Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[xRIEx]

Blown2CV said:

Nom de ploom said:

Pothole said:

Nom de ploom said:

me: are you trying to assuage that mick jagger was in the IRA???????!!!!! (my gast is truly flabbered by this point)

assuage

verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

thanks teacher - i was in my cups at the time

cups?

noun; plural
A receptacle for a beverage, especially tea. Mmmmmm, tea.

[Blown2CV]

xRIEx said:

Blown2CV said:

Nom de ploom said:

Pothole said:

Nom de ploom said:

me: are you trying to assuage that mick jagger was in the IRA???????!!!!! (my gast is truly flabbered by this point)

assuage

verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

thanks teacher - i was in my cups at the time

cups?

noun; plural
A receptacle for a beverage, especially tea. Mmmmmm, tea.

i guess an adult male being inside a number of beverage receptacles would indeed make them use completely the wrong word in a sentence and then get aggro about it. Thanks for the clarification.

[stanthebiker]

Blown2CV said:

xRIEx said:

Blown2CV said:

Nom de ploom said:

Pothole said:

Nom de ploom said:

me: are you trying to assuage that mick jagger was in the IRA???????!!!!! (my gast is truly flabbered by this point)

assuage

verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

thanks teacher - i was in my cups at the time

cups?

noun; plural
A receptacle for a beverage, especially tea. Mmmmmm, tea.

i guess an adult male being inside a number of beverage receptacles would indeed make them use completely the wrong word in a sentence and then get aggro about it. Thanks for the clarification.

"in my cups" means he was drunk at the time.

[Blown2CV]

stanthebiker said:

Blown2CV said:

xRIEx said:

Blown2CV said:

Nom de ploom said:

Pothole said:

Nom de ploom said:

me: are you trying to assuage that mick jagger was in the IRA???????!!!!! (my gast is truly flabbered by this point)

assuage

verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

thanks teacher - i was in my cups at the time

cups?

noun; plural
A receptacle for a beverage, especially tea. Mmmmmm, tea.

i guess an adult male being inside a number of beverage receptacles would indeed make them use completely the wrong word in a sentence and then get aggro about it. Thanks for the clarification.

"in my cups" means he was drunk at the time.

never heard that before in my life.

[RizzoTheRat]

It's a pretty old phrase, I think it's even in the bible, it's definitely in Shakespeare.

[Blown2CV]

RizzoTheRat said:

It's a pretty old phrase, I think it's even in the bible, it's definitely in Shakespeare.

sounds like a weird south-west dialect thing.

[Brads67]

Nope.

"Like your cups",, like a drink. In your cups means worse for drink.

[havoc]

It's OK, I knew what he meant...

...actually, maybe that means I'm old too!

[Alex@POD]

stanthebiker said:

"in my cups" means he was drunk at the time.

I thought he might have simply been hanging around wearing nothing but a cup, as someone might say "I was in my boxers"... I did wonder what his outfit had to do with the story though!

[Blown2CV]

i thought he was referring to a box jockstrap.

[austinsmirk]

My wife failed to get sues reference (bake off) last night, to needing a pork helicopter

Nothing, nada. I then explained she's politely saying, pork chopper.

Still nothing

2 mins later there's a dawning across her face ........

[carlpea]

austinsmirk said:

My wife failed to get sues reference (bake off) last night, to needing a pork helicopter

Nothing, nada. I then explained she's politely saying, pork chopper.

Still nothing

2 mins later there's a dawning across her face ........

Was it you doing the dawning?..

[Blown2CV]

austinsmirk said:

My wife failed to get sues reference (bake off) last night, to needing a pork helicopter

Nothing, nada. I then explained she's politely saying, pork chopper.

Still nothing

2 mins later there's a dawning across her face ........

Not sure I'd have even got that it was a joke to be honest.

[Pothole]

2CV, I'm not sure this thread is for you.

[Blown2CV]

Pothole said:

2CV, I'm not sure this thread is for you.

Thanks for the concern. What I meant is that i understand the premise, but as it isn't even remotely funny i wouldn't have realised it was intended to be a joke. It would just be an odd non-sequitur statement.

[threespires]

RizzoTheRat said:

It's a pretty old phrase, I think it's even in the bible, it's definitely in Shakespeare.

Thanks for that, it's a new one to me too.....

[Evangelion]

austinsmirk said:

My wife failed to get sues reference (bake off) last night, to needing a pork helicopter

Nothing, nada. I then explained she's politely saying, pork chopper.

Still nothing

2 mins later there's a dawning across her face ........

I'm sure that's the only sort of chopper Sue would want ...

[hidetheelephants]

Blown2CV said:

Nom de ploom said:

Pothole said:

Nom de ploom said:

me: are you trying to assuage that mick jagger was in the IRA???????!!!!! (my gast is truly flabbered by this point)

assuage

verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

thanks teacher - i was in my cups at the time

cups?

Brahms and liszt.

[wack]

We've just had an orangery built on the back of the house, it's not finished yet but the roof is on and it's plaster boarded

I put the new dishwasher out there until it gets fitted

My wife saw it and said, it won't get wet will it, the roof was £6500

[Blown2CV]

Are orangeries not meant to have glass roofs?