On 8/5/2022 at 12:23 PM, ThailandRyan said:

Yes 100% in agreement, it appears the OP author might have become suchly affected...

And he came out?

22 minutes ago, starky said:

Your a street cowboy so ill give you the original "if wishes were horses beggars would ride, if horse turds were biscuits they'd eat till they died"

 Quite happy in my life mate. What i dont deal in is pipe dreams, what could have beens and bs.

My brother would eat fish, were it not for the bones. “Aye, but it tastes like it’s got bones”

Some of us are happy with our humdrum mundanity, some wonder if there could be something different, and perhaps too few take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them. But if it’s done, then when it’s done, it’s as well that it’s done quickly.

48 minutes ago, starky said:

Your a street cowboy so ill give you the original "if wishes were horses beggars would ride, if horse turds were biscuits they'd eat till they died"

 Quite happy in my life mate. What i dont deal in is pipe dreams, what could have beens and bs.

As the late Ray French would have said, were he still alive “There’s no point speculating”

 

 

 

 

 

 

39 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

My brother would eat fish, were it not for the bones. “Aye, but it tastes like it’s got bones”

Some of us are happy with our humdrum mundanity, some wonder if there could be something different, and perhaps too few take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them. But if it’s done, then when it’s done, it’s as well that it’s done quickly.

You've drawn from a few sources there but I agree in principle. 

13 minutes ago, starky said:

You've drawn from a few sources there but I agree in principle. 

I’ve drawn only from my own experience, whether it be in education or the passive observation of life as it wends its turgid course towards the inevitable. If I were a wiser man would my fellows ask my advice, as a mediocre 80s pop star might sing. If I were to truly aspire to be like David Watts, I would have to work as hard as he, and to drink as little. Since that is not the case, then I can conclude that a I don’t wish I could be like David Watts.

I don’t think Ray Davies did, either.

Idle speculation is for the idle, and speculators, the latter seem to do better out of it.

 

If I were an artist, I would forego still lifes for hasty conclusions, which seem much easier to draw

4 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

If wishes were fishes, which would you find most delicious?

 

I might go tomorrow, if I’m feeling in the pink

To the Cricketers Arms, where they sell Cullen Skink

If wishes were fishes?

 

Can't you even come up with something new for the curious readers on TV?

 

There is some sort of idiom, a chengyu, a four-character phrase, in Chinese, which goes something like this:

 

缘木求鱼  (Yuánmùqiúyú)  Yu is Fish, and Mu is Wood.  I feel sorry for you if you have never studied any classical Chinese, WenYanWen.

 

But, anyway.

 

This means, please believe me:

 

To Milk The Ram.

 

In other words, to engage in something completely fruitless.

 

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Milking the Ram, Sir.

Have you ever tried such a thing?

 

No need to reply, Sir.

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

If wishes were fishes, which would you find most delicious?

 

I might go tomorrow, if I’m feeling in the pink

To the Cricketers Arms, where they sell Cullen Skink

I guess you might know...

 

"I'm feeling in the pink"

 

I do not mean what most guys here might know.

 

Sometimes I wonder about the width and the breadth of the general intelligence of the guys I meet on TV.

 

However, anyway...."Being in the Pink", of course, refers to this syndrome:

 

"Pink clouding, or Pink Cloud Syndrome, is a phenomenon many recovering addicts experience when they first go into recovery. When pink clouding, they feel a sense of euphoria that’s then followed by a crash once reality sets in."

 

 

 

Therefore, being in the pink, traditionally, has referred to this phenomenon.

 

And now you say that when one is in the pink, then Cullen skink?

 

 

 

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups milk

1/4 cup parsley sprigs, leaves and stalks separated, more leaves for garnish

1 bay leaf

1 pound smoked haddock fillet, preferably not dyed

2 ounces (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter

1 medium onion, finely chopped

8 ounces store-bought or homemade mashed potato, about 1 to 1 1/2 cups

Kosher salt, to taste

Freshly ground black pepper, to taste