[Susan McLean]

Frank, you had me laughing out loud with your last quip. I confess that, knowing what it was supposed to say, I never heard the line the way you did.

Susan

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, John and Frank. Those Viking River Cruises adverts are a bit stagey and hammy but I must have missed what Frank heard, or it was a special USA version.

I wonder if that AAAB CCCB arrangement is almost a form in its own right?

I wonder also if Uggery (the buying, selling or loving of Ug boots), chuggery(the art of chugging -street-collecting), druggery(love of drugs), gluggery (love of drinking), muggery (art of mugging - stage or street) and puggery (the world of pug-fancying) are possible rhymes for the B-word?

[John Whitworth]

If you were a Scot you could have shuggery, meaning full of sugar.

[Ann Drysdale]

A**holes in Spain, Frank?

[basil ransome-davies]

Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale

A**holes in Spain, Frank?

This brought to mind the lovely, plangent old song:

Oh me sister's name is Lily, she's an 'ore in Piccadilly
And me mother is another in the Strand,
While me father flogs 'is arsehole round the Elephant & Castle.
We're the finest fuckin' family in the land.

[Terese Coe]

May you all remain free from prosecution!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...urt-hears.html

[John Whitworth]

The law here is an ass, Terese. People habitually say things on blogs which you would have thought would be prosecuted under that stuff about saying racist things. Mind you, the government and the vile EU are working on it. They want to regulate the internet, well of course they do.

[Jerome Betts]

Seems the Torygraph's subs, if there are any, are as bad as the Grauniad's.
He told the judges that the microblogging website, Twitter, had been invented in 2006 and so was not know to Parliament when the Act was drafted.
And the caption to the photograph has (center) instead of (centre)
Shame on the Barclay tweedles.

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Jerome Betts

Golly, give these spheroids an inch and they'll take an ell. Saved me a job, though.

Jerome, I hope I wasn't illicitly encroaching on your Etonian subject-matter. But I couldn't resist John's call to arms - or rather, to bums.

[Jerome Betts]

Not at all, Brian. As I said, saved me a job, as I wan't too keen on going down the uggery rhyme route. As JW noted, your nimble number is no doubt awaiting its competition.