Topic: What would you understand by this phrase?

[Oldmanofthewoods]

Baguette? ............................................(has your Wife already eaten?)

[machman5]

Can I just say, I have found this thread really funny!  ;D

My son has Aspergers and hates Idioms and the like, he's 17 now and he has to analyse them all the time!   :-\

This thread has been like so many of our conversations at home but much, much funnier.

Thanks Georgie for starting it.

Donna xx

[Oldmanofthewoods]

What is Asperger's?

[emmy1978]

Donna - Have you read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. It is about a boy with Asperger's and talks a lot, very wittily about the problem with metaphors and idioms.

[grawrc]

Old Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

It's an excellent book Emma.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

"chacon a son gout" - Jack has a distressing medical complaint

I was talking to some French people, and one of the got stuck for a word and said to the others (in French)- how do you say "Le weekend" in English?

[Oldmanofthewoods]

As George Bush says "The French have no word for entrepreneur"  Silly old thingy.

[louise stella]

When I was a PA - (ie: before I realised there was more to life and escaped) _ if we got a task that was impossible to do in the time given - we used to say it was like "nailing jelly to the ceiling" !! 

Some wit even gave me a set of jelly moulds for christmas once!

Louise

[asbean]

Louise, thank you for bumping this thread - it brings a smile on a Monday morning and memories of some happy times on the forum, and there are some people on then who haven't posted or visited for AGES - I wonder how they are - Hot Potato, Emmy1978, Oldmanofthewoods, Vegemite - to name a few.

[pippy]

An asian friend of mine once muddled some sayings up and said he was running around like a blue bottomed chicken!

[Georgie]

I'd forgotten all about it.  Such larks.   ;D

G x

PS The guilty senior manager has not, to my knowledge, used such inaccessible language since.  A minor victory I think.   :)

[Palustris]

We had a French friend who managed doors which said 'Pull' or 'Push' easily, but had hysterics when she came to one which said 'Lift'!

[Kea]

There is an incredible number of people on this forum (myself included) that have children with Asperger's. You probably know yourself that you recognise some symptoms they have in yourself so maybe the obsessive nature of gardener's is an indicator?


My ex Mother-in-law who was dutch went into the local shop (where she lived in NZ) and asked if they had any 'Homosexual milk'?   meaning homogenised!

It was while before she dared go back.

[Tulipa]

My OH has a little trouble with words - he always tells me he is ravishing!!  - he gets famished and ravenous mixed up! :)

T.

[louise stella]

Louise, thank you for bumping this thread - it brings a smile on a Monday morning and memories of some happy times on the forum, and there are some people on then who haven't posted or visited for AGES - I wonder how they are - Hot Potato, Emmy1978, Oldmanofthewoods, Vegemite - to name a few.

You're welcome - I was bored last night and stumbled across it and thought it was hilarious!

Louise

[tonybloke]

There is an incredible number of people on this forum (myself included) that have children with Asperger's. You probably know yourself that you recognise some symptoms they have in yourself so maybe the obsessive nature of gardener's is an indicator?


My ex Mother-in-law who was dutch went into the local shop (where she lived in NZ) and asked if they had any 'Homosexual milk'?   meaning homogenised!

It was while before she dared go back.

Did she also ask for a packet of 'Hermesexuals' as she didn't take sugar! ;D ;D ;D