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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:51 pm
by dunketh
Knowledge of English is especially effective when taking the mickey out of folk who use double-negatives.
"I aint got nothing"
"What have you got then?"
"Eh?" <blank look>
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:03 pm
by Orkney
Hmm - can't find 'juvenate' anywhere. not even the OED
Juvinate - to drink Bills wine
Juvenate - to help with the pressing of the grapes when he weighs out & buys a chateau + vineyard in the south of france & declares open house to all passing Mogs
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:14 pm
by Judge
How did you know of my interest in good wines
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:14 pm
by chickenjohn
dunketh wrote:Knowledge of English is especially effective when taking the mickey out of folk who use double-negatives.
"I aint got nothing"
"What have you got then?"
"Eh?" <blank look>
Knowledge of martial arts (for purposes of self defense!) is especially useful if one takes the mickey out of folk like that here in East Kent!
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:35 pm
by Orkney
Knowledge of martial arts (for purposes of self defense!) is especially useful if one takes the mickey out of folk like that here in East Kent!
You should watch out - lot of them are Burberry belts
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:01 pm
by Lou
Detonation system and method - Patent 3971317The method according to claim 13 wherein said method is adapted to juvenate a petroleum well rendered dormant due to the barrier mass.
Hmmm. It seems to mean something
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:09 pm
by bigginger
Brilliant - thank you. Mind you, it means hoards of face cream advertisers were right, dammit
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:53 pm
by paulk
Re odd words
If gormless means daft,
can you be gorm ie not daft
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:10 am
by NZJLY
paulk wrote:Re odd words
If gormless means daft,
can you be gorm ie not daft
Wouldn't it be gormfull
and we could be gormulated (adding gorm) as opposed to educated
and, of course we could give a gorm rating for how intellectual a topic is
Wanders off to find my tablets