On 24/09/2014 15:53, clipka wrote:
> Stephen isn't threatening you at all. He's expressing how he /would/
> have reacted if you had said those words into his face, to illustrate
> how insulting your comment to Doc John came across for him.

Thank you. I am glad you pointed that out.
It is also a cultural thing considered funny.
Other like sayings from the Glasgow of my youth are:

Do you like hospital food?*

Can your mother sew? Well get her to stitch this. (With hand movements 
of drawing a knife across a face.)**
Not to be taken seriously.
But I fall foul of my own remark about cultural differences. For which I 
apologise.

* I actually said that to an actor when he tried to get me to go on a 
West End, stage (to be the butt of a joke). If I had realised that it 
was his first night in the part I would not have.
[Edit] He was Welsh so knew the context but the lost the plot. He did 
make a good recovery and told the rest of the audience what I had said. 
More power to his elbow.


** Did I hear someone say "Poison Dwarf***"? ;-)

*** German term for Scottish Solders in WWI

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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