Coming out of the closet?

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FierceKitty

18 August 2016, 01:25:13 AM #30 Last Edit: 18 August 2016, 01:28:06 AM by FierceKitty
On an historic note, we're "riding our hobby-horse" (in American, a stick horse).
See Tristram Shandy, where Uncle Toby is our patron saint as, invalided back to England after a wound at Namur, he fights Marlborough's sieges on a commandeered bowling green.
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Damned if I know why the thing's put half the above paragraph into italics, but I seem unable to rectify it.
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Ithoriel

Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 August 2016, 01:25:13 AM
On an historic note, we're "riding our hobby-horse" (in American, a stick horse).
See Tristram Shandy, where Uncle Toby is our patron saint as, invalided back to England after a wound at Namur, he fights Marlborough's sieges on a commandeered bowling green.

You had missed the back-slash in the tag after "stick horse"
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FierceKitty

Sounds like a fancy cavalry sabre-stroke.

Yes, that is how one spells "sabre" in reality.
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Techno

I'd always thought that 'sabre' was the correct spelling....

Who spells it 'saber' ? (I presume)

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Jedis, old Confederates, other strange beings on the fringe of unreality.
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 August 2016, 09:56:40 AM
Yes, that is how one spells "sabre" in reality.
A rather subjective reality actually.  ;). I have always used sabre, however, just as I use colour.
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Subedai

Quote from: d_Guy on 18 August 2016, 03:07:08 PM
A rather subjective reality actually.  ;). I have always used sabre, however, just as I use colour.

Aha! Admit it, you are really a closet Anglophile but you disguise it well for the sake of appearance.  (I bet you say sidewalk just to fit in though.)  ;) :D :D

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Quote from: Subedai on 18 August 2016, 04:32:54 PM
Aha! Admit it, you are really a closet Anglophile but you disguise it well for the sake of appearance.  (I bet you say sidewalk just to fit in though.)  ;) :D :D

MickS

OK-a fair cop!  ;D I think it stems from being in a loyalist regiment for RevWar (AWI) reenactment ( although we were all pretty much British Isles folk back then anyway - except for the Dutch and Germans of course).
We do use the idiom "out on the pavement".
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Duckman

1. Were you a wargames before you met your significant other?

Yes since 18 mainly Fantasy, but also the Island hopping stuff  for WW2 Pacific 

2. How did she find out about your addiction?

I confessed on the nest, so she was not really paying attention

3. What is your significant others attitude towards your addiction?

She doesn't get in a flap about it

4. Does she mention it to her friends or dress your addiction up as something else

She is fine as long as I hide the bills


FierceKitty

Quote from: Subedai on 18 August 2016, 04:32:54 PM
Aha! Admit it, you are really a closet Anglophile but you disguise it well for the sake of appearance.  (I bet you say sidewalk just to fit in though.)  ;) :D :D

MickS

Sidewalk is a pretty good word, when you think about it.
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Dave

Well

1. Were you a wargames before you met your significant other?

Yes from the age of 12

2. How did she find out about your addiction?

I proudly showed her my wargames collection, luckily it didn't put her off - it must have been my good lucks ;D

3. What is your significant others attitude towards your addiction?

Shes okay with it, it got bad when I took figures away on holiday to paint, that caused a lot of trouble :-[

4. Does she mention it to her friends or dress your addiction up as something else

She tells her friends, if I've annoyed her its ' he plays with toy soldiers'  ;D


Dave