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(Cluck needs a holiday, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:02, archived)

This is splendid.

( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:02, archived)

ta
:)
(Cluck needs a holiday, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 21:05, archived)

Excellent
have a biscuit.



Did anyone else just notice that post and delete back there?
(Pavlov'sDog Sit! Pavlov'sDog, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:03, archived)

Me?

( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:04, archived)

that's right!
him!
( Discomeats RUSK! FOR VICTORY!, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:04, archived)

No... Ptolemy, I think was the name. Possibly.
Wasn't really paying attention
(Pavlov'sDog Sit! Pavlov'sDog, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:04, archived)

I was just going to say,

bear in mind that the gay shift prolly won't even have a clue what the word "fortnight" actually means....
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:05, archived)

Really?
Is it UK specific?
( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:06, archived)

It is indeed
very much so (as I learned to my cost)
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:07, archived)

But it's just 14 nights.
A fortnight.
( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:07, archived)

I know *sighs*
it makes complete sense to you and me, but not to a nation for whom "football" has to be renamed "soccer" to avoid confusion with games which involve actually handling a ball.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:10, archived)

Surely the word existed for all those early immigrants from these fair isles
that went over? I think they do know but are just being silly.
( Jay, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:13, archived)

meh
"very rare" it says here - in my experience a considerable underestimate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:16, archived)

and here it says they just plain forgot it
www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/ruining/

Madness. What do they say instead do you think? Perhaps they have no equally spaced bimonthly events at all.
( Jay, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:20, archived)

^him
Didn't even get a chance to read it.
(Pavlov'sDog Sit! Pavlov'sDog, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:06, archived)

I saw it

( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:05, archived)

what flavour
biscuit I mean, not deleted post!
(Cluck needs a holiday, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 21:06, archived)

nice!
heh, if you've seen the simpsons movie, you'll laugh even more!
(ArchNemesis :(){ :|:& };:, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 22:11, archived)