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Shirley · Post: # 13827Post **Shirley** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:55 pm

I totally agree - and don't think that it is off-thread.

Music and dancing play a large part of life here in our household and we sing nursery rhymes - with variations too sometimes but generally on Jonathan's lead - often nonsense variations of twinkle twinkle - it makes us all laugh - another good medicine.

ina · Post: # 13877Post **ina** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:16 pm

Shirlz2005 wrote: In my local paper today I spotted two jobs... one for a pig person and another for a person friday!

I must admit - if I looked after pigs, I would rather resent being called a pig man... Even if they called me "a female pig man". That's just incorrect. Should they advertise for a pig man or pig woman? Sounds too complicated.

But I do think that Oxfam went a bit too far when they labelled their ginger bread products at Christmas "ginger bread person"... They were clearly men, they didn't wear a skirt!

Shirley · Post: # 13878Post **Shirley** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:18 pm

lol ok ina.... fair enough..... i guess in much the same way as a man doing a milk maid job lol...

ginger bread person! LMAO - had to be a man because it wasn't wearing a skirt

glenniedragon · Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:10 am

Dont you get more gingerbread on a gingerbread man?

kind thoughts
Deb

Shirley · Post: # 13914Post **Shirley** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:14 am

Ummmmm (well I was going to say good point!!!!)

ina · Post: # 13916Post **ina** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:38 am

No prejudices here, please - there are big women, too! (And big persons, I'm sure.)

But they almost called the men with the white coats when I burst out laughing in the middle of a busy shop, after seeing that label... Don't know whether they still do it, that was two Christmasses away.