Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Jeanie Date: 22 Nov 09 - 05:21 AM Oooh - this thread has come up again - and I've seen some more of the responses to my comments on the safe side to load/unload children from a car. Surely, it is always safest to do this from the pavement side (i.e. not the traffic side) ? Yes - this may mean the effort of leaning across the back seat, especially if there is more than one child in car seats in the back, but isn't that a better option than putting yourself and your baby in a vulnerable position in moving traffic ? - jeanie |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Nov 09 - 12:48 AM Darn. And all this time, I thought it meant that the parents had a child and they were proud and happy about it. I must remember to get my head out of the clouds.... I'm glad at least that Mrs. Duck sees things the way I do. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Mrs.Duck Date: 17 Nov 09 - 01:21 PM We had twins - which side should we unload them from? And yes I had a sticker that said 'twins on board' - I was proud of it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Bryn Pugh Date: 17 Nov 09 - 10:44 AM Dear Emma B - That Court Hearing had me fooled (as a Lawyer of not a few years' standing !) - I was on the point of PMing you for the reference ! As regards my own driving - anyone know where I might get a sticker which reads "Dyed-in-the-wool Arsehole behind the wheel" ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Nov 09 - 10:29 PM - there, there, Meself... diddums... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Nov 09 - 10:26 PM - tho it does admittedly often end with an ellipsis [...] if not with a dash, short [-] or long [—] — see wiki on both. Tho wiki, whilst giving an extensive quote from Virgil, in Latin & in translation, omits what I think the world's major literary example of aposeopesis [& this really should move this thread up above the line, Joe or Clone]: viz — "If you knew Susie like I know Susie..." |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: meself Date: 16 Nov 09 - 10:20 PM And that makes me mad, too. Madder, even .... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Nov 09 - 10:11 PM PEDANT note to Meself -- a sentence left unfinished for the sake of effect is not an ellipsis: it is an APOSEOPESIS. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Gurney Date: 16 Nov 09 - 09:53 PM With regard to the rescue crew aspect: I find it hard to believe that they can see a sticker, but are likely to miss a booster seat or cot. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: robomatic Date: 29 Jul 09 - 04:39 PM Actually saw one of these in the back of a 4WD station wagon/ mini SUV on my way in to work early this morning. Didn't see a baby but it was hard to know for sure as he whipped by me on his way to a red stop light, and I was aligning for a leisurely left. It was 0640 so if a baby was there, it was squawkin'! |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Tangledwood Date: 28 Jul 09 - 06:29 PM I thought I was in a time-warp when I saw this thread title. The "BOB" signs were introduced back in the 80s, and ~ here in the US, at least ~ are rarely seen anymore. When you do spot one of 'em, it's usually on a car that is 20 or more years old. Are they a new thing in the UK? Or enjoying a revival? They're frequently seen in this part of Oz, and often on cars in supermarket carparks. The responsible thing to do would be smash one of their windows so that the poor baby doesn't get heatstroke in the closed vehicle. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: jeffp Date: 28 Jul 09 - 03:07 PM Kendall, some of the kids and adults around here can't find Earth on a globe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Jul 09 - 11:31 AM Or you could try here. Google can find you just about anything. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Will Fly Date: 28 Jul 09 - 07:38 AM You'll have to ask the BBC Props Department, I suspect! |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Dave Hanson Date: 28 Jul 09 - 07:23 AM Love it Will, yeah where can I get one too. Dave H |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Backwoodsman Date: 28 Jul 09 - 07:05 AM Where can I get one of those? |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Will Fly Date: 28 Jul 09 - 06:20 AM Reminds of a sketch on the UKTV show "Not The Nine o'Clock News". Mel Smith drives down down streets in an old car, spraying bus queues with rainwater from puddles, swearing at other drivers and generally behaving very badly. The final camera shot is of the back of his car as he drives away. The yellow sticker in the rear window says "Bastard on Board!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Dave Hanson Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:29 AM Ooooohh get you. Dave H [ not born again, always a Yorkshireman ] |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Date: 28 Jul 09 - 04:53 AM Do you know what? Making babies, bringing them up and taking care of them is clever. Taking the piss isn't. