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# What's a
pelmet?

I'm missing the point completely aren't I
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:40, archived)
# like
a valance or summat but it sounds dead funny !
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:42, archived)
# whats
a summat?
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:43, archived)
# like a fing
only not....
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:44, archived)
# a sortof
a doohickey.
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:47, archived)
# yup
or thingummybob
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:48, archived)
# Yes.
We need a dictionary of wossnames.
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:49, archived)
# would it be called the......
you know.......that...........doofer?
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:50, archived)
# whojimi
flip?
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:52, archived)
# Yes !!!
that was one i was trying to remember !!!
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:53, archived)
# oooooh
that's a goodie
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:53, archived)
# Yeah,
that's a good name for the thingamgig...
running out of names for yokes now
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:53, archived)
# widget.
flux capacitor
wiffle valve
giggle pin
fornicating baboon

not sure about the last one
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 15:16, archived)
# Is that an
ordinary valance or a fringed one?

Australian birds do have a certain, special, something. Long legs, good for wading.
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:45, archived)
# I'd like to think
that a valance on a window in a vicar's office might be a Holy valance.
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 15:17, archived)
#
"a decorative heading to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing"

so yes, a dead funny sounding valance
hooray!
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:44, archived)
# Oh. Thanks.
New word for the day!

*beams*
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:47, archived)
# *thinks back to temporary job in John Lewis, Leicester soft furnishings dept, Christmas 1992*
sorry, can't remember
(, Tue 4 Feb 2003, 14:58, archived)