11 Dec 11
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1Why is this? Government cuts, space age paint, bone idleness or just plain apathy?
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1Reorganising the NHS?
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1our poor mps can get more "much deserved" expenses
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
11 Dec 11
Actually, it took 9 years to repaint the Forth Bridge, and that 9 years included sandblasting off the original paint on the whole bridge for the first time. The new paint will last 25 years min, and upto 40 years.
In contrast, it took 30 years ALONE to remove the original paint from the Golden Gate Bridge, a smaller bridge with less area of paint, and that is still continuously maintained by a large team.
So who's lazy, Jim? 😛
-m. 😉
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1Maybe the interminable life style tempo driven global recycling of language
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
through high tech abbreviations, expedient acronyms and internet slang.
gb
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1Invading Middle Eastern countries.
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
Originally posted by Grampy BobbySlanguage Recycling Center Factories...
Maybe the interminable life style tempo driven global recycling of language
through high tech abbreviations, expedient acronyms and internet slang.
gb
distilling pictures and manufacturing sounds, from sacks and boxes of stale consonants and dusty vowels, to provide
a constant supply of sure grip handles to meet the persistent global demand of newborn meanings requiring names.
😉
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1Isn't there some sort of endless construction thing happening in Boston?
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).
11 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1When are they going to paint the first through third bridges?? 😕
Disaster! They've finished painting the Forth Bridge, and not going to start again for another 20 years. A great metaphor now falls out of the English language. Any ideas for its replacement? (For our American friends the Forth Bridge was a metaphor for a never ending task, one which when finished had to be immediately restarted).