I read that one multiple times and couldn’t work out what was wrong…
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Doug B
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That's a load of Bosch.
stuart little
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No.15 caught me out in a craptic crossword once!
Yorkieguy
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That isn't wrong, but the original that I posted, stated 'dessert his dessert in the desert, which a sharp-eyed Phil Pascoe picked up thus:
... desert his dessert in the desert.
‘Dessert’: (Double ‘s’): The sweet course eaten at the end of a meal.
"a dessert of chocolate mousse".
The two meanings of desert, but different pronunciations:
Arid land with usually sparse vegetation. especially: such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimetres (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually. (Of which the two largest do not have any sand – only ice).
Geographically defined by lines known as 'isohyets' - lines drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period, rather like 'isobars' which define differing barometricand pressures. (Hold that thought - it might pop up in a pub quiz).
World’s largest Deserts:
Antarctic Polar Desert: 14 million km² (5.4 million square miles).
Arctic Polar Desert: 13.7 million km² (5.3 million square miles).
Sahara Desert: 9.2 million km² (3.5 million square miles).
Arabian Desert: 2.3 million km² (800,000 square miles).
Gobi Desert: 1.295 million km² (500,000 square miles).
2) Desert – same spelling – different pronunciation: Meaning ‘to Abandon’. Lots of synonyms and colloquialisms. (Leave, give up, cast off, turn one's back on, betray, jilt, neglect, shun, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave behind, leave stranded, maroon, relinquish, renounce, walk/run out on, rat on, drop, dump, ditch, give someone the push, give someone the’ big ‘E (elbow), bin off, renege on, repudiate, forswear, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with, have done with, abjure, disavow, recant, cast off/aside, shun, neglect, relinquish, renounce).
Just need to sit back now and wait for someone to chime in and ask 'What's this doing in a Joke Thread?', inferring that I've had my sense of humour surgically removed and could bore the boobs off a buffalo at 1,000 Metres.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
There are a class of words in English that can function as nouns or verbs, such as contract, impact, etc. The distinction is made by the emphasis being applied to the first or second syllable. Desert(noun) and desert(vb) narrowly misses falling into this category, but it's fairly obvious that the two words are derived from the same rootThat isn't wrong, but the original that I posted, stated 'dessert his dessert in the desert, which a sharp-eyed Phil Pascoe picked up thus:
... desert his dessert in the desert.
‘Dessert’: (Double ‘s’): The sweet course eaten at the end of a meal.
"a dessert of chocolate mousse".
The two meanings of desert, but different pronunciations:
Arid land with usually sparse vegetation. especially: such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimetres (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually. (Of which the two largest do not have any sand – only ice).
Geographically defined by lines known as 'isohyets' - lines drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period, rather like 'isobars' which define differing barometricand pressures. (Hold that thought - it might pop up in a pub quiz).
World’s largest Deserts:
Antarctic Polar Desert: 14 million km² (5.4 million square miles).
Arctic Polar Desert: 13.7 million km² (5.3 million square miles).
Sahara Desert: 9.2 million km² (3.5 million square miles).
Arabian Desert: 2.3 million km² (800,000 square miles).
Gobi Desert: 1.295 million km² (500,000 square miles).
2) Desert – same spelling – different pronunciation: Meaning ‘to Abandon’. Lots of synonyms and colloquialisms. (Leave, give up, cast off, turn one's back on, betray, jilt, neglect, shun, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave behind, leave stranded, maroon, relinquish, renounce, walk/run out on, rat on, drop, dump, ditch, give someone the push, give someone the’ big ‘E (elbow), bin off, renege on, repudiate, forswear, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with, have done with, abjure, disavow, recant, cast off/aside, shun, neglect, relinquish, renounce).
Just need to sit back now and wait for someone to chime in and ask 'What's this doing in a Joke Thread?', inferring that I've had my sense of humour surgically removed and could bore the boobs off a buffalo at 1,000 Metres.
How many words can you think of that end in gress?
selectortone
Still waking up not dead in the morning
Progress? As in 'Can we please progress on to some jokes?'
Yes. Mustn't digress.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Sorry, didn't mean to transgress..
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
Yorkieguy
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Progress? As in 'Can we please progress on to some jokes?'
I knew it wouldn't take long!
If you insist:
That was great thanks always remember a Polo mint advert where an Indian was saying "you English have so many meanings for the same word"
I was going to reply but was distracted by a heard of boobless buffalo stampeding across the garden which now means my insurance claim is validatedThat isn't wrong, but the original that I posted, stated 'dessert his dessert in the desert, which a sharp-eyed Phil Pascoe picked up thus:
... desert his dessert in the desert.
‘Dessert’: (Double ‘s’): The sweet course eaten at the end of a meal.
"a dessert of chocolate mousse".
The two meanings of desert, but different pronunciations:
Arid land with usually sparse vegetation. especially: such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimetres (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually. (Of which the two largest do not have any sand – only ice).
Geographically defined by lines known as 'isohyets' - lines drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period, rather like 'isobars' which define differing barometricand pressures. (Hold that thought - it might pop up in a pub quiz).
World’s largest Deserts:
Antarctic Polar Desert: 14 million km² (5.4 million square miles).
Arctic Polar Desert: 13.7 million km² (5.3 million square miles).
Sahara Desert: 9.2 million km² (3.5 million square miles).
Arabian Desert: 2.3 million km² (800,000 square miles).
Gobi Desert: 1.295 million km² (500,000 square miles).
2) Desert – same spelling – different pronunciation: Meaning ‘to Abandon’. Lots of synonyms and colloquialisms. (Leave, give up, cast off, turn one's back on, betray, jilt, neglect, shun, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave behind, leave stranded, maroon, relinquish, renounce, walk/run out on, rat on, drop, dump, ditch, give someone the push, give someone the’ big ‘E (elbow), bin off, renege on, repudiate, forswear, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with, have done with, abjure, disavow, recant, cast off/aside, shun, neglect, relinquish, renounce).
Just need to sit back now and wait for someone to chime in and ask 'What's this doing in a Joke Thread?', inferring that I've had my sense of humour surgically removed and could bore the boobs off a buffalo at 1,000 Metres.
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