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  • DiomedesDiomedes Shipmate
    I know a couple of the band guys. They used to be called Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Rather clever.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Diomedes wrote: »
    I know a couple of the band guys. They used to be called Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Rather clever.

    Oh dear!
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Diomedes wrote: »
    I know a couple of the band guys. They used to be called Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Rather clever.

    Oh dear!

    Eye wateringly bad!
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Sandemaniac wrote: »
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Diomedes wrote: »
    I know a couple of the band guys. They used to be called Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Rather clever.

    Oh dear!

    Eye wateringly bad!

    talk about innuendoes!
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Sandemaniac wrote: »
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Diomedes wrote: »
    I know a couple of the band guys. They used to be called Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Rather clever.

    Oh dear!

    Eye wateringly bad!

    talk about innuendoes!
    To quote Oscar Wilde, "I wish I had said that".

  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Enoch wrote: »
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Sandemaniac wrote: »
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Diomedes wrote: »
    I know a couple of the band guys. They used to be called Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Rather clever.

    Oh dear!

    Eye wateringly bad!

    talk about innuendoes!
    To quote Oscar Wilde, "I wish I had said that".

    You will, dear Enoch, you will!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited November 24
    Baptist Trainfan wrote: »
    I hope not!

    Do others talk of things "going pear-shaped" when they go wrong?

    Guilty as charged, m'lud!

    I was wondering why a reggae band was named after a rather duff medieval king! :mrgreen:

  • Barnabas_AusBarnabas_Aus Shipmate
    "Mutton dressed up as lamb", overheard in a recent conversation. This being a small country town, we often hear, and use, such relatively archaic expressions.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Our family went to see Wicked: For Good last night, and one of the songs in act II of Wicked is “No Good Deed.” I was surprised this morning when my 25-year-old daughter said she wasn’t familiar with the expression “no good deed goes unpunished,” which is central to the song.


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