12-08-2017, 09:07 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
I see I’m a chatterbox now, not bad at all, but I’d sooner be a Waffler.
What does it mean to be a waffler?
“waffler. Noun. (plural wafflers) One who waffles, or changes sides or positions frequently. One who waffles or rambles; a vague, unfocused speaker or writer”
That’s me, a waffler, maybe I should have called this thread “Leisurely Waffles” God how I love to waffle.
Back in the 1990’s there was a big row in the Dail when Bertie Aherne called the leader of the opposition a Waffler, it’s water off a duck to me, I’m pure waffle.
I remember as a boy asking my Dad what a waffler was, he put it in rhyme as he sometimes did “He can’t just call a spade a spade, he has to tell you how it’s made”
I have to admit I’m like that, I’m inclined to ramble off in all directions, I find it boring to stick to the same subject all the time.
We once spent a whole afternoon in the local talking about bucket handles, well it started off with a bucket handle when Charlie Mann said his wife was carrying a bucket of water out to the garden to water some plants, the handle snapped off the plastic bucket and her dress, legs, and shoes were drenched, they don’t make buckets handles like they used to…blah blah blah, and on it went in that vein, steel buckets were the best thing since fried bread, brown bread tasted better back in the 50’s, had anyone still got an old ration book left (yes certain foods were rationed over here after the war), we were then steered into talking about music, not pop music, Bucket Handel’s music, betcha didn’t know “Bucket” was Handel’s nickname, then on to the powdered wigs they wore, ending up as men usually do with women, 18th century women that is, did the wives nag as much then as they do now, that kind of thing. Now if that ain’t waffling I don’t know what else it is, all over a bucket handle, the Butterfly effect was only in the ha’penny place.
By the way I’m having a waffle for an autogwraph of Jonathan Woss I got when I was in London sevwral years ago.