Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.

[Joan]

You are just a spring chicken, Diane, believe me! 

[Diane CBPFC]

See, if you were my facebook friend you wouldn't have said that to me Vulture - yesterday my comment about life was: "Diane had a chicken swoop down and land on her head today."

[Vulture]

Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy. 

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.

OK. Now comes the really difficult question: what's the difference between a shovel and a spade?

You can't wash your hands in a buffalo?

The reason I asked was: I thought a shovel was for 'shovelling' stuff up and transporting it somewhere else - coal from a coal-bunker to a coal-skuttle, for instance; and a spade was for 'digging' - as in 'digging a hole big enough to disappear in to'. Two very different uses!

[peter]

Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy. 

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.

OK. Now comes the really difficult question: what's the difference between a shovel and a spade?

A shovel has sides to it and I already have a spade.