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31-05-06, 11:17 AM | #441 |
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Three related facts for you today:
Fact 1: 'Banshee' is the English phonetic spelling of the Irish Gaelic Bean Sidhe. This translates literally as 'woman fairy' (think of the Elves in 'Lord of the Rings', not little winged things) Fact 2: If you hear a bean sidhe 'keening' (crying or wailing), or see her washing clothes at a ford, then it means that a death is imminent. Fact 3: Most of the blokes who use 'banshee' as their username on web forums, because it sounds cool, are blissfully unaware of fact 1. |
31-05-06, 11:20 AM | #442 |
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Avon is simply Welsh for river (it's spelt 'Afon' in Welsh). So the river Avon is just the river River.
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31-05-06, 02:01 PM | #443 | |
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(Or "as Ghaeilge", if you are speaking in Irish. Not Gaelic. Please. Gaelic is a game, not a language. People dont *speak Gaelic* ) And Scotch is a drink. Not someone from Scotland. |
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31-05-06, 03:05 PM | #444 |
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• If Laura, Suzanne, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Suzanne, Kate and Sarah. • If Mike, Charlie, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Sh*t-Head and Four-eyes. EATING OUT • When the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Dave and John will each throw in £20, even though it's only for £32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. • When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators. MONEY • A man will pay £2 for a £1 item he needs. • A woman will pay £1 for a £2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale BATHROOMS • A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from M&S. • The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items. ARGUMENTS • A woman has the last word in any argument. • Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. CATS • Women love cats. • Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats. FUTURE • A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. • A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. SUCCESS • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. • A successful woman is one who can find such a man. MARRIAGE • A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. • A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does. DRESSING UP • A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the bins, answer the phone, read a book, and get the post. • A man will dress up for weddings and funerals. NATURAL • Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. • Women somehow deteriorate during the night. OFFSPRING • Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secretfears and hopes and dreams. • A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY • Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing. • What a woman says: C'mon...This place is a mess. You and I need to clean.Your trousers are on the floor and you'll have no clothes if we don't do the laundry now. • What a man hears: C'MON ... blah, blah, blah YOU AND I blah,blah, blah, blah, blah ON THE FLOOR blah, blah, blah, NO CLOTHES blah, blah, blah, blah, NOW
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31-05-06, 04:40 PM | #445 |
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Wiff..Did I take a wrong turn? I thought this was the place for interesting facts?
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31-05-06, 05:23 PM | #446 |
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oops I meant to put it just in idle banter..!???
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The ordanance survey map shows the gavenny river running through it, hence the aber gavenny from which it derives its name. |
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31-05-06, 06:55 PM | #450 | ||
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It was the knowing Irish part was the bit that seemed problematic to us. Mad language altogether. Fair play to the Welsh for actually keeping their language. And the Finns too. They almost lost it when they were taken over by the rooskies. Ours is a basically knackered methinks. |
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