Camy
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6 hours ago, Rutabaga said:
This is unambiguously what someone in the U.S. would think of as pudding:
That (could do with a dollop of clotted cream) is a pud, pudding, sweet, dessert, or afters. It's also a chocolate mousse (not mouse or moose - the former having whiffley whiskers, the latter: horns).
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3 hours ago, Merkin said:
British writers appear to have a lot more nuance to trudge through than we Yanks do. I think a major concern for them would be maintaining consistency for character class, rank, or origin throughout a story.
...which is why we have editors!
Here is a well known writer at work:
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Na. Half-ten means half ten... 5pm, tiffin and a nice cup of earl grey.
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Here's a short story that, I like to think, uses gin as a plot point rather than a common or garden libation.
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35 minutes ago, Cole Parker said:
Something else appears slightly elevated, too.
He decided to have the blueberry and shredded coconut fruit salad, and keep the banana for his friend to snack on later. 😂
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He's scratching his head is disbelief at being served fruit salad with mayonnaise...!
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47 minutes ago, Rutabaga said:
Are there more parts to this story coming?
Hopefully!
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Sadly, Cole has gone mildly mad. This: - a banana, blueberry and shredded-coconut salad dressed lightly in mayonnaise - is just wrong. Mayonnaise with banana???!!! Yick! Pah!
A salad has shrubbery and cucumber and tomatoes etc, NOT bananas, blueberries and shredded-coconut... bananas, blueberries and shredded-coconut is, with double cream, a delightful pud. 'nuff said.
'The Errand Boy' is another peachy Parker. Read it, do!
https://awesomedude.com/cole-parker/the-errand-boy/the-errand-boy.htm
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Can you demonstrate your product, please? And will you px for Tupperware?
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Thank you, chaps!
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One hour to go until Santa arrives!
Happy Christmas all, and may 2022 be a deal better than 2021.
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Sitting on the freshly ploughed loam of the field and leaning back against a hay-rick Gowther Mazza smelt the redolent new mown grass, listened to the bird song, and felt like he was in heaven.
"There was a time," said Gowther, cuddling the youngster on his lap, "that this would have raised a few eyebrows. Not to mention days in a cell and furious interviews by the rozzers. But now. Now, in these... whadda ya call em?"
"The end days, Gowther," the youngster replied. "That's what the newsies call 'em, anyways."
"Aye, that's them. the end days," Gowther said, moving the slither of tooth-pick from one side of his mouth to the other. "Take my chewy thing, here. Way back when it'd have been a bit of straw off a bale, or a match... but then you prolly don't know what those are, do you?"
"Oh yes I do," the youngster replied. "DadAI was tellin's me all about matches. If you like em you swipe left and if you don't you swipe right. Ain't it so!"
Gowther sighed, amazed at how fast it had all changed. When his granpappy had been his age they'd still had real transport, with electrickery engines and google mapins. Now, post crash, it'd taken just a few canny folk to corner the market in good old fashioned 'orses. Not that yer average soul could ever expect to travel on one. Worth more than life itself were those 'orses. 'orse feivery was a capital crime and the vids that showed public executions were so over-subscribed they had to institute a lottery for access.
The youngster wiggled and Gowther grunted with pleasure. "That's nice," he said, "that's really nice."
"You picked the prog," the youth said. "There's a few minutes left. Still want a girl? 'cause I can be a boy if yer like, or trans."
"Na, youse alright," Gowtha said. "''sides, I'm nearly outa creds."
With a minute to go the sky started to bleed away, followed by the church steeple, the nearby village, the field they were in, and finally the youngster as a bell chimed and the sim shut down. -
I think I'm going to like this... providing it concludes before I get too ancient.
What with Altimexis' 'Brilliant Boy Billionaire' and now Alan Dwight's 'Burden of Being a Prodigy', are we seeing the birth of a meme?
I'm thinking 'My Cat: the Yowling Laureate' would be a good addition.
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7 hours ago, Pedro said:
...It did get rather involved, with a drift into carpet laying amongst other things.
There's nowt wrong with a good bit of carpet laying.
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Thanks for letting us know, Gerry. It saddens us all.
Jeff was a wonderful chap and will be sorely missed.
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3 hours ago, Rutabaga said:
Just your luck to have a cat with a precocious vocabulary.
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Yeah, she's a tart!
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If you ever get a chance to watch 'Days of the Bagnold Summer' then do! It's a wonderful film.
Here's the trailer:
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I am not doing well... the cat's epicaricacy knows no bounds. 😹
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They have to start putting things on top of other things as fast as possible, otherwise there won't be any things to put of top of other things and no one left to put them there anyway.
On a slightly more serious note: we're doomed.
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No one seems to understand that when it goes tits up, it's tits up for us all.
This little pale blue dot is all we have, and only Elon Musk has the money and tech to move elsewhere... not that Mars is that appealing.
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The latest news from inside the summit:
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...and we're off!
A minimum of 1667 words a day to make 50k in a month. What larks, eh!
The cat is not amused. 🙀
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26 minutes ago, Rutabaga said:
...we actually find out what happens to the two main characters in the end . . .
But, and here the mind slightly boggles, thankfully not the technicalities.
![:afterglow[1]:](//content.invisioncic.com/r273383/emoticons/default_afterglow%5B1%5D.gif ":afterglow[1]:")
A downbeat, but worthy read. Grant and Ethan were an interesting pair, and Grant's verbal take-down in the frat house was peachy!
A possible alternate title for 'A Campus Halloween' might be 'The Largest Pumpkin on the Patch.'
![:afterglow[1]:](http://content.invisioncic.com/r273383/emoticons/default_afterglow%5B1%5D.gif ":afterglow[1]:")
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