More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

We had a busy morning.  We rushed our dog walk and then breakfast so we could get out to the airport in plenty of time for Andrew to catch the plane to Canberra.

Wisdom, truths, untruths, morals, common sense, and traditional beliefs combine to form weather folklore and the popular and often repeated phrases known as proverbs. With some analysis, it is possible to see how such proverbs were developed over centuries using logical and causal relationships between observations and natural weather events.
Weather folklore and its quirky proverbs derived from simple weather, plant, and animal observations were handed down through word of mouth long before Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote his study, Meteorology, in 350BC. Weather proverbs usually contain foretelling or predictive statements in the form of weather rules and signs

I’ll start with a proverb that should be easy, seeing it is so well known.  Once you have a bit of it, you will guess the rest.  I'll try to find a more obscure one for you tomorrow.

#3   #3   #2   #5,  #7   #7,  #3  #3  2  3 #7, #7   7(#4, #4)

    ,
,
the   ,
   

Conceptually all one line but presents better one phrase a line.  The third line has an assumed "in"
Pictures 1 4 and 7 are two words only use the first
Pictures  6 and 11 are two words, only use the second

[Hobbit]

What do they say about great minds?
Believe it or not, I had intended my rebus today to be the same as Pen's from yesterday! (Steve McQueen, Pierce Brosnan, Faye Dunaway etc)

I'll take that as a big compliment Mike
long as it's not fools seldom differ

[mkenuk]

We'll stick to the first part of the saying.
 

[Hobbit]

I’ll start with a proverb that should be easy, seeing it is so well known.  Once you have a bit of it, you will guess the rest.  I'll try to find a more obscure one for you tomorrow.

Hi Jack

I did guess it fairly easily though I would have to substitute pictures 5 & 10 with

It tickles me that very occasionally we find little differences in things

I'm having a busy morning but I'm heading off upstairs after lunch so hopefully

[Hobbit]

We'll stick to the first part of the saying.
 

I concur

From Norwich it's the quiz of the week!!

Heavens that was a very different time!

[Hobbit]

I'm back Jack.

Hoping for a quieter afternoon but I think that's being a bit optimistic!  I'm going to get my rebus in quick before it gets too busy.

Mine's also an expression.

#2 4 (#3'#1) #4 #3 #3 #3 #4 #5

ITTHE
Please remove the first letter from the first picture. Picture 2 is 31 singular!  You're not interested in Arkwright or Granville.

Hope you can pick the bones out of it

           
Last one's for my Mum

I saw my neighbour stealing all my socks of the washing line...
I was going to confront him but I got cold feet!

How does Rocky eat his pizza?
Sliced alone!

Leave you with a couple of naff jokes.  It's getting noisy & busy

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

Great rebus.  Can I suggest a small variation in the presentation?

2 4 (#3'#1) 4 #3 3 #3 #4 #5

IT
THE

Please remove the first letter from the first picture. Picture 2 is 31 singular!  You're not interested in Arkwright or Granville.

I couldn't work out the relevance of the 31,

[Ozzyjack]

SPOILER ALERT - Mike's rebus

SPOILER ALERT - My rebus

SPOILER ALERT - Pen's rebus

[mkenuk]

From Norwich it's the quiz of the week!!

Heavens that was a very different time!

A joke going round when I was teaching in UK (many, many years ago) was:

Q - What do you call priests who don't have underwear?
A - (K)nickerless parsons! (ba-boom!)

I seldom watched his TV progs, but I did like 'Just a Minute' on the radio.
I also suspect that Steve Coogan has based his 'Alan Partridge' persona at least in part on Nicholas Parsons.

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,
I promised you another weather proverb.  I found over 20 of them.  Most are not really suitable for our rebuses as they are either long or have elements which repeat.  You will be glad I spared you this one.

When the wind is in the east, it’s good for neither man nor beast.
When the wind is in the north, the old folk should not venture forth.
When the wind is in the south, it blows the bait in the fishes’ mouth.
When the wind is in the west, it is of all the winds the best.

Others are a bit dull, like “Doors and drawers stick before a rain”

One that I liked is a couplet.  Note that the first line has an implied word.

#5  #8 2  3  #6
#5  #4  #4  #4  #4  4

The    
soon

Picture 1.  I apologise for the non-PC clue.
Picture 2.  Vale.  Another colloquialism.
Picture 4.  Make it plural.
Picture 8.  The first word of the team.

[mkenuk]

A fairly recent Australian TV movie - basically a full-length episode of a TV show, which I believe may have made an appearance in this forum sometime in the past.

seven words, including an unpictured 'the'. - 4/6/3/3/5/2/5

picture 3 - lose the first letter
picture 4 - ditto
picture 5 - lose the last letter of what the ref is saying

[Ozzyjack]

A fairly recent Australian TV movie - basically a full-length episode of a TV show, which I believe may have made an appearance in this forum sometime in the past.

I believe it was in the week before our birthdays in 2018.  Pen found the series