Frank Reynolds Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 "It was a great start and it's a shame we couldn't extend the lead until late in the day, but what a goal that was by the young whipper-snapper."I can remember scoring goals like that about ten years ago. He picked the ball up on the right, beat fifteen players and then slotted it into the bottom corner."From the main site.It made me laugh anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Made I larf too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSR Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 nope don't get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ashtonunited Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Made I larf too! If murray farted you would laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 If murray farted you would laugh Well I have no sense of smell so I could hardly complain about the pong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Well I have no sense of smell so I could hardly complain about the pong.r u serious? u poor girl. food must be so boring until you put it in your mouth and garden flowers must be without a soul to you. i love opening the door in the morning and fill my lungs with the scents from all those wonderful tropical flower scents. poor you. on the other hand it sure must be a blessing coming out of the bathroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 on the other hand it sure must be a blessing coming out of the bathroom. Yes I am serious, Dolly has no sense of smell.And as I live on my own I just leave the door open anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Yes I am serious, Dolly has no sense of smell.And as I live on my own I just leave the door open anyway orrrrrrr. i bet u got a big poster of scotty on your kitchen wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedTauntonian Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Yes I am serious, Dolly has no sense of smell.And as I live on my own I just leave the door open anyway thought you shared your house with 600 animals!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedTauntonian Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Yes I am serious, Dolly has no sense of smell.And as I live on my own I just leave the door open anyway thought you shared your house with 600 animals!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 thought you shared your house with 600 animals!!!! Try 6 pets and your nearer to the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Whilst we're on the subject, what is a whipper-snapper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yes I am serious, Dolly has no sense of smell.And as I live on my own I just leave the door open anyway Just too much information.Being serious, if you have no sense of smell make sure you have a couple of smoke alarms. They will warn you when the toast is burning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Rollason Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Whilst we're on the subject, what is a whipper-snapper?jiggered if i know but what a great example of our wonderful language.Here is one explanation................from" words @ random"April 16, 1998 whipper-snapper John Hines writes: A senior friend of mine said today, "These young whippersnappers today just don't have any respect for their elders anymore." Seems I heard my Grandpa saying the same thing to me some 40+ years ago. What does "whippersnapper" mean, and where did it come from?A whippersnapper is 'an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one'. A few nineteenth-century examples: "Dost thou think it's nat'ral noo, that having such a proper mun as thou to keep company wi', I'd ever take' opp wi' such a leetle scanty whipper-snapper as yon?" (Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby); "They think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers" (Louisa May Alcott, Little Women); "...had unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil...should become a Parliament man" (Trollope, Phineas Finn). The word whippersnapper--which, as these citations indicate, is often hyphenated--is first recorded in this sense in the late 1690s; there's an example earlier in the seventeenth century, in a book about criminals, that seems to mean 'a rogue; petty criminal'. Whippersnapper is probably a blend of the earlier whipster and snipper-snapper, themselves first recorded in the late sixteenth century. Snipper-snapper is now obsolete or dialectal; it is based on snip-snap, a gradational compound having various parts of speech all generally referring to "snappiness," as of conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 jiggered if i know but what a great example of our wonderful language.Here is one explanation................from" words @ random"April 16, 1998 whipper-snapper John Hines writes: A senior friend of mine said today, "These young whippersnappers today just don't have any respect for their elders anymore." Seems I heard my Grandpa saying the same thing to me some 40+ years ago. What does "whippersnapper" mean, and where did it come from?A whippersnapper is 'an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one'. A few nineteenth-century examples: "Dost thou think it's nat'ral noo, that having such a proper mun as thou to keep company wi', I'd ever take' opp wi' such a leetle scanty whipper-snapper as yon?" (Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby); "They think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers" (Louisa May Alcott, Little Women); "...had unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil...should become a Parliament man" (Trollope, Phineas Finn). The word whippersnapper--which, as these citations indicate, is often hyphenated--is first recorded in this sense in the late 1690s; there's an example earlier in the seventeenth century, in a book about criminals, that seems to mean 'a rogue; petty criminal'. Whippersnapper is probably a blend of the earlier whipster and snipper-snapper, themselves first recorded in the late sixteenth century. Snipper-snapper is now obsolete or dialectal; it is based on snip-snap, a gradational compound having various parts of speech all generally referring to "snappiness," as of conversation.Ahh, yes, you've reminded me that the Internet is an occasional useful place of information. dictionary.com gives the word jackanapes as a synonym for whipper-snapper. Now that's a word you don't see very often!Personally, I think that Cotterill is a jackanapes and that Scott Brown is a whipper-snapper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Being serious, if you have no sense of smell make sure you have a couple of smoke alarms. They will warn you when the toast is burning. They're wired into the mains so the batteries cant run out thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ronmeister Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ahh, yes, you've reminded me that the Internet is an occasional useful place of information. dictionary.com gives the word jackanapes as a synonym for whipper-snapper. Now that's a word you don't see very often!The only person I can think off who would use jackanapes in regular conversation was that brainbox kid on Countdown the other week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Rollason Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ahh, yes, you've reminded me that the Internet is an occasional useful place of information. dictionary.com gives the word jackanapes as a synonym for whipper-snapper. Now that's a word you don't see very often!Personally, I think that Cotterill is a jackanapes and that Scott Brown is a whipper-snapper.i believe the phrase derives from the northern expression " whippet snatchers". which reminds me....we didnt give that cheerless lot a chorus of " does your whippet know your here"....dammm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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