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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:41 PM Original message |
Calling all British! How do you define "fixed around?" |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. SEX'd UP |
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barbaraann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. Didn't Charles want to be "fixed around" Camilla's trousers? |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. Arranged around. Like a turkey with all the fixings (very much so!) |
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The Witch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. In which case the charge changes from creating the intelligence... |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. The charge is bolstered by this in the memo: "but the case was thin". |
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Pryderi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. "cherry-picked" is what I interpreted as "fixed around". Let's say I have |
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comsymp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. That's what pisses me off about this. It. Doesn't. Matter. |
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punpirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. And, let's not forget the context of the rest of the minutes... |
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comsymp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Exactly. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. "fixed" means... |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's not "fixed around." It's "fixed around the policy." |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Exactly! That's why when Colin Powell stated "everything" |
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TyeDye75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. Jmatthan explains it pretty well |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Thanks. I knew it must have been brought up before. n/t |
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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. wizbangblog tried the argument and failed miserably |
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BlueStateGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. I don't understand their point with this. If 'fixed around' dosn't mean |
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Postman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 06:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. excellent point. |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. It means sheep shagging |
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rad23 (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
18. I think this should explain it |
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JohnyCanuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 06:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. And "around the bend means"......... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
19. Just like American English, the obvious meaning is 'illicitly altered' |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-09-05 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. If that were the case, there would be no story in Britain. |
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