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[s]Unregisted User Pah wrote on 15:36, 27th Jan 2003:
Two words......

White trash.

How do you know they're white?

[s]Al wrote on 22:00, 25th Jan 2003:
[i]"...it was a horrible tepid sort of smell"

How is a smell "lukewarm"?[/i]

"Tepid" was just the only word I could think of that would imply long-overdue replacement and a sense of stagnancy.

I was walking over the bridge over the Burn the other day, and suddenly thought "What is that awful smell?". I thought refuse had been dumped in the water or something - it was a horrible tepid sort of smell, suggestive of bleached and bloated carcases. It was only when walking back the other way th...

What the bloody hell?

Film ref, dahling - whatever-it's-called with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.

[s]puzzled wrote on 19:00, 14th Jan 2003:
What i am saying is that it is:

1. Morally right and necessary for Sadamm to be removed and a democracy installed.

Who are you to say that a democracy would be morally right?

[s]Thackary wrote on 16:58, 11th Jan 2003:
When mixed with draught tonic, any gin tastes the same.


That is completely untrue.

Why does practically every pub in town (except the Westport, Broons and Ma Bells - oh, and Aikman's - OK, make that the majority of pubs) only stock Gordon's? Why does anyone drink it? It is completely devoid of any half-decent taste, and I fail to see why anybody who is not completely devoid of any...

It's just that sometimes the rather clichéd-American "Oh my gard, like, totally" prose style can grate somewhat on the unaccustomed ear, so to speak. I'm sure you mean well. And please don't start with the whole "it is my privilege to be American, oh, say can you see.." stuff - simply too sick-makin...

You wrap it about your waist, right side over left, with the pleated bit at the back (not at the front, as I saw one American wearing it once!), and secure it using the buckles at the sides. I think that's right, anyway - being only half-Scottish myself, I wear trousers. One or two people wear a kil...

Oo, really? Are they terribly expensive?

But what are the chances of getting one in my size - a longish 7 and a half?

Or their arse with both hands?

I want a pickelhaube.

No offence meant Leopard Skin Queen, but in a few years Chinese-symbol tattoos are going to be SO dated.

[s] the weight of echoes wrote on 14:13, 10th Dec 2002: We don't spell when we talk and all punctuation is impronouncable. [...] Punctuation is verbal litter - you can put it anywhere you want in speech and it has no effect at all because you don't pronounce it anyway. I have a mental picture of a w...

That isn't a proof.

[s]Emma wrote on 17:09, 6th Dec 2002:
This thread's a good excuse to mention the Hello Kitty vibrator...

No it isn't.

If everyone did the same amount of work, i.e. none, then people would have to rely solely on their intelligence rather than on their knowledge. On a separate point, revision for exams and things is in my mind a form of cheating - one is supposed to be tested on what one knows, not what one can cram.

[s] puzzled wrote on 22:59, 6th Dec 2002: Er not sure on that one, what about divorce (often harmful on the children), abortion (pretty harmful to the unborn) and finally that most dangerous of activities, which has been proved to result in death, living. In what way has living been proved to result...

[s]barr wrote on 14:25, 7th Dec 2002:
will it not be confusing not having the newest hall called new hall?


Cf. New College, Oxford, and the Pont Neuf in Paris.