Divided by a common language

[marnanightingale]

Things it is perfectly natural, but a very bad plan, to write on the customs form for a parcel being shipped to the UK:

"1 pr used pants"

Things that take a bit of last-minute scratching out but are probably on the whole much safer to put on said form:

"1 pr used trousers".

Comments

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

::giggles::

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

... it's only funny because I caught it in time.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAAH@!@@


Gondor needs no pants.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

... Gondor needs not to be turned back at Heathrow. :)

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

Would they really do that?

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

If they thought I was a panty-peddling pervert?

Possibly not, but it's bad enough explaining that I met everyone I'm visiting on the internet.

[girlpearl]

If they thought I was a panty-peddling pervert?

Wait, are you now saying that you're not?

Man. That's gonna fuck with my worldview.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Darlin', I don't even WEAR panties...

[reyl.livejournal.com]

*evil giggles*

Oh, I wanted to ask you for a recommendation... I need a good swashbuckler book to read, preferably something easily found at the library. Well, other than the three musketeers. And not a bodice ripper. Trouser ripper possibly acceptable.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Jack Absolute. I can loan you a copy. :)

Actually, we were gonna get together and then I had a manuscript and I flaked. How's your schedule tomorrow? We can discuss frockage and swashbuckling. :)

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

You have read Rafael Sabatini (Scaramouche, Captain Blood, and many more) and Stanley Weyman (Under the Red Robe)? Nothing like going to the classics (and they are wonderful)...

I've also very much enjoyed Lynn Kerstan's last few romances, which are properly swashbuckling, particularly The Golden Leopard, Silver Lion, and Heart of a Tiger. Also Loretta Chase's romances, many of which have recently been reprinted (OK, I have a Thing about Albanian bandits...)

And, yes, the Jack Absolute books are great.