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Title: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: ridethetalk on January 29, 2023, 03:56:28 PM: SHEBEEN – c’mon, really??? OK, it’s expanded my vocabulary but I’m not sure if I’ll ever use this word and would definitely not consider it common!!!

Btw. I love concept that springs from this puzzle – Chi certainly banishes shabbiness of thinking… >:D >:D >:D
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: Wibbly Bits on January 29, 2023, 06:27:20 PM: New word for me too.
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: Colhad75 on January 29, 2023, 08:29:07 PM: Shebeen to hell and back, poor thing. At least she's not a hasbeen.
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: yelnats on January 29, 2023, 10:46:15 PM: I knew the word from my month in South Africa decades ago, but thought it was spelled shabeen. I think any Southern African would know it.
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: guyd on January 30, 2023, 01:06:22 PM: Must be a marked lack of persons with an Irish or Scots background - or readers of literature by authors from those places - for shebeen to cause such concern. I mean where else are you going to get a tinct when the pubs are shut?
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: whisky on January 30, 2023, 02:52:00 PM: Quote from: Colhad75 on January 29, 2023, 08:29:07 PM
At least she's not a hasbeen.

Better to be a hasbeen, than a neverwas.
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: Ozzyjack on January 30, 2023, 03:58:56 PM: Quote from: guyd on January 30, 2023, 01:06:22 PM
I mean where else are you going to get a tinct when the pubs are shut?

Don't they still have sly grog shops in Melbourne?
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: TRex on January 31, 2023, 04:16:08 AM: Quote from: whisky on January 30, 2023, 02:52:00 PM
Better to be a hasbeen, than a neverwas.
🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: pat on January 31, 2023, 04:34:36 AM: Quote from: whisky on January 30, 2023, 02:52:00 PM
Better to be a hasbeen, than a neverwas.

Not necessarily the case, whisky. We have some has-been prime ministers, (especially the four before the current incumbent) and without a doubt this country would be in a much better place if they'd been a never-was.
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: Alan W on February 13, 2023, 11:26:56 AM: Yes, I think the word is not so well known outside Ireland and South Africa (and Scotland according to guyd). I'll make it rare.
Title: Re: Saturday 28 January 7-by-many BANISHES/SHABBINESS puzzle
Post by: ridethetalk on February 13, 2023, 01:46:50 PM: Thanks Alan...