Word association time!

First topic message reminder :

behind
rear

Just now seeing those links and wondering what's up with that....

polite
manners

Manners
absent

manners
etiquette

etiquette
consideration

consideration
award

award
honourable

Honerable
Gentlemen

gentlemen
ladies

women

Women
indescribable

indescribable
dictionary

dictionary
a-z

a-z
alphabet

alphabet
Phonix

phonix
words

words
books

books
libraries

libraries
CD's

CDs
backpain

CD's 
backpain.... confusion?

backpain.... confusion?
Me too!

I am lost on backpain too.. Please explain P.. lol

Am going back to CD's
Fleetwood Mac

[CDs - compact disks! That HAS to be painful]

Ouch - not THAT kind of disk, P!

Fleetwood Mac
Rumours

Rumours
gossip

Gossip
jungle drums

Ok P.. you have lost me again.. please explain lol

lorry p wrote:Ok P.. you have lost me again.. please explain lol

[Jungle drums- means of remote communication between jungle tribes. Also applied within the village community (although not literally ) to gossip circulating within the community. Typically who've just fallen out, separated,  got pregnant (including speculation about who the father is), on holiday (and where and details), in trouble with the police (and speculative reason), ill, moved (out and in), or died. Any correspondence with actuality being somewhat random]

Thanks P.. never heard of that before.. lol.

Jungle drums
People with little to do

People with little to do
idle minds

Idle minds
idle rich

idle rich
filthy rich.. another saying over here.. lol

filthy rich (We have that expression here as well; otherwise known as stinkin' rich)

average Joe

average Joe
common man

Common man
common woman

common woman
common law

Common law
poetic justice

poetic justice
poetic license

How much does a poetic license cost, anyway? Do you have to pass a test?

(It's free for pensioners .... very free!)

Poetic licence
dog licence

dog license
driver's license

driver's license
driver's ed

drivers ed
L platers

What's an L plater?

An L plater.. a person learning to drive displays and L plate on their car and has to have a fully licenced driver beside them in the car at alll times, teaching them to drive. What do you call them?

And when they get their L's.. they then proceed to learn to be a P plater.. they stay on their P's for a couple of years after which time, they become a fully licenced driver.

Ah, we call that a learner's permit, but that's reflected on the card they carry in their wallet, not on the car's license plate. Generally, a person learning to drive doesn't own their own car; wouldn't a license plate with an L on it mistakenly give people the impression that the owner of the car is just learning to drive, when they are in fact the parent of the person learning to drive?

Granted, a driving instructor's car may have a "student driver" sign on the car, but that's probably not his personal car...

We don't have P plates but it sounds like a good idea. Just to clarify: our licence plates generally come with the car (except those hedonistic rich who can afford big bucks for personalised specials) When we say L plate it's a bit of plastic which is easily removed. If I say immigrants don't tend to bother too much about driving licences don't jump to conclusions, I was thinking of the Japanese.

Annual tax has to be paid but we have numberplate identification everywhere in UK, any licenced keeper whose car is spotted automatically gets a fine through the post. It's all totally automatic and saves the cost of issuing tax discs every year. Same with speed traps and fines. Same with motorways (plates are logged onto the system and motorway distance between cameras is known. They calculate speed between cameras). There are also loops under the motorway and NPI to measure instant speed and record plate details. Driving's no fun now!

L plater
chrome plater

Some states here have speed cameras, but here in Philly, we only have traffic light cameras, and even those are at a few dozen major intersections. My mom got a ticket for driving through a red light once, which is ironic because she starts slowing down when the light is still green, before it even turns yellow! As it turns out, she eventually figured out by the date of the offense that she was in a funeral procession, so she fought the ticket and eventually won, after a whole crap load of red tape. Apparently it never dawned on the bureaucrats that dozens of cars going through the same red traffic signal within a few moments could indicate something out of the usual.


Chrome plater
collection plate

(We have traffic light cameras and speedtraps as well, NPI again)


Collection plate
W 40 GTR (follow that if you can!)

You lost me.

(Collection plate: specific registration plates which have been collected from our Driver and Vehicle Licencing Authority by paying LARGE bribes on their collection plate. Laughingly refered to as "cherished plates")

W 40 GTR
P 40 GTR (I've got that one as well)