Funny license plates.

[Flameangel]

Hey @Ozstung, just googled after Merlin ? the name...
Guava is a tropical fruit, GUANO is Batshit ...........now that's clarified ....... Thanks @MerlintheMad,you are like the all knowing forum " Oricle "

 

[MerlintheMad]

So you weren't joking around. See? I can't ever tell, especially when someone hides behind "it's a cultural thing".

Thanks @MerlintheMad,you are like the all knowing forum " Oricle "

I must remind you what I always say about myself: I know practically nothing about almost everything. (but vocabulary is one of my stronger suits)

 

[Ozstung]

So you weren't joking around. See? I can't ever tell, especially when someone hides behind "it's a cultural thing".

I must remind you what I always say about myself: I know practically nothing about almost everything. (but vocabulary is one of my stronger suits)

Yes Merlin we like to throw the odd red herring or perhaps a smoked herring (Kipper) in there to keep you on your toes. I just got lasy with Guavo, Guano, Guantanamo thing.

 

[Ozstung]

So you weren't joking around. See? I can't ever tell, especially when someone hides behind "it's a cultural thing".

I must remind you what I always say about myself: I know practically nothing about almost everything. (but vocabulary is one of my stronger suits)

Merlin just watch out you don't choke on a cufflink one day

 

[MerlintheMad]

Merlin just watch out you don't choke on a cufflink one day

There you go again.

 

[Flameangel]

Merlin just watch out you don't choke on a cufflink one day

Tailor made just for you ( sorry Merlin, can't help it ........it's that Ozstung, he always starts it.........blame him !!

 

[Nasscar]

Tailor made just for you ( sorry Merlin, can't help it ........it's that Ozstung, he always starts it.........blame him !!

You shouldn't really be making those off the cuff remarks Flame.

 

[Flameangel]

You shouldn't really be making those off the cuff remarks Flame.

We better button this one up quickly but while we are on the subject I bought a new eco-friendly suit the other day made of Cactus leaves, got to admit I look pretty sharp in it

 

[Nasscar]

We better button this one up quickly but while we are on the subject I bought a new eco-friendly suit the other day made of Cactus leaves, got to admit I look pretty sharp in it

I knew you wouldn't be able to resist any longer. I wonder what Merlin has up his sleeve....It's a bit of a prickly subject now.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I knew you wouldn't be able to resist any longer. I wonder what Merlin has up his sleeve....It's a bit of a prickly subject now.

It's not that I lack the wit; I have not the talent. I'm more into pratfalls.

 

[eljay]

Euw! This kind of punditry should put you all in cuffs!

But, back to the topic, I saw a couple of cute plates in traffic this morning. On a Ford SUV: N RN. And on a Cayenne S: SLO MO.

 

[Ozstung]

It's not that I lack the wit; I have not the talent. I'm more into pratfalls.

What's a "Pratfall?"

 

[Nasscar]

What's a "Pratfall?"

Is that like a practical joke.

 

[Kevin Arnold]

 

[eljay]

What's a "Pratfall?"

I thought this would have been answered by now, but it hasn't been so into English teacher mode I go, and totally off topic.

A pratfall is a fall on one's prat, tushy, butt, fanny, rear end, whatever you choose to call it. It's also a stunt fall (usually ending up on one's rear) performed by an actor or comic who is trying to get laughs by looking like a prat, idiot, fool, jerk, etc.

I thought this was a term we shared throughout the US, England, and Australia, but this morning at tai chi I asked a fellow student, who's from Britain, and he knew the term "prat" as fool, but not as rear end, and had never heard the term pratfall, and he's older than me. So I guess it's American, and probably goes back to the early 20th c. and comics like Keaton and Chaplin, who were masters of the pratfall.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Lol, @eljay has yet to disappoint me.

Yes, "I am more into pratfalls" means exactly what you think: better to be the one to laugh at yourself first. I took my early life cues from Red Skelton.

 

[Flameangel]

I thought this would have been answered by now, but it hasn't been so into English teacher mode I go, and totally off topic.

A pratfall is a fall on one's prat, tushy, butt, fanny, rear end, whatever you choose to call it. It's also a stunt fall (usually ending up on one's rear) performed by an actor or comic who is trying to get laughs by looking like a prat, idiot, fool, jerk, etc.

I thought this was a term we shared throughout the US, England, and Australia, but this morning at tai chi I asked a fellow student, who's from Britain, and he knew the term "prat" as fool, but not as rear end, and had never heard the term pratfall, and he's older than me. So I guess it's American, and probably goes back to the early 20th c. and comics like Keaton and Chaplin, who were masters of the pratfall.

We don't use the word 'Prat' in Australia for fool or rear end. But having my early childhood in UK yes know it as meaning fool/ idiot etc

 

[Nasscar]

Always have to reach for the dictionary after one of Merlin's posts.

 

[Nasscar]

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Not that there's anything wrong with it!!

 

[Flameangel]

Not that there's anything wrong with it!!

It's a very happy, cheerful car