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thank you once again for all the atttention you give me
i prob wont have to make any effort to seek attention today
that shoulf boost my ego for at least a day
your too kind panda x
I preferred the Chocolate-RubyRed exchange – left me with a less unpleasant feeling inside, in keeping with the (ending) season
Panda’s stories are ok. I do skim over them as it is all a bit repetative, as are Maria’s and Joker’s stories. Coathanger was the first to come up with the idea and I still feel her’s are the best.
But for best writing, turning fact into fiction goes to Mr Anderson. 8)
A talent I have never got to grips with, but I do appreciate reading.most of the stories have become lame and weak
and are just of a copy cat nature@thin ice wrote:
most of the stories have become lame and weak
and are just of a copy cat naturePerhaps you could turn your literary skills to writing something other than a tirade of Insults or self proclaimed conquests ??? Come on Thick Slice now’s your chance the Spotlight to which you aspire is on YOU!!!
The BBC has a lot to answer for, allowing the Great Unwashed let loose on Dickens. :?
@coathanger wrote:
The BBC has a lot to answer for, allowing the Great Unwashed let loose on Dickens. :?
Now that’s funny given that Dickens published his work in monthly instalments to make it cheap and accessible to “the Great Unwashed” :lol:
I was disappointed with the BBCs recent adaptation of Great Expectations….when I read the book I pictured Miss Havisham as a real horrid old hag…. not the self harming delicate beauty they cast her as.. sort of spoiled it for me :? .. sorry to digress :D
does anybody know where the expression who the dickens cam from?
@best man wrote:
does anybody know where the expression who the dickens cam from?
If you are a great fan of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, let me put your mind at rest by saying that the “dickens” that you find in the expression has nothing to do with the author. “What the dickens” has been around for over five centuries. In the old days, people refrained from using words like “hell”, “devil”, and “Satan” in their speech. They felt that if these words were uttered, their souls would immediately go to hell; as a result, they coined euphemisms for these words. “Dickens” was one of the words they came up with.
The expression “what the dickens” has the same meaning as “what the hell?” and “what the devil?” So when someone says, “Who the dickens are you?” what he is saying is, “Who the hell/devil are you?” According to some scholars “dickens” refers to Satan. One of the terms used to refer to the devil is “Old Nick”. Since “dick” rhymes with “Nick”, the word began to be used to refer to the devil. There are a number of expressions in the English language with the word “dickens”. Some are, “go to the dickens”, “raise the dickens”, “play the dickens” and “the dickens take you”.
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