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[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

I... don't... understand...

It's a play on a word you might not have come across. To be flabbergasted is to be astonished or surprised.

The play on words is usually done as "Never had my flabber been so gasted". But either works..... if you know the word flabbergasted.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

I... don't... understand...

i see that pdurrant has explained it quite thoroughly for you, he's very good at that (thanks pdurrant ) enjoy

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It's a play on a word you might not have come across. To be flabbergasted is to be astonished or surprised.

The play on words is usually done as "Never had my flabber been so gasted". But either works..... if you know the word flabbergasted.

That's a new one to me too!

Edit: Just noticed that your jacket is now green to match your new status! Nice!!

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It's a play on a word you might not have come across. To be flabbergasted is to be astonished or surprised.

The play on words is usually done as "Never had my flabber been so gasted". But either works..... if you know the word flabbergasted.

Oh... Thanks a lot

(I looked up the word "flabber" and "gast"...)

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

Oh... Thanks a lot

(I looked up the word "flabber" and "gast"...)

yes, there wouldn't be a usable definition for either one, but for the whole word there is:

flabbergasted [ˈflæbəˌgɑːstɪd]
adj
Informal overcome with astonishment; amazed; astounded

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by alansplace

yes, there wouldn't be a usable definition for either one, but for the whole word there is:

flabbergasted [ˈflæbəˌgɑːstɪd]
adj
Informal overcome with astonishment; amazed; astounded

Er, I meant I had looked up both words, then didn't figure out what they mean, so I post "IDK" and Paul helped...

[WT Sharpe]

.....A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
..........— John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist and short-story writer. "Confessions of a Wild Bore" from Assorted Prose of Updike (pub. by Knopf; April 12, 1965).

[maianhvk]

(You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.)

[astrangerhere]

"Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing a man's car, that's larceny."

James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

[carpetmojo]

" It's only rock 'n roll... "

and

" That's all she wrote"

and, finally, from the late great Ronnie Scott, to a heckler, who was ruining an otherwise terrific show I'll never forget......

" Is that your own brain, or are you just running it in for an idiot.."

Ah, bliss....

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

"Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing a man's car, that's larceny."

James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

.....Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
.....Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
..........— William Congreve, (1670–1729), English playwright and poet. The Mourning Bride, Act III, scene viii.

…To say nothing of a man's jealousy and retributive instincts.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
.....Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
..........— William Congreve, (1670–1729), English playwright and poet. The Mourning Bride, Act III, scene viii.

…To say nothing of a man's jealousy and retributive instincts.

"Love, when you get fear in it, its not love anymore. It's hate."

James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

"Love, when you get fear in it, its not love anymore. It's hate."

James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice

Nice one!

[covingtoncat73]

"If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine."
~From "Hazy Jane II" by Nick Drake

[Bookpossum]

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

from "Clouds of Witness" by Dorothy L Sayers (1926)