Badge a minit? - Page 2

Dubslow · 2012-07-11, 17:32

Perhaps he was tilting

for this one?

BudgieJane · 2012-07-11, 21:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaurV

It says "stamped mail" and "franked mail". With my level of English I can't get the joke (if there is any)

Stamped mail is mail where stamps have been applied to the envelopes. These stamps require cancelling as part of the process through the sorting office. Franked mail is mail that has been passed through a postage meter. These meter impressions do not need cancelling at the sorting office.

Uncwilly · 2012-07-11, 23:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by davieddy

PS You don't mean tender hooks I assume?

The term is tenter hooks.

LaurV · 2012-07-12, 02:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by BudgieJane

Stamped mail is mail where stamps have been applied to the envelopes. These stamps require cancelling as part of the process through the sorting office. Franked mail is mail that has been passed through a postage meter. These meter impressions do not need cancelling at the sorting office.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know what "franked" means, nor had any idea what's happening inside of the post office. Now I learned something new.

Dubslow · 2012-07-12, 03:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaurV

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know what "franked" means, nor had any idea what's happening inside of the post office. Now I learned something new.

Neither did I, but I admit I still have no idea what this has to do with "Badge a minit" or mid-August.

LaurV · 2012-07-12, 03:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Neither did I, but I admit I still have no idea what this has to do with "Badge a minit" or mid-August.

Well, on those subjects I will also go "Heh?"

But keep in mind there is always something we don't know...

axn · 2012-07-12, 04:00

Well, if you go to this thread, you'll find a link to this thread.

LaurV · 2012-07-12, 04:23

Oh! (as usual axn steps in to clarify everything), ok, ok, I got that message too (and of course I ignored it, thinking that even if it was serious, it wasn't worth to waste xyzzy's money with international shipping to Thai, which is not cheap, and there are also customs...

, hehe), but I didn't make any connection between uncwilly's mailbox and that old story... I thought is some joke related to the stamped/franked mails whose meaning I wasn't able to get... Sorry for my slow-motion mind this time...

Dubslow · 2012-07-12, 05:02

I still don't (didn't) get it

davieddy · 2012-07-12, 19:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

The term is tenter hooks.

Yep. The pun was intented.
See Ernst's post in the long neglected "pronunciation" thread.
It may well have been the point that "soft pedalling" referred to the piano rather than bicycles or "soft peddling".

D

Uncwilly · 2012-07-13, 03:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubslow

I still don't (didn't) get it

I am afraid you will never know who gave me this watch.

2012-07-12, 04:23	#19
LaurV Romulan Interpreter Jun 2011 Thailand 2²·3³·89 Posts	Oh! (as usual axn steps in to clarify everything), ok, ok, I got that message too (and of course I ignored it, thinking that even if it was serious, it wasn't worth to waste xyzzy's money with international shipping to Thai, which is not cheap, and there are also customs... , hehe), but I didn't make any connection between uncwilly's mailbox and that old story... I thought is some joke related to the stamped/franked mails whose meaning I wasn't able to get... Sorry for my slow-motion mind this time... Last fiddled with by LaurV on 2012-07-12 at 04:27

2012-07-11, 17:32	#12
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 3×29×83 Posts	Perhaps he was tilting for this one?

2012-07-12, 04:00	#18
axn Jun 2003 31×163 Posts	Well, if you go to this thread, you'll find a link to this thread.

2012-07-12, 05:02	#20
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 3×29×83 Posts	I still don't (didn't) get it