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brokenblossom

kitchen colonisation

Jan 05, 2007 09:44

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randy_gibbons January 5 2007, 09:58:20 UTC

Careful... I think they're up to something.

brokenblossom January 5 2007, 10:26:54 UTC

I reckon so; this definitely doesn't seem to be some sort of random gathering* - see how they're all facing the same way?

*I wonder what the collective noun for kettles is...

randy_gibbons January 5 2007, 10:36:35 UTC

A boil? A whistle? I haven't been able to find one, however a group of hawks is called a kettle*, so maybe a group of kettles is called a hawk?

*yes, apparently it is. I don't know why.

brokenblossom January 5 2007, 10:48:41 UTC

That sounds a fair enough verbal (nounal?) swap. I didn't know that about hawks! Ooh, the internet's handy:

A 'kettle' is a concentration of hawks swirling, spiraling, and criss-crossing in an air thermal (hot, rising air).

(from here)

Maybe it's something to do w/ the movement of the hawks resembling the contents of a kettle on the boil? P'rhaps.

The OED website* also tells me this:

3. a kettle of hats: a quantity of hats dyed at the same time in a dye-kettle.

1789 Trans. Soc. Arts I. 184 Upon dying a Kettle of hats of twenty-four dozen. 1900 [Still in use in the trade].

So there we go. A hat of kettles just sounds daft, though.

*which I discovered a few months ago I can access via my Cardiff Public Libraries card number - fantastic!

Thread 5

shepline January 5 2007, 10:07:32 UTC

They're like busses. You wait years for one, and then three turn up in your kitchen on the same day (and you discover you're right out of tea bags!) ;-)

brokenblossom January 5 2007, 10:27:38 UTC

Blimey, I hope I don't find three buses in the kitchen next!! ;-)

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brokenblossom January 5 2007, 12:20:41 UTC

Well they'll have a bloody difficult job of doing so while they're still umbilically attached to a wall in Cardiff!

ex_bias24 January 5 2007, 11:13:34 UTC

When Kettles Attack!

brokenblossom January 5 2007, 12:23:24 UTC

I bet that's quite a steamy movie!!

Aherm.

lemur_man January 5 2007, 14:54:34 UTC

You've got kitchen-counter daleks there - they're drawn to tapwater. Evaporate! Evaporate!

brokenblossom January 5 2007, 15:23:33 UTC

Ooh, I'd never known about albino daleks before!! They must be fairly primitive examples of their race, though, if they're mains powered...

lemur_man January 5 2007, 15:33:12 UTC

Yeah, they can't go far, fortunately.

brokenblossom January 5 2007, 21:35:00 UTC

I'll just have to hope they don't have the nous to find the extension leads...