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Apologies for the font – I am an old codger as well as cosy and others on this board.
from the urban dictionary
codger:
an old person. Derives from coffin dodgersome old codger died last night at the old peoples homeThe origin of codger seems to lie in the complex links between cadger and codger (not as a contraction of ‘coffin-dodger’, as one of my more inventive correspondents has suggested). In some parts of England the two words were used interchangeably, whereas in other regions they were separate words, one meaning ‘beggar’ and the other ‘eccentric/grotesque fellow’. The latter meaning is the one used in an early example of ‘old codger’, David Garrick’s farce Bon Ton, 1775:
“My Lord’s servants call you an old out-of-fashion’d Codger.”
Men who had fallen on hard times and had resorted to any means possible to keep body and soul together were often those who were too old to find work. A cadger was likely to be a grizzled character wanting to borrow or steal from you; a codger was a peculiar and unfashionable chap, and both were likely to be old. ‘Old codger’ is most likely to be the linguistic merging of all those images.David Garrick’s farce Bon Ton, 1775:Fits everyone over 50, Cosy. Sorry
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One of my worst nightmares when I was a kid, was being chased by airplanes with them shooting at me.I always had a bit in the dreams when id just get to the door of my house and fall with just a few feet too go.Then I would have that paralazing feeling of not being Abel to move.Id seethe bullets rain down on me and could do nothing .Very frightening.
I had a similar nightmare, but the planes were going to drop a nuclear bomb on me.
Once, for real, I ran home from the town centre because a low-lying plane was overhead. The plane seemed to be following me, and I was too scared to do more than just cry as I ran.
Mind you, my excuse was it was a time of great tension int eh world, when there was much talk of a possible nuclear war breaking out.
I had a similar nightmare, but the planes were going to drop a nuclear bomb on me. Once, for real, I ran home from the town centre because a low-lying plane was overhead. The plane seemed to be following me, and I was too scared to do more than just cry as I ran. Mind you, my excuse was it was a time of great tension int eh world, when there was much talk of a possible nuclear war breaking out.
was this in 1754?
One of my nightmares is of falling off one of the London bridges into the Thames. This BBC footage shows it happening at Westminster bridge yesterday.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39359874
I thought of you when I first heard about this sceptical remembering your post about bridges collapsing!
Made me shudder and realise that some of our fears really do happen to people !
One of my nightmares is of falling off one of the London bridges into the Thames. This BBC footage shows it happening at Westminster bridge yesterday.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39359874
I thought of you when I first heard about this sceptical remembering your post about bridges collapsing! Made me shudder and realise that some of our fears really do happen to people !
You’ve got the wrong person LD – unless Sceptical Guy is The Divine Love
One of my nightmares is of falling off one of the London bridges into the Thames. This BBC footage shows it happening at Westminster bridge yesterday.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39359874
I thought of you when I first heard about this sceptical remembering your post about bridges collapsing! Made me shudder and realise that some of our fears really do happen to people !
You’ve got the wrong person LD – unless Sceptical Guy is The Divine Love
OOps who was it then who posted about bridges collapsing?
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