Random Factor... Like A Tractor

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Random factor, like a tractor...
by luckless_pedestrian on Sat 28 May 2011, 5:06 pm

Hello. Following its roaring success on the old 606 (winner of six Luckies*) I thought I'd provide a space on 606v2 for you to post any irrelevant little things you fancy sharing.

I'll start: I've always had trouble with the line 'Love grows where my Rosemary goes.' If they'd chosen another name like Anne or Susan there'd be no problem, but rosemary's a herb so it could be 'Love goes where my rosemary grows.'

In 1975 or whenever it was.

Actually, wasn't it the code name for the big rig?

Can Iwan feel it?

Can't Brychan love

Can't take Morlais off of you

Can Idwal the love tonight

Ehedydd you can do I can do better

Etihad or Emirates?

Ehedydd is a Welsh name meaning skylark, like.

Oh OK, I thought it meant "Anything"

Iwan, Brychan, Morlais and Idwal are Welsh boy's names as well.

Anything Wyn-Smith-Jones

Is Brychan related to Brecon?

Yes.

So I do have an ear for your language after all... now for the syntax.

Brecon sprang to mind since it's the only town I've visited in Wales. We came from the east... through Ross-on-Wye, then across the border and through some delightful mountain pass. Very fond memories of a pint or two I had in a pub on the way there. This was back in 1990.

Brychan was a son of a Welsh King who set up his own Principality of Brycheiniog which took his name. That Anglicised to Brecknock, which until 1974 was a Welsh county. The county town Brecon is the anglicised version of Brychan, although on Welsh its called Aberhonddu, meaning the confluence if the Honddu river with the Wye...

Hang on! This is random factor, not a history lesson!

There once was a Welsh Prince from Brecon,
Who'd have plenty of wealth, so you'd reckon
But despite all his riches,
His silver lined britches,
He wanted to be turned into a woman

Glas a du wrote:

rubber ducky

Dildos for homosexuals?

The study and development of that kind of thing is called dildonics.

Thanks for the history lesson, glas.

Money does that to some...

Its hats and clogs in brecon at the moment!!!!!

Llanelli is Welsh for 'Swansea West.'

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Llanelli is Welsh for 'Swansea West.'

Aww man, I live in Swansea west!

Whats Port Talbot in Welsh then?

Cerigrafu

U R Fablas.

I slap Gleeks.

BLT the hairy sandwich.

Nothing is good unless you play with it.

Night night everyone everywhere...night nght.

Pillock of the community.

Village Idiosyncracies

I saw the year in reverse.

...a chwmpeini naw neu ddeg o enethod glan a theg...

Clean and fair? What does he want to do with his 9 or 10 maidens, play cards?

What a difference a day makes, and the difference is you

Er, no love, you just said the day made the difference.

24 little hours

Isn't the point if hours that they are all the same length? You can't have degrees of size of hours can you? Basic physics ffs!

Minis aren't mini any more.

The cars or the skirts?

Agree, they're both going in opposite directions in terms of size.

I was thinking of the car. The old Mini was a brilliant design, but the new one doesn't even look nice. I don't see why anyone would buy one when there are half-a-dozen small cars you could get for thousands of pounds less.

(If you own a new Mini, forget I said anything!)

I'm not so keen on the chunky look of some small cars... sort of over-designed.

Most modern cars look broadly the same, all smoothed out. There are very few distinctive designs out there. But every now and then you'll see a car from the '70s or even the '80s and they have such character and style.

Salamandernother thing, what is this newt ype of music supposed to be? Sounds a bit like frog-rock.

Is it like that annoying frog-pop song in the early 00s? That drove me spare!

Noo meee nooo meee noooo.

Ugh, you mean Crazy Frog. I remember Christmas the year that was out, every advert break seemed to have an advert to download it as a ringtone. I'd put the telly on mute but you could still hear it faintly.

Lucky - that was as bad as Sweetie the Chick ads - remember them? WTF had THAT on their phone??

Cari, I remember it being really annoying - and I don't want to remember any more than that!

Yeah, Crazy Frog on every ring tone add. That was so painful!

I though the original crazy frog sketch was quite funny.

Funny once... but not 564 times.

Ah, but by the 565th time it gets quite amusing again. Either that or you've gone quite out of your mind.

Can anyone smell a fire? Oh, those folks are burning something downstairs

A stitch in time saves Nain.