Phoenix ... a little duck and a fat lady ....
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Phoenix ... a little duck and a fat lady ....
OK chaps.
I was reading through lists of obscure forgotton words last night, and stumbled upon the following very useful word.
GROWLERY.
Anyone care to guess what it might mean? You'll be seeing me use it ad nauseam on this board.
I was reading through lists of obscure forgotton words last night, and stumbled upon the following very useful word.
GROWLERY.
Anyone care to guess what it might mean? You'll be seeing me use it ad nauseam on this board.
Luckily i have read Bleak House (an excellent book btw) - seems you are a big fan of Ye Olde Englishe YE! :P
It's just somewhere that people would go when they aren't feeling too happy. The quote was something like i come and growl here when ive got no humour.
Matt
It's just somewhere that people would go when they aren't feeling too happy. The quote was something like i come and growl here when ive got no humour.
Matt
"Sixty percent of the time, it works, every time!"
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Hmm, i'll pass this over then. Seems there is a bit of confusion over it too. The answer i was after was jiffy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_%28time%29
'Strictly speaking, a jiffy is a unit of time that takes up one hundredth of a second'
It appears it can be other times too though, so its a bit ambiguous. Over to someone else!
Matt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_%28time%29
'Strictly speaking, a jiffy is a unit of time that takes up one hundredth of a second'
It appears it can be other times too though, so its a bit ambiguous. Over to someone else!
Matt
"Sixty percent of the time, it works, every time!"
I must stop being a geek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix
I think that one was won by His Eminence...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix
I think that one was won by His Eminence...
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That's what made me realise - if he hadn't have pronounced it in such a silly fashion in the film the question would have been much harder!
Retro Phoenix to keep you all on your toes and flex those searching muscles:
How did a goal kick taken during a match in Walsall manage to travel 150 miles?
Retro Phoenix to keep you all on your toes and flex those searching muscles:
How did a goal kick taken during a match in Walsall manage to travel 150 miles?
Still kicking about.