FlowerOfTheSun Forum Posts (1,017)

RE: Why can't people use the spell checkers on their computers???!!!

And this is why a spell checker is NOT always the answer!!!!



I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I’ve run this poem threw it,
I’m sure you’re please too no,
It’s letter perfect in it’s weight,
My checker tolled me sew.

It used to be desplayed on the walls of the IT rooms of the school I used to work at!!! I love it!!!

RE: language - male or female?

Imagine being able to do that in several languages!!!



But you know Elley women don't HAVE to nag ..er... I mean remind ... as the following story shows ...

The Secret to a long happy marriage

The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage. A couple was celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on the beaches in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Their domestic tranquility had long been the talk of the town. People would say, "What a peaceful & loving couple". The local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their long and happy marriage.The Husband replied: "Well, it dates back to our honeymoon in America ," explained the man. "We visited the Grand Canyon, in Arizona ,and took a trip, down to the bottom of the canyon, by horse. We hadn't gone too far when my wife's horse stumbled and she almost fell off. My wife looked down at the horse and quietly said, "That's once." "We proceeded a little further and horse stumbled again. Once more my wife quietly said, "That's twice." "We hadn't gone a half-mile when the horse stumbled for the third time. My wife quietly removed a revolver from her purse and shot the horse dead. I SHOUTED at her, "What's wrong with you, Woman! Why did you shoot the poor animal like that Are you crazy?


She looked at ME, and quietly said, "That's once." "And from that moment.....we have lived happily every after."

RE: Shortest Fairy Tale

Hardly surprising if all she ever met were offensive, narrow minded, abrasive gits ... would explain both the first story and yours!!!!

RE: Shortest Fairy Tale

RE: language - male or female?

You sure you're on the right thread Elley? Shouldn't these posts be on the willy thread?

RE: language - male or female?

Im sure there's a scientific name for THAT sort of practise Elley!!!

RE: language - male or female?

language would be feminine because ...

poetry, rhymes and verses were invented to allow men to sing the virtues of WOMAN well... may be not but it's certainly one of the few times that (many) men "let" themselves wax lyrical, peel the layers of their emotions etc ...

RE: You could save only one's life when the ship sank.Your husband or wife Or your kid.Which one would u

I'm the only who can't swim so I won't be saving anyone!!!!!

What I want to know is WHO will try to save me first!! My daughter, my son or their Dad (my ex)!!!!

Oh!!! Dear !! They'll probably all be busy saving my grandchildren!!!

If the ship sank, I'd be a gonner!! I guess it's good bye cruel world!!!

Unless I nicked James Bond's "supa dupa" scooter that can turn into a jet ski!!!!!!

RE: Do you want Rusty back here in the forums?

I was doing a Manuel on you!! coz he's from Barcelona don't you know!!!!

If you don't know what I'm talking about you gotta get hold of some Fawlty Towers videos!!!!!

Or you could watch a bit of this :

RE: Do you want Rusty back here in the forums?

¿Qué?

RE: Do you want Rusty back here in the forums?

May be I read it wrong!!! When I read it, I mistakenly understood the "any port in a storm" to be addressed to our lovely lady

Glad it's all cleared out now!!

Have a proper bunch of flowers!!!

RE: Note on the Refrigerator

Hadn't laughed out so loud at a joke I read for ages!!!!!

Being a (not quite yet 54 yr old) ex-teacher, I particularly enjoyed this one!!!!

RE: Do you want Rusty back here in the forums?

Listen here young man!!!! You apologise right now to our lovely D/Fly for that VERY BAD taste joke!!!!!

RE: How many times have you been married ?

Live and learn!!! Just that some of us are slower than others!!

RE: Do you want to see the video I made for a story?

I ain't got no mail!!! And........... I gotta go now!!!

But!!! I'll be back!!!!

RE: How many times have you been married ?

How about ... find a man... support him in getting a house and a car, then walk away ... Then find another man (broke!!! ) work your butt off for years to pay for mortgage and support everyone and everything (most of the time) ... then give him HALF of everything!!!!!


You know Gentlepaws IT IS NOT always the man who gets the rough deal!!!

RE: Do you want to see the video I made for a story?

Just voted!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go for it!!! I'm sure it's bril!!!

RE: cheesie pick uplines

Hello Darling!!! You wanna see my etchings? (Honestly pop over to eu forum and have a look at my new project ...)


This is what is called long distance "chatting up!!! Claire is one of my fav lady on CS!!!

RE: Only 55% can read this!

I can read it, fast!!!

Now ... send us a recorded version and let's see how many of us can understand just from the sounds of the jumbled words!!!

Sorry SLass !! Just had to go and say that!!!

RE: Your Keyboard: Dirtier Than a Toilet

!!!!!

RE: make up/or not

Ladies use make up for the same reasons that guys have "nice" haircuts, shave or trim their moustache (spelled the French way) and beards ... And don't tell me that those are "necessary" hygiene things ... because guys could easily put a pudding bowl on their heads and trim anything that sticks out ... or hack at their beards with nail cissors but they don't, even though it would be FREE!!!!!!

I have no problem with make up when it's used to slightly enhance the facial features or even for some dramatic effect for the right circumstances...

I don't like make up when it's used to REPLACE the facial feature whatever the circumstances ...

RE: Mind your language

Hiya Nina!! Isn't fantastic when 2 people communicate FULLY, but each one is speaking a different language to the other ...

My parents feel most at ease in Spanish but speak French and understand all of it ... My brothers feel most at ease in French but speak Spanish and understand all of it .... They often have conversations with my parents just like you describe!!!

We have this thing in my family as I explained in my above post where we all speak at least one of three langues or combination of ... So everyone speaks to another in the language there are either most at ease with, or the other understands better.

My parents (Spanish) and my children (British): common language French... So they all make an effort ...
My bothers/sister (Spanish/French) and my children (British): common language French/English... So they muddle through in either.
My grandchildren and my parents talk by sign language because they don't have a common language.
My children and their cousins use a mixture of French and English ...
I speak in Spanish to my parents, French to my brothers/sister, English to my children and grandchildren ... And dream in any of them depending who is involved in the dream ... Also think in whichever language I am using ...

Btw, I was born in Spain, my daughter in France and my son in the UK. So I declare us a European family par excellence!!!

RE: Mind your language

Yeah!!! My Spanish got really rusty (apart from everyday stuff), even though it's my first language, when I was living in UK, as I mostly spoke in English or French with my friends and at work. I was teaching French and Spanish all day long but only at GCSE level ...

Words and the power of the words has always fascinated me ... Sometimes there just is not a word in a language that truly expresses a meaning as well as in another language. I have a very good friend of mine, also Spanish, who was brought up in France like me, then lived in the UK for many years like me... I've known her since we were 15 and when we get together, we mostly speak in French but when a better word exists in the other language we just use Spanish or English!!! It's great!!!

I very rarely speak to people in the wrong language because I lived in France for 20 years (Spanish at home and with relatives, French when out: school, college, work etc) and in UK for 27 years ... My family (4 generations) speak either just one of those 3 languages or a combination, so when we get together you have to swap language depending on who you're addressing, even around the dinner table ...

I know!!! I'm just soooooooooooooo clever!! Nah!!! It's only the circumstances of my life that have made it so....

RE: ARE THERE ANY REAL WOMEN LEFT?

Really?

Sooooooooooooooooo, since you are soooooooooooooooo good at knowing ALL the nuances of the English language ... may be you'd care to re-arrange the words in the following sentence for us ...

"Pot the black kettle the calling"

RE: ARE THERE ANY REAL WOMEN LEFT?

Well done Huggsy!!!

PS. Look forward to meeting you in Barcelona!!!

RE: ARE THERE ANY REAL WOMEN LEFT?

I beg to differ!! "...the usage of whom is synonimous..." is invalid English
Whom can only ever refer to a person ... should be "the usage of which" ...
Also "whom" cannot always substitute the word "who" , only in certain cases depending where it is placed whithin a sentence.

Eg: To whom it may concern...
Whom did you call?
He is the man to whom I was married ... etc...

I have noticed many times how people often use "whom" (wrongly) in order to sound more educated

RE: ARE THERE ANY REAL WOMEN LEFT?

Hu! Noooooooooo wasn't talking about wild flowers, I love those... I meant weeds generally, the ones that can't even be used ornamentally!!

RE: ARE THERE ANY REAL WOMEN LEFT?

Actually those are weeds!!! The most precious ones grow high up on mountains away from pollution and dung!!

RE: ARE THERE ANY REAL WOMEN LEFT?

Haven't read all the posts, in fact haven't read any ...

One thing springs to mind on reading some of ( in fact, a LOT) what you write LBGuy777: "Pot the black kettle the calling" - not generally, just in your case- Please re-arrange the words highlighted in red in the order that you feel is most appropriate as I would hate to impose my womanly way of thinking on your manly mind by being prescriptive about the order they should be used in!

RE: C.G. JUNG (1875 - 1961) QUOTES

Thanks for those Conrad. I generally associate/understand Jung's way of thinking and explaining "the mechanisms" of humans as they go about "being"