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I believe Runcorn and Widnes are similarly wonderful holiday destinations.
It's true. A different chemical smell every day!
Only with a HAZMAT suit and lots and lots of pink pills. FSN is a local supplier of those.
IanS
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: fsn on 16 July 2016, 11:01:17 AM
It's true. A different chemical smell every day!
Mi'Lord,
I had understood that your title represented a factory town, but am I now to understand the adjective is actually olfactory?
Runcorn is, or was, a big town for chemical production. ICI mostly.
Nowadays, the smell comes from Widnes, and it's a bone factory.
Bone factory? Hard Luck!
Crimminy! I know the things to which we apply the term "bone factory" here but it may have different meaning there or maybe it is so idiomatic that I could never grasp it. I don't understand - is Widness itself, in its entirety, a "bone factory" or is there some industry in Widness, called a "bone factory", that produces some sort of chife? I apologize for my ignorance.
Widnes is a town directly across the Mersey bridge from Runcorn. It has a bone factory. Yes, I was being rude.
Quote from: Leman on 16 July 2016, 07:17:51 PM
Widnes is a town directly across the Mersey bridge from Runcorn. It has a bone factory. Yes, I was being rude.
Well - OK - you have brought to mind a THIRD meaning - nice pun btw - ;D
I have seen the geographic relationship of Runcorn and Widnes on map BUT still confused by precise origin of the Widnes chife.
Inquiring minds and all that.
Not familiar with the term chife.
A chife is a pervasive and overpowering smell usually of a noxious quality.
A girlfriend who grew up in Usti nad Labem, in northern then-Czechoslovakia, once told me that a childhood family contest when driving around a hill into view of the town had been betting on what colour the pall of smog hanging over the factory quarter (which was far more than 25%) would be this day. Ugh.
You have had interesting girl friends. I mean this as a complement.
Quote from: d_Guy on 17 July 2016, 02:44:25 AM
You have had interesting girl friends. I mean this as a complement.
Well, I avoid the dull ones as topics of conversation. This one was the lass who presented me with the famous ultimatum "That cat goes, or I do!" (in German, our main language of communication). I missed her....
What with ?
You're too young to know.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 July 2016, 05:48:34 AM
You're too young to know.
Bet that's the only time you have been called that Phil. :o
IanS