Singh wrote:

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents called a
"Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant, for as a small
child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not living rooms. I was in my
late twenties before I learned that it's a daybed. I've never heard
anyone outside my family call it a Hollywood bed.

Well, I never knew until recently what a "daybed" was!

It's kind of amusing to me that we have so many words for "couch".
They say that a culture will have many words for the things that are
important in that culture. Hmm...

Joyce

Singh wrote:

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents called a
"Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant, for as a small
child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not living rooms. I was in my
late twenties before I learned that it's a daybed. I've never heard
anyone outside my family call it a Hollywood bed.

Well, I never knew until recently what a "daybed" was!

It's kind of amusing to me that we have so many words for "couch".
They say that a culture will have many words for the things that are
important in that culture. Hmm...

Joyce

Singh wrote:

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents called a
"Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant, for as a small
child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not living rooms. I was in my
late twenties before I learned that it's a daybed. I've never heard
anyone outside my family call it a Hollywood bed.

Well, I never knew until recently what a "daybed" was!

It's kind of amusing to me that we have so many words for "couch".
They say that a culture will have many words for the things that are
important in that culture. Hmm...

Joyce

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Everyone was right; yesterday she did indeed pull a b@st@rd cat trick,
and I think she's having a hissy fit because we found her hidey-holes! I
really can't blame her for needed some peace and quiet though. She'd
been through a lot with the shelter, and going through a few owners;
it's no wonder that trust is going to be hard-earned with her.

Shmogg says its about time someone else took up the mantle of b*st*rd c*t.
Bonnie & Clyde are doing quite well, and Odessa does indeed sound like a
suitable acolyte. He does like the sound of "emeritus b*st*rd c*t"

Yowie


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"Singh" wrote in message
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Everyone was right; yesterday she did indeed pull a b@st@rd cat trick,
and I think she's having a hissy fit because we found her hidey-holes! I
really can't blame her for needed some peace and quiet though. She'd
been through a lot with the shelter, and going through a few owners;
it's no wonder that trust is going to be hard-earned with her.

Shmogg says its about time someone else took up the mantle of b*st*rd c*t.
Bonnie & Clyde are doing quite well, and Odessa does indeed sound like a
suitable acolyte. He does like the sound of "emeritus b*st*rd c*t"

Yowie


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Everyone was right; yesterday she did indeed pull a b@st@rd cat trick,
and I think she's having a hissy fit because we found her hidey-holes! I
really can't blame her for needed some peace and quiet though. She'd
been through a lot with the shelter, and going through a few owners;
it's no wonder that trust is going to be hard-earned with her.

Shmogg says its about time someone else took up the mantle of b*st*rd c*t.
Bonnie & Clyde are doing quite well, and Odessa does indeed sound like a
suitable acolyte. He does like the sound of "emeritus b*st*rd c*t"

Yowie


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Enfilade wrote:

Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a
chesterfield."

A sofa - or if you're older, a settee! :-)

Deb.
(in England)

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He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield

Enfilade wrote:

Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a
chesterfield."

A sofa - or if you're older, a settee! :-)

Deb.
(in England)

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"He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would;
He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield

Enfilade wrote:

Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a
chesterfield."

A sofa - or if you're older, a settee! :-)

Deb.
(in England)

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"He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would;
He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield

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Yowie wrote:


I always find it weird to hear the American term "I'll write you"
rather
than saying "I'll write *to* you". I don't know when the dropped
"to" or the
"to the" in your case above first started to be thought of as
correct
grammar in American English, but to these Commonweatlth English
ears, it
always sounds wrong.

What I find even weirder is the comparatively new "I could
care less", when what is so clearly meant is "I could NOT
care less"!

That one really bugs me!

Joy

That one really irritates me too.
Elisabet