The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread

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All women welcome, pull up a pygmy hog, the bargerbil will serve you a drink, the flying squirrels will bring you something to read and the goats will do...I'm not entirely sure.

There may be more than the usual amount of chaos as we transition to the new thread.

I was going to mention Dreamies, Errol, and like you, my only knowledge of and familiarity with them is from them being mentioned on here, and deducing from context that they are 'edible things cats are mad for'

<Looks up from Pedantry Corner> The plural of ibis can be either ibises or ibis, which seems a touch flexible but the dictionary assures me it is so. Tcha! We’ll be having sheeps next!

Where I come from, 'sheeps' was once the normal plural among country people

Pronounced 'ships', hence a rural local impatiently correcting a visiting townie, "Not 'em ships as sails on sea, 'em ships as 'as tails an' eats grass!"

I don't know if there's actually catnip in them, but cats consume them like they're crack. Or mini Toblerones, maybe.

There used to be a standard joke from where I grew up, about the mother who wants DC to grow up speaking proper.

DC: Ma, the yow has lambed

Mum: It's not yow, it's ewe

DC: No, not me ma, the yow

But how do you count your sheeps and yows? (Dont click the link if you’ve got other things you need to do this afternoon 😂)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera

I speak no Welsh nor Cornish, but I can tell where that comes from 😉

I misread Brythonic as Byronic and couldn't work out where he fitted into it. 🤔😂

I have vague memories of learning that in my Yorkshire childhood, but nowadays can’t remember beyond pip.

In deference to @Chersfrozenfaceand her childhood, I withdraw sheeps as an example, however pronounced, and substitute mooses.

Senior offspring and a cousin, when young, went for a short walk with me to see the sheep(s) once. Both were shouting "ships" over the fence to try and get them to come closer - we're Kent so it just sounded like they were swearing profusely! I pointed out that maybe the sheep didn't understand, and they both seamlessly switched to baa-ing instead 😂

And get Chip King in there with a large portion.

(For those who missed out on a recent thread, West Streeting's constituency office was daubed with graffiti that was supposed to say 'child killer' (the usual hyperbole about puberty blockers) but they'd made such a hash of it that it looked like 'Chip King'.)

Reminds me of when I was on a walk and happened across a school party of teenagers. They, well out of earshot of teacher, were calling the cows fuckers. I thought about telling them they were actually heifers.

Of course we all know that the male version of a yow is a shape.

Mr Jinks: "I hate meeces to pieces!"

Bonus points for names of production company, TV show and associated publications.

Round hare, thas a tup.

My Grandad always came to attention, saluted and said "Morning Admiral" when he crossed paths with a magpie.

I was taught to always say "good morning Mr Magpie and how are you today"

A friend once speculated why we had spouses and not spice.

The lions are assembling at my DB’s place on Asa before I go into hospital. I’d like to think it’s in honour of seeing me before I become immobile, but it’s just a coincidence.

I spent half an hour earlier with DH working out how I will get up and down stairs while in a non-weight bearing cast. We have a spiral staircase which we thought might pose a problem. However, he will hold my leg going up, and help me stand at the top. We have moved the small stepladder to the top of the stairs, so I can sit on that to lower myself down to the top stair to go down, and he will help me stand at the bottom.

Why? Is there a superstition that if you don’t say hello that there will be bad luck?

And you can see why.. .

Oh yes!

It's the "one for sorrow, two for joy" rhyme. The rest goes "and how are your wife and children?", the implication being that you haven't just met a single magpie for sorrow, you've met loads of them, you just didn't actually spot the rest of them.

R.e. going up and down stairs on crutches - slowly! It's quite tiring. There's videos on Youtube. When is your op?

If you get too stir crazy at home you can hire mobility aids. I kinda fancied a knee scooter or a decent speed buggy.