Post #195,802
2/21/05 5:13:28 PM
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It's snowing in the UK.
Which does, of course, mean that the entire country indulges in a case of collective selective amnesia over what this white stuff is, what it does, and whether or not we should fail to cope with its presence. (Hint: answer is yes. In spades. Comprehensively. I drove past a gritter on the way to work this morning. Clue for gritters: you need to get there about an hour BEFORE me. This was at 7AM).
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Post #195,812
2/21/05 5:40:41 PM
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So you *should* fail to cope??
You may want to rethink your wording...
Incidentally, WTF is a "gritter"? Is that just your nickname for a truck that is laying down sand/salt?
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #195,815
2/21/05 5:46:05 PM
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You're so amusingly serious :-)
Of course we should fail to cope; that way, we can have a good British crisis, grumble about it a lot, and feel secure in our grousing about the fact that the council never gets the gritters out early enough.
And yes, a gritter is a lorry that spreads grit. Hence the name ;)
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Post #195,817
2/21/05 5:47:05 PM
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Well, when the Gulf Stream shuts off
You'll have a *reet* good British crisis on your hands, and *lots* of snow to grouse about.
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-scott anderson
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Post #195,818
2/21/05 5:49:36 PM
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Stop swimming in it then!
You're using up joules that are for US.
That'd be just our luck; the whole planet turns to desert under a blazing, ozone-free sky, and the only place where there's any sodding snow anywhere is Milton Keynes.
Peter
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Post #195,826
2/21/05 6:54:08 PM
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Boy, howdy, I'm glad we stole capital-U capital-S
It's like an automatic "I know you are, but what am I?"
:D
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Post #196,008
2/22/05 6:17:43 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #196007 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=196007|ICLRPD]
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shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #195,824
2/21/05 6:41:13 PM
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When you just can't miss an opportunity to belabor
the obvious.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #195,846
2/21/05 9:35:17 PM
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Gritter mark 2
There must be a secondary meaning- those subjects of the queen who simply grit their teeth at any untoward circumstance. Goes with stiff upper lip donchano.
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