General Chat

What about the word "breakfast" which actually means breaking your fast. Quite logical when you think about it.

Sister Sledge - We are Family - I think part of it sounds like "making love in a femidom" but don't think they'd been invented then and sure it's not right!

That's very informative, Bob. Thanks for that...... I had big trouble understanding hymns in infant school, too. Who were the Neddy and Percy we sang about, in the hymn ' Jesus good above all other '?? ... It was some time before I realised it should be ' ne'er divide us and with joy we'll persevere..'.

In the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries, 14th – 20th centuries, a hundredweight = 112 pounds, although other values have existed. Abbr, cwt. Before approximately the 14th century there were two hundredweights in England, one of 100 pounds, and one of 108 pounds, used for wax, sugar, pepper, cinnamon, nutmegs, and so on. In 1340, King Edward III changed the value of the stone from 12½ pounds to 14 pounds. Since a hundredweight is 8 stones, the 100-pound hundredweight became 112 pounds. There are, of course 20cwt to the ton (2240lbs). This is different to the tonne which is 1000kilos (2204.6lbs). The astute reader will have noticed how suppliers managed a nice price increase by converting from tons to tonnes at the same price. In America the cwt was rarely used and meant different things in different states and according to what was being weighed. Are you still awake? Bob

Bill.......Touche' BUT we could only previously refer to degrees below freezing in fahrenheit........centigrade only went to zero degrees, where as celsius does read in minus degrees....... Bob

Thanks Ann. That's cleared a few things up! Karen I never knew what that line was either

Bob, no maybe about it, this was an International Standard decision, at the the time of introduction, Centigrade was vetoed by the French.

Ah! yes bill, maybe, but it is only in the last 10 years or so that we in Britain have used " celcius"......

Norah...something to do with " bee gees?"

When Centigrade scale was introduced in the place of Fahrenheit, The French pointed out that it wouldnt work in the french language Centi meaning hundred, therefore it was decided to change it to Celsius.

Try this - and weep http://www(.)rulefortytwo(.)com/mondegreenhall(.)htm

And what's that song? "bald-headed woman" please does someone know the one I mean? Norah

Glad it was curds ... could have been worse!

Karen Thank God there's someone else as daft as me on here! lol Anyway it's football stuff so who cares?! It obviously runs in the family though. This is how my eldest daughter used to sing 'sing a song of sixpence' Sing a song of six packs A pocket full of ride Four and twenty black curds baked in a pie When the pie was open the birds began to sing Wasn't that a painty dish to set before the king. Jeanette

er - yeah Sometimes you feel such a FOOL

Ann...... Cock Linnet?

Oh how embarassing ... for years I thought the phrase in My Old Man Said Follow the Van was I followed on with my old cot linen ...

Right chaps, and chappesses,Celsius is the same scale as Centigrade....EXCEPT that Cent. only goes from 0 deg.to 100deg. freezing to boiling. Celsius also goes in NEGATIVE degrees......Bob

Bob Celcius was the Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade measuring scale. It was called centigrade till someone thought it ought to be re-named. Len

It took me ages that at the bottom of certain adverts when it says "exludes ROI" meant Republic of Ireland. There was also something else the other night but I've forgotten now!