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Originally Posted by sandypossum
We once rescued a baby magpie (the swoop-and-remove-your-eye Australian kind, not the twee nick-your-baubles European kind) and fed it bits of meat with chopsticks. It would grab the meat and deftly flick it straight back into your face. Ungrateful beastie.
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You're supposed to chew it up and vomit it into their mouths for them.
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Originally Posted by BigV
As you would return a dish to the kitchen served uncooked, unprepared. You were being told, in the only way he knew how, to chew it and puke it before serving it.
FTR, I love the adjective "twee". Thanks!
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Oh. never mind. V got here first. and agreed about the use of twee in that sentence.