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#21 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:20 pm

Cefallonia an island with superb beaches and the strongest buildings in Europe.
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#22 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:00 pm

Here Iago again with this character from Shakespeare's Othello. :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iago :-B portrayed by many a famous actor. :D
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#23 Post by 603DX » Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:09 pm

Gorinchem - a town in the south of Holland where I stayed while on an engineering job in 1972. I had no problem with the location, the very comfortable hotel booked for my stay, or the pleasant Dutch residents (I quite like the Netherlands). But I did have difficulty trying to pronounce the name of the town, which sounds in the throaty local language as if the speaker is about to throw up, similar to a cat coughing up a fur ball. Despite practice, I never got it right. But at least it gave the hotel staff a good laugh. :ymblushing:
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#24 Post by Rwy in Sight » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:47 am

Emphatically just pointing out.
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#25 Post by Slasher » Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:58 am

Lynch - a kangaroo court's midday meal.
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#26 Post by 603DX » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:18 am

Chiaroscuro - the distribution of light and shade in a picture, in "artyspeak".
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#27 Post by Capetonian » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:42 am

ROTATE the happiest sound heard from the flight deck on departure from LOS, amongst other places.
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#28 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:53 am

Tempera not to be confused with tempura. :D

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#29 Post by 603DX » Tue Jul 31, 2018 3:12 pm

The rabble - ordinary people, as referred to by some "high and mighty" individuals. Or even as hoi polloi, by some with a bit more edumification, perhaps.
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#30 Post by 603DX » Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:58 am

Levies - military units raised by conscription, thereby giving them something to moan about.
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#31 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:47 am

Estaminet - French cafe that serves alcohol, very popular with levies (such as during WW1) where they have somewhere comfortable to moan about things.
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#32 Post by Capetonian » Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:10 pm

ETCHED upon my memory, one of the most enjoyable meals I've ever had was in a restaurant near Trafalgar Square called L'Estaminet, and I didn't know what the word meant,
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#33 Post by 603DX » Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:35 am

Eddies - swirling movements of a liquid or gas, which interested Leonardo da Vinci when he watched the water eddies around bridge piers, and sketched them. He had the keen enquiring mind of a polymath, in addition to his considerable artistic talent. Maybe if he hadn't spent so much time painting, he might have developed a theory of hydrodynamics. ;)))
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#34 Post by Slasher » Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:38 am

And especially in aerodynamics too.
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#35 Post by 603DX » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:30 am

Lysistrata - an ancient Greek comedy play about wives withholding marital privileges to get what they want.

This link made me laugh, with more than a couple of double entendres - well worth a quick look ...

http://www.ancient-literature.com/greec ... trata.html
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#36 Post by Capetonian » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:54 am

TAXI a hard act to follow, specially through London traffic.
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#37 Post by 603DX » Sun Aug 05, 2018 11:32 am

Xiphoid process, a part of the human breastbone which is cartilaginous in childhood, but ossifies to bone in adult life.
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#38 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Mon Aug 06, 2018 10:38 am

Idiom nice little sayings such as being 'over the moon' about something, :D

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#39 Post by 603DX » Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:44 pm

With the ever-helpful London A-Z street map in mind, I can't help wondering if the Greeks have produced an equivalent Alpha to Omega map for Athens? ;)))
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#40 Post by Capetonian » Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:46 pm

GARRULOUS mother-in-law never stops talking
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