Remember ' The Menage' ?, Merged Topic Options

[TeeHeeHee]

A more accurate translation would be "household".

I recall, with glee, the shorter version
Ah, such fond memories.

[mlconnelly]

Yes, I remember these well.
On leaving school I started working in the the "Counting House" of Dallas's in the Cowcaddens ( is it still there) and part of my job was to write up the menage form and pay out to the customer when her turn came.
Also had to mark off sales on Caledonia and Provident checks (cheques) in the tube room when the bullet came hurtling down the tubes from each department for change.
Sure are changed days what with credit and debit cards.

lizeeloo

Sadly Dallas is long gone but I remember my Mum taking use there with her Dallas line, especial for school uniforms. She always bought me a navy blue trench coat which I hated at the time but when I see school kids with them on now, they look so smart. I loved watching those bullets being sent through the tubes. Mary

[mlconnelly]

I bought my parents a lovely picture of "Dallas' Corner". What a reaction its got. I left them arguing about who stayed up which close and who drank in which pub, hilarious to listen to. Mary

[beth]

My Mum used to run them for Tearleys (SPEL) the curtain shop cos we always were getting new curtains and things. Over here a lot of the poorer black people run them but for money. It is like Christmas for them when it is their turn.there is a special name for it but can't think of it right now

[Chrissie]

I loved menages. Used to be in a lot of them. That's how I paid for my shoes in Gordons. Believe it or not they have them here in New York. They call them SuSus.

[Dunvegan]

For those purporting to be familiar with all languages, generally proficient in none, the translation from "family" to "house hold" is purely semantic and hardly syntactical. It would appear that those indulging in pedantic and supercilious appraisals of the proficiency, or other wise, of the language acumen of others, would be well advised to remove their digit from the google translation button, or from that refuge of the autodidact, "wikkipaedia", and attempt to obtain a meaningful education at a recognized institute.

[Dunvegan]

My Mum used to run them for Tearleys (SPEL) the curtain shop cos we always were getting new curtains and things. Over here a lot of the poorer black people run them but for money. It is like Christmas for them when it is their turn.there is a special name for it but can't think of it right now

I seem to mind o' it being a CO-OP thing, any ideas on it????

[TeeHeeHee]

For those purporting to be familiar with all languages, generally proficient in none, the translation from "family" to "house hold" is purely semantic and hardly syntactical. It would appear that those indulging in pedantic and supercilious appraisals of the proficiency, or other wise, of the language acumen of others, would be well advised to remove their digit from the google translation button, or from that refuge of the autodidact, "wikkipaedia", and attempt to obtain a meaningful education at a recognized institute.

Can you say that in English please.

[bilbo.s]

Can you say that in English please.

Well, be fair Tomi - he did manage to get the spelling right for a change.

Besides , ah'm no auld enough yet fur an institute. ( ah think) . See some folk, ye jist cannae help them !


BTW , otherwise is aw wan word !

[TeeHeeHee]

BTW , otherwise is aw wan word !

Unless you're talkin' aboot Casper - an' the other wise men; too.

[Dunvegan]

Pedantic pedantic ...is there a life gone missing here????
or has it soured in old age, or is it just good old schadenfreude?

[bilbo.s]

Pedantic pedantic ...is there a life gone missing here????
or has it soured in old age, or is it just good old schadenfreude?

Could be.

[Rab-oldname]

For those purporting to be familiar with all languages, generally proficient in none, the translation from "family" to "house hold" is purely semantic and hardly syntactical. It would appear that those indulging in pedantic and supercilious appraisals of the proficiency, or other wise, of the language acumen of others, would be well advised to remove their digit from the google translation button, or from that refuge of the autodidact, "wikkipaedia", and attempt to obtain a meaningful education at a recognized institute.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Dunvegans been at his Brontosaurus again.

[bilbo.s]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Dunvegans been at his Brontosaurus again.

Do they still have them in NSW ? Do they have an Australian SPCA ?

[Dunvegan]

Ye and we get to watch Benin bloody dorim as well