Oh no, the noise (new Boy related awfulness)

[Nick]

 

The Boy has announced that he is forming a band   A rock band  

His friend plays the drums  , someone else plays guitar, The Boy reckons he can do keyboard and sax but will ALSO require an electric guitar  

They are trying to find a singer.

Mrs Nick has offered her services (as a sort of unique selling point) but he has said that no on would 'take them seriously'  

They want to rehearse HERE  

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

DO NOT LET THEM..

A couple of years ago my daughters wanted to do the same, foolishly I told them they could practice at home, thinking it would be nice to have the house filled with young things....Big mistake the noise was awful,  I ended up outside washing the car several times in a sub zero temperature.

They enjoyed it though.

[Nick]

They could go in the cellar 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

They could go in the cellar 

How easy would it be to brick it up?

[Nick]

It could be done in a trice 


















Note to self: establish the precise duration of a trice

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

A trice you say.... if it could be done in a thrice it would sound like a plan...

[Snoopy]

In a trice

Meaning

In a single moment, with no delay.

Origin

Trice is no longer in general use, but might have worked out that it means 'a very short period of time' from the phrase 'in a trice'. That seems reasonable, as the phrase is the only place we are now likely ever to come across the word. That's not the original meaning of 'trice' though - it had a more specific meaning, which was 'at a single pull'. This derived from the name given in the 14th century to a nautical windlass or pulley (variously 'tryse', 'tryce', 'trise' or 'trice') - hence the 'single pull' meaning.

The phrase was first recorded, in the 15th century, in the form 'at a trice'. For example, in the verse The lyfe of Ipomydon, 1440:

    The howndis... Pluckid downe dere all at a tryse. [The hounds... plucked down deer all at a trice]

The first recording of the 'in a trice' version of the phrase is in John Skelton's Poetical Works, 1508:

    To tell you what conceyte I had than in a tryce, The matter were to nyse.

What comes after once, twice, thrice?
   
Nothing, I'm afraid. These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed (the suggestion of `quince' for `five times' is picturesque but no more!). Presumably the language has not felt the lack of them.

The management are indebted to the "Oxford Dictionary on line" for the above. 

[Snoopy]

Personally I have encouraged all my children to learn to play the church organ.
This will ensure that: (i) They will find a welcome in whichever parish they live in future years and (ii) they cannot practice at home 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

In a trice

Meaning

In a single moment, with no delay.

Origin

Trice is no longer in general use, but might have worked out that it means 'a very short period of time' from the phrase 'in a trice'. That seems reasonable, as the phrase is the only place we are now likely ever to come across the word. That's not the original meaning of 'trice' though - it had a more specific meaning, which was 'at a single pull'. This derived from the name given in the 14th century to a nautical windlass or pulley (variously 'tryse', 'tryce', 'trise' or 'trice') - hence the 'single pull' meaning.

The phrase was first recorded, in the 15th century, in the form 'at a trice'. For example, in the verse The lyfe of Ipomydon, 1440:

    The howndis... Pluckid downe dere all at a tryse. [The hounds... plucked down deer all at a trice]

The first recording of the 'in a trice' version of the phrase is in John Skelton's Poetical Works, 1508:

    To tell you what conceyte I had than in a tryce, The matter were to nyse.

What comes after once, twice, thrice?
   
Nothing, I'm afraid. These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed (the suggestion of `quince' for `five times' is picturesque but no more!). Presumably the language has not felt the lack of them.

The management are indebted to the "Oxford Dictionary on line" for the above. 

Oh bugger........ Just, well, oh bugger bugger and double bugger.

[Darwins Selection]

In a trice

Meaning

In a single moment, with no delay.

Origin

Trice is no longer in general use, but might have worked out that it means 'a very short period of time' from the phrase 'in a trice'. That seems reasonable, as the phrase is the only place we are now likely ever to come across the word. That's not the original meaning of 'trice' though - it had a more specific meaning, which was 'at a single pull'. This derived from the name given in the 14th century to a nautical windlass or pulley (variously 'tryse', 'tryce', 'trise' or 'trice') - hence the 'single pull' meaning.

The phrase was first recorded, in the 15th century, in the form 'at a trice'. For example, in the verse The lyfe of Ipomydon, 1440:

    The howndis... Pluckid downe dere all at a tryse. [The hounds... plucked down deer all at a trice]

The first recording of the 'in a trice' version of the phrase is in John Skelton's Poetical Works, 1508:

    To tell you what conceyte I had than in a tryce, The matter were to nyse.

What comes after once, twice, thrice?
   
Nothing, I'm afraid. These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed (the suggestion of `quince' for `five times' is picturesque but no more!). Presumably the language has not felt the lack of them.

The management are indebted to the "Oxford Dictionary on line" for the above. 

Oh bugger........ Just, well, oh bugger bugger and double bugger.

Thrice thou art buggered. 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Ouch!


I do wish that you wouldn't do that!

[beerhead]

Refer the whole project to social services. Make the Boy pay for every instrument, string, pedal, amp, pick, mic, stand, cable, etc out of his own pocket. Encourage him to earn money to pay for it. If he is keen he will do it, if not he is another whining scally who should be euthanased. And Mrs Nick needs to be sent for readjustment. Now.

[Nick]