Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

Well. We could have a special thread. 'Dead posters please announce the fact here'.

Maybe post the day before. As soon as you start to feel groggy.

anya neither of those ... I just don't want to know. They've been here for 2 months doing a 2 week job. I've got on the bedside table. A little medicinal sherry.

Havve they said jingl's ban is permanent, merlot? How mad is that? And sad...

I sympathise GK ...... in fact I'm so much in sympathy with you that I going to join you now in a medicinal

Cfran

I'd just like to announce that I am feeling a little groggy - just to be on the safe side. I will have a medicinal to see if that helps - oh no! Cari said it wouldn't!

They haven't said it's permanent, Ana but then they haven't said it isn't.

Does the word groggy come from the noun 'grog' (rum with hot water and spices)?

Even if I have just split an infinitive
Don't about it, I love to boldly split infinitives
and have no shame about doing so.

Apparently grog was called after Admiral Vernon, known as Old Grog, who, in 1740, ordered that rum be diluted with water for sailors. It came, it seems, from his grogram cloak (grogram is a coarse cloth made of silk and mohair).

#fascinatingfacts

Interesting!

It was diluted for junior ranks but not for officers.
The rum ration was done away with on 31st July 1970

Is grogram the same as grosgrain, then thatbags?

No, but I think both are from the same Old French word meaning coarse grained (fabric).

Grosgrain is that ribbed ribbon of the type used as hat bands. My school hat had a grosgrain band.

I quite fancy a grogram cloak!

"Grosgrain" is commonly used to refer to a heavy, stiff ribbon of silk or nylon woven via taffeta weave using a heavy weft which results in distinct transverse ribs. Historically grosgrain was made from wool, silk, or a combination of fibers such as silk and wool or silk and mohair. When a combination of fibers was used, the end result was sometimes given the name grogram, silk mohair, gros de Tours or gros de Napels.

I think it is still called grosgram in America:
www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Fashion-Printed-Grosgram-Polyester-Ribbons-Wholesale_1662738228.html

Not advertising Cari !

Unless anyone wants stars and stripes ribbon.

I can't believe that any poster complained about the wine thing! WTF

Might have been a few lurkers with nothing better to do...

Unbelievabel. As you say RAR .......

I pad chooses the spelling

That ribbon - it's still called grosgrain in France. I bought some not long ago, for the waistband of a skirt.

I used to buy it in my sewing days, there is probably still some lurking around at the bottom of the sewing box.

Now, what was that about did I miss something?

Yes Jalima you did miss it, and now it's your turn to get a round in.

Just a minute, I'll re-mortgage first
(how many members?)

I have older friends who don't like swearing and are fascinated by the royal family but what makes me feel an alien on Gransnet is the many posters who are apparently of the same generation as my grandmother. I'm 71.