Polite introduction .

I am terribly sorry . I have burst into this forum talking about mustard , sauerkraut , betelnut et al without properly introducing myself .

I typed 'Grace Sycamore' , my grandmother's name , into Google this evening , and that is how I came upon your site . I was delighted by the conversation between Grace and Sycamore about public speaking . It is an old conversation from 2003 I think . I then ventured further , and was even more delighted .

Voilà . Please forgive me if I have seemed untoward .

If you had seemed toward, we might have been suspicious.

As it is welcome.

Thank you .

Welcome! That's a neat bit of serendipity.

Thank you SteveDallas . I see that serendipity is one of your themes . Paul Auster is good on that . Hey , perhaps we may even chance upon the true meaning of 'highball' one of these days ?

You would have gotten here even sooner if your grandfather's name had been Whale Penis.:lol:

Inside joke.

Welcome to the Cellar.

richlevy wrote:

You would have gotten here even sooner if your grandfather's name had been Whale Penis.:lol:

Inside joke.

Welcome to the Cellar.

:fucking hilarious:

Welcome.

Politeness may actually be the one commodity we're short on here. You can corner the market.

bienvenue!

hello stranger.

in here life is beautiful, ze girls are beautiful, even ze orchestra is beautiful!

you also would have got here sooner if you WERENT looking for porn. which means you WERE looking for it. you filthy filthy buddug

thoughtful people always welcome.

Curious people even more so.

Welcome to the cellar. have some picked herring.

Une nuit een ze Cellar ees likhe a yeah een any ozer plaise...

Interesting name, buddug. Is it derived from the noise made when driving over a sleeping policeman (aka speed hump, oh gawd whut are the Americans going to make of that ... :o )

Thank you for the welcome .

Limey , Buddug is a Welsh name . Buddug is Boadicea in Welsh . I am Welsh .

Buddug wrote:

Thank you for the welcome .

Limey , Buddug is a Welsh name . Buddug is Boadicea in Welsh . I am Welsh .

Welcome Buddug.

I love how it rolls of the tounge. Kinda like Bodacious. That's a southern word for remarkable.

Well hello Buddog! Gosh, the British contingent is getting strong no?

Buddug wrote:

Thank you for the welcome .

Limey , Buddug is a Welsh name . Buddug is Boadicea in Welsh . I am Welsh .

Thanks for the explanation. You must live just over the horizon to the south of me, then.

[SIZE="1"]Still waiting for the Americans to pick up the speed hump and run with it, so to speak ... [/SIZE]

Welcome to the cellar, where all of your wildest dreams will come true

Hello Buddug,

Welcome also. Welsh you say. But you don't appear to type with a Welsh accent. Are you really of Cymru stock or do you just happen to have set your roots there (I have heard that once past Swansea it is difficult to find one's way back, what with the dragons and all - hence I have tended, myself, to venture no further west than Port Talbot....)

Look forward to conversing with you - yakky da and all that...

Welcome Buddug. Interesting name.

A quiz from the quiz master shall be presented shortly. The answers you provide will be recorded in your permanent record.

Thank you Spexxvet , Beestie and Cyclefrance .

I am Welsh , Cyclefrance , of Welsh stock , and I am a fluent speaker of Welsh too . I have never spoken a word of English to my father in my life !
I do not live in Wales though . I live in France , near the border with Switzerland , Geneva way . I see that you are a Francophile yourself . My husband is French . I will soon be moving to the Caribbean , to the French island of Martinique .

Thank you all again for your welcome .

Hmm...interesting handle. Pagan much, or just in tune with the Warrior Womyn ethos?

In any case, welcome!

Buddug wrote:

Thank you Spexxvet , Beestie and Cyclefrance .

I am Welsh , Cyclefrance , of Welsh stock , and I am a fluent speaker of Welsh too . I have never spoken a word of English to my father in my life !
I do not live in Wales though . I live in France , near the border with Switzerland , Geneva way . I see that you are a Francophile yourself . My husband is French . I will soon be moving to the Caribbean , to the French island of Martinique .

Thank you all again for your welcome .

Thought I spotted a bit of French in there somwhere - though not the Caribbean patois, I must admit.

My wife is not Welsh - although we do seem to consume a lot of leeks.

Geneva I know reasonably well from working at Reuters for a number of years - also the lake area on the French side - stayed in a nice chateau near Evian a few year's back - will try to dig out the details - haven't visited Martinique but may build it into a little story going on here as the location fits....you may miss the winter snow when you go.....

