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optom3:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 13, 2009, 05:42:42 pm ---Oh. :P
Oh my God!! :laugh:
That's not what it means over here. Over here, as you probably already know, it is a "nice" way to say the F word. :)
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Now you know why I was pretty shocked when my 8 year old daughter came out with it. Between fanny and frigging. I needed a large G &T and a lie down !!!!
So if you visit Englands green and pleasant lands, no fannies or friggin, unless you want people to look at you as if you had grown an extra head. !!!!
David In Indy:
Well, people often look at me like that anyway Fiona! :laugh:
But! I will remember what you just told us. My ex was always telling me about those things too. But I never knew about the word "friggin" and the peace sign until you told me about it.
In other news, it's only 10 F outside! And I have to go run an errand in a little while. It's windy too. Really windy. I hope it doesn't blow my car off the road. We have some really nasty weather coming our way. On Friday they said it will only go up to 5 F. I'm scared to find out what the low temp will be. But I remember someone saying it will be well below 0. Blech! I'm really getting tired of winter.
David In Indy:
Boy, I just checked the "Who's Online" and there was about 20 guests looking at the "Little People Big World Scandal" thread. I wonder why?
David In Indy:
Have you ever wondered where the expression "Sleep Tight" came from?
Well I know! :D
I learned it one day on a trip to Conner Prairie Farm!
http://www.connerprairie.org/
It's an old pioneer expression.
Back in the old days, way before box springs and space age memory mattresses, the beds had ropes, crossed threaded under the mattresses to hold them up. But ropes being what they are would soon stretch out of shape and therefore several times a week it was necessary to tighten them back up in order to keep the bed mattress from sagging down to the ground.
So, if you "slept tight" this would indicate you had slept on a mattress supported by freshly tightened ropes, firm and flat rather than a saggy mattress dipping down to the floor. :D
And Yes, there really is such a thing as bedbugs. :P They bite and itch (very much like chiggers) and they can often be found in mattresses and unlaundered bed clothes. So now you know what the expression "sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite" means.
We learn something new every day, don't we? ;)
David In Indy:
It's a balmy 12 degrees outside. Right now! I don't know what that is in Celsius. Tomorrow it will make it all the way up to 3! Penguins and igloos. Then tomorrow night it will drop to -10 (there is a MINUS in front of that 10!). THEN! The next day, they tell us, it will reach a high of 8! Everyone is all excited because on Sunday the cold spell will be breaking and it will be in the 20s. :laugh:
It's colder than a witch's titty out there. >:(
Oh, and the snow is blowing around and it looks like a big white cloud descended on top of my house. I think they call this a "white out condition". :P :laugh:
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