Appetite for disaster...

[tomsk]

you can keep it 007!

[Icey]

I think it was a valiant attempt, but Pavorotti came out tops.

[tomsk]

he was a large man..

[Icey]

He was, as many operas singers are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0wdxj8-mAU

[tomsk]

you really are Mrs Curmudgeon this morning..

[Icey]

What's the matter with you? You don't read me very well, do you?

[tomsk]

i wrote that last comment at 3.15....
give me a break..

[Icey]

Think before you type then, oh weary one. : )

[tomsk]

don't get grumpy now..

[Icey]

Nay, laddie. Me fine.

[tomsk]

i hope you have a jolly good rest..

[Icey]

I didn't get a lot actually. I had to get up, go to the bank to sort something out, make another appointment for Wednesday, go and try to find one or two things I wanted for my medicine cabinet, do this, do that, and then our eldest decided to ask "one or two" of his friends round, and a whole bunch of them descended! For dinner .........

[tomsk]

you got your work cut out?
Where does that phrase come from..

[Icey]

I don't know! Never thought about it before.

[tomsk]

The Oxford English Dictionary’s entry suggests it was first recorded in the sense in which we now understand it only around the middle of the nineteenth century. The first appearance in the sense of “to have (at least) as much as one can handle” recorded in the OED is in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which was published in 1843. I’ve found some examples from the previous century, but their meaning is ambiguous.
That’s because the expression goes back at least to the early 1600s in a related form, “to have all one’s work cut out”. As you suggest, it was borrowed from tailoring, but in that first figurative sense it meant to prepare or plan an activity, to get everything organised before starting work, as a good tailor would. It later went through a period in which it meant that someone else cut out your work for you, that is, gave you something to do.


Crikey, the bass player in ACDC is retiring, Angus Young is the only original member left....gee..

[Icey]

Yes, but he might reconsider if Brian Johnson pops back.

[tomsk]

let there be rock..

[Icey]

There always will be.

[tomsk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iTQf5PDyY

never TOO old to rock!

[Icey]

I don't care for AC/DC, but Doningtopn Park's like a second home to me, so thanks for that.