All the best.

limey wrote:

..... speed hump, oh gawd whut are the Americans going to make of that ... :o )

we call that a 'quickie' over here.

lumberjim wrote:

we call that a 'quickie' over here.

I thought those guys called it a "knee wobbler"

The things they do to sleeping policemen .

Kinda makes me wanna join the force.......

richlevy wrote:

You would have gotten here even sooner if your grandfather's name had been Whale Penis.:lol:

Inside joke.

Welcome to the Cellar.

SCF!!! how many times do I have to tell you people?? this is a brand new monitor, just installed YESTERDAY, for pete's sake. come on, a little help, ok?

lumberjim wrote:

we call that a 'quickie' over here.

I thought that was some kind of pastry flan with cheese and egg in it...

Cyclefrance wrote:

I thought that was some kind of pastry flan with cheese and egg in it...

:biglaugha

Seriez-vous un brin donquichottesque , mon cher Cyclefrance ?

limey wrote:

Thanks for the explanation. You must live just over the horizon to the south of me, then.

[SIZE="1"]Still waiting for the Americans to pick up the speed hump and run with it, so to speak ... [/SIZE]

Well If I must...

speed hump?!?! Seriously?!? The last thing I want out of a hump is speed. Unless it's a lunchtime quickie.
...well there are a lot of connotations that come to my mind with that word. But why a hump?
Do you call Wednesday "hump day" too?

Hey bud, you had me with the fish ceviche with coconut number... smak!

KinkyVixen wrote:

Well If I must...

speed hump?!?! Seriously?!? The last thing I want out of a hump is speed. Unless it's a lunchtime quickie.
...well there are a lot of connotations that come to my mind with that word. But why a hump?
Do you call Wednesday "hump day" too?

A sleeping policeman and a speed hump (or bump) are bumps laid across a roadway to keep motorists from driving too fast.
Why is Wednesday hump day?

I wondered about that one myself , limey . Could it be something to do with the fact that Wednesday lies in the middle of the working week , in the same way that the sleeping policeman lies across the road ? Both Wednesday and the speed-bump involve the concept of division .

i hate wednesday reffered to as hump day. but its meant to be the hill you have to get over like thinking "dammit its only wednesday" but thursday you think "tomorrow is friday!"

I have to go now , and I shall not be coming back . I enjoyed these two days talking with you all immensely . You are kind , and full of humour and complexity . Lovely people .
I now have to think about my work . This pause has helped me to focus my mind . It was not a pause for you , because I have written about seventy messages in 48 hours , but it was a pause to me . Thank you for putting up with me .

All the best to you all , and thank you once again
Anna ( my real name) xxxxxx

I hate that Wednesday is referred to as hump day as well. 1) it's just dumb, 2) it's confusing, 3) it's a let down. But you were right. It just refers to the fact that Wed. is the middle of the week. The top of the hump. The rest is all on the backside.
When I was a kid tho, I actually thought that maybe it meant that people that used that expression "humped" on Wed. What did I know? I was a kid! Anyways, I still don't like it. It's just Wednesday! THERE'S NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT WEDNESDAY!

Buddug wrote:

I have to go now , and I shall not be coming back . I enjoyed these two days talking with you all immensely . You are kind , and full of humour and complexity . Lovely people .
I now have to think about my work . This pause has helped me to focus my mind . It was not a pause for you , because I have written about seventy messages in 48 hours , but it was a pause to me . Thank you for putting up with me .

All the best to you all , and thank you once again
Anna ( my real name) xxxxxx

Bye, Anna.

I have to wonder why you won't be coming back if you enjoyed it here.

Tatty bye Anna - enjoy Martinique - you may still find the Cellar even from that remote location.....

A summer shower
refreshes us and
leaves us wanting more

:thumb: ...but don't you need two more syllables on the second line?

Buddug wrote:

I have to go now , and I shall not be coming back . I enjoyed these two days talking with you all immensely . You are kind , and full of humour and complexity . Lovely people .
I now have to think about my work . This pause has helped me to focus my mind . It was not a pause for you , because I have written about seventy messages in 48 hours , but it was a pause to me . Thank you for putting up with me .

All the best to you all , and thank you once again
Anna ( my real name) xxxxxx

pfft she'll be back. no one can leave...THE CELLAR! MUAAHAHAHAHA

It was an experiment. ;)

Pie wrote:

:thumb: ...but don't you need two more syllables on the second line?

A summer shower
refreshes us; drip, drip, drip
leaves us wanting more