luciazephyr: Book of the Still, the time traveler's lifeline ([ME] GARRUS IS THE BEST BAR NONE)
[personal profile] luciazephyr
Is saying things have gone "pear-shaped" a Britishism? I've been saying that all my life and I had no idea. Is that why people give me odd looks when I say it?

Huh. The more you know.

:goes out for Chinese, because it's been the kind of week where Chinese food is needed:

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Date: 2010-11-19 10:00 pm (UTC)
samjohnsson: It's just another mask (Default)
From: [personal profile] samjohnsson
I've got it. Born and bred Vermonter, so we've got a lot of legacy Britishisms, though.

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Date: 2010-11-19 10:34 pm (UTC)
thene: Happy Ponyo looking up from the seabed (Default)
From: [personal profile] thene
I don't think I've ever heard it out side of the northern UK but that doesn't mean that that's where it's from...

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