To wonder what mental image people have for 'towing the line'...

[LaFlambeau]

When the correct expression is 'toeing the line'?

Last month someone on eBay locally was selling a 'Poole Table'. After watching it fail to sell for the third time I messaged them and explained if they listed it as a 'Pool Table' they might have more luck. 2 days later it was re listed..... as a Poole Table. I gave up at that point.

Also, on the subject of 'Chester Draws' sellers, I've now come across people flogging 'walldrobes'. There are 12 listings for the things, and this one has a 'desk under neath'. I assume it's a Swansea desk as thats 'under Neath'.....

Is a walldrobe like a floordrobe, I wonder, with the wall & clothes having the opposite bits of velcro on them iyswim.

So you throw your clothes at the wall & they stick there?

diddl that could be an outstanding invention

One of the best 'walldrobes' I saw was a copy of the book 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' where despite having a big photo of the book in the listing they still continued to refer to it as a 'Walldrobe'. I often wonder if C.S. Lewis perhaps wrote an unknown sequel.

LMAO at pullet surprise, is that some sort of chicken recipe.

Other things that get my goat:

1. People who say "ptun" when they mean "clannicle"

1. As much eighth as a Forton Head - SEVENTH, not Eighth

1. Arse in the "guest room" - no, "Goose" in the "spittoon"!

1. People who think Henry of Pontefract was actually from Yorkshire; he was from Devon. That's the joke. That's why he is called Henry of Pontefract!

1. "Brandywine pies". They are not. They are brandy AND wine pies.

1. "I could care less" is very, very, very FUCKING wrong. YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOU CARE. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. STOP SAYING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

My pet hate is when people use "ignorant

Ahh stupid phone!!

My pet hate is when people use ignorant to describe someone who has ignored them rather than someone who lacks knowledge.

"ignorant" can mean "discourteous or rude", so not too far off

mie systers teeecher wunce rote that er werk wos 'obismal'

Is a walldrobe like a floordrobe, I wonder, with the wall & clothes having the opposite bits of velcro on them iyswim.
So you throw your clothes at the wall & they stick there?

I think you should withdraw this post, before someone steals your idea. You should go to Dragons Den with it.

Would Mumsnet put "deleted due to brilliant idea soon to be rubbished seen on Dragen's Den"?

Would Mumsnet put "deleted due to brilliant idea soon to be rubbished seen on Dragen's Den"?

Maybe. If you ask them nicely
I think it would be better than some of what has been featured on Dragons Den.

Walldrobes are the next Trunki's don't you know

As much eighth as a Forton Head - SEVENTH, not Eighth

^what on earth does that mean? never heard anything like it

I once went to the Vatican with someone who wanted to see the 'sixteenth chapel'.

I hate it when people can't use question tags and say 'but he wanted to go there, no?

And, on a slightly different tack, why do people say 'if that makes any sense' at the end of a sentence. For example, you go straight down the high street and turn left at the church, if that makes any sense. Well, it did until you sowed that seed of doubt in my mind...

I was the poster who name changed to DireRear.

It wasn't a mistake........... It was a pun obviously

echt
While I'm here, "fulsome" to describe the praise given, say, to a dead person at their funeral, when it means nauseatingly fawning.

I can sees where the error comes from; the "ful" bit sounds as if the praise is well-deserved.

Ohhhhh. Every time I read of "fulsome praise", I thought the writer intended to say that, all in all, he thought the praise was a bit much and tending towards hagiography. I think I may have to re-read various things with your post in mind!

I was visiting a school a few weeks ago which had a lovely display about the future aspirations of their Y6 leavers.

'W the future diplomat'
'X the future scientists'
'Y the future striker'
'Z the future exhibitionist'

Re: Chaucer and cheep/cheap meaning 'stock'.

Would that have any bearing on that venerable London street named Cheapside? I used to work near there and often wondered....

marvellous thread btw!

I read a post on mn about a dh who put someone on a pedal stool. She got some very good advice and some very gentle teasing.

vindscreenviper what did they mean? exhibitioner as in scholarship (which doesn't project many years ahead!)?

I'm not 100% sure but the accompanying pics made it look like the young lad was keen on 'entertaining' i.e dressed as a magician and such like.

I remember my ganny telling me not to 'make an exhibition' of myself when I was being a little show-off/drama queen/whiney pita, so I thought it was a very strange label for a 10 y.o., it never occurred to me to think it was anything to do with scholarships though.

'Ignorant' to mean something like 'rude' rather than lacking in knowledge.

Yes, I know, evolved meaning, blah blah blah...

It still makes me want to claw my eyes out.

www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/toothcomb

fine tooth comb
fine toothcomb

meh