ian rush Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Don't feed the time-wasting attention seeker. Particularly one who could - with an exercise of the intelligence displayed by discovering this information - quite easily go on to find the answers themselves. What a strange satisfaction must be derived from starting innumerable threads of shite and drivel completely irrelevant to oneself. You're a mentalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Now, don't let it happen again!! However, one does not 'throw' a googly - one bowls it! Throwing is for the girls' game known as 'Rounders' or for the colonial equivalent known as 'Baseball.' Therefore 'to throw a googly' is clearly a mixed, but probably forgivable, metaphor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Does anyone know if any of the Co's mentioned are IOM or IOM-related?None of them are currently registered in the Isle of Man nor are any of them recently dissolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Lone Wolf, even I know that you can do both during a match, but you can't do both at the same time! (Played rounders, see?) Which is why I gave the alternative. So not mixed metaphors, just two in the same theme. However, you said... I like to reply playing a straight bat and other times I like to throw a googly. Which, is a mixed metaphor. Since someone who has been playing a straight bat can't suddenly throw in a googly. Anyway a googly in rounders would be totally unexpected and illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Declan, in the first phrase I was batting and in the second I was bowling. Two metaphors in the same sentence, but neither mixed! A googly in rounders is probably biologically impossible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Declan, in the first phrase I was batting and in the second I was bowling. Two metaphors in the same sentence, but neither mixed! Those of us who are married know the ladies are always right. Or is it the men who are always wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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