WHAT SOME PEOPLE THINK ??

(PART 3)

• Have you noticed that there is neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
• And there are no hogs in Hogmanay.
• And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
• Quicksand only works slowly.
• If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
• If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
• Barking: Thought to be named after the London suburb, home to a former asylum site; hence 'Barking mad'.
• Binge: A bout of uncontrolled indulgence.
• Blighty: A word much loved by RAF types in WW2.  Originally from the Hindi word "bilayati" meaning foreign.
• Blimey: Could be shorthand for "God, blind me."
• Chum: A "chummy" used to be a chimney sweep's assistant.
• Cuppa: First used for tea by PG Wodehouse, the playwright.
• Dear: From an old English word, "deore", meaning "much loved."
• Grotty: Sixties Liverpool slang.
• Jolly: From an old French word meaning "festive".
• Slag: Derived from a 16th century German word meaning "dross".

AND ONE JOKE

DIVORCE vs. MURDER

A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up tothe pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I'd like to buy some cyanide."

The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"

The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."

The pharmacist's eyes got big and he explained, "Lord have mercy! I can'tgive you cyanide to killyour husband, that's against the law! I'll lose my license! They'll throwboth of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CAN NOT have any cyanide!"

The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.

The pharmacist looked at the picture and said,

"You didn't tell me you had a prescription..."