Tortology

Ah, thanks Ana

<sigh>

Your post at 09.44 yesterday Alea

OK to all who posted: Thank you.

alea I emailed you in a PM I wouldn't be in the duck house for days at a time. So chill

Thank you ana

Thank you for the heads up nina

To reiterate, I'm afk for days at a time.

Does afk = awol???

so chill
???

I presume your thanking me for the heads up as to the fact we have some very welcome male members. I don't understand the confused emote.
Sorry to say I don't understand a lot of your posts Lucky

And so say all some of us!

roses when I read that in "I'm on" the word 'all' wasn't crossed out. Which alters the meaning and makes it cleverly funny

'Away fro Keyboard' apparently! LuckyDucky certainly knows a lot of these strange (to me, anyway) acronyms - must be down with the kids at the duck house...

I get the feeling that a complaint is possible, but that it's neither heinous nor tautological. Could be wrong. That's why I posted earlier about trying to be kinder ( myself). However if offence not taken I'm happy to go along with the banter. OP seems to take things in good part

Oh yes. I thought it might be away from Knightsbridge. I, too, thought LD had a wide repertoire of acronyms, and penchant for emotis. Yes, probably picked up from DGC.

OK bella what is OP?
nina you're probably in the majority, unfortunately.
Praps I'm punching posting above my weight

I'm afk

No you're not, you're on here, posting...

LuckyDucky
Yesterday, 09.44, first line of my post
OP(original post/poster
Simples.

Now perhaps you would be kind enough to explain what you meant by ON??

Well, at least the OP (original poster) FYI Lucky doesn't appear to be taking offence.
There is certainly none meant by me or I'm sure anyone else.

Thank you ninat that's exactly what I mean. Must proof read my threads.

Also, thank you to those who contributed I know I've dillied and dallied. I'm afk for half of each day. And, not the same part either.

Anyone know where "dillied" means or its origins? Hope it's not rude

You don't need to keep thanking contributors, LuckyDucky, and I don't think any of the rest of us is glued to our computers/devices all day long. You do seem to keep saying you're 'afk' when you're obviously not, though...

You have an unusual sense of humour LD which certainly leaves me most of the time

Quite surreal, Bellanonna I share your

"Dilly dally" simply means to waste time, procrastinate, mess about instead of getting on with something.
The origin is presumably connected with "delay" so nothing making , except not knowing something in common parlance.

That's a shame bella
Alea je m'en fich

??
Do you mean Je m'en fiche ?

Pourquoi, alors?

Anyone know where "dillied" means or its origins? Hope it's not rude

You did ask, LuckyDucky, how rude to dismiss my reply of Sunday 14.59 albeit in inaccurately attempted French

Do you think there's any chance of getting Susie Dent (of Countdown fame) to do a web chat? She would certainly be overwhelmed with questions.

HQ, are you reading this?

Could be interesting, anno, although at the risk of sounding like Maggie Smith's dowager alter ego, many questions about origins and definitions are easily accessed in a dictionary - or for those who prefer, online!

To find the origin (of any word or phrase) just put "dilly dally" and "origin" into Google and you get "early 17th century: reduplication of dally."

Easy peasy.

There is of course the Marie LLoyd Music Hall song but "dilly dally2 was already in use well befor ethat.