OT: Other Great Newsgroups?

Don't be silly, Mell. I'll help anyone's shed collapse.

Try the Urglers in uk.rec.gardening. Erudite, witty, generous, and just very slightly touchy about people who ask them about cats....

havent gone to have a look but 'sheddese' sounds like talking with a mouth full of cheddar cheese somehow... jeanne*

iir... cant recall the name of the ng now, doh!!! where are most of them from then? i thought the usa had the market cornered on the net as theres so many of ya. :D jeanne*

After youre done with Kates I have one that needs to collapse too. Its not a proper shed. Its metal. Has useful things in it. Its all wrong. Thanks, Diana

No - just a comment! :) You have to look in the loft not the shed to see the extent of my fabric folly! The shed is falling to bits, so I only keep spiders in it...

I have 2 cats and a cat proof garden - bushes only, no flower beds! Cheating, I know...

In article , Diana Curtis writes

A lot of it is just ROT13. We're especially fond of ROTs that wind up as pronounceable words, so much so that I find myself saying things like "sneg" (excuse me!) in real life, just because it's a lovely word. Some of it is anagrams. Some is phonetic spelling, or amusing mis-spellings. Some of it is just our very own vernacular - the shed historians will be able to give you the origin of each neologism, including who used it first and when!

In article , nzl* writes

uk.rec.sheds The "uk" bit is a giveaway that it's not full of Yanks. We do have one or two, but we treat them quite well, in accordance with the Geneva Convention.

Some of us followed you home...

Same here Kate. A proper wooden shed with pleny of room for power tools and such so DH can make things... thats a dream of mine too... You do realize tho, that that kind of disqualifies us as sheddies as they want nothing useful in their sheds. Diana

This all sounds very interesting, I just don't know if I'm up for it. I'll check it out & get back to you too, Mel.

-- Royce A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

Glorp! Thought Id shaken you off at the candy store. Want to come play with our FQs? Diana

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You were right about the language there Mel - does Professor Unwin post much these days?

Suzie B

-- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK

In article , Diana Curtis writes

Hmm - you could fold it into a triangle and wrap it around your head. Will we see Sly Stallone in a Thimbleberries bandana?

Ooh - look who's bandying her new shed jargon about!

thanks Mel, well my isp doesnt carry it in the list of 30 odd thousand. so means i gotta to look thru google i guess, maybe, when i feel inclined and can find the time. geeeeeeez, they got enough other UK ones, guess the back sheds dont interest them much. jeanne*

Ah, BUT - they have useful stuff in their sheds but the trick is to find really inventive ways not to use it!

And we here are quite sheddy in our obsessions and ability to acquire stuff. We just keep it in clean dry indoors sheds, rather than letting it rot at the bottom of the garden next to the compost heap!

I just use 'Kateisms' - that might really polish them off!

they seem slightly similar to the pipesmokers who eavsdrop here occasionally ;) or used to...

Krysia K.T. - starannie opakowana