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Dave Hanson Date: 28 Jul 09 - 02:54 AM I suspect that really it is new parents who want to tell the world how clever they are by making their own baby. Dave H |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: meself Date: 27 Jul 09 - 07:00 PM "When you do spot one of 'em, it's usually on a car that is 20 or more years old." And the character crammed into the car-seat is really big and ugly and giving orders to the driver and that doesn't look like milk in its bottle ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: PoppaGator Date: 27 Jul 09 - 03:03 PM I thought I was in a time-warp when I saw this thread title. The "BOB" signs were introduced back in the 80s, and ~ here in the US, at least ~ are rarely seen anymore. When you do spot one of 'em, it's usually on a car that is 20 or more years old. Are they a new thing in the UK? Or enjoying a revival? |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Emma B Date: 27 Jul 09 - 02:53 PM Babe on board |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: artbrooks Date: 27 Jul 09 - 12:44 PM Webster's says both pronunciations are acceptable, as do Merriam-Webster.com and Dictionary.com. All list the pronunciation with the "K" sound in the middle first. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: meself Date: 27 Jul 09 - 10:25 AM Here's the trouble with pedantry, at least as it pertains to language: when I was in grade 5, I was taught deliberately and distinctly by one of those old-school pedants that the word "Arctic" is pronounced "Artic" - the "c", I was told, is silent, as the "t" in "often"; if I were to hear you say, "ArKtic", I would think to myself, "Poor fellow, he must have been home with galloping consumption that day", as you, hearing my pronunciation of the same word, might think, "This backwoods buffoon would do better to restrict himself to utterance of the unisyllabic mode." Which one of us has the "correct" pronunciation? Someday I may get around to blowing the dust off certain weighty tomes in an obscure corner of my bookshelf to discover what the ancients have to say on the matter; until then, I will go on assuming that MY teachers were always right, and everyone else's teachers were, sadly and all-too-humanly, fallible. I don't think there is a week that goes by on this very forum that someone doesn't attempt to correct the English of another poster by citing some wrongheaded, archaic, and thoroughly discredited "rule" that was dunned into their head when they were young and impressionable. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: TheSnail Date: 27 Jul 09 - 09:43 AM Never mind "Baby on Board", what about "Valuable Show Dogs on Board"? No mere human child; not a smelly but much loved pet mutt but "Valuable Show Dogs"! What are they saying, "Back off or I'll set the Rottweillers on you"? Our local pub is advertising Award winning sausages, I'm thinking of getting an "Award Winning Sausages on Board" sign made up. (I wonder where they stick the rosette.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Richard Bridge Date: 27 Jul 09 - 07:51 AM Hear, hear. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: kendall Date: 27 Jul 09 - 07:02 AM meself, we need more pedants in our schools. The kids today can't even find America on a globe.Their command of the language is pathetic. On the tv program, 60 minutes, Scott Pelly was talking about poisoned Lions in Africa, and he said ..they performed an autopsy. WRONG An autopsy is only performed on humans. If it's an animal it's called a necropsy. The dumbing down of America is fed by people who should know better. How many narrators say "Artic, or antartic"? Even Judge Alex doesn't know the difference between take and bring. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:39 AM Referring back to an earlier post, people who are loading or unloading children from their cars are usually doing outside their homes (or someone else's) in residential streets or outside schools or childcare establishments. In either case, other road users who are driving down those roads should be driving slowly anyway. If I see a parent loading or unloading a child I wait until they are finished and then pass by. Nothing I am doing is so urgent that it justifies bullying a parent or distressing their child. If you're in such a hurry stick to the main roads in the mornings and afternoons and don't go tearing past my house or my child's school at 40 miles per hour. Dave Osterreich, if you've got the guts, come round my house and call my child a brat. Then see what happens. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Dave Hanson Date: 27 Jul 09 - 02:29 AM ...---... Dave H |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Peace Date: 26 Jul 09 - 08:06 PM . . . and I agree . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Jul 09 - 08:05 PM ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: meself Date: 26 Jul 09 - 08:02 PM I'm really getting mad now ... not to say, annoyed .... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board(Ellipsis sweeter than whine) From: Severn Date: 26 Jul 09 - 07:35 PM I'm talking to meself, here, but.... I'm not sure if I knew it was an ellipsis that I'd have ever started doing it until you gave us mere ellipses service to the fact. Too late to stop now I guess...... I just go through these extended ellipsis periods from time to time. Now about those tots topping timber............ |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 26 Jul 09 - 07:34 PM Actually, I can't think when I last SAW one of those "Baby on Board" notices. A long time ago, I know. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: meself Date: 26 Jul 09 - 05:47 PM I Do Not Brake For Pedants. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Richard Bridge Date: 26 Jul 09 - 05:39 PM Can I get sticker that says "I don't brake unless I have to. Acceleration is another matter"? |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Richard Bridge Date: 26 Jul 09 - 05:37 PM Are those like elliptical billiard balls? It annoys me when people say "mad" when they mean "annoyed". Mental illness is not funny. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Jul 09 - 05:31 PM Dud: What do the three dots mean, Pete? Pete: Well in Shute's hands, three dots can mean anything. Dud: How's your father, perhaps? Pete: It usually means a bit of that, but Shute always uses three dots. It means "Use your own imagination", that's what it means. "Conjure the scene up yourself". Whenever I see dots, I feel all funny... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: meself Date: 26 Jul 09 - 05:22 PM It really makes me mad when someone ends a sentence with an ellipsis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Jul 09 - 02:21 PM I suppose if we go round looking for some harmless idiosyncrasy to get hot under the collar about, we'll always be able to find something... |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: ClaireBear Date: 26 Jul 09 - 01:22 PM Linn and VTam, I've seen "...no apparent reason" too. But even closer to my heart (and sure to get this thread moved up above the line, being a musical reference and all, was another one I saw once: "I brake just like a little girl." Claire |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Peace Date: 26 Jul 09 - 12:53 PM LOL |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: kendall Date: 26 Jul 09 - 12:47 PM HONK IF YOU HATE NOISE |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Peace Date: 26 Jul 09 - 12:46 PM Someone mentioned that signs of that nature help first responders at the scene of car crashes, etc. Actually, they don't, because we ALWAYS search for other occupants both in and around the vehicle. I have attended two MVCs in which the sign was there, the driver unconscious, and no baby to be found. So, we searched, searched and searched s'more. Both times the baby wasn't ON BOARD. And hadn't been that day. The sign was there, though. It's like PETS LIVE HERE signs on doors. One fire we searched, but later in talking with the house owner the pet had died years before. He still had the sign. If you have a child(ren) on board, drive carefully. I think people with that sign would be seriously miffed were I to report the vehicle to police if I didn't see a baby on board while the sign was bobbing around. "Uh, 911 (999 in the UK), I'd like to report a missing baby . . .". Anyway, I hate the damned things. The signs, not the kids. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Bat Goddess Date: 26 Jul 09 - 12:37 PM It really means" excuse my erratic and unpredictable driving, I'm trying to reach the tissues in the glove compartment to wipe off the puke on the cellphone I need to use". Yeah, and "I'm more important than you are" -- and always on an SUV. Always in a yellow traffic-sign-like diamond suction-cupped to the back windshield. Haven't seen many lately (except a few aging ones) -- the fad around here was mid-1990s. Then came the parodies, including "Mother-in-law in Trunk" (boot, for you Brits). And I've actually seen bumper stickers that say "I Brake For No Apparent Reason". (The one I should have on my car is "I Brake for Yardsales" -- and I have one, not on my car because I don't want to lose it, that says "I Brake For Old Cemeteries" courtesy of Maine Old Cemeteries Association, which I should rejoin.) Linn Linn |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: VirginiaTam Date: 26 Jul 09 - 10:54 AM BABY ON BOARD - how sick is that? Ask Jonathan Swift or read A Modest Proposal. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 26 Jul 09 - 10:44 AM Jeanie asked/commented: WHY don't they open the door on the pavement side and lean across ? Is it that difficult ? I think you need to go back to when the driver and offspring got on board. It's convenient and natural enough to approach from the driver's side, place the brat in the back seat, then move aside just a step or so to the driver's door to assume the wheel. When mommy (or daddy; got to be PC here) parks, of course Junior needs to be retrieved from that same side, which in parallel parking is going to be the traffic side of the car. Leaning across the width of the car to reclaim the sprat is a pain in the neck. Q.E.D. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on board From: kendall Date: 26 Jul 09 - 09:46 AM My friend had to be following too close. |
Subject: RE: BS: Baby on the board meeting From: Severn Date: 25 Jul 09 - 09:53 PM Unless you're raised by the Flathead Indians, Bruce. Then It's par for the course and part of your upbringing. |