New Ironing Thread - Page 3 - Clubhouse

daisy dog

09/09/2002 at 12:09

Tim

You need help. I once lived with a girl who ironed her knickers. You would have liked her.
Now she's an incredibly rich banker with 2 children. She doesn't speak to me anymore.
There's a moral in there somewhere

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 12:34

I agree a little help with the ironing would not go amiss. I used to iron my underpants in fact and my wife's knickers, but have not done so for some time. Still iron socks, however.

AmandaP

09/09/2002 at 12:35

Tim - there was some good advice in Saturday's Independent about ironing shirts - I must remember to bring it in for you. Regarding fitted sheets - just don't have them.

DD - I have to say that if I need to iron my knickers in order to become incredibly rich, it's a sacrifice worth making in my opinion....

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 12:40

Hmmm maybe I ought to start ironing underwear again and wait for the riches to arrive...,

Iron SwissBobby pirate

pirate

09/09/2002 at 13:09

Johnny Spanish punctuation

¿Quiene he se tirado pedo?

¡Siempre estaba el perro!

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 13:10

Jolly good SB.

Pedito is a small pedo, BTW.

Hildegard

09/09/2002 at 14:09

Barkles - oh dear lord, you mean you never checked your cat's sex upon purchase/adoption? Ha ha, serves you right! Actually, that reminds me of the Shetland pony that gave birth to a foal that was half Shetland, half zebra - and the owners hadn't known that she was pregnant.

Hey Tim - a serious ironing question for you. I have a spot of candle wax in my carpet - is it true that one can iron out wax blobs (from clothes too)?

But that still doesn't solve much, since I don't own an iron.

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 14:11

I have never had to attempt this. I would think you stand a good risk of buring the carpet. Since wax melts at ca. 40 de g C., I would suggest sponging with very hot water. Alternatively add a bit of string, light and wait until it goes out.

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 14:12

Hildy: what is correct plural of forums?

Hildegard

09/09/2002 at 15:40

I tried the hot water, but to no avail. I once tried it on a pair of jeans, and it worked. Oh well, it's just a student accommodation, and I'm moving out in two weeks anyway.

In English, forums is the plural of forum. As for the Latin, I don't know Latin (as detailed in previous threads), but Ratbag and Barkles do.

Iron SwissBobby pirate

pirate

09/09/2002 at 15:44

to get candle wax off clothes place a piece of brown paper on the item of cloting and iron normally.

Slowboy

09/09/2002 at 15:46

You could try heating the wax spot with a hairdryer set to hot, and absorbing it into some kitchen towel or cotton wool when it melts.

I haven't actually tried this, just deduced that it should work by considering the properties of the materials involved. It's a lot more interesting than what I'm meant to be doing.

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 15:49

Above seem very sensible, therefore I redress balance by suggesting that you melt candles all over carpet and sell it as the new waterproof look. Hmmm.. could apply this to my sheets.

Hildegard

09/09/2002 at 16:17

Good suggestions, but I don't own a hairdrier either, and candles are techinically illegal in my accommodation. But the cleaner loves me, so it won't matter really.

Tim, if you try to wax in sheets experiment, you might wake up and find that all of your body hair gets ripped out. Ouch!

Ratbag

pirate

09/09/2002 at 16:23

Hild and Tim,

I think the plural of firum should be fori. It doesn't look right somehow but that's all I can think it can be.

BTW Hild. I think Paulam is the accusative of Paula. As a name, I think it is a regular noun like mensa (table).

Therefore:

Nom. Paula
Voc. Paula
Acc. Paulam
Gen. Paulae
Dat. Paulae
Abl. Paula

Please don't ask when they should be applied as I've forgotten most of what I ever learnt.

BTW Hild if you really want some Latin translating let me know as I work with a linguistic genius who PROBABLY knows Latin much better than I do along with all the other languages he seems to undersatnd.

All the best,

RB

Hildegard

09/09/2002 at 17:15

Ratbag,

I checked the Latin, and it seems that fori is the plural form. I wasn't so sure, so didn't want to post it, but since you did, so can I. As for the translation, after asking the two people in the world who have worked on this thing in my field, I contacted this American woman who wrote her MA thesis on it, and included a translation. Hopefully, I have persuaded her to send me a copy electronically. if not, I'll have to order up her thesis and simply copy it all on to my computer.

So, hopefully I'm set.

Slowboy

09/09/2002 at 17:22

Hildegard,

what is it you're actually working on? It sounds extremely obscure and esoteric.

Achilles

09/09/2002 at 17:37

erm - sorry to butt in here, chaps, but forum is neuter and so the plural is fora, not fori. There is an archaic form forus of which the plural would be fori, but that's another matter.

Hildegard

09/09/2002 at 18:36

Slowboy - my thesis is so obscure that sometimes, I'm not even sure that it exists! But the short description is: a theoretically feminist study of the positive representation of female speech in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse religious prose.

I'm in my third year, and will die if I don't finish my next summer.

09/09/2002 at 23:02

Do you get the feeling that when push comes to shove there isn't a question that at least one forumite can't answer. Is it me but or are the tangents and curve balls getting more and more pronounced.

I blame......all of you. Keep up the good work. Just so I don't feel completely left out any of you speak binary rather than latin?