Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

Please sign in here if you do. I think people who use it should be shot.

Crimbola has a worryingly festive ring to it.

"December 17th 2 p: Crimbola in the Elysium Fields Retirement Home"

xpistos! I'm liking that as an ejaculation

Also - against Nature though it may be - there is something rather nice about Chrimb-Olaaa. Said in annoying fratboy voice.

2 pm

Lol Christmas with the Barlows: another Snowball, Swedes?

xpistos! Yes. I really do like it.

just wondering how you're pronouncing that, onebat

I suspect the Barlows have canapes.

Canapes is another word that I have grown to love. But I am very firm in the belief it must be (mis)pronounced canopies or canapes to rhyme with grapes.

Xpistos is rather pleasing. I say it like Stavros who works in a restaurant near Farringdon tube staish.

Agree, Swedes.
Yum, canopies.
With oloves
And smoked sal-mon. (Er, that one was my forrin h)

I want to spend just one Christmas with Blanche. We could deconstruct Postman Pat together.

This thread has made me very happy. It's like Xmas has come early

you've got to pronounce Xpistos erm, uncyrillically or it loses its oomph.

Is your dh Espanisha, finknottle? I love the way they pronounce sal-món. Or perhaps Italian (sál-mon)?

I want to cuddle swedes' tutor who called the ratio decidendi the ratty deck.

I have a feeling he is Mole from Wind in the Willows.

My h is Deutsch.

Threadworm, I want to nominate your post of 9.50:

"Perhaps here (sorry, quick wank) we have the whole history of metaphysical thought, from magic, through religion, to philosophy..."

for Quote of the Week.

It encapsulates MN for me and I'm still laughing at and relishing the non-apologetic tone of "(sorry, quick wank)"

Seconded, finknottle

Surely a crimbalo is a bungalow covered in house bling?

chrimbalo

(You have to look quite closely)

I can't actually see that onebat! (and I am long-sighted)

It's Father Christmases on a Pedalo

I got it onebat!

here we are for the less eagle-eyed.

Horrors! On closer inspection there appears to be a babe on the crimbalo too!

Is it the Baby Cheeses?

yes UD - They should be shot. Very slowly. With a rusty bullet. And buried in a grave marked " Victim of the Tight-arsed Liberal Fascists".

I thought it was going to be a gruffalo dressed as FC... obviously I have too high hopes!

See, what I like about this thread now is that it has moved on, in such a weird way, from the OP that those people who - quite reasonably () - turn up to answer it (without having read through the thread) now appear to have some kind of C(h)rimbo related tourettes-like condition....

E.g.

• "Up with Chrimbo!"
• "Down with Chrimbo!"
• "UQD is a language hating, kill-joy prude!"
• "UQD is the defender of all that is holy and good in this country!"

And so on.

I too thought Wind in the Willows, Threadworrm.

And what about Gary Barlow (M&S/Take That Chrimbo fusion)?

I prefer this for Quote of the week (if they allow two-part posts)

By Swedes on Wed 17-Dec-08 13:35:13

Thready - Weren't the Ionian Thinkers the first philosophers, moving from myth to science (the cosmos)? I feel we should be discussing the word 'flux'.

By onebatmotherofgoditschilly on Wed 17-Dec-08 13:54:09

ffluxsake.

We received a card today..... with the words 'Crimbo Crazy' on the front
UQD- you would hate it!

Really dislike Crimbo but can cope with the occassional Xmas