to have told my sister in law to return to her wind tunnel?

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She does have lips the size of Georgia and a look of permanent shock, but that is not really my beef with her. It was a low shot and, actually very unreasonable, but rather pleasant.

I just like saying, 'shake a rake'. Dh is snoring and I want to shake a rake at him. I am not sure that we have a rake but I want to shake it. It sounds very seventeenth century, as a course of action. Shake a rake.

OP, have you become a tad tired and emotional ?

don't crash with your arms over the back of a chair, fgs

Are you sure that you dont mean Shake a Snake?

A rake is not very aerodynamic to shake. Rake shaking is quite tedious. The shape of the rake does not lend itself to shaking. Sorry.

I am speaking as an experience Rake-Shaker.

now stroking a snake is much more interesting

dh didn't really have a choice because the rake had been shaken by the time that he turned up. We do have a rake but it is one of those long thiny pronged articles, whereas the rake that was shaken at me was a sort of t-junction with a few prongs, iyswim.

We agreed not to talk about it over dinner.

Plumbers in Cotswolds do exist but no one shares them. pm me if you want one.

Hmmm.... imagines a combination of those two actions...

dh was a bit speechless. Have any of you read, 'The Country Life', by Rachel Cusk? The protagonist was working as an au-pair and at some very random point she called the cleaning lady a cunt. It didn't seem to be mentioned after that. I suspect that he hopes it will go that way.

this thread has made my evening

I was not the first to shake a rake. I was the rake shakee. She shaked the rake.
Shake a rake.

Are you sure it wasn't a pitchfork hon? and If not - it would fit very well if it was :o she sounds like the sort to wave a pitchfork!

Sorry - am just pissing myself laughing - Go girl! ROAR!!

BEWILDERED! That is what I have been thinking of, what with my seventeenth century notions, and all. A PITCHFORK. Unfortunately it was definitely a rake. A t-junction, rather functional rake. But with such rake, she did give me a veritable shake. I lament that the past participle of shake is shook, because it limits my shaking a rake possibilities. She will have to shake a rake again or otherwise it will be a boring old talk of her having shooken a rook.

I'm still confused what you meant with your windtunnel comment. But well done on finding your roar.

(Annie, it is a very, very bitchy and unsisterly way to imply that someone has had a face lift. I am not even sure where I picked it up. And could I ask you about the origin of your name. I think that I have googled it and got nowhere. I am not working tomorrow and I am having a rare old night doing the internet. But I am curious about your name. And I am being a bit of a bitch tonight with the shaking a rake, but she did shake the rake. At four o'clock on a sunny Sunday afternoon, which is not an appropriate time to shake the rake.)

:o

Annie, OP mentioned that she "was unreasonable to mention her rather problematic plastic surgery" and that SIL had "a look of permanent shock" - I imagine that SIL's facial skin is rather , ah, stretched; giving the impression that she is standing facing into a windtunnel.

Ah. Nice one!! Or nasty one, depending on whether you were giver or receiver of the comment!

My name is Hebrew, ani lo beseder, which means "I am not okay". Meant in the "I is a bit mad in the head, innit?" kind of way, not that I am sad or otherwise troubled. In Israel you tell people they're "not okay" when they're acting in an inappropriate or silly manner.

Sorry for the long-winded explanation but I've previously been offered faces which were unwarranted cos in general, I'm a very happy soul!

You're going to give that poor rake whiplash!!!

Did someone spike my drink?

Am I really the first person in the history of the university (which is what ds1 calls the world) to have been on the receiving end of a rake, with regard to a bit of a shake?

OMG have just been realising I've been reading the whole thread in a Welsh accent!

Go for it - I've been told I'm a princess tonight - not in a good way - quite a lesson

BTW - should I be worried that you and your rake are staking me, OP? I'm not sure I've ever been Googled by another MNer before!

You doubters will face the rake shakers. Do not shake a rake in the face of others unless you have had a rake shaken in your own face. Today I have had a rake shaked in my face. Tomorrow you may find a rake shaked in your face. None of us can know the day that we may have a rake shaken in our faces. One day, one of us, yes one of us may shake a rake. May none of us shake a rake. And I do hope that my sil is on mn. How many people shaked a rake? In a fairly limited area? Put the rake down.

And return to your wind tunnel.

I told dp last week that we need a rake, maybe he hasn't got one because he thinks I might shake it at him. I threw a sandwich at him last week, it had salad cream on it

Shook a rook. Tee hee.

This thread is gold.

jjj Water and paracetamol >>

I wish that I had taken a picture of her shaking her rake; I would have made it into a Christmas card. Damn.