Couple fo questions...

[bookwormsarah]

"Bear with me" or "Bare with me"?

Miss Sainsbury Seal - Gaudy Night or something else?

Both things I should know the answer to, but my mind is still a bit fuzzy.

Comments

[lyndagb]

what (s)he said

[dave3heaton]

It rather depends on what you're going for:

Bear (vb.) with me: asking someone to wait whilst you get to a point in a conversation.

Bare (vb.) with me: asking someone to open up to you and be very honest.

Bear (n.) with me: Help, help, I'm being chased by a bear! (exit, stage left) :-)

[jmkg]

Bare (n.) with me: being chased by a nudist?

[tiphanism]

Miss Sainsbury Seal doesn't ring any bells so it prob. isn't Gaudy Night, but I can't produce any evidence.

[nineveh_uk]

Ditto definitely not Gaudy Night.

[bookwormsarah]

So what was the name of the dreadful American woman who had been at Shrewsbury for a term and (I think) thought Lord Peter "the perfect English aristocrat"?

[tiphanism]

Sadie Schuster-Slatt? Something like that but I don't know where my copy is right now O.O

[b_liz]

Miss Sainsbury Seal is in a Poirot I think. Try One, Two, Buckle My Shoe.

[bookwormsarah]

Thank you! It is so frustrating when I cannot work out where the name in my head came from... (it was Seale, not Seal, which might be why nothing came up when I googled).

[lyndagb]

Oo, yes, that one used to really creep me out ... all the children chanting in teh background in the TV version I think!

[euphrosyna]

Ah you beat me to it!

[mrs_redboots]

"Bare with me" sounds like wanting someone to have sex with you, especially with the question mark after it. Which probably says a lot more about how my mind works that I might wish.....

[bookwormsarah]

I am so glad that I am not the only one who thought that...skinny dipping was my other thought!