Boltcutting quiz

[undyingking]

What would you call this?


[Poll #1247845]

Comments

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

What brixtonbrood said.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

What I asked brixtonbrood.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

What brixtonbrood replied.

Though my "our cumulative years" is higher than brixtonbrood's "our cumulative years".

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Though my "our cumulative years" is higher than [info]brixtonbrood's "our cumulative years"

No idea why - other than Arithmetic Fail - but this is a lie.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

There are twice as many of them as there are of you, so they have a bit of an advantage.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

My evil triplet is laughing at you.

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

ditto

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I will ask you what I didn't ask brixtonbrood though, which is re the analogy with trousers: although you may talk about "trousers" in the abstract, if you're pointing at an example you would surely say "that is a pair of trousers" rather than "that is trousers"?

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

"Those are trousers, my dear Winthrop, and those, Fotheringay, are boltcutters. Surely you recall their use in the Cumberland Escapade?"