Author Topic: I could care less (Read 1253 times)

ravells · « **Reply #15 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:29:02 PM »

The one that REALLY gets on my tits is 'Common old Garden'

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Sandman · « **Reply #16 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:44:06 PM »

New one on me. Is it a brit thing?

ravells · « **Reply #17 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:45:54 PM »

It's 'common or garden.

must be a brit thing. Means 'run of the mill'

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Sandman · « **Reply #18 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:47:47 PM »

Got it... think we occasionally hear the term, "garden variety".

ravells · « **Reply #19 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:52:49 PM »

Funny, it's an old enough expression that I thought we would use it in common.

you say tomato...let's call the whole thing off!

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Bluedog · « **Reply #20 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:53:00 PM »

It's not are fault, it must be theres.

ravells · « **Reply #21 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:53:31 PM »

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooo

AKIron · « **Reply #22 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:54:51 PM »

Funny about "garden" meaning common in the sense of less than desirable. With the mass production of everything in the world today, garden vegetables are becoming less and less common and more highly valued, at least by me.

ravells · « **Reply #23 on:** June 10, 2004, 11:57:58 PM »

What do you grow in your garden, Iron?

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AKIron · « **Reply #24 on:** June 11, 2004, 12:02:24 AM »

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Originally posted by ravells
What do you grow in your garden, Iron?

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I don't have a garden just now, I mooch off my Dad. I have grown tomatoes, okra, water melons, squash... all your garden variety vegetables.

Since we're being picky about semantics here I suppose I should acknowledge that some of those are fruit.

ravells · « **Reply #25 on:** June 11, 2004, 12:06:04 AM »

Well it was a literary question which means 'what goes on in your head?'

but I'm a keen gardener and do flowers more than veg, but I do interplant onions and garlic and herbs.

You're way ahead of me!

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AKIron · « **Reply #26 on:** June 11, 2004, 12:17:46 AM »

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Originally posted by ravells
Well it was a literary question which means 'what goes on in your head?'

Ah, was unfamiliar with the phrase. Well, I had chinese food tonight and I'm contemplating my fortune which read something like, "live a life of serenity and not regret". The chinese pronunciation for "chili pepper" on the other side was more interesting.

Dune · « **Reply #27 on:** June 11, 2004, 12:21:20 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm371
"all intents and purposes"

I was going to say, it's all intents and purposes".

Fish or cut bait. **** or get off the pot. Suck me dry and call me Dusty.

Bluedog · « **Reply #28 on:** June 11, 2004, 12:21:43 AM »

I dont s'pose you have any little tricks for preventing the part of the melon that rests on the ground from getting mouldy AKIron?
Last years haul from my garden netted about two dozen beautiful, dark red, sweet, juicy watermelons......problem was, every single one of 'em had a soft mouldy brown spot where it had rested on the ground.

Not really that great a drama, we just cut the bad bits out, but it would be nice to pull off a crop without the mould.

ravells · « **Reply #29 on:** June 11, 2004, 12:23:43 AM »

Well, actually Iron, the one and only time I've heard the question used in that context was when an English master asked me in boarding school. After that.......never. Nobody. Frankly, i think it's a load of bollocks.

This is how intellectual snobbery gets perpetuated.

Quite right you should be unfamliar with the phrase. I suspect the only people who use it are homos in Oxford and Cambridge.

Still, thanks for the Chinese food thought.

I'll tell you what...I'm a big Raymond Chandler fan...and you know how Philip Marlowe always had a bottle of whisk(e)y in his drawer? I have a bottle of chilli sauce.

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