| Obsolete Words
Posted: 7/6/2009 1:23:58 PM | MSG 45 Irony is one of my favourites, especially when intentional, and particularly when unrecognised in oneself.
Avatrol
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Posted: 7/6/2009 1:27:34 PM |
Irony is one of my favourites, especially when intentional, and particularly when unrecognised in oneself.
Now I'm confused......how does anyone else know that a person hasn't recognised it in themselves?
Do tell! | |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 1:56:47 PM | I have a milkman, he's pretty old but I think he would be miffed to be called obsolete, and I trust him to deliver what I want when I want, in the same way as he trusts me to pay him when he leaves a bill 
And I have seen many a cad on pof  | |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 2:07:44 PM | MSG 45 Irony is one of my favourites, especially when intentional, and particularly when unrecognised in oneself.
Avatrol
A **stard | |
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| Obsolete Words
Posted: 7/6/2009 2:10:54 PM | | Bunker.........as in the scottish word for worktop. | |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 3:17:58 PM | I was probably being Ironic Jo using words gleaned from a childhood of watching call my bluff or looking at other words in the dictionary that were not rude ones.
PATIENCE
Apologies for double post earlier, anyone with 3 mobile will understand | |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 3:22:48 PM |
Apologies for double post earlier, anyone with 3 mobile will understand
Tut were you playing with your dongle again ? Or were you blaming the sprogs again ?
can't remember if it's two or three sprogs, but def know they are mobile  | |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 4:55:33 PM | Shag
Shagpile
Sheepshagger
Shagster
Shaggy
......aren't they? | |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 7:52:58 PM | reply
well going by all the threads complaining about the lack of them | |
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Posted: 7/7/2009 12:15:55 AM | What about the slang for our old coinage such as
Tanner (sixpence)
Bob (shilling)
Shilling (twelve old pence)
Farthing (a quarter of an old penny)
Half a Crown (two shillings and sixpence)
and the old games that we played
Hopscotch
French skipping
loads more and when I get five mins I will add to these
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Posted: 7/7/2009 12:17:35 AM |
Telex machines,
minor's matinee,
Elm trees,
Panda cars,
Half-crowns,
Florin,
Party-sevens,
Radiograms,
The OP is concerned with obsolete words, not items.
Many of the quoted words are still in everyday use........
Sheepshagger
As long as there are sheep, there will be 'sheepshaggers'...... | |
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Posted: 7/7/2009 3:25:18 PM |
The OP is concerned with obsolete words, not items
OP:
there are some words (items / stuff /things ) that are obsolete
My offering isn't quite in the total spirit of the OP who seems to be looking for modern stuff that's obsolete, but there is a lovely word in Chaucer that I really would like to bring back into currency.
We know what piecemeal means - have you ever considered what the opposite might be? Well, it's flockmeal. Now, isn't that a lovely word? | |
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Posted: 7/7/2009 4:36:49 PM |
First of all it would be useful if people read what what written in th OP, rather than what they thought they read
I read the thread title, actually.......it does not mention 'items', only 'words'.
Secondly, are you after my starfish?
I don't know - what ticket did your starfish draw? My ticket says 59.....
Only you seem obsessed with my every post,
there are many others to read.
I tend to reply to posts that contain either the most errors/incorrect statements/bollox or which ask the most questions of mine - yours have a habit of falling into both camps, hence the high number of replies to them I make......
If you actually haven't got any words/stuff/things to contribute to the thread,
there's not much point in just erroneously correcting me is there?
Forum rules allow for the discussion of on-topic posts - are you suggesting that your posts are off-topic?
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Posted: 7/7/2009 5:11:49 PM | "Romance"
People have forever been saying "Romance is dead". Well now seem's like it is finally dead and gone as the most "romantic" a guy has been with me is standing scratching his nuts and handing me a bunch of flowers he's robbed from someones garden, whilst drooling and making some odd noise that makes me feel he's either Beavis or Buttheads son. | |
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Posted: 7/7/2009 6:40:14 PM | "responsibility"
Too many people make mistakes and then point the finger - I mainly mean in the litigation sense ie "my child is obese due to eating too many of your hamburgers" (the case where McDonalds were being sued) | |
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Posted: 7/7/2009 6:43:46 PM | LOL and LMFAO and ROTFLMAO and George Bush and Tony Blair and Santa.
Curly wurly. :-( | |
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