Pedants' Paradise

[french frank]

Interesting point. Though wiki says it was stabilised by the brewery, using buttresses, and is no longer moving, so perhaps 'listed' is more appropriate than 'listing'.

I think that's a bit pedantic.

[ahinton]

I think that's a bit pedantic.

What? Pedantry in the Pedants' Paradise thread? Whatever next? Politics in the - oh, sorry, I was forgetting that it's lately been made to forfeit its deposit...

[Don Petter]

What? Pedantry in the Pedants' Paradise thread? Whatever next? Politics in the - oh, sorry, I was forgetting that it's lately been made to forfeit its deposit...

I assumed ff was damning with faint praise.

[french frank]

I assumed ff was damning with faint praise.

[ahinton]

I assumed ff was damning with faint praise.

Better than fainting with damn' praise, I suppose...

[Don Petter]

Better than fainting with damn' praise, I suppose...

Perhaps she was just feinting ...

[ahinton]

Perhaps she was just feinting ...

Damn! So indeed she might have been. A praiseworthy thing to do when the context fits, perhaps...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly... (A.A.Milne)

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit Flies like a banana.

[ahinton]

Time flies like an arrow.

...as Tony Payne has demonstrated.

Fruit Flies like a banana.

I'm not sure who's proved that, though I've no doubt that it's true...

[vinteuil]

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit Flies like a banana.

"Time flies, you cannot:
They fly too fast, their flight is too erratic... "

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm going to do very well for free booze down our local this month

Notice on our village news-sheet:

WHAT'S ON AT THE ------ ARMS IN JANUARY

TRIM & PINT NIGHT TUESDAY 27TH WITH SHARON ------ £1 DRINKS VOUCHER WITH EVERY HAIR CUT

Well, I'm a bit thin on top these days but that should still set me up nicely for most of 2015

EDIT Having asked Wiki the obvious question, I reckon I'll just about be able to stand all forumites a drink too. Apparently a full head of hair has about 100,000 follicles See you all on the 27th then.

If necessary I'll have an eyebrow trim as well...

One oddity: this offer has run in our rag for several months, but previously without the space..

[french frank]

£1 DRINKS VOUCHER WITH EVERY HAIR CUT

[Don Petter]

Goes with this?

http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee507/Don_Petter/P7245687_zps5962a0bc.jpg

[jean]

Just thinking about next week's Composer of the Week.

Quite the cosmopolitan, he's Orlandus Lassus in Latin, Orlando di Lasso if he's being Italian, but in French he's sometimes Orlande de Lassus and sometimes Roland.

Why? Just a harmless bit of metathesis?

[Don Petter]

Probably avoiding creditors?