[Osx-nutters] "As mad as cheese"

[guy hammond]

No-one in England says pear-shaped anymore, we say hatstand.

G

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Quoting Google Kreme <gkreme at gmail.com>:

> On 31 Oct 2006, at 07:31 , Cyril wrote:
> > On 31 oct. 06, at 15:18, Google Kreme wrote:
> >> OK, there are some "British-isms" that I use on a daily or near- 
> >> daily basis.
> >>
> >> Pear Shaped might be my favorite, and I am waging a one man  
> >> campaign to force it into the daily lexicon of the US.
> > uhm
 maybe what I'm about to write will say too much about my mind- 
> > set, but hey. Are you talking daily about breasts? I mean, that, or  
> > the general figure of a lady is pretty much all I can think of  
> > being pear-shaped.
> 
> Nope, not even close.  Quite close to as far opposite as you can get.
> 
> > What does it mean to you then?
> 
> "I was driving along the freeway at 75MPH, right at the speed limit.   
> However, as I crossed a bridge, there was a small patch f black ice.   
> At that point, as you  can imagine, everything went pear shaped."
> 
> or
> 
> Despite the bak robbers taking 6 weeks to plan their heist, there was  
> no way of knowing that at the time they planned, 14 off-duty police  
> officers would be in the bank.  As you can imagine, when they  
> revealed their guns and ordered everyone to the ground, everything  
> went pear shaped.
> 
> It means that something has gone wrong.  Usually HORRIBLY wrong.
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear_shaped>
> 
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