Here’s another one for you, this time from May 2015. You can tell that I was really building an audience by that stage, two and a half years into my blogging career, because it has had 17 views over the past ten years. Yay me. As background, I should explain that for a while I…
This particular oeuvre was originally offered up to my eager mass audience on the 19th of May 2014 and has subsequently garnered no fewer than two views – the first of which was eight years later. So don’t try and tell me that you’ve already seen it. It was written in response to one of…
I was an avid (well, sort of) follower of Fandango, but then he had to change his blogging identity and I’ve only just found him again. You can run, but you can’t hide, sir. Anyway, before he melted away, I was thinking about joining in with his Flashback Friday theme, where you reblog an old…
Pogging Pogoing with nothing missing. Simp As far as that meerkat in the TV commercial gets in saying his catchphrase before you throw something at the screen. Bussin Making out on the back row of the National Express coach. Delulu De most famous singer to come out of Glasgow since – oh, I don’t know:…
What is a lover’s knot? The male equivalent of a chastity belt. Where is the Milky Way? Still on the shelf. I’d much rather have a Crunchie. What is a bellyflop? An unsuccessful sumo wrestler. Why do they say ‘break a leg’ before a performer goes on stage? Because they’re the understudy and the critics…
This week, Di is looking for some (wrong) answers. Who made the first manned hot air balloon flight in 1783? A sheep, a duck and a rooster – as you would know if you were watching ‘Richard Osman’s House Of Games’ this week. Which is the more widely used around the world, cow’s milk or…
Di is after some new definitions this week. I’d be the first to admit that these are nowhere near in the same league as the ‘Uxbridge English Dictionary’ segment of the BBC radio comedy panel show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue’, but here goes anyway. Verisimilitude A person with a limited diet, who only…
This week, Di has gone all classical on us. As one who, by virtue of having obtained a Latin ‘O’ level in 1968, and therefore being rightfully able to lay claim to a classical education, this is right up my street (or should that be via strata?). Anyway, Di’s given us ten names from classical…
This week, Pensitivity101’s Di has decreed that D is for ‘definition’, so let’s get down to it. Doohickey To chew on a partner or boy/girl friend’s neck, apparently as a sign of affection, but probably with a slightly sinister proprietorial undertone. [is this still a thing?] Donnybrook A stream running at the bottom of the…
I thought I’d play along with Di’s Fibbing Friday this week… 1. Lev Davidovrich Bronstein is better known as? Wasn’t he that guy in the advert for ice picks? 2. Sopranissimo is the highest pitched version of which reed instrument? The warbler? 3. What is the capital of Azerbaijan? Well duh. A, obviously. 4. Do…
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