Monday 11 September 2017

Finally losing it

In trying to say something to John, I've just come out with this bewildering aphorism: "let him who is without stone cast the first greenhouse".

Now, I know what I meant, but I doubt whether anyone else would, and I've decided that the last miserable wits are finally trickling out of my poor wretched head. Worrying isn't it? Well, it certainly worries me.

Is this kind of thing happening to anyone else?

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  1. Love it! I totally understand your meaning. You could start a fashion of inverted sayings.

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    1. Thank you for understanding, ER. We horsey people must stick together.

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  2. Sounds fine to me. I'm sitting here stoned in my glasshouse.

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  3. Could be the title of a new novel!

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    1. Brilliant idea! A bit long, though?

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    2. No worse than for example
      'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared' ;)

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    3. True. But not so easy to remember. Even I can't remember it!

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  4. No - I'm afraid IRS just you, Frances 😊

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    1. Wendy, what's IRS? Am I going to like it?

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    2. I've found 96 meanings for IRS none of which make any sense in this context so I have a feeling that Wendy's spillchucker had a hissy fit. I'd love to know what the proper explanation is though.

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  5. I can't beat Adrian's comment. Priceless!

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    1. Maggie, delete your comment or learn Latin. I bet a pound to a penny what I writ was a non sekwiture.

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    2. Maggie, thank you for your comment. And ignore Adrian. His is classic attention-seeking behaviour.

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  6. I hate to be pedantic, Frances, but is it an aphorism?

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