adopted in calling her "mater". When I went further, and, on the victor/victrix principle decided that perhaps this feminine gender should mean that we should refer to her as "matrix" - she blew a fuse.

God, I was an obnoxious eight year old....

[scottycelt]

Superb logic, scotty!

Of course, Ams ... what a pity your brain-train has finally arrived at the correct destination about three years behind the required schedule.

[Serial_Apologist]

Of course, Ams ... what a pity your brain-train has finally arrived at the correct destination about three years behind the required schedule.

And so, scotty has finally thrown in his lot with the Miaow-Miaow tendency of middle-of-the-road satire.

[ahinton]

Are you breaking those teeth in for a friend, ahinton

No, sir - I'm doing it for my dentress.

[ahinton]

Of course, Ams ... what a pity your brain-train has finally arrived at the correct destination about three years behind the required schedule.

Er - so what "schedule" might that have been and who was it that "required" it on what grounds, then?

[ahinton]

... my mother was irritated enough by the affectation my brothers and I adopted in calling her "mater". When I went further, and, on the victor/victrix principle decided that perhaps this feminine gender should mean that we should refer to her as "matrix" - she blew a fuse.

But, even then, one of presumably smaller ampereage that that which she migh have blown had you reminded her of the fact that "matrix" rhymes with "dominatrix" (on paper if not when actually spoken, unless mispronounced)?...

[amateur51]

And so, scotty has finally thrown in his lot with the Miaow-Miaow tendency of middle-of-the-road satire.

The Mystic Mog of FoR3

[Serial_Apologist]

But, even then, one of presumably smaller ampereage that that which she migh have blown had you reminded her of the fact that "matrix" rhymes with "dominatrix" (on paper if not when actually spoken, unless mispronounced)?...

Dominatrix doesn't rhyme with anything, in my book at any rate. Unless one goes along with that old joke:

Masochist: "Hurt me!"
Sadist: "Nooooo - heh heh heh!"

[amateur51]

No, sir - I'm doing it for my dentress.

[Serial_Apologist]

A woman's right to chews?