frost_warning epitome of incomprehensibility No, it isn't THAT cold tonight, though Montreal's acting awful willing to continue its tradition of going cold on September first. It's just something my dad said after Mom asked him "if Kirsten would do dishes" (I was right there). And he went something like, "She makes excellent salads, but washing dishes...well, I'm tempted to say 'when there's a frost warning in the place of torment' but that wouldn't be completely fair, would it?" = when hell freezes over. Took me a couple of seconds. (It's a gag of his to go around overly-formalizing things sometimes.) 220831 ... e_o_i AND THEN I WASHED THE DISHES, GOSH DARN IT. Most of them. 220831 ... eg all dishes done 220903 ... ergo hum and to be done 220903 what's it to you? who go blather from