hello

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Brianna

um...really?

is it spicey? Or hott?

well, it's horseradishhy......white and creamy, and burns your nostrils if you swallow too much.

[Elspode]

This all started with that whole "unusually flexible tongue" thing, didn't it?

[DanaC]

Who has an unusually flexible tongue? Did I miss something good?

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's Brianna's claim, Dana.

......the site I found said the Welsh had more words for yes and no than the English do for boinking

Uh, in English, aren't yes and no the words for boinking......or not?

[monster]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's Brianna's claim, Dana.

Uh, in English, aren't yes and no the words for boinking......or not?

of course I ment bonking -can't type for toffee these days.

[DanaC]

boinking is also an acceptable term for Brits. Usually though it's shagging.

[monster]

Originally Posted by DanaC

boinking is also an acceptable term for Brits. Usually though it's shagging.

Bonking's funnier, though

(we have a lot more slang terms for sex and being drunk than Americans -they have a lot more slang terms for money and murder.)

[xoxoxoBruce]

What's bonking? I thought it was the same thing.

[JayMcGee]

puting the record straight

The mythical animal on the welsh flag is a gryphon, not a dragon
Lanfair PG etc was made up by the Victorians
my toungue is also long and extremely flexible
i have another organ that when long is not so flexible
speaking of being well-hung, Welsh persons can still be legally hanged in chester if found within the city walls after dark

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

puting the record straight

The mythical animal on the welsh flag is a gryphon, not a dragon

I was married to a Griffin. Griffin and Dragon are one and the same, believe me.

[monster]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What's bonking? I thought it was the same thing.

They are. It's just an excuse to do it twice in slightly different positions.

[Phil]

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

puting the record straight

The mythical animal on the welsh flag is a gryphon, not a dragon
Lanfair PG etc was made up by the Victorians
my toungue is also long and extremely flexible
i have another organ that when long is not so flexible
speaking of being well-hung, Welsh persons can still be legally hanged in chester if found within the city walls after dark

you may well be right, but its now known as a dragon. either way its a fuckin cool flag!
i knew about the Chester thing too, but seeing as it is as exciting a place as Disneyland is for adults, not many of todays Welsh would want to be there after nightfall.

[DanaC]

Frankly not many English would want to either.

[chrisinhouston]

Originally Posted by Phil

however, most Welsh people have nothing against the English people, and plenty against the monarchy and the government. sounds like she was just an ignorant racist.

Seems like the Brits at one time had the opinion that others like the Welsh, Scots and Irish were a few levels beneath them. One of my favorite Monty Python sketches was the one with the Welsh miners working in the mines and arguing about history!

First Miner: "Don't you talk to me like that, you lying bastard." He hits the second miner and a fight starts.

Second Miner: "You bleeding pig. You're not fit to be down a mine."

First Miner: "Typical bleeding Rhondda, isn't it. You think you're so bloody clever." They writhe around on the floor pummelling each other. The foreman comes in.

Foreman: "You bloody fighting again. Break it up or I'll put this pick through your head. Now what's it all about?"

First Miner: "He started it."

Second Miner: "Oh, you bleeding pig, you started it."

Foreman: "I don't care who bloody started it. What's it about?"

Second Miner: "Well ... he said the bloody Treaty of Utrecht was 1713."

First Miner: "So it bloody is."

Second Miner: "No it bloody isn't. It wasn't ratified 'til February 1714."

First Miner: "He's bluffing. You're mind's gone, Jenkins. You're rubbish."

Foreman: "He's right, Jenkins. It was ratified September 1713. The whole bloody pit knows that. Look in Trevelyan, page 468."

Third Miner: "He's thinking of the Treaty of bloody Westphalia."

Second Miner: "Are you saying I don't know the difference between the War of the bloody Spanish Succession and the Thirty bloody Years War?"

Third Miner: "You don't know the difference between the Battle of Borodino and a tiger's bum." They start to fight.

Foreman: "Break it up, break it up." (he hits them with his pickaxe) I'm sick of all this bloody fighting. If it's not the bloody Treaty of Utrecht it's the bloody binomial theorem. This isn't the senior common room at All Souls, it's the bloody coal face." A fourth miner runs up.

Fourth Miner: "Hey, gaffer, can you settle something? Morgan here says you find the abacus between the triglyphs in the frieze section of the entablature of classical Greek Doric temples."

Foreman: "You bloody fool, Morgan, that's the metope. The abacus is between the architrave and the aechinus in the capital."

Morgan: "You stinking liar."

Another fight breaks out. A management man arrives carried in sedan chair by two black flunkies. He wears a colonial governor's helmet and a large sign reading 'frightfully important'. All the miners prostrate themselves on the floor.

Foreman: "Oh, most magnificent and merciful majesty, master of the universe, protector of the meek, whose nose we are not worthy to pick and whose very feces are an untrammelled delight, and whose peacocks keep us awake all hours of the night with their noisy lovemaking, we beseech thee, tell thy humble servants the name of the section between the triglyphs in the frieze section of a classical Doric entablature."

Management Man: "No idea. Sorry."

Foreman: "Right. Everybody out."

They all walk off throwing down tools. Cut to a newsreader's desk.

Newsreader: "Still no settlement in the coal mine dispute at Llanddarog. Miners refused to return to work until the management define a metope. Meanwhile, at Dagenham the unofficial strike committee at Fords have increased their demands to thirteen reasons why Henry III was a bad king. And finally, in the disgusting objects international at Wembley tonight, England beat Spain by a plate of braised pus to a putrid heron. And now, the Toad Elevating Moment."

[Phil]

LOL ! i remember that sketch!

On the other hand, you would get bluffers who knew next to nothing. this was a genuine conversation :

miner : "Dai, Dai, how many degrees in a circle Dai?"

Dai : *slow intake of breath* Lemme see .... how big is the circle?"

miner : "five feet in diameter."

Dai : "Dew! fuckin' thousands!"