Friday, February 17, 2012

Buttercups

Thanks to Mary. When I got them yesteday, they were all closed up and didn't look like nuttin'. Now they got bigger, yellow and all pretty-like.

(Fuji X10.)

Peter corrected me:
Daffodils, Eolake; Daffodils! ;-) 

Ooops, yeah. Well, they are very early, aren't they, I thought it were only buttercups and snowdrops which came this early.

These are the mini-kind. Hardly bigger than buttercups, fingertip-sized.

13 comments:

Philocalist said...

Daffodils, Eolake; Daffodils! ;-)

Anna said...

So guys can receive flowers? Cool :)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

We can't? Oops, I never knew.

Alex said...

Daffodils or Narcissus?

Anna said...

Of course you can. It's just not common. I think. Or is it usual for you?

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Sure, I was just joking. Most social mores are just BS anyway.
I've gotten flowers quite a few times over my life. Never really thought about that it's not common, but now you mention it.

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It may have been Mini Narcissus I heard they were. I Know Nothing, I'm From Barcelona. (I've been quoting that occasionally in the past, and then yesterday I re-viewed that episode of Fawlty Towers ("The Germans" I think).

Anna said...

Good for you :)

I dunno. I think I would definitely not bring flowers to a guy. Unless it's my boyfriend, we live together, and I am the one who wants the flowers :)

But I heard gender roles are quite messed up in Denmark :)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Some say "evolved", some say "messed up", potato, potah-toe.

Alex said...

Of course I can never hear the word "Buttercup" and not think instantly of Barry Cryer. There was a rather fun exchange between Barry Cryer and Emma Thompson on Saturday Night Fry where Stephen Fry has become Barry Cryer at the end of a Jekyl and Hyde sketch. The exchange goes something like this :-


CRYER
Don't underestimate me - I'm packed with strange powers. Amongst my supernatural ability I have the power to find something suggestive and naughty in anything you say!

THOMPSON
But that's extraordinary.

CRYER
Extraordinary? At my age, it's a miracle!

THOMPSON
But it's horrifying!

CRYER
It is horrifying, isn't it. I'll put it away. See? A lewd ambiguity for every occasion.

THOMPSON
You're having me on.

CRYER
No, but it's an idea!

THOMPSON
You can keep this up indefinitely?

CRYER
Are you sure you want me to answer that?

THOMPSON
Alright, if you can twist any word I might say, try this... Um... 'Buttercup'.

CRYER
Buttercup, buttock-down, buttock-up, buttock-down. And rest. Thank you, Madam!

THOMPSON
Curses, that was too easy. Ummm. 'Anti-Tank Missile'.

CRYER
You flatter me! But you should see it when it's angry!

THOMPSON
I don't get it.

CRYER
I'll soon put a stop to that !

THOMPSON
My God, you have actually become Barry Cryer - your double-entendres are staggering!

CRYER
Only when I cough!

THOMPSON
Well if you really are Barry Cryer, would you mind signing this? It's for my children.

CRYER
I don't remember ordering any children!

THOMPSON
I can have them biked over to you by tomorrow. The youngest is allergic to eggs. Apart from that they should be no problem. Please sign - there's a dotted line on the bottom there.

CRYER
There's a novelty!

THOMPSON
Well, quite!

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Fun.

I'd not heard of Saturday Night Fry, prob because it was on Radio. But I've now bought it from iTunes, thanks. I always want more comedy.

Anna said...

> Some say "evolved", some say "messed up"

And you say... ?

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

I say, so as they don't do it in the street and scare the hotdog vendors, I don't care.

bottyknee said...

"I thought it were only buttercups and snowdrops which came this early."

Snowdrops then PRIMROSES. Damn, does nobody care about correct plant identification any more?

"...like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the BUTTERCUP path of dalliance treads"
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I, Scene III, 1602

That would have been forgettable.