General Chat

If I remember correctly it was very offensive as I said on the previous page...literally at least have something to be offended about before you RR !!
It started with RR on other people last week with regards drones, non-offensive for sure then this week on the Allan holiday thread, offense was taken over the young lady with the lovely bunch of coconuts who had been mentioned numerous times before :-D :-D
If Mrs Whitehouse was alive she'd be beating the doors of Genes down to ensure such offensive material was stopped immediately.
Now for heaven's sake no one mention 'ello 'ello and a certain painting........ :-)

Oh dear :-(

I had to 'Google' that, Caroline, in order to ensure I wouldn't be offended!! :-D

You mean the 'Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies', that was so 'offensive' it was a running joke on the programme - which was seen by millions.
Pleased to see it was sold at auction for £15,000, at (appropriately) that famous city of rhyming slang - Bristol!

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

* for the RR'r - A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, closely related to gannets, so as far as you're concerned, it's a lady with a couple of big birds, okay?
If you don't like the word - go and harass the ornithological society.

:-D :-D careful Maggie.....it's Saturday....in between holidays...some might be a tad fragile don't want to upset or anything.

Benny Hill now there's a blast from the past, can't say I really liked his shows I was young at the time.....but that wouldn't be allowed on now would it.

You all make me giggle :-D :-D :-D :-D

For those of use with a more intellectual bent (cough,cough), we mustn't forget Gaugin's 'Girl With Mangoes'.

That won't be RR'd because it's posh!

I had to look up the origin of the word 'Booby' (guess who should be doing something constructive?) It's quite interesting:

booby (n.)
"stupid person," 1590s, from Spanish bobo "stupid person," also used of various ungainly seabirds, probably from Latin balbus "stammering," from an imitative root (see barbarian).

Specific sense "dunce in a school class" is by 1825. Booby prize "object of little value given to the loser of a game," is by 1883:

At the end of every session the dominie had the satirical custom of presenting his tawse [a corporal punishment implement used for educational discipline] as a "booby-prize" to some idle or stupid lout whom he picked out as meriting this distinction so that next time they met he might start fresh and fair with new pair for a new set of classes. [Ascott R. Hope, "Dumps," "Young England" magazine, 1883]

Booby trap is by 1850, originally a schoolboy prank; the more lethal sense developed during World War I. Booby-hatch "wooden framework used to cover the after-hatch on merchant vessels" is from 1840; as "insane asylum" by 1936.

You live and Google don't you :-)

Well it's pretty hard to Google when you're dead :-(

Not if you're a ghost......now stop nit picking....

SHARRON! You used the 'M' word!!
Have you looked it up? It 'can' be quite rude you know.
How very dare you!! :-|

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Mangoes, melons, mandarins, probably even coconuts....all euphemisms

There was, and probably still is, a rugby song titled 'By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them'

Not that I ever song it of course, just learnt the words :-D :-D :-D

But it's okay cos it's posh she said so......

It's all in the mind, Caroline, and mine's like a pipe that carries faecal material

That's a posh way of saying sewer ;-) :-D

Seamstress is even posher.

Is that the same as a lady of negotiable affections?

Good old Terry Pratchett (RIP)

I didn't know about that connection Allan. I thought I was making a simple homograph joke. Now I fear the coming of the RR finger.

Kense, you know how there's a picture of a black cat that looks like a crow?

When I first looked at your lovely avatar, I thought your cat was washing their you-know-whats!
Initially, I thought it's ear was that bit sticking out by it's tail, then I realised it's ear was further down :-D :-D :-D


Just goes to show how pictures can be mis-read, the same as words. :-D :-D

My apologies, Kense, I can, at times be very slow on the uptake.

I now know where you were coming from :-D

I just hope that the RR'r knows what the word homograph means ;-)

Will you lot behave :-D :-D
Obviously, the poor RR will be upset by all this chit-chat about cats licking parts unmentioned and using words we all need to Google.....are they not suffering enough they have to wait until tomorrow to see whether their cunning plan has worked and the thread is removed.....the stress and anxiety is surely enough for them?? :-D

Then again if they live up to their norm this will be gone this time tomorrow so what the heck......go for it....