General Chat

As he handed me todays paper OH was laughing - he commented he had read the Letters Page which he rarely does: to do with correct terms of gardening/plumbing equipment etc.

I laughed and said 'the screw' - he nodded.

In the very early seventies, I was a PA for the Chief Engineer for an International Manufacturing Co. I had trouble with a wardrobe at home, a tiny screw had come out of the door. I thought I was clever and packed the screwhole with a match and screwed up again. Lasted for a few months and this is where I get R & R'd.

I had looked around for a larger and longer brass screw and then it dawned on me.
I trotted off to the office of the foreman joiner in his workshop. I told him of my problem and he discussed the length and width: With that he rose from his desk threw open his door and yelled down the workshop - 'Chris needs a screw who will help her?

Penny dropped fast, with a bright red face I disappeared back fast to my office! Some time later the Foreman came in with a selection and began to laugh and said 'I could not help it, you were so serious about this screw'.

I have to say I was the only female in this department - I always said I had about 160 big brothers who all looked after me.

I see they're changing the name of Titty to Tatty - Swallows and Amazons - for some new production

I went to school with a girl who had the surname Bastard, although the emphasis was on the last syllable.

As Pat says I have to listen to four letter words in plays and yet nobody apologises, yet they felt it necessary to apologise for that, and now they look stupid.

Very stupid but then many of the presenters are there for their looks and not what's between their ears.

Was Alan deliberately trying to upset things - who knows and I haven't seen it. It's not him people are laughing at though.

I've used a bastard file to trim plaster models when I worked as a dental nurse. I made either plaster of Paris, or a harder plaster dental models, according to what they were required for. I had to trim the bases down and neaten the edges.

I knew the file's name because it was on the inventory (RAF).

They allow all kinds of language on TV these days yet get upset when someone uses the known name for something. :-S

Brilliant Chris. Funniest thing i have read on here in yonks.

So its possible to be Goosed by a Sticky Willie.

ooer - sounds nasty that one :-D

And before you reach for the RR - several gardening terms were listed in paper which had been mentioned on/in media - one which caught my eye was - sticky willy - also known as goose grass.

would be interested to know how far back the term Bastard trenching goes.

Have heard of the surname though.

Havent any problem with it, but wonder if it was used purposefully to stir things up. That seems the name of the game at the moment.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sue

Laughing at AnnCardiffs comment :-D

AnnCardiff. another one is the kretin I married. :-|

EDIT and now am divorced from :-D

Here in Ontario we have a Bastard Township.

Bastard is a township in the Leeds part of United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Ontario, Canada. Since 1998 Bastard Township has been located in the municipality of Rideau Lakes.

Name: Florence Lee Bastard
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Beat 5, Leflore, Mississippi, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 2
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original): Negro
Race: Negro
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birthplace: Mississippi
Birth Year (Estimated): 1938

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Ollie M Bastard Daughter F 9 Mississippi
Corinna Bastard Daughter F 7 Mississippi
George Bastard Son M 5 Mississippi
Florence Lee Bastard Daughter F 2 Mississippi
Louis Bastard Son M 0 Mississippi

and then there's the one who married my sister :-D

Then there is the 'bastard prompt' in threatre.

some people have the surname Bastard :-D

rather like a bastard file........neither smooth nor coarse, but inbetween.......

Bastard trenching, Ann.

It's a legitimate gardening term - just in case some narrow minded itchy finger is hovering.

so what were these gardening terms then :-S

It amused me that the other morning on Breakfast they were interviewing Ricardo Chavira about the play he is appearing in. However they couldn't say what the play was called because the title contained a word that was too rude for morning TV.