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Mar. 15th, 2004 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyYou know you get those little niggles? Turns of phrase, or cliches, or character traits that make you want to spork someone?
Summer hols.
I *have* never, and *will* never call them the summer hols. And I'm as British as they come.
Summer hols is Enid Blyton and misogyny and ginger beer and no one laughing at you when you call characters Dick and Fanny. Summer hols is lashings of boiled eggs and camping out making beds out of *heather* (which never sounded comfortable) and jolly good and chaps and short trousers.
Summer holidays. Or even just summer, really. Everyone knows the holidays are there. Just please. *Please*. No hols.
Summer hols.
I *have* never, and *will* never call them the summer hols. And I'm as British as they come.
Summer hols is Enid Blyton and misogyny and ginger beer and no one laughing at you when you call characters Dick and Fanny. Summer hols is lashings of boiled eggs and camping out making beds out of *heather* (which never sounded comfortable) and jolly good and chaps and short trousers.
Summer holidays. Or even just summer, really. Everyone knows the holidays are there. Just please. *Please*. No hols.
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Date: 2004-03-15 07:22 pm (UTC)This may sound completely random, but I saw your "Wah!" frog icon on a comment on a post on my flist and I just wanted to say that, excuse my language, it scared the fucking shit out of me.
Because, you see, I have this asinine roommate who has a collection of frog toys that look *exactly* like that and they scare me, so seeing the same frog, on what I though was a safe haven online made me blink.
Thank you for putting up with my digression.
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Date: 2004-03-15 07:25 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm sorry. It's
*carefully doesn't use frog icon*