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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That made me laugh out loud pansyface because it's nonsensical.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    pansyface said:
    I got a motto in a cracker once that I kept for years because it was just so weird.

    It read:

    “Why is a mouse when it spins? 
    Because the higher the fewer.”

    😁
    maybe it lost something in the translation?

    Devon.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    There was a craze for jokes like that a while ago... as in:

    "What's the difference between a duck?"
    "One of its legs is both the same".

    I believe the "answer" is sometimes different, and the original is hotly contested - but that's the one I know.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It sounds like the joke of a four year old trying out what jokes mean.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    pansyface said:
    I got a motto in a cracker once that I kept for years because it was just so weird.

    It read:

    “Why is a mouse when it spins? 
    Because the higher the fewer.”

    😁
    maybe it lost something in the translation?


    Or it's an excerpt from Boris's latest statement.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    This might be the answer you need …


    “… Patrick Nethercot, writing from Durham, in northern England: [states]…

    This peculiar saying relates to a certain type of governor on steam engines, whereby revolutions of the engine are reduced if a spinning weight (mouse) is lifted up a shaft by its centrifugal force, releasing steam pressure and ensuring fewer revs: the higher, the fewer.
    Such systems were common on static engines like those found originally in cotton mills in the heyday of the steam revolution.”

    … but it might not …

    https://wordhistories.net/2020/04/20/why-mouse-when-spins/#:~:text=It should be, ‘What%20is%20a%20mouse%20when,less%2C%20or%20the%20fewer%2C%20you%20see%20of%20it.”.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Wonderful!
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/11/curious-indian-woman-104-fulfils-dream-learning-read 

    Makes you appreciate how fortunate we’ve been in our lives eh? 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Excellent and still cooking for her family at 104. Good for her.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    B3 said:
    They'll be hard pushed to find anyone we've ever heard of to replace him. They've all got a whiff of one or more scandals about them.
    Because this is the RTBC thread, I'm going to say there might be a talented MP, pure of thought and deed waiting quietly in the background to take over the reins and lead us all to health and prosperity and save the planet while they're at it.


     I always suspected , but now I know. B3 you used to be a comedian in a former life :D

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The corner has been turned. From today, or tomorrow in some parts of the UK, evenings start getting lighter.

    Mornings carry on getting darker until December 31st.
    Rutland, England
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