1) Is there a waist fairy? I used to have a waist, and now I don't so much, so who took it? And if there's a waist fairy, why didn't I get a silver sixpence in an egg cup by the side of my bed?
2) Is the plural of conundrum, conundra, or is that just pretentious?
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The waist fairy exists but she is exceedingly mean and is renown for taking away and not returning goods.
ReplyDeleteI believe her permanent residence is now c/o some obscure plastic surgeon who makes regular appearances on '10 years younger' and such tripe.
Bollocks to her, I say.
Re conundrum, the dictionary says plural is conundrums, but maybe just stick to 'riddles' so we lesser beings can still understand you!
Conundra sounds like a great aunt with hairy whiskers who used to insist on a kiss when you were a young child. Traumatic, I'll say that much.
LCM x
There is such a thing as a Holiday Fairy, who turns up, has a good time, and goes away again. Perhaps the waist fairy does that too. We have a waist at some point in our lives, enjoy it, and then she departs again.
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Josie
There IS a wicked fairy who steals waists because she has taken mine...... a long time ago. Don't think I will get it back now.She never left any silver money either.
ReplyDeleteMy dictionary says it is OK to say conundrums!
Maggie X
Nuts in May
I'm going all classical and thinking there is a Greek God of Weight Control - maybe the twin brother of Dionysus? Flabionysus? He's got it in for me....
ReplyDeleteThere is a waist fairy, she leaves you children in exchange. No idea about conundrums/a. I'm off to ponder some more.
ReplyDeleteConundrums, conundra - it's a good question, and it turns out to be a very controversial topic - I just googled it and found this
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The waist fairy has definitely visited here. Around the time of the second child.....
And another thing, Iota. You only get the sixpence (or whatever - mine was probably worth less than that) if you leave the waist under your pillow.
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Josie
I obviously did something at an early age to piss off the Waist Fairy as she's never visited me!
ReplyDeleteLCM's mental portrait of hairy aunt Conundra made me spit my apple out and now it's all stuck between the keys.
So that's where my waist went - that darn fairy!
ReplyDeleteThere was a young woman named Iota
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One day she'd a waist
The next it was gone
Oh how those friends cried and commiserated about her!
I'm hoping the waist fairy will have mercy on me after this third child... It was the bum and thighs fairy that did me in long ago and I think they should make an agreement that only one comes to visit. Either-or.
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