tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post7746548285556328901..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Shackled no moreRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-78411654043640122652013-12-17T07:22:12.289+00:002013-12-17T07:22:12.289+00:00Ellena: Sounds sexist to me. But then one would ex...Ellena: Sounds sexist to me. But then one would expect the devil to be sexist.<br /><br />Francine's clothes. It's all there, later, in the same para and it's not what you'd expect. The aim of these extracts is keep readers dangling. Second Hand will probably be finished in September 2014. Trusting that I'm not finished first.<br /><br />RW (zS): I didn't aim to tell you what was consumed (sherbet is slang for booze). All I wanted was an effect; after which that you might join me in my ecstasy of liberation. All true. Which you did. Good.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-78634122523371755982013-12-17T02:26:02.786+00:002013-12-17T02:26:02.786+00:00Ach, I'm in happy confusion. Not quite sure wh...Ach, I'm in happy confusion. Not quite sure what was consumed before this wonderful encounter in unseasonally warm weather (a fizzy cocktail with a scoop of sherbet?), but the effects were marvellous. A Kodachrome moment!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-25284128685212929102013-12-16T18:28:25.846+00:002013-12-16T18:28:25.846+00:00PS I wonder what Francine will wear to the next s...PS I wonder what Francine will wear to the next staff meeting. Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-65339547290679392492013-12-16T18:24:39.307+00:002013-12-16T18:24:39.307+00:00Now this is a heartwarming picture you chose to re...Now this is a heartwarming picture you chose to remember. <br />Do you know this Spanish Proverb <br />'Man is fire, woman is firewood; the devil comes along and blows on them'.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-50420104575627358552013-12-16T13:01:26.180+00:002013-12-16T13:01:26.180+00:00I was awaiting your correction of ME of course.I was awaiting your correction of ME of course.mike Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-21522537939892196532013-12-16T12:15:30.983+00:002013-12-16T12:15:30.983+00:00MikeM/Natalie: I gave in to an inexplicable impuls...MikeM/Natalie: I gave in to an inexplicable impulse and paid the penalty. As far as I know this is the first occasion I've ever written the word (now corrected) in my life. Used here it is rather prissy middle-class argot for an alcoholic drink and I cannot now re-create the frame of mind that led me to pick it out of the ether. In fact the more I contemplate it the more irritated I become that I allowed it into Tone Deaf. It is unlikely to return so you could say the pair of you have done the world a service in helping to suppress this usage. I suppose I will have to leave the door open for its original meaning, if only for the fact that I quite like sherbet lemons - a quite ingeniously contrived sweetie.<br /><br />Natalie: I do say that my role was merely that of observer and that JM returned to my side of the street. I'm not sure the potentially carnal foursome you wonder about would have qualified as an epiphany but this may be an unjustifiably personal interpretation of epiphany.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-28419246941984432102013-12-16T11:09:50.580+00:002013-12-16T11:09:50.580+00:00I was going to comment on this too. Sherbet or sor... I was going to comment on this too. Sherbet or sorbet is the only way I've seen that word written or pronounced and only applied to non-dairy ice cream. So I was ignorant of its colloquial use.<br /><br />The sense of liberation and exultation is captured and re-lived in this anecdote. I wondered if the four of you went on to consume more sherberts in Tudor Street?Natalie D'Arbeloffhttp://www.nataliedarbeloff.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-40467242555055173322013-12-16T10:36:55.439+00:002013-12-16T10:36:55.439+00:00Sherbert has gained popularity as a secondary pron...Sherbert has gained popularity as a secondary pronunciation of sherbet. Fizzy drink there, frozen dessert here. I await correction. <br />mike Mhttp://www.mykwerks.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com