Pedants' Paradise

[Pulcinella]

You used to have to look a million dollars in the 1960s.
What with inflation and all, I wonder what you have to look today.
Presumably you're considerably less attractive if you're stuck on the million.

[french frank]

From the label on a small bottle of cream:
'Contains free range milk'

Perhaps it got spilt all over the floor and had to be siphoned up into the bottle?

[oddoneout]

From the label on a small bottle of cream:
'Contains free range milk'
The mind boggles.
Reminds me of when I worked on a deli counter and one of the products displayed sported a label proclaiming 'free range pork pies'. No-one seemed to realise what a nonsense it was(least of all the managers) apart from a couple of regular customers with whom I used to have a joke about the problems of catching them and getting them cleaned for sale, and other absurdities.

[vinteuil]

Maybe because it's become unafjordable?

I think the Beatles might attribute it to a lack of Norwegian wood


.

[LMcD]

Maybe because it's become unafjordable?

[Serial_Apologist]

My centenary-induced bout of Boulezing has led me to the recording of Pli selon pli starring Ms Phyllis Bryn-Julson. I hied me to her wikipedia page to find out something more about her than my ears were telling me and came upon this little nugget of information:



Surely there must be more than five? I read that the population of Norway is well over five million. But perhaps they are dissuaded for some reason from procreating with each other.

Maybe because it's become unafjordable?

[LMcD]

My centenary-induced bout of Boulezing has led me to the recording of Pli selon pli starring Ms Phyllis Bryn-Julson. I hied me to her wikipedia page to find out something more about her than my ears were telling me and came upon this little nugget of information:



Surely there must be more than five? I read that the population of Norway is well over five million. But perhaps they are dissuaded for some reason from procreating with each other.

... and how many of the other four were born outside Norway?

[oliver sudden]

My centenary-induced bout of Boulezing has led me to the recording of Pli selon pli starring Ms Phyllis Bryn-Julson. I hied me to her wikipedia page to find out something more about her than my ears were telling me and came upon this little nugget of information:

A native of Bowdon, North Dakota, Bryn-Julson is one of five children born to Norwegian parents.

Surely there must be more than five? I read that the population of Norway is well over five million. But perhaps they are dissuaded for some reason from procreating with each other.

[french frank]

Class, f f.

1981– colloquial (chiefly Irish English and English regional (northern)). As a general term of approval: excellent, fantastic, great.

1981 example from the Kerryman

[Padraig]

I have my library card so can consult the OED from the comfort of my own home!

Class, f f.

[french frank]

I'm morto so I am; I'm not going to the Debs. I'm having a Chinese instead. Seamus, don't be a ludraman! Stop acting the maggot! Get me a spicebag - no chips, but a couple of blaas. Oh! and a large mineral.Class!

Need a dictionary?

I have my library card so can consult the OED from the comfort of my own home!

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0326/1504088-oed-additions/

[Padraig]

I'm morto so I am; I'm not going to the Debs. I'm having a Chinese instead. Seamus, don't be a ludraman! Stop acting the maggot! Get me a spicebag - no chips, but a couple of blaas. Oh! and a large mineral.Class!

Need a dictionary?

[Pulcinella]

Wiki joins PPs:


Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
Did you mean "Gentleman Jack (TV Series)?"

AI rules OK?

Yes: I copied the link but must have had fat finger in doing so.

Now corrected (with extra characters, maybe in period dress!!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman_Jack_%28TV_series%29

[french frank]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman_Jack_(TV_series)

Wiki joins PPs:

Gentleman Jack (TV Series

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
Did you mean "Gentleman Jack (TV Series)?"

AI rules OK?

[Roger Webb]

...............played by actors in period dress.

I dislike museums and country (or town!) houses peopled by volunteers in period costume generally, eg anything to do with the Shakespeare industry!

But I once took part in a short film at the Black Country Living Museum at Dudley. The local TV were there to shoot a feature for the evening news spot. I had sneaked in from my narrowboat which I moored in the arm off the Birmingham Main Line to visit the Bottle and Glass Inn for a pint of beer. I was wearing my usual canal wear: corduroy breeches of antiquated cut, collarless shirt, moleskin waistcoat and 'Christy' hat. As I entered a lady who seemed to be organising the shoot said 'Ah, just what we need!', and asked if I would mind sitting at one of the tables and be drinking a pint....I replied it was a part I was made for, and had had a great deal of rehearsal for this very role!..... the only downside was they gave me a pint of 'Mild', when I wanted the Porter!