Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[davhill]

My missus (Mk.1) honestly believed that plant hire firms rented aspidistras and the like to offices...poor soul.

Endless fun every time a 'Heavy plant crossing' sign hove into view.

[AW111]

briang9 said:

Blown2CV said:

Talking about the song "cats in the cradle" and Mrs 2CV asks who it's by. When I tell her Cat Stevens she says "oh I think I've heard of her"!

hmm no it`s not

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

[Robbins]

"St. Pancreas station"
We live near a park called Prospect Park so of course that became "Prostate Park"

Woman at work the other day thought my office was on fire when I told her I was "burning her a disk"

[Pothole]

AW111 said:

briang9 said:

Blown2CV said:

Talking about the song "cats in the cradle" and Mrs 2CV asks who it's by. When I tell her Cat Stevens she says "oh I think I've heard of her"!

hmm no it`s not

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

No. It wasn't.

[Vaud]

glenrobbo said:

Yeah! Best not go there....

Mumsnet is WAY more extreme than PH!

[CanAm]

Pothole said:

AW111 said:

briang9 said:

Blown2CV said:

Talking about the song "cats in the cradle" and Mrs 2CV asks who it's by. When I tell her Cat Stevens she says "oh I think I've heard of her"!

hmm no it`s not

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

No. It wasn't.

It was written and originally recorded by Harry Chapin but I believe it was covered by Cat Stevens.

[marshalla]

AW111 said:

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

Cat Stevens is alive and well, but goes by the name Yusuf Islam these days.

[WinstonWolf]

xRIEx said:

Johnspex said:

Vaud said:

This is The Lounge.

The home of juvenile behaviour.

The place where people post up private conversations to the entire world for "fun"...

Are you trying to suggest that using the shortened version of Mongol or Mongoloid which is what Down's syndrome kids were called years ago Ito describe the shortcomings of others is ok? You probably think saying Spaz is ok too.

Except 'mongoloid' describes people from areas of Asia, just like 'caucasoid' and 'negroid' for their respective classifications.

Johnspex said:

that is a terrible and juvenile expression and I hope you don't understand its origins, if you did I hope you would be mature and sensitive enough not to use it.

I hope you never use the terms 'idiot' or 'imbecile' without understanding their origins, given the sensitive nature of their meanings.

Edited by xRIEx on Sunday 17th July 20:53

Joey...


Mrs saw one of these the other day, she thought it was a Pokemon

[xRIEx]

CanAm said:

Pothole said:

AW111 said:

briang9 said:

Blown2CV said:

Talking about the song "cats in the cradle" and Mrs 2CV asks who it's by. When I tell her Cat Stevens she says "oh I think I've heard of her"!

hmm no it`s not

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

No. It wasn't.

It was written and originally recorded by Harry Chapin but I believe it was covered by Cat Stevens.

No, it wasn't. It was covered by Ugly Kid Joe in the early '90s.

Cat Stevens did a song called Father and Son, which was released around the same sort of time as Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle.

[kowalski655]

CanAm said:

Pothole said:

AW111 said:

briang9 said:

Blown2CV said:

Talking about the song "cats in the cradle" and Mrs 2CV asks who it's by. When I tell her Cat Stevens she says "oh I think I've heard of her"!

hmm no it`s not

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

No. It wasn't.

It was written and originally recorded by Harry Chapin but I believe it was covered by Cat Stevens.

Don't think he ever covered it

[CanAm]

xRIEx said:

No, it wasn't. It was covered by Ugly Kid Joe in the early '90s.

Cat Stevens did a song called Father and Son, which was released around the same sort of time as Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle.

I'm well aware who wrote it as I have the original by Harry Chapin, but what has Ugly Kid Joe got to do with it when it's been covered by dozens of other singers? I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt and said I believe Cat Stevens covered it not that he did cover it. I should have said "may have". And I'm not confusing it with Father and Son which I know well.
Mea culpa.

[AW111]

marshalla said:

AW111 said:

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

Cat Stevens is alive and well, but goes by the name Yusuf Islam these days.

That was sort-of my point, but subsequent posters have pointed out that my memory was faulty, and he didn't cover it after all.

[boyse7en]

Boss's wife is in the office.

Been talking to her about making jam (I know, i'm so PH!). "I don't like my jam to have bits in," she says, "so i strain it through one of those muslim cloths."

[ApOrbital]

[marshalla]

boyse7en said:

Boss's wife is in the office.

Been talking to her about making jam (I know, i'm so PH!). "I don't like my jam to have bits in," she says, "so i strain it through one of those muslim cloths."

Well, the cloth is named after the city of Mosul...

[Fastchas]

I was at a family party this weekend. Watched the (youngish) gran play swingball with her grand-daughter. The gran was batting forehand on the right-hand side of the lawn whilst the girl batted back-hand on the left hand side. The grand-daughter complained she couldn't play hitting the ball on the back-hand so they agreed to swap over.
They both walked around the pole to where the other one was standing before changing their preferred fore-hand/back-hand...

[AstonZagato]

Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vupgBykQnko

[Evangelion]

The Cat Stevens song was called Matthew And Son, not Father And Son.

(and they say the woman are thick.)

Also AW111 is correct to say Cat Stevens is no more. He didn't say he was dead after all.

[xRIEx]

Evangelion said:

The Cat Stevens song was called Matthew And Son, not Father And Son.

(and they say the woman are thick.)

The Cat Stevens album of 1967 was called Matthew and Son, and featured a song of the same name. The 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman included a song called Father and Son.

(and they say the woman{sic} are thick.)

[Blown2CV]

kowalski655 said:

CanAm said:

Pothole said:

AW111 said:

briang9 said:

Blown2CV said:

Talking about the song "cats in the cradle" and Mrs 2CV asks who it's by. When I tell her Cat Stevens she says "oh I think I've heard of her"!

hmm no it`s not

Interesting conudrum : It was performed by Cat Stevens, who is no more.

No. It wasn't.

It was written and originally recorded by Harry Chapin but I believe it was covered by Cat Stevens.

Don't think he ever covered it

ah bks. I'll hold my hand up then. Still funny.