I note that ourwhistling podiatrist is just three posts short of kilopostal status.
You have three wishes, Paul. Be sure you use them wisely.
Oh, and, by the way, I hope you always remember to wash your hands between doing the day job and the manufacturing sideline 
Roger, so your heart lies in Dublin, your head is supposed to be in Brussels, then your feet must be in Iceland?
Given the weather here at the moment, that approach would be both podiatrically and thermally 
attractive (wipes brow in appallingly badly air-conditioned office).
Iāve heard that Iceland was given its name by a Viking leader who wanted his tribe to settle on the next island over, which he named Greenland. Can anyone corroborate?
OK, Roger, I give up. What does siffluous mean?
Mike
Jerry: I canāt confirm, but I will add that I always heard that Eric the Red was ordered out of Iceland because of the crime of manslaughter, and that he ended up discovering Greenland at that time.
Claudine/Roger: It would make sense that part of Roger is in Iceland if his heart is in Ireland, because if Iām not mistaken, the Irish discoverd Iceland around 800.
All the Best, Tom
ā¦ātypoā comes to mindā¦
Soitainly!! Wouldnāt want to give anyone a case of athleteās whistle!
Siffluous = whistling. My coining, by analogy with āmellifluousā.
āSiffluistā is the pretentious Victorian/Edwardian music-hall MCās grandiose term for a whistler (one who does it with his lips, eschewing unnatural probosces such as the tinplate - or wooden - instrument so dear to our hearts).
I donāt know what it means but I hope antibiotics will cure it.
I congratulated Paul on another thread but why not repeat the meassage here, so: happy 1k Paul!
Good coinage. Keeps the mothertongue alive and fresh, and the rest of us on our toes. As for āsiffluistā, well, you learn something new every day.
BTW, whenever I come across the term āCritical Massā, I think of a celebrant chiding his flock as a liturgical form to instill Catholic guilt.
Sorry. 
One thinks of the Catholic church in Lake Wobegone, āOur Lady of Perpetual Responsibility.ā
My father always said his school was run by the sisters of no mercy.
Ron
Another saying, based on the āteaching apostolateā of the good nuns, in the days when corporal punishment was the norm: the sisters of mercy have no charity, and the sisters of charity have no mercy.
ā¦and we havenāt even started on the unChristian brothers yet. They certainly gave some of my cousins an āeducation.ā 
For many years I had a summer job working for an aluminum siding and roofing company. One year, we had a job residing a small country church which the guys doing the siding insisted on calling āOur Lady of the Eveningāā¦ (no offense intended to our Catholic members who, on a site devoted to Celtic music, must be numerous)
They may well be numerous, but thereās always us Protestants here, too!
When I first saw the title of this thread, I, for some strange reason, thought it had something to do with venereal diseasesā¦
~Larry