07-24-2017, 01:12 AM | #46 |
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I've never heard that expression before .
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07-24-2017, 09:15 AM | #47 |
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07-24-2017, 12:50 PM | #48 |
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I'm puzzled at how stepping on a loose paving stone can make your feet wet. They usually trip me up, whatever I have on my feet. It must have been raining anyway for a puddle (if that's what it is) to form, so without a "portable roof" I'd be wet anyway.
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07-24-2017, 01:13 PM | #50 |
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Thank you for explaining that, Harry. I usually go flying before I get wet, and I end up grazed, sore, wondering if I've broken something (premature osteoporosis).
Looks like it's going to pour down on wednesday - my birthday (not fishing for congrats etc). I sometimes have internet "unbirthdays" to deter identity fraud. On FB it's a month early! Oh for yesteryear when summers were hot and we could sit outside reading/writing, leaning against little beanbags. Sigh ..... |
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07-24-2017, 03:08 PM | #51 |
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The loose paving slab that gets water underneath it that squirts all over you when you step on it has a name. It's a "Beau Trap".
"Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau." |
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07-26-2017, 01:05 PM | #53 |
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"Beau Trap" is such a romantic term. Thank you enlightening us. I don't remember the last time a man was caught out this way bowing to me .... sigh ....
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