BS: All welcome on this thread

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 01:22 PM

Yes, Delilah's radio show is a North American thing.
For the time being,
her syndicated show is going to broadcast older episodes;
she has just had a death in her family
and is on some kind of compassionate hiatus. Leave. Whatever.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 01:19 PM

Let's get this thread back to the top.

My son, after a horrible divorce, has found a lovely house with his new fiancee, have a mortgage offer, and are setting a wedding date. Last night I played at a lovely historic pub, tomorrow night has a nice friendly round-the-room evening lined up, and on Sunday afternoon I'm doing two hours with a player I greatly admire, and next week I have a 70th birthday meal with my family.

I feel quite smug sometimes.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 01:29 PM

Post that on olddudes 'good news' thead as well RD - And congratulations on everything :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 02:50 PM

Does that mean you've had 69 meals for this birthday already, or that you're coming up 70?   :-)

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Oct 17 - 04:17 PM

Oh, come on, Steve. Surely you don't need any more some English lessons.

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Oct 17 - 04:55 PM

Certainly not, Dave. I always prefer to be one hundred percent specific about everything in every way, more or less. And you know me: correct spelling is, at all times, absoluteley de rigour.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Oct 17 - 04:05 AM

:-D

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Oct 17 - 04:08 AM

And you know me: correct spelling is, at all times, absoluteley de rigour.

And you know me: if I attempted to parody the misspellings, muddled phrasing and omitted words of my own posts - it would be completely indistinguishable from the norm. :(

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Oct 17 - 04:17 AM

I always use a spill chucker.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Oct 17 - 08:38 PM

Between you and i dave my view is that adherence to proper english is the cine qua none. You see all kinds of tortitudes on this forum. for example you see, serious misuse, of commas e.t.c. not to speak of people who fail to start a sentence with a capital and to end it with a full stop

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Oct 17 - 10:55 PM

Don't you mean e.c.t.?

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Oct 17 - 03:25 AM

Pedant!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: DMcG
Date: 14 Oct 17 - 06:30 AM

I had a real moment of bafflement this morning and it is still a bit incomprehensible to me. A friend is on a holiday in India - very nice - and she is staying in an essentially Western hotel. Well, that is a bit of a shame, but it is not that easy from here to find alternatives. But the real startling moment was a Facebook post where she showed where she had gone out to eat: a fusion restaurant run by a 'Profesional English Chef'. what are you thinking? You are in India and go for an Indian meal. Why on earth go to one doing 'fake Indian' in the English style?


We shall have to have words when she gets home ....

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Oct 17 - 05:36 PM

"Pedant!"

Ha! You've sussed me! ????

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 15 Oct 17 - 03:29 AM

As someone who once had an entire run of CD inserts printed to read 'practicing' instead of 'practising', I am in no position to take umbrage at SS's gentle and well-aimed correction.

Interesting though that he missed the dreadful slip from singular to plural in my post above, which really does merit his excoriation.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Oct 17 - 04:34 AM

I seem to remember Dave Mallinson in his D/G tutors who, having spelled "practice" in the verb sense with a c throughout, because it was obviously impractical to reprint the books, issued a blanket apology in one of the prefaces.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Oct 17 - 11:29 AM

From: Rusty Dobro - PM
Date: 15 Oct 17 - 03:29 AM

As someone who once had an entire run of CD inserts printed to read 'practicing' instead of 'practising', I am in no position to take umbrage at SS's gentle and well-aimed correction.

Should have just blamed it on having spell-check set to US settings.
Even the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) gives:
Practice (vb): US spelling of 'practise'
Here
Useful to know if it prevents the cost of a reprint.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Oct 17 - 03:48 PM

Generally, I like American spellings, but in the case of practice/practise I think there's a useful distinction worth preserving. I suspect that most Brits who use "practice" for everything are acting out of ignorance.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Raggytash
Date: 15 Oct 17 - 03:59 PM

Mea Culpa, guilty as charged !!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:31 AM

Me too, obviously, and I speak as someone who regards 'pedant' as a compliment...

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 03:28 AM

It’s such a widespread mistake that I should imagine most people not remarking on it, and the intended meaning is always clear. I predict that dictionaries will gradually come to see “practice” as acceptable.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 03:36 AM

So, so we practice at the practise or practise at the practice?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 04:35 AM

Dave,
It's often a difficult one to remember to get right. It's not helped by the fact that the two words sound the same.
I (nearly) always remember which to use by comparison with advice/advise where the pronunciation makes it obvious which to use and the differentiation between noun/verb is the same as with practice/practise.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: DMcG
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 05:28 AM

That's a good aide memoire, Nigel. Is it your own discovery or did someone else suggest it? Not that it matters either way.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 05:32 AM

Just as I ran it through in my head ,'C is a noun', the old synapses triggered something and it came out as 'Caesar noun'. Which it is :-D

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 06:18 AM

That mnemonic was one of my own, but decades ago.
I'm almost sad to say that I still have to use it from time to time.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Raggytash
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 07:21 AM

Just finishing off about 8 portions of Makkhani Murgh, a very rich, buttery and creamy chicken curry. Even if I say so myself it's bloody good.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 08:05 AM

Or, just for Dave the Gnome "C is the noun" => seize the noun => "carpe et noun" or "carpe et nomen"

Seize the (g)nome

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 06:51 PM

The Coffee Sack. A new place we discovered today at the corner of Manchester New Road and Scholes Lane in Prestwich. Best cappuccino outside Italy and gorgeous avocado on toast with poached eggs (?5.45). Lovely relaxed ambience and amazingly friendly staff. What a find!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 03:39 AM

I like it, Nigel :-)

I'm off to Manchester today Steve but will be around the Eccles/Swinton/Salford area. I am sure I have seen the Coffee Sack if I get of the M60 at Prestwich and go past Heaton Park to avoid the death valley bit of the 'smart motorway' (stupid phrase) upgrade. Is it not Bury New Road and Scholes Lane? Anyway, Must give it a try sometime.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 04:25 AM

Yep that?s it, Dave. Maybe one day I?ll get Mother there on a day you can get there too!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 10:52 AM

What's your excuse?

Its the way of the world
Its not my fault
He did it
No time
What?
Me?


I didn't have the money
What about the kids
Someone stole it
I was cheated
Its too far
I can't
Huh?

If only
If they only
If we all could only
I'm sure I could have
No one really cared
They do not care
I didn't care
I'm tired
fukit

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 10:56 AM

Its none of my business

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 12:23 PM

Not sure what the post appertains to, Donuel, but it is welcome :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 01:11 PM

If I need an excuse;
Its a mitigating a-pertinent pointless post, aren't they all?

Or is this the wining and dining to the apocalypse thread?
not that there is anything wrong with that
It reminds me of the 20's whoopee

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 03:44 PM

Gold is discovered being created when two gargantuan neutron stars smashed into each other. Along with gamma rays and gravity waves detected by LIGO, all the heaviest elements known and unknown were made by the explosion. No mining please. It was long ago and far away.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 07:21 PM

I used to practice medicine. If I had practised it, people would have thought I was no good at it! ( OK, maybe they did anyway!)
Happy news: family got back from N Ireland with no problems: might have been a different story if they'd booked to come back yesterday......O- Feel-Ya!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 03:27 AM

rom: Tattie Bogle - PM
Date: 17 Oct 17 - 07:21 PM

Happy news: family got back from N Ireland with no problems: might have been a different story if they'd booked to come back yesterday......O- Feel-Ya!

"My heart is aflame,
Soft as a kiss,
Hear me whis-per your name"

Sorry, thought we needed some music, and it follows on from Tattie's comment ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 04:03 AM

Why do doctors need to to practise? What if they have not practised enough? Are we at risk? We need to know these things!

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 05:53 AM

Because they?re only junior doctors, of course! All juniors have to practise! Tsk!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 05:58 AM

Halfway through making 6 portions of Murghi Badami. a beautiful rich "curry" but need to get some more yoghurt quickly !!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 05:59 AM

Ah sod it, I'll just add more cream!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 07:54 AM

I've just been told by my good lady that the Murghi Badami exceeds even her expectations of my cooking, which is normally set very high.

Brownie points for me!

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 09:59 AM

I made a really good fish pie for fussy buggers at the weekend. Even Mother loved it. No prawns, no salmon (the usual hatred-inspirers), just smoked haddock and unsmoked cod. With hard-boiled eggs of course. I also made an Elizabeth David beef daube. You can get the really easy recipe from the Guardian if you google "Guardian daube Elizabeth David" (no shit, Sherlock). It's a winner as long as you stick to the top rump she specifies. I bought a big piece from Sainsbury's and cut it to size myself. I used pork rinds that I'd trimmed off some pork chops and kept in the freezer, but I left them whole and just fished them out at the end. I just used some streaky bacon slices cut up small instead of the chunks she specifies.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:32 PM

What was that?

Ophelia my heart is aflame?

Is that a lyric or something?
never heard of it before

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Oct 17 - 08:17 AM

Is this talk of curries and wind linked?

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Oct 17 - 08:52 AM

From: keberoxu - PM
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:32 PM
What was that?
Ophelia my heart is aflame?
Is that a lyric or something?
never heard of it before

Count it as a 'modegreen' "Velia, O Velia" from The Merry Widow"

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Oct 17 - 08:58 AM

Several versions on Mudcat Here

Although not with quite that line.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 03:52 AM

I spent yesterday evening at Butsner Ancient Farm, for this:

Samhain Festival?? Friday 20 October?SOLD OUT
Join us to celebrate the evening of Samhain in the magical surroundings of the great roundhouse. Between 7-10pm you will enjoy live music, professional storytelling by Jonathon Hue

Great fun. The instruments and music were perhaps some way from authentic, since they included banjos and sang of New Orleans but what the heck, just enjoy it for what it is.

Subject: RE: BS: All welcome on this thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 11:24 PM

Visiting Phoenix, Arizona, again.

I don't know what kind of bird this is here.
It looks like a jay of some kind. Entirely dark.
The funny jay gait.
And you should hear it calling!
It's the kind of sound that makes you straighten up and look around.

High, piercingly clear, really a whistle.
And the jays, when they talk at each other (they are often in groups),
have all different pitches and notes that each whistles,
and some of them have little ornaments, grace notes, sliding from one note to the next.

The funniest thing I ever hear from these jays
is the sunset, the crepuscular soundoff.

For this one, they all clump together in the branches of trees
(one tree, if it's big enough for the whole group)
and deep behind its green leaves,
they all whistle at once.
I mean, it is the darndest sound.
They sound like they're all high on the same drug.