General Chat

Hi Mau,

It's been years since I heard the word Dicky. I think it was changed to head lice a more appropriate term I suppose.

When you buy the lighthouse privately, will we get an invite when opened :-D :-D

GP

my best friend all through school had nits!! Mum said I wasn't to play with her, but I did just the same :-D

I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper :-D

Hi Ann,

If you had experience as an usherette with a torch in a cinema then ideally you would be the perfect candidate. :-D :-D

GP

yes you will get an invite GP but don't forget yer wellies :-D

Unfortunately Ann (and to me Mam's disgust :-( cos she was nipping clean) :-D everyone in the class had caught them. I had very long hair and had to have it cut short :-|....glad you would have played with us :-D
St.Mary's doesn't have a lighthouse keeper d'ya want the job? ;-) :-D

*thinks we're going further off topic...glad the OP is friendly.....
I had a holiday job as an usherette in my teenage years :-)

every night I had to be on my knees in front of my mother - she had a newspaper on her lap and she went through my hair with a nit comb - it was horrible cos I have very curly hair - qute painful but I was nit/flea free!!!

know what you mean I went through that painful experience too....not nice.... my hair was like thick rope....

Re "Nitty Gritty"

I've had a reply from the museum

"Thank you for your enquiry. I am not aware of the term but will ask amongst our more informed members and get back to you.

***** ******* Trustee"

I too was taken to one side during a coffee break after having given a marketing presentation when I worked for local government for using the term nitty gritty.
Again, the person said it was related to the slave trade but was unable to back it up.
I was also informed that I should not have asked for black coffee - it is coffee without milk!
It was an extremely PC environment and yet I felt that people were being MORE unPC by making spurious claims and thus highlighting the use of language that was deemed unsuitable.

As Ernie Entwistle always said: "Daft I call it" :-S
:-P

Agree with you Errol. ;-)

presumably why there are no longer blackboards in schools :-D

Is a tin of Black Paint out of order as well.

and black pudding

and my local Black Horse pub
(sorry, word association)

Errol - One of my locals is the Black Bull. I think we may have a problem.
Do you think it should be changed to "The Darkest Colour Bull"

GP

Might I suggest "The Darkest Colour Herbivore Which Is Predominantly Bovine But May Have Traces Of An Equine Nature"

Toon will always be black and white :-D

My team play at White Hart Lane :-S

Muffy, my team play in red and white stripes ;-)