YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[David Shaw]

I think 'sow' is technically correct but probably not the approved answer.

[Lesley Cox]

I don't think this was a nursery rhyme as such but certainly from my childhood.

Algie met a bear,
The bear met Algie.
The bear was bulgie,
The bulge was Algie.

[Lesley Cox]

I am terribly non-PC - I still ask for a white coffee 

Should I therefore, be asking for a long Afro-American coffee? Maybe, since it probably originates in Ghana and Columbia.

[Hans J]

I have to go regular to my physio therapy to make exercises .....
Since last weekend ( Nikolaus ) the skeleton has now a cap 

today I MUST make pics!!!

Hans 

[Anthony Darby]

I don't think this was a nursery rhyme as such but certainly from my childhood.

Algie met a bear,
The bear met Algie.
The bear was bulgie,
The bulge was Algie.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, but my Dad used to tell me that one.

His other favourite was:

There was a man from Huddersfield
who had a cow that wouldn't yield.
The reason why it wouldn't yield
is it didn't like its udders feeled!

[Lesley Cox]

Then there's the little rhyme from a lad at university, thinking to win over his father with wit and humour.

No mun, no fun, your son.

Dad replied

How sad, too bad, your Dad.

[Paul T]

Hans,

Good to see that Nikolaus only has eyes for Chocolate. 

Re the nursery rhymes..... I heard a rather crude version of one today, but I shall be restrained and not post it here.   

[Hans J]

Paul ,

I'm not sure how long the Nikolaus has chocolate eyes .....the staff there are all eating sweets !

[art600]

On the recommendations of an Englishman (Brian), an Irishman (Paddy) and a German (Hans J) I ordered the trilogy by Steig Larsson.  2 arrived today - now to find time to read them    Definitely not today as the sun ishining, little wind and plenty to do in the garden  

[Paddy Tobin]

You'll enjoy them Arthur. 1 and 3 are excellent; 2 a little slow to start, I thought. Must get a bit of drivel to read over the dark days myself. I have 9 gardening books waiting to be read but something throwaway is nice every now and again.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

White coffee now called flat coffee in coffe shops. There was a good article on coffee in yesterdays Times.

[art600]

White coffee now called flat coffee in coffe shops. There was a good article on coffee in yesterdays Times.

Apart from Costa Coffee, I do not see myself asking for a coffee in a shop.  If I did - I would definitely ask for a white coffee.  A flat coffee sounds like coffee that has lost its froth 

[Martinr]

You got it....a flat white is how you tell them you hate having an inch of froth on your coffee. Sadly most of them still think you've asked for a drink with no substance and put the froth on anyway Oops, I should probably be putting this in the moan, moan thread

[loes]

see my words are gone...

this is what it should be:

In Holland we do not go to a coffee shop for coffee...

[art600]

You got it....a flat white is how you tell them you hate having an inch of froth on your coffee. Sadly most of them still think you've asked for a drink with no substance and put the froth on anyway Oops, I should probably be putting this in the moan, moan thread

Martin

The moan, moan thread should be reserved for the appalling liquids that most shops serve up as coffee