“This is unique tax assistance for the farmers of the Chatham Islands who literally glue the Chatham Islands community together,” says Philip York, Federated Farmers Commerce and Economics spokesperson.

All we need is a great big melting pot...

... is now the top google result for "real guttered"

See, who needs Rochelle Rees?

In the spring of 1943 Archibald Clark-Kerr, British ambassador to Moscow, wrote a note to Lord Pembroke (the note made the email rounds some years ago, but still puts a smile on…

Google search for "real guttered" – go New Zealand!

... is now the top google result for "real guttered"

Today, there are only "issues" around language.

One preposition to rule them. Replace them. Eradicate them.

It seems a 21st century Lincoln would say: Government around…

Or just plain Impressed.

In keeping with the swearing meme, (and not to disappoint Jackie) cuntstruck :)

Ooooh. I never heard of that one. That's my girl!

You know you are getting old:
When you first hear your parents words coming out of your mouth, usually directed at your children
Or you start whinning about how language is starting to go down hill

I do keep wondering about my father's ventriloquism act – making his words come…

Nothing wrong with being a full paid up member of the Pendant Society though!
– Shouldn't that be "fully paid up"?

Ah, Giovanni, you have fallen into Deborah's
cleverly worded confabulation – such are the
skills of an artful and cunning linguist...

The sentence is…

Shouldn't that be "fully paid up"?

I read it as a full, paid up, member. (As opposed to a full member who hasn't paid up, or a paid up associate member.)

Deborah, I think it's time we seriously explore the possibility we might have been separated at birth.

Hence the Siamese cat gravatar hmmm eh what, yes I think so, yes eh what, hmmm.

Nothing wrong with being a full paid up member of the Pendant Society though!

Shouldn't that be "fully paid up"?

I paused for a moment before commenting, and wondered whether I really ought to, and then thought, "No! Dammit – I rejoice in my identity as a pendant!"

So... shouldn't that be a thesaurus rather than a dictionary?

Deborah, I think it's time we seriously explore the possibility we might…

Is there a crisper, clearer, more specific alternative I could use?

In the 1993 Sylvester Stallone movie Demolition Man, Sly plays a cop released from suspended animation to deal with escalating crime in the California of 2032. It's a world without steroids and police brutality, and those nasty criminals have…

scuttles back to hideaway in Adelaide

Yeah but nah.
Deborah, I really truly weighed that up for a full half minute before I decided that if they had either of those books under a table leg, the odds had to be better it would be a dictionary.
Moreover, I 'd…

Nothing wrong with being a…

Know why I thought of it though: many moons ago, in much the same spirit as David, I issued a list of synonyms of "awesome" to the presenters of a children's TV show I then worked for, in an attempt to thwart the spread…

No-one likes a wobbly table, but sometimes you have to ask yourself: "could I be putting that dictionary to better use?"

I paused for a moment before commenting, and wondered whether I really ought to, and then thought, "No! Dammit – I rejoice in my identity as a pendant!"

So...…

Cuntstruck is best used when it really suits.

like screeching it at full volume when you find out yr partner has strayed, i seem to recall ;-)

And maybe some alternatives to "gutted" while we're at it.

How about the alternate spelling "guttered"? Guttered, mate. Guttered.

Also "over the moon". Husbands seem to be over the moon the most, usually when their wives announce they're pregnant, have a baby, lose weight or get a nipple piercing.

Cuntstruck is best used when it really suits.

Like on Outrageous Fortune? (just checking who watched the swearing segment on Media7)

A graphic description appears in the ßáttr af Ragnars sonum: 'They caused the bloody eagle to be carved on the…

Awestruck? Not as good as cuntstruck tho.

However possibly with more options for relevant use in general speech. Cuntstruck is best used when it really suits.

Or just plain Impressed.

In keeping with the swearing meme, (and not to disappoint Jackie) cuntstruck :)