Beau Peep Notice Board
Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on May 15, 2009, 05:17:59 PM
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The little blue light stays on, but it doesn't boil any water. Bloody nuisance. Now I'll have to buy a new one.
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;D
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Interesting euphemism, Peepsie.
I went to school with a Scott Chisholm (name unchanged to protect anyone with the name I might have changed it to). Smashing chap, and a great hockey player (represented Scotland many times), but English was never his strong point. I vividly recall the time we entered the classroom to fond the word "euphemism" chalked up on the blackboard. Chizz pondered for a couple of seconds before offering his wisdom to the rest of us. "That's that mercy killing, isn't it?"...
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It did cross my mind to put "Kettle has died" as the headline, but that would have been crass and insensitive.
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And not like you at all, Peepsie.
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I'd have been run out of town.
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I must admit that my surname does lend itself to headlines. When I scored a hat-trick for my school football team, the local newspaper went with "KETTLE STEAMS IN WITH THREE". I think this was the first time I'd ever seen my name in print and, despite the awful pun, I kept the cutting for years. I also recall a match report from my youth that stated "Kettle was electric throughout"----a triumph of desperate journalism over reality. I was always pretty laid back as a footballer and, therefore, robbed the local sub-editors of "KETTLE BOILS OVER".
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If you were PM and had successfully brokered a discussion with a certain communist dictator, the headline could read.
Pol Pot Calling Kettle Back