Pool with the guys was enjoyable. They play once a week and thus (as Ececil pointed out) they have skills. When it comes to my pool playing at least I can’t be accused of spending all my time in a pool hall. My hosts were very gracious and no money changed hands.
On a different note, I’m serious there is no connection, is it appropriate to use an alternate word in the place where others might use a curse word?
My grandfather used to say piffle in certain situations. Frankly, up until I just typed the word, and the spell check didn’t flag it, I had no idea it was a real word. It seems piffle means "to talk or act feebly or futilely. Foolish or futile talk or ideas; nonsense."
In a time of stress, anxiety or other emotional moment is it appropriate to say "farfegnugen", "wienerschnitzel", or any other food name in German?
Some of those infamous (which of course means more than famous) italian painters have fun names that could be used in certain situations - "pisanello", "ghirlandaio", or "verrocchio".
I like the way "Ricardo Montalban in rich columbian leather" rolls off the tongue. But I’ll save that for another post.
How about "rats", or "pickles" or some other random word?
Just curious. The kids were asking on the way to school and I thought I’d abdicate my parental responsibility and defer to the collective wisdom in the community of blog?
