The Boring Thread

[GarethRDR]

I imagine him watching old video of the last time villa won a game?

Sadly I don't think they had VHS in the 1800's.

[theunderstudy]

I need ton work too. Brain the size of a planet, got to keep it occupied somehow.

 

I really like my cashmere jumper I got Christmas 2012, it really is a godsend.

Oh and dark chocolate is an acquired taste. I can normally only have it when distracted or drunk.

[dont_do_it_doug.]

Reading what Moon Man does with his spare time bored the **** out of me. Fact.

[maqroll]

Today is Flag Day in Mexico.

[useless]

 

I crossed a one way street today but looked both ways, a mistake I often make, it's really embarresing.

When that happens to me, I tell myself it was best to be sure just in case there was someone coming the wrong way.

 

 

I was thinking about this last night, then remembered when I was little crossing the street without looking both ways I got told of, my excuse was that I could see someone else crossing and they must have looked so I didn't have to bother, but obviously you have to be sure and look for yourself.

[Xela]

Reading furniture reviews online. Yes, reviews of furniture. Reviews of tables and chairs. ****. 

[mjmooney]

Reading what Moon Man does with his spare time bored the **** out of me. Fact.

Glad to oblige, this being the Boring Thread.

Doesn't bore me, mind, I'm happy as Larry.

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

Who the **** was Larry?

[maqroll]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc_te9HBbTg

[chrisp65]

I had a takeaway from an indian restaurant earlier this evening, but there was quite a lot, so I left some.

[8pints]

Who the **** was Larry?

 

I think he was Alice's next door neighbour for about twenty four years.

[StefanAVFC]

I've had a headache for around 8 days.

[Electric Avenue]

Thurrock

[Avfc96]

I just ate a packet of biscuits. 

[abdomlahor]

What's everybody's favourite type of cloud? Personally, mine's the cumulonimbus. Truly spectacular.

Edited February 24, 2014 by adz.villa

[theunderstudy]

Stratus clouds are always good.

 

Won 5-0 at football earlier. Got an assist again

[useless]

If I was to be parachuted into say London 800 years ago I'd notice that I was now in the past.

[mjmooney]

Who the **** was Larry?

 

 

The phrase happy as Larry seems to have originated as either Australian or New Zealand slang sometime before 1875. This date is earlier than that given in most dictionaries, but H W Orsman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of New Zealand English, has traced it to a New Zealand writer named G L Meredith, who wrote in about 1875: “We would be as happy as Larry if it were not for the rats”. Unlike other odd phrases — the Australian happy as a boxing kangaroo in fog time and the New Zealand happy as a sick eel on a sandspit come to mind — it was meant positively: extremely happy or content.

There’s a suggestion that it comes from the name of the nineteenth-century Australian boxer Larry Foley (1847-1917), though why he was especially happy nobody now seems able to say. Perhaps he won a lot of contests? (He was certainly one of those who originated gloved boxing rather than bare-knuckle fighting in Australia and his name is still remembered there.) But this origin is far from certain and the early New Zealand reference renders it less so, without ruling it out altogether.

Dr Orsman’s suggestion is that it is more likely to come from an English dialect source, larrie, joking, jesting, a practical joke. Another possible link is with the Australian and New Zealand term larrikin for a street rowdy or young urban hooligan, recorded from the late 1860s but known especially in both countries from the 1880s onwards in reference to a specific subculture. Like other groups before and since, the larrikins had their own dress style, in their case very neat and rather severe. The word may well have come from English dialect larrikin for a mischievous youth, once common in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, which itself is closely related to larrie. Either of these sources could afterwards have been reinforced through a supposed connection with Larry Foley.

 

Boring link 

[Spoony]

 

Who the **** was Larry?

 

 

The phrase happy as Larry seems to have originated as either Australian or New Zealand slang sometime before 1875. This date is earlier than that given in most dictionaries, but H W Orsman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of New Zealand English, has traced it to a New Zealand writer named G L Meredith, who wrote in about 1875: “We would be as happy as Larry if it were not for the rats”. Unlike other odd phrases — the Australian happy as a boxing kangaroo in fog time and the New Zealand happy as a sick eel on a sandspit come to mind — it was meant positively: extremely happy or content.

There’s a suggestion that it comes from the name of the nineteenth-century Australian boxer Larry Foley (1847-1917), though why he was especially happy nobody now seems able to say. Perhaps he won a lot of contests? (He was certainly one of those who originated gloved boxing rather than bare-knuckle fighting in Australia and his name is still remembered there.) But this origin is far from certain and the early New Zealand reference renders it less so, without ruling it out altogether.

Dr Orsman’s suggestion is that it is more likely to come from an English dialect source, larrie, joking, jesting, a practical joke. Another possible link is with the Australian and New Zealand term larrikin for a street rowdy or young urban hooligan, recorded from the late 1860s but known especially in both countries from the 1880s onwards in reference to a specific subculture. Like other groups before and since, the larrikins had their own dress style, in their case very neat and rather severe. The word may well have come from English dialect larrikin for a mischievous youth, once common in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, which itself is closely related to larrie. Either of these sources could afterwards have been reinforced through a supposed connection with Larry Foley.

 

Boring link

 

[chrisp65]

Sittingbourne