Pedantry!

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Damn, beaten to it. And now I've looked at the word 'capital' so long that it no longer makes any sense.

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sure?

geez, i'm a cunninglinguist! :p

Sense? You want sense? Try pedantry instead. Pah!

what?

capital, *a. and n.*

7. In mod. use: Excellent, ‘first-rate’. Often as an exclamation of approval.

1762 LD. RADNOR in Priv. Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury I. 85 The Hobbema is also a very capital picture. 1791 Ann. Horsem. vi. (1809) 91 He clears every thing with his fore legs in a capital style. 1835 G. Gurney I. ii, Nobody said capital, or even good, or even tolerable. 1870 Ralf Skirl. III. 26 He was a capital companion. 1875 Plato (ed. 2) I. 100 Capital, Socrates; by the gods, that is truly good.

Ha! Sorry, being slow... and American.

What, like you beat down the other Tynan ? Time for another call to social services I think.

How old is Tynan, my new manchild is now 7 weeks (yesterday) - perhaps we should race them, is baby racing still legal ?

He's already beating me down, but Childline seem unsympathetic towards my claims of suffering physical abuse at the hands of an infant.

I was going to ask if yours had arrived yet. Congratulations :)

Mine is very very fast, but we could arrange some sort of handicap system to make things more interesting...

Oh, he was 18 months last Tuesday.

Baby curling? No handicap required.

He's already beating me down, but Childline seem unsympathetic towards my claims of suffering physical abuse at the hands of an infant.

I was going to ask if yours had arrived yet. Congratulations :)

Yep! all came out good, pair of eyes, tens fingers, all the major sensory organs at the top of his body, that kind of thing - were going to call him Tynan for a long old while (my middle name).

Mine is very very fast, but we could arrange some sort of handicap system to make things more interesting...

You could sit on his back.

Carrots

He's not that keen on them - like his dad. We can tolerate them grated in a salad, or blended in some kind of spicy soup, or even as thin batons in a stir-fry, but if they weren't so nutritious, we wouldn't bother.

Nice colour though (and apparently they weren't always orange, until the Dutch got involved).

...I would be embarrassed to hear you talking like this on the street, for your own sakes.

haha!
the mean streets of oxford university...