Positive Thoughts For Me, Please?

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> wrote:
>
> > > > | Goddlefrood:
> > > > | BoBL, perhaps inappropriately ;-). BoAL might be better.
> 
> > > > [Lee]:
> > > > Not sure what those acronyms are, but... :-)\
> 
> > > Catlady:
> > > From context, surely BoBL is Best of British Luck and BoAL is 
> > > Best of American Luck. 
> 
> > Geoff:
> > Our side often truncates it to "Best of British" - often 
> > ironically.

Goddlefrood:
> If something's worth saying, it's worth repeating, hmm? I pointed 
> out that BoBL, Best of British, Best of British Luck, or what you 
> will can have an ironic meaning. 

Geoff:
Sorry, I must have missed that in your post.

Goddlefrood:
> I'm presuming that by 'our side' you mean the other side of 
> the Pennines, but clarification always helps ;-)
 
> Putting the B in British, this has been Goddlefrood from the 
> middle of the second pond over, whichever way you might travel.

Geoff:
Just put your wooden spoon away.... You know perfectly well that
I meant our side of the "pond" - the Atlantic "pond" in case you're
planning another stir.

As it happens, I have family connections on both sides of the 
Pennines so there isn't an "our side" for me in that situation.