Siffluous podiatrist approaches critical mass

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:00 am

I note that ourwhistling podiatrist is just three posts short of kilopostal status.

You have three wishes, Paul. Be sure you use them wisely.

Oh, and, by the way, I hope you always remember to wash your hands between doing the day job and the manufacturing sideline

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:26 am

Roger, so your heart lies in Dublin, your head is supposed to be in Brussels, then your feet must be in Iceland?

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:00 am

Given the weather here at the moment, that approach would be both podiatrically and thermally

attractive (wipes brow in appallingly badly air-conditioned office).

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:18 am

I've heard that Iceland was given its name by a Viking leader who wanted his tribe to settle on the next island over, which he named Greenland. Can anyone corroborate?

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:31 am

OK, Roger, I give up. What does siffluous mean?
Mike

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:49 am

Jerry Freeman wrote:I've heard that Iceland was given its name by a Viking leader who wanted his tribe to settle on the next island over, which he named Greenland. Can anyone corroborate?

Jerry: I can't confirm, but I will add that I always heard that Eric the Red was ordered out of Iceland because of the crime of manslaughter, and that he ended up discovering Greenland at that time.

Claudine/Roger: It would make sense that part of Roger is in Iceland if his heart is in Ireland, because if I'm not mistaken, the Irish discoverd Iceland around 800.

All the Best, Tom

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 11:27 am

burnsbyrne wrote:OK, Roger, I give up. What does siffluous mean?
Mike

..."typo" comes to mind....

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 11:31 am

Roger O'Keeffe wrote:I note that ourwhistling podiatrist is just three posts short of kilopostal status.

You have three wishes, Paul. Be sure you use them wisely.

Oh, and, by the way, I hope you always remember to wash your hands between doing the day job and the manufacturing sideline

Soitainly!! Wouldn't want to give anyone a case of athlete's whistle!

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:15 am

Siffluous = whistling. My coining, by analogy with "mellifluous".

"Siffluist" is the pretentious Victorian/Edwardian music-hall MC's grandiose term for a whistler (one who does it with his lips, eschewing unnatural probosces such as the tinplate - or wooden - instrument so dear to our hearts).

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:48 am

burnsbyrne wrote:OK, Roger, I give up. What does siffluous mean?
Mike

I don't know what it means but I hope antibiotics will cure it.

I congratulated Paul on another thread but why not repeat the meassage here, so: happy 1k Paul!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 11:33 am

Roger O'Keeffe wrote:Siffluous = whistling. My coining, by analogy with "mellifluous".

"Siffluist" is the pretentious Victorian/Edwardian music-hall MC's grandiose term for a whistler (one who does it with his lips, eschewing unnatural probosces such as the tinplate - or wooden - instrument so dear to our hearts).

Good coinage. Keeps the mothertongue alive and fresh, and the rest of us on our toes. As for "siffluist", well, you learn something new every day.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:20 pm

BTW, whenever I come across the term "Critical Mass", I think of a celebrant chiding his flock as a liturgical form to instill Catholic guilt.

Sorry.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:54 pm

One thinks of the Catholic church in Lake Wobegone, "Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility."

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:04 pm

My father always said his school was run by the sisters of no mercy.

Ron

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:50 am

RonKiley wrote:My father always said his school was run by the sisters of no mercy.

Ron

Another saying, based on the "teaching apostolate" of the good nuns, in the days when corporal punishment was the norm: the sisters of mercy have no charity, and the sisters of charity have no mercy.

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