G'night, g'bless

[stewey]

That's what I remember saying to my parents before climbing up the stairs.

[stewey]

,,,,and hoping that there was a bed-warmer in place! (hot water bottle in the covers)

[mike11111]

So what happened to "God" and "Good"? Were you stewed even at that tender age?

[stewey]

Mike, I was good at eliding at that tender young age:)

[mike11111]

Anyone who understands what elision means is OK in my book.

[Answerprancer]

That's what my Grandma used to say when I stayed over there as a kid ("goodnight godbless"), she probably still would - she's still with us at 91 YO and still has all her marbles :-)

[stewey]

I wish I still had all my marbles, from the school playground that is: they'd be antiques.

[Mamyalynne]

night night sleep tight ! ♥

[mike11111]

The reason you haven't got any marbles left from the playground is that I greeded them all off you. You only had those cheap little china things, whilst I had geet big glass alleys, including a tenzer and a twelvzer, which would bankrupt you any day.

[stewey]

Mike, I've met guys like you. Now I play with ball bearings whose circumference is eight times their diameter squared. I bet you never played the cigarette pack game.

[mike11111]

Sorry, but talking through your rear orifice. Played the cigarette pack game, played the playing card pack game, won every time. Where I come from, a circumference of eight times the diameter squared is pretty average for a pair of ball bearings. Most of us manage to exceed that with no difficulty; those with less are called gay, but we do tend to look out for them if the going gets rough. That's what being English is all about.

[stewey]

OK.