I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Another unsweet tea drinker here.

HappyLibby, sorry about the headaches. When I get those kinds of headaches caffeine does the best for me as well, but I usually need to take allergy meds as well, don't have a clue why, but when the pressure in in my front head area it tells me allergies are kicking in as well.

Great to see Canada win a medal in the rowing last night!!!

Even better the cox on the rowing team is from my town and went to the school where I taught.  When he was young he had some sort of cancer that was defeated but it caused him to lose some growing time making him smaller than he would have been. As a result, he is particularly suited to his role on the boat!

An oldie but goodie:

Dogs have masters; Cats have slaves.

I love them both too but we only have cats because neither of us fancies dealing with caninical upkeep (new word there!).  However, my little Abby (the Abyssinian) behaves very much like a dog, leading me to exactly where she wants me to be (food tray, door leading to the deck etc.) in her wee little voice.  And she's a major licker too!

HL - I was hoping to socialistically unionize them, hence the CAPS. That way we can ensure an equitable distribution of BS (Brussels Sprouts) when they get here.

great new word, Lindasa.

S'okay Alex -- We all like brussels sprouts here!  I like mine steamed and then sauteed with chopped red onion, bacon and lots of black pepper.

I love kittens, but I LOVE pugs. So that puts me in the canine camp.

Xiao is now winding through my legs, purring, because it's after 5 and time for food.

We know who's trained whom here.

It's amazing how much power one person seems to have.

Mary 

Re: Bats

I know of a belfry with some. Nasty nasty things. My cat used to catch them and kill them.

Ok, I went about to search for the meaning of "belfry" as we havce used that term a lot recently. Here is a definition from http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bats-in-the-belfry.html:

Meaning

Crazy; eccentric.

Origin

Bats are, of course, the erratically flying mammals and 'belfries' are bell towers, sometimes found at the top of churches. 'Bats in the belfry' refers to someone who acts as though he has bats careering around his topmost part, i.e. his head.

It has the sound of a phrase from Olde Englande and it certainly has the imagery to fit into any number of Gothic novels based in English parsonages or turreted castles. In fact, it comes from the USA and is not especially old. All the early citations are from American authors and date from the start of the 20th century; for example, this piece from the Ohio newspaper The Newark Daily Advocate, October 1900:

To his hundreds of friends and acquaintances in Newark, these purile [sic] and senseless attacks on Hon. John W. Cassingham are akin to the vaporings of the fellow with a large flock of bats in his belfry."

Ambrose Bierce, also American, used the term in a piece for Cosmopolitan Magazine, in July 1907, describing it as a new curiosity:

"He was especially charmed with the phrase 'bats in the belfry', and would indubitably substitute it for 'possessed of a devil', the Scriptural diagnosis of insanity."

The use of 'bats' and 'batty' to denote odd behaviour originated around the same time as 'bats in the belfry' and the terms  are clearly related. Again, the first authors to use the words are American:

1903 A. L. Kleberg - Slang Fables from Afar: "She ... acted so queer ... that he decided she was Batty."

1919 Fannie Hurst - Humoresque: "'Are you bats?' she said."

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(and it goes on and on).

I always thought belfry was closer to how one might use the word "cauldron."

I don't think Blue is on restriction. I think she is feeling a bit under the weather.

Ohhhhh all sorts of things happen here, Mary, when people are apparently not sufficiently busy with their own lives and interests.

Anyway, off to watch the Olympics.....

Last time I used the word troll I was banned - that was during the flame wars last year - that's when I started using brussels sprouts and then just started yelling INCOMING!!!

I loved my cats (all four of them - now deceased except for one still living in SC) but I've always been more partial to dogs - my present owner is a 14 year old female Bichon before her reign there was a 14 year old weimarener(sp) cross and prior to him there were two black Labs who lived to be 15 and 13 - I grew up with a Heinz 57 hound called Trixie who lived to be 17 - my dogs live a REALLY long time.

HL - I love you! 

I've heard of those toads that have some slime that is hallucinogenic. Some strange ones took to licking them for the strange trip. Ewwwwww.