Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Keraulophone]

wine o'clock ...

which is, apparently, at 6.53 pm on Wednesday, the time Britons are most likely to reach for the bottle ('research has shown'), and has now been added to the OUP online dictionary.

[ahinton]

wine o'clock ...

which is, apparently, at 6.53 pm on Wednesday, the time Britons are most likely to reach for the bottle ('research has shown'), and has now been added to the OUP online dictionary.

I thought that meant the time of a Jancis Robinson broadcast (only she's done precious little of that for quite some time now - although I note that she will be the next of Baron Berkeley of Knighton's Private Passions interviewees).

Anyway, if "wine o'clock" sets your teeth on edge, it rather defeats l'object, n'est-ce pas?...

[cloughie]

I thought that meant the time of a Jancis Robinson broadcast (only she's done precious little of that for quite some time now - although I note that she will be the next of Baron Berkeley of Knighton's Private Passions interviewees).

Anyway, if "wine o'clock" sets your teeth on edge, it rather defeats l'object, n'est-ce pas?...

Too much tannin?

[Keraulophone]

Jancis Robinson ... she's done precious little of that for quite some time now

...probably because she's been busy writing vast tomes on grape varieties and other wine matters. She has, in fact, responded to demand and recently increased the number of new wine videos on her (very useful) website. Looking forward to hearing her PPs.

On hearing the dreaded words, I simply reach for the decanted '05 claret that has already been breathing well before the appointed hour - teeth calmed.

[Sir Velo]

"Improving your supermarket/community/environment"etc.

[ahinton]

...probably because she's been busy writing vast tomes on grape varieties and other wine matters. She has, in fact, responded to demand and recently increased the number of new wine videos on her (very useful) website. Looking forward to hearing her PPs.

On hearing the dreaded words, I simply reach for the decanted '05 claret that has already been breathing well before the appointed hour - teeth calmed.

Ah, that's all right, then!

She has indeed been busy on such things and her knowledge is as encyclopædic as her experience is wide. A pity, nevertheless, that her television programmes have been so supplanted, given that the manner and matter of her presentations left the likes of Oz Clarke, Michael Gluck and Jilly Goolden somewhere not far in front of the starting post.

[Keraulophone]

She's a gem alright... about time she was made a Baroness! If you can get to it, JR will be holding a tasting this Saturday at 5pm at the RFH. Unfortunately, I can't as I'm off to the early (and the late) Prom.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/wine-tasting-with-jancis-robin-92943

[Serial_Apologist]

SIR Danny Alexander.

[ahinton]

SIR Danny Alexander.

No more teeth-on-edge-inducing (or indeed steam-inducing) than SIR Unconvince Cable, though, surely? - and hardly better or worse than SIR Douglas Alexander, had that gong been bestowed?...

I used to think that the best knighthood was that of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, if only because you couldn't expect to be able to enunuciate it after three double G&Ts (although given his greatness as a writer, he deserved something far better than that).

Also, I have heard (although I have no hard and fast corroboration of it) that HM QEII positively squirmed when uttering the words "arise, Sir Harrison"; the one I'm waiting for is Sir Brian Ferneyhough...

[Nick Armstrong]

SIR Danny Alexander.

I agree. That takes the gag-inducing biscuit

[subcontrabass]

I used to think that the best knighthood was that of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell,

He was a baronet and so inherited his title (from his brother Osbert).

[ahinton]

He was a baronet and so inherited his title (from his brother Osbert).

Yes, I know, of course, but the point still stands, I think (and hope!); perhaps I should instead have written "the best instance of the title 'Sir'"...

[teamsaint]

SIR Danny Alexander.

fair point.

but you could have stopped after " Sir"
or
" Lord.."
what a load of dangerous rubbish it all is.

and for anybody who has been on youtube recently


" get set for Argos fast track delivery..."

[ahinton]

but you could have stopped after " Sir"
or
" Lord.."
what a load of dangerous rubbish it all is.

Member Lordgeous might well take exception to half of that and who could blame said Member?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

SIR Danny Alexander.

Why am I not surprised.