Who'd want my luck.
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Just when the Euro has become worth sweet fanny adams I (or rather my email address) has won €1,350.000.00 (that's actually how the morons had entered it).
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Just when the Euro has become worth sweet fanny adams I (or rather my email address) has won €1,350.000.00 (that's actually how the morons had entered it).
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Cheer up Henry, as you must have been digging the wrong field; ten years ago one Euro was worth 0.62 GBP[^], today it is worth 0.80 GBP[^]. :)
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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Just when the Euro has become worth sweet fanny adams I (or rather my email address) has won €1,350.000.00 (that's actually how the morons had entered it).
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Henry Minute wrote:
sweet fanny adams
Look on the bright side; this is the only kind of elephanting some people will ever have.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Just when the Euro has become worth sweet fanny adams I (or rather my email address) has won €1,350.000.00 (that's actually how the morons had entered it).
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
That's nothing - I won 6.5 million dollars yesterday. Without even entering the sweepstake. I didn't claim them though. I still haven't finished spending the 20 million Euro I won last week in the Dutch state lottery - which I wasn't entered into either. :doh:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just when the Euro has become worth sweet fanny adams I (or rather my email address) has won €1,350.000.00 (that's actually how the morons had entered it).
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Henry Minute wrote:
sweet fanny adams
I learn a lot from your posts, Henry: this phrase's etymology, whilst gruesome, was a great find:[^]. Is "sweet fanny adams" still in use in English slang/idiom today ? Use limited to certain social classes, if in use ? thanks, Bill
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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Henry Minute wrote:
sweet fanny adams
I learn a lot from your posts, Henry: this phrase's etymology, whilst gruesome, was a great find:[^]. Is "sweet fanny adams" still in use in English slang/idiom today ? Use limited to certain social classes, if in use ? thanks, Bill
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
Still in use in this particular social class. :) Since I'm not in, nor regularly associate with, the upper classes I am not sure of it's popularity there, but certainly lower and lower-middle use it although it is not as common as it once was. It is often abbreviated to 'sweet FA' where the 'A' can be interpreted as 'all' as well as 'Adams', I will leave the 'F' to your imagination.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.