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Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Definitely helpful, Dixie1 May '07 2:10 am
but now I'm more intrigued than ever to find out more. I'll just see what Google can add. Hope I can avoid all the Sexy Rexy out there, I wouldn't want to be tempted to start luring in gardeners from abroad .. although someone who knew a weed from a keeper could be helpful. Hmmm.. |
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Gobsmacking Mark1 May '07 3:46 am
To me gob is a slightly coarse word for spit, and gobsmacked means 'amazed' or more specifically 'stunned into silence' - I've always pictured it as having something to do with a politically incorrect way of dealing with female hysteria...
However in Afrikaans we have a wonderful word referring to a somewhat thicker facial excretum - snotklap (klap = slap). A snotklap is what Mark would get from Dixie if he misinterpreted her invitation to NZ!Its implication is a slap that is more humiliating than painful.
I guess we could say that Mark would be gobsmacked if Dixie gave him a snotklap - except that gobsmacked has only positive connotations, and we don't want to follow Mark down that road, now do we... |
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moosey
head gardener
1 May '07 1:42 pm
Not wanting to write something rude in this family friendly forum, hee hee, but in NZ we used to say 'Shut your gob' to silence someone. Of course we were totally rude children, and didn't know any better. Therefore I've always thought a 'gob' was a mouth, and - well, I don't know if this helps at all! Like you'd be amazed if you were smacked in the mouth? Seems fair enough.
Then Dixie's gobstoppers make sense - they're huge sweets which fill your whole mouth like a plug.
| Quote: | | a politically incorrect way of dealing with female hysteria |
And talking about the politically correct, Jack, you'd better watchit. A female hysteria sounds like some rather nasty sleuthing wild animal which just might sneak up on you and bite your - oops!
Back to the garden before the ghost of Sexy Rexy starts spamming me - and all the forum family! Eek!
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Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
At the risk of putting me foot in me gob,1 May '07 4:14 pm
Anna if you are seriously thinking of putting in a rollercoaster I may be applying for that handyman position.
Hey, whose forum have we hijacked here? Apologies to gardengnome. All this gabbing about gobbers is getting out of hand. More pictures please and I promise to shut me gob. |
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moosey
head gardener
Oops. Please come Back, Gardengnome...1 May '07 6:04 pm
Please come back, gardengnome! This is your thread. |
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1 May '07 7:13 pm
Hi Christopher! Great that you've started your 2007 garden thread. Lovely to see Deb and her mom again, as well as your garden piccies! More pics please, especially your spring blooms and latest creations - they're never enough!  Thanks! |
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Who? Me?...........Oh yeah2 May '07 4:23 am
 Who are all these interlopers anyway? 
Well I have been wearing myself out cleaning up the yard! Still not done yet, by a long shot. Things are starting to grow though. I'll have some pix for your eager eyes later on. I have to take Deb up the street soon so I will have to cut this short.
Anyways, you will never guess what your resident gnome is up to now. Blacksmithing! Yes you read that right. I have recently acquired a beautiful anvil and I am in the middle of constructing a forge. I will be making garden tools amongst other things. This is not new to me as I have forged before. when I was a child I use to hang around a wonderful old German gentleman who forged wonderful whimsical things. I had my own forge about 25 years ago and had a go at casting some aluminum parts. Anyway, this is my new craze and I can't wait to make the anvil ring.
In the greenhouse, well, that's another story for later.
Must run now.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
I enjoy your dialogue here!!2 May '07 7:59 am
Being absent from the Forum during the last days of my Spring garden ...frenzy, I enjoyed every little bit here! Hey, Chris, please some photos! Photos of your springing garden , please! Don't disappear again on us, O.K.???
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moosey
head gardener
Breaking News!2 May '07 9:02 am
Breaking News! Gardengnome reclaims his thread! Christopher, you've got me humming the Anvil Chorus (really Jack, I'm surprised you didn't think of this one!). The things that real gardeners do in their glasshouses.... |
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