It was intended to be a discussion about how the same event can be perceived entirely differently.Apologies for being an air-head,I didn’t know this was meant to be the Brains Trust .

It is about different perceptions, I’ve never thought of tumbleweeds having brains! – how do they steer those things? 😀

Hi Frank – yes, you are right – you should be ashamed.

Thanks BB, sorry frankvw, bad day, missed the joke, Anna – who’s Anna – lives next door to Alice?

Cheers Brian.

Agree re being close to off the topic! – meandering is the word! – the only person likely to be offended is Cees who wants a ‘shrubbery’, which is unlikely – the rest is too general to be of any offence – other than someone worried about using their own language in its proper context for fear of upsetting someone who like them cannot speak or understand it properly in the first place. Suddenly realised, should have asked this in the first place, are you a moderator?

Cheers Brian.

Yes, don’t look now, but I think there’s one around and about, he keeps asking for a shrubbery!!, probably does’nt realise that its such a giveaway!

Cheers

Can I just point out that whilst most cars have ‘wings’, being the bit of metal that appears at each corner, the VW Beatle mentioned earlier would definitely have Fenders. (Or Gibsons?)

A VW Beetle on the other hand…

Moggy

Here we go again!! – casual misuse of the American Language!! – as I understand such matters from extensive reading of the Sam Malone Privet Eye series of American Literature (Hedgefund edition) – a ‘Gibson’ refers to a concoction of alcohol designed to entice a female suspect into a co-operative state of mind – which has nothing to do with German Beatles !!. It only goes to show how easy it is for these mistakes to be made and pass into folklore.:D