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I have went through that many times at daycare... but THANKFULLY, our first two days at grade school have been year free... for him at least [emoji5] when I picked him up yesterday I asked how it went and he was so big when he replied “ Actually... not that bad”
LOL!!! He wouldn’t have been so good about it even six months ago but he was ready now!
I have to admit that when my little one kept running behind me and holding both my pant legs screaming noooooo...I waited for a few months before sending him off to school. It was only preschool. I know that most families nowadays don't have that option. We did play school at home for awhile though because he wanted to learn.
 

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I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!
It's like people say I am unthawing a turkey for Thanksgiving. If you are unthawing a turkey you are freezing it.
 

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Yes and a video of making an aluminum sculpture of the inside of an anthill. They poured melted aluminum down the main hole and it smoked as it went down. It was cool as heck. And the resulting sculpture was kind of cute. The big plus was no ants.
I finally found it!
 

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I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!

Love this Yvonne!!
 

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Did I mention that I ordered me a mixture of duckling eggs a couple weeks ago?? They are incubating now and due to hatch next Thursday. I ordered 12 eggs and I have 8 viable babies at this point. I got an email that my chicken coop was delivered today . Maybe I’ll get that together in the early hours this weekend.
I have a lot of wild ducks that visit so I thought some home-base foragers might be good for the property...
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I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!
Woooowww...... my mind has just been blown.

The English language is very weird if you think about it.
 

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Did I mention that I ordered me a mixture of duckling eggs a couple weeks ago?? They are incubating now and due to hatch next Thursday. I ordered 12 eggs and I have 8 viable babies at this point. I got an email that my chicken coop was delivered today . Maybe I’ll get that together in the early hours this weekend.
I have a lot of wild ducks that visit so I thought some home-base foragers might be good for the property...
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Nice chicken coop. Have fun with the ducklings.
 

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Did I mention that I ordered me a mixture of duckling eggs a couple weeks ago?? They are incubating now and due to hatch next Thursday. I ordered 12 eggs and I have 8 viable babies at this point. I got an email that my chicken coop was delivered today . Maybe I’ll get that together in the early hours this weekend.
I have a lot of wild ducks that visit so I thought some home-base foragers might be good for the property...
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Looking forward to seeing the cuties [emoji7]
 

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The US language is routinely one of the hardest to learn due our nuances, slang, dialects etc. Heck just look at some of the reality shows in the US have to be sub-titled.

English as it’s spoken in Great Britain is no better. You lot just mangled it further!
 

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[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] That is hilarious and so UP our alley.
I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!
 

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For a moment there I thought you were Anne! [emoji23]
That is brilliant and so true - we do have a crazy language.
My pet hates at the moment are when people are asked questions and they begin every answer with 'so' , and when someone says something is 'so fun'
'So funny'' or such fun' or 'good fun' are fine but 'so fun' just does not sound right.
There - rant over!!
 

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Aahhhh, what a sweetie pie. I could give him a big hug right now.
I have went through that many times at daycare... but THANKFULLY, our first two days at grade school have been year free... for him at least [emoji5] when I picked him up yesterday I asked how it went and he was so big when he replied “ Actually... not that bad”
LOL!!! He wouldn’t have been so good about it even six months ago but he was ready now!
 

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How sweet. And did it help / work?
I have to admit that when my little one kept running behind me and holding both my pant legs screaming noooooo...I waited for a few months before sending him off to school. It was only preschool. I know that most families nowadays don't have that option. We did play school at home for awhile though because he wanted to learn.
 

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Ooohhh how eggciting!!!
Did I mention that I ordered me a mixture of duckling eggs a couple weeks ago?? They are incubating now and due to hatch next Thursday. I ordered 12 eggs and I have 8 viable babies at this point. I got an email that my chicken coop was delivered today . Maybe I’ll get that together in the early hours this weekend.
I have a lot of wild ducks that visit so I thought some home-base foragers might be good for the property...
View attachment 278598
 

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