A wild goose chase!!!
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A wild goose chase!!!
Oh, yeah! And how! The idea is to take someone who is from the city and visiting the country out on a dark night with a bag and flashlight. [NOTE: A flashlight is what British people refer to as a "torch".] Everyone else has sticks and flashlights, and the vic-, ah, (ahem) city person is told they are hunting snipe. The city person is then lead into the woods and told to wait by a path with the bag and the flashlight off. Sometimes, the flashlight gets switched so it no has no batteries. The others are going up to "beat the brush" and "flush out" the snipe for the city person to catch in the bag. Of course, there are NO snipe. The beating in the bushes just scares the city person, who by now has discovered his or her flashlight doesn't work. Everyone has slipped back to watch them panic. It's a rather mean trick. I have never played it on anyone, but came close to having it played on me! My dad-in-law used to pull it. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by cruciverbalist
Can you think of a reason for the expression "Driving the porcelain bus"? ;)
wouldn't that be electric torch? (to be more specific)
T'be sure, luv, doan mess up me British too much! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by RJbibliophil
BTW, Piglet what was Eivind Beinlaus? Was I right on my last guess, that it was vertigo caused by hypothermia? :confused: