John Hill wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:01 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 12:55 pm
Imagine, you would need a licence to eat a good steak!
No problem if you have teeth like ower Jacinda's.
As the Afrikaans might say, "sy eet met lang tande". Literally, she eats with long teeth, that is, she eats reluctantly... and sticking with the number 8 wire theme introduced by FD2, I can add a Saffer homily there too, namely "'n boer maak plan! That is 'n farmer always makes 'n plan,and that plan usually involves wire of some sort!
Mind you the thriftiest person I ever met was a New Zealander! Andrew Stenhouse, the Kiwi, I mention, worked for me in the 1990's and I sent him to New York to work on a project and gave him an allowance of some $40.00 a day over and above his hotel food and board, for simple living expenses. He arrived back in Blighty and returned more money than I had given him for his expenses. His frugality, caused me ever so much trouble with the bean counters, and set such a terrible precedent! I suspect he decided to live in a tree in Central Park and had pawned the hotel room