Now I want a grammar thread

Do get your quotes right if you're going to wade in, GrannyTwice.

The exact words were "Oh yes, you can't beat a nice, tart fool..."

Can't think where you got the 'old' from...

Fuck me! I'm lost now.

I think I will just wander off and keep posting on the Great Gransnet competition thread.
"I thing being a grand mother is grand because my Grandson is cuter than your grandchildren" d'you think that might win?

Huh!Would that he were!

You are on the right lines, Nellliemoser Something like that ought to beat the opposition. I don't think I shall post anything on that thread, it has all been said.

Someone thought Aka called someone a tart old fool when she actually was talking about a nice tart fool (I assume a pudding).

That is so amusing.

Yes, I thought it might have been a gooseberry type of fool.

What a lot of opportunities for misunderstandings and double entendres these threads provide.

There is no villain. Nor was there any offence.

And here's a nice non-sequitur with a Viking long ship in it.

Thanks, bags. Just printed it off to show my Viking grandchildren.

But the Vikings weren't very nice people.

They had a very bad press, jings

My grandchildren and their mother are very nice people. They are descended from Danish Vikings.

I don't suppose they look a lot like the people in Bags boat.

Any more than we look like anglo-saxons. (the original ones)

Aren't we Celts, if we're the original ones? The Angles and Saxe are from Europe, just like the Vikings.

here you are Durhamjen This will tell you all about it.

More non sequiturs. Was anyone else fascinated by this story? Some people still living near Cheddar Gorge turn out to be direct descendants of people who lived there 9000 years ago! But really I think all the talk about Celts and Anglo-Saxons and Danes and Vikings is irrelevant in terms of who we think we are now. All mongrels. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Man

[[ www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/the-millionyearold-family-human-footprints-found-in-britain-are-oldest-ever-seen-outside-of-africa-9114151.htm]]l

I wonder if these people used the subjunctive or were plain speakers?

Interesting story, lily . DD2 is following up links to Picts in her Scottish ancestors. Fascinating stuff but, as you say, we're all mongrels and that's good for the species—hybrid vigour.

lily I remember seeing that on our local news when they were doing the mtDNA testing. It was fascinating.