The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Timenspace said:
I am lost again😁🙈🙈 I feel there is a joke somewhere...as TastyR laughed...
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I take it to mean he started upright at the pub, but then, many beers later, ended up horizontally down on the tiles. :laugh:

The delivery did arrive...30 minutes late, but who cares? They were nice guys. My tile job is so small, they pulled up in a big 18-wheeler and dropped off four boxes of tile, two small boxes of various supplies, and some edging.
 
Yorky said:
going out on the tiles" in my younger day
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Love the coloquial expressions, they burst with life! Thank you. I had previously never heard that expression( might not have been an adequate one for the young English as foreign language learners😁)
As a matter of fact, just downloaded a handful of expressions, can't wait to explore them!
 
We received a gift today.

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"Painting the town red" is an equivalent of "night on the tiles," though nobody seems to have provided conclusive evidence of how or where either phrase originated. There are various contrasting theories, so like many of these things, take your pick.
 
The Late Night Gourmet said:
It's 28F here, too, and snowing sideways now. Maybe some of it will blow down your way later today.
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...and I somewhat lied. It's s snowing at my brother's house, about an hour due west of me.

Duck59 said:
"Painting the town red" is an equivalent of "night on the tiles,"
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From a song I used to like as a kid:

I'm going honky-tonking
Everything's turned upside-down
And when I find that gal of mine
We're really gonna paint that town!
 
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Heading my way...
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In 1996, we moved to Minnesota. My wife had never been there, and I'd only ever driven through it once as a kid. Sounded like a good adventure.

We drove two cars and had a system where if my wife needed to stop, she'd just pass me and get off at the next exit.

We arrived in Minneapolis the afternoon of June 10th, and it was snowing. Snowing. June 10th.

About 15 minutes from the hotel, suddenly my wife zoomed by and shot to the exit, and it was all I could do to react fast enough to follow her.

She'd pulled into the parking lot of a filling station and jumped out of the car in a rush, and I thought there surely must be something terribly wrong.

I quickly pulled in beside her and hopped out, urgently asking, "What's wrong?! What's happened?!"

"It's snowing! I can't believe you moved us somewhere where it snows in June! It's f**k**g snowing!" - then she jumped back in the car and tore off.

I'd known her eight years at that point, and that was the first time I ever heard her drop the f-word. :laugh:
 
That was a bizarre episode from teaching life. A student's mom texted at 10 am to ask to reschedule the son's lesson from noon to afternoon. She wrote he is in school 11.50-15.50 literally.

Well, inspite of me not liking last minute changes, I suggested he'd come 16.30 if he can. Ok.

The son comes an hour earlier 15.30 . Gets ready for class, and I'm like trying to laugh, and he laughs. I could have been walking in the park as it was my break time...ok. we learn and I text his mom, he was here now. Ok.

Then, she texts me back, well that is how it panned out. We were at a funeral.
And I'm like internal monologue, whaaat? You said schhol, not funeral. How could I have known about a funeral. No sorry, no Could you...do you mind rescheduling yet a second time...nop...turns out I was the ignorant one🙄🤔😄

My condolence, I say, you mentioned not...etc...and she wished me a nice spring break.🧐😊 Wished her a nice one too.
 
I'm done with April's fool day. I'm usually someone who can be lied to easily and I've fell for I lost count of how many April's fool jokes today, including the one where Emirates Airways announced they will start hosting weddings on the A380, which is my favorite aircraft and that would be even better than my dream wedding, I was so disappointed to learn that was a lie!:unsure:
 
caseydog said:
Looks like we are having a honey baked ham for Easter instead of the rotisserie leg of lamb I was going to cook. My sister went all over, and could not find a leg of lamb -- even at COSTCO, that always has a good selection of lamb. So, she bought the usual Easter ham.

Oh well, I'll get a ham bone with scraps to freeze for ham and bean soup.

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Tell her the best glaze by a street is one I found years ago,
300 mls bourbon
300 mls maple syrup
300 mls apricot sauce
2 tablespoons honey glazed mustard seed mustard.

The leftover gets scooped up.

That's what I'm doing.

Enjoy your family, as I will too.

Russ
 
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