Our Common Language

Sonsie, I've got that brilliant Munro book as well, except mine's just called The Patter (not the Complete Patter)...mine must be an older edition..i think i bought it the first time i went to Scotland in 1986.
I hate the cartoons in it, though.

Hahah I wonder how many "patter"s he's done...I've got the original
It was so funny when we got it first and took it to my sister's in Hamilton. Her 20yr old daughter was going through it saying things like "Oh, Mammy, you say that! listen!" then she'd read out the appropriate paragraph and go into fits laughing.
she also found things that she, herself, said

Jarmine, what year was your "Patter" printed?

C Michael Munro 1985
reprint 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
I got it in '97...looks like he missed out on a reprint in '96

My "Patter" was printed in 1996. Am I the missing link?

Originally posted by cloud:
Good point about the dancing Neil.
One of my favourite photographs is of an old building near a South Carolina beach...it has two flashing signs, One says "shagging lessons" , the other, "shagging nightly".
Seemed like we had found paradise, but they were just dancing.
I wonder if they had shag carpet in there?

cloud... you mean you didn't go in and find out? How could you pass up that opportunity?



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"The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity."

Quentin Crisp

Originally posted by sonsie:
My "Patter" was printed in 1996. Am I the missing link?

hahahahhaha
ah never noticed that msg before, sonsie.
But, "ma lips is sealt"