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Earlier, [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=93904#p93904]here[/url] djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Daniel, Derek! Girls! How long have you two been married? Enough petty squabbling.

Sorry, Mum.

I'm being good.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94445#p94445]Here[/url] DRT wrote:You are clearly feeling insecure in needing to point it out. Man up.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94447#p94447]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:You are clearly feeling insecure in needing to point that out. Man up.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=94628#p94628]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:I told Derek last night […] Why does he keep ignoring me?

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94634#p94634]Here[/url] DRT wrote:Stop blubbing.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94635#p94635]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:Would it KILL you to be NICE to me???

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94799#p94799]Here[/url] DRT wrote:Finally you've said something that is true.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94853#p94853]Here[/url], in response to a post from DRT, djewesbury wrote:*non-wilful yawn*

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9541&p=95143#p95143]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:

AHB wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Have to say I agree with Alex.

That is something that hasn't happened for quite some time. I must open a bottle of port to celebrate. Would Dow 1970' suffice?

Nonsense, I'm always agreeing with you. It's Derek who gets my goat.

DRT wrote:I hate you. You always know which buttons to push to make me forgive you.

AHB wrote:Would that be the "shall we have undercooked red meat" button?

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:The word "ungulates" was used by a toffee-nosed politician last week to describe a bunch of commoners who had in some way offended him. I do not recall his name or the substance of the story but do remember the meaning of the word being discussed on BBC news.

I suspect Daniel is simply trying to join the toffee-nose bandwagon of popular culture.

DRT wrote:For the record, none of my parents or in-laws have hooves.

Derek, as I don't fill my existence with the titbits of irrelevant daily life, I missed this attempt by a public figure to enrich the language as it is spoke. I'm at a bit of a loss as to the Port Forum's inability to comprehend metaphor. If I had used a cliché – perhaps something like 'great unwashed' – to refer to the non-initiates to the virtues of port, no doubt you'd all have managed to get my meaning, without needing to check whether the flannels in the family bathroom had lately been used. But I embark on a new metaphor and you have them all taking their shoes and socks off to check for hooves. I see now that this is the leaden discourse we can expect on TPF. Literalism or death.

jdaw1 wrote:I fold.

I regret starting this thread. It was meant to shame them into not squabbling in public; instead, like some old married couple, they delight in it.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10419]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:

idj123 wrote:up for a vertical 'wake'

We should probably stop short of naming the tasting "Bring out your dead".

Probably a good idea if we're inviting guests who currently own the brand.

I'm glad you like yet another of my good ideas.

Yes yes. I like all your ideas. We discussed this last night. Now do the washing up.

DRT wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:Darwin had a point.

And you are not the first to miss it. I believe the eugenecists fell prey to the same misreading.

Are those the people who invented Nike?