This week I’ve been pondering two things – so get your thinking caps on and here we go:
- There’s a really old tree at Hursley – but it’s dead. Can you be the oldest if you’re dead?
- This is more of an English weirdness one:
- We say: “I’m on the train” or “I’m on the bus”
- But we also say: “I’m in the car” or “I’m in a taxi”
- And just to confuse things and to dis-ambiguate ownership “I’m on my boat”
So there we have it. Answers/Ideas in the comments please :)
I think you can be old if your dead, I mean the pyramids were never alive (to my knowledge) but they are still considered pretty old
Marc – surely it’s different if it’s BEEN alive and is now dead. For example, you wouldn’t say “my oldest relative is great-great etc. grandad Jones who died in 1459” would you? I say that “oldest” covers those things that are alive.
Also worrying is that you get “on a plane” despite the obvious issues with oxygen deprivation and lack of comfort.
The only idea I’ve come up with so far is things stemming from the phrase ‘On Board’.
But I still think it’s weird.
As for the old thing I have no clue :)
I’ve finally managed so sort out the bullet points on this post.
The bloody wordpress editor just ignores the second level ones so I had to delve into the MySQL db to fix it!!