Curmudgeons Under Down

[Milt]

I don’t know how to dump a man gracefully.

Having been dumped a few times during my single days I always appreciated the direct just tell me it’s over method.

ince my funnel Web spider supplier won’t send em over here anymore.

So toss in a few black widows instead.

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Got plenty of those to spare. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

 

[Muzhik]

I don’t know how to dump a man gracefully.

May I suggest sliding him head-first out of the bedroom window?

 

[katy]

Oh, defenestration! Throwing someone out a window. It sounds more ghoulish than it might be, depending on the hight of the window I suppose.

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Well, if you want to dump him, that would be one way.

You might try a more conventional approach. Every 5 minutes, point in a random direction and start laughing hysterically. Extra credit if it is exactly 5 minutes. Set a timer if you have to.

 

[Muzhik]

Oh, defenestration! Throwing someone out a window. It sounds more ghoulish than it might be, depending on the hight of the window I suppose.

Not really. It’s an old German custom – “fenster” is the German word for “window”, and was used when you wanted someone to leave. Mind you, you didn’t want them to go away angry, just go away.

 

[Greenfields]

My parents once had a visitor ,who after he had a cup of tea said goodbye,opened the door and promptly walked into the pantry
There’s a lot of doors on that house…

 

[Daisy]

 

[Daisy]

Mind you, you didn’t want them to go away angry, just go away.

So they pushed them out the window? well I suppose it’s a German custom.

The deed has been done. I told him we weren’t a match. I was straightforward enough with him, thank you Milt. And I didn’t push him out the window thank you Muzhik.

 

[Edmundus1581]

Edmundus1581:

In other news, my Lenten reading plan is getting off to a very good start! (St Augustine’s Confessions)

Are you reading the one with 'thees" and “thous” or the one with more modern English? I didn’t get very far with the older form, but loved the one with modern usage.
As far as behavior to deter someone, I’ve heard that picking one’s nose and acting as though vomiting will occur momentarily can be effective. Fortunately I’ve never had to check it out.
The $#&% excessive rain resulted in a connection in the exit pipe to our sump pump breaking. Hubster put a bucket over it, so if it rains any more he says we won’t get a flooded basement. I don’t see how that would work, but am not going to ask too many questions here. He’s a retired engineer and our son the construction manager is going to come over after Easter to fix it. It’s best to tiptoe away quietly and let them go to it.

Yes, it’s a “thees” and “thous” version. Having grown up with the Anglican liturgy this all comes quite easily, and I actually like it very much!

Now, I didn’t realize that there are versions in modern English, so I’m wondering where and when I got this book. I’ve had it for as long as I can remember.

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Daisy, I hope you also mentioned your Curmudgeon friends didn’t approve of him.

In fact, that could make it really easy next time… “You are great guy, and I’m falling hard for you, but you don’t measure up to the standards required by the Mudgies. So, sorry…”

 

[Daisy]

Your advice is terrible, you crusty old Aussie. I like it.

I think this deserves a cake. We’ll throw Christofirst’s birthday in there as well.

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I think I’ve ended up cooking Christofirst.

 

[Daisy]

I guess that was a little weird. I can’t sleep.

 

[Greenfields]

I always wondered what he looked like but I truely can’t see that thing up in a crane fixing electrical wiring…

 

[Daisy]

Yes…

 

[christofirst]

I think I’ve ended up cooking Christofirst.

Yes, that’s exactly how I look

Sadly, your love connection fizzled, but in other romance news, my son married his fiancé. It was not a Catholic wedding, as neither of them are currently disposed to that, but a civil ceremony with a justice of the peace. Both my son and his bride came from broken families, but maybe they will show their divorced parents how true love overcomes all obstacles.

 

[christofirst]

Now, I didn’t realize that there are versions in modern English

My copy of The Confessions of St. Augustine is the 1944 translation by the apologist Frank J. Sheed. No “thees” and “thous,” which my modern eyes and simple brain find preferable.

 

[katy]

Daisy, I’m glad you were able to end the unsatisfactory relationship without pushing him through a window. If it wasn’t open that could get expensive.

 

[oldgraymare2]

Daisy, I’m glad you were able to end the unsatisfactory relationship without pushing him through a window. If it wasn’t open that could get expensive.

Yes!

I quite agree!

That would be rather painful!

In fact I recall one of our kitties in his kittenish exuberance years ago, running around and thinking that the living room balcony window was wide open at the time where we were living, where he could just keep on running, and just run right on through it!

It wasn’t, and he went careening into it, head-on. Luckily, he didn’t hurt himself, but I was worried about the little terror.

 

[katy]

That kitty sounds like o one of my sons. He put his arm through the storm door twice before he was 9. And that was only one incident in a long line of pushing through, falling off, and falling over things. He’s had 3 knee surgeries on his 2 knees from playing rugby and football. I attribute half my gray hair to him.

 

[christofirst]

Soon after we got him, our old Kitty, during a bout of the kitty-crazies, ran and fell off our third floor balcony! We didn’t witness the fall, and thankfully there was ivy below in the planter. For over a week he was a wild kitty, lost outside, and my son, who was much younger then, was quite distressed. I heard the faint and pitiful cry of our lost kitty early one morning as I was leaving our complex to go to work, and I was able to retrieve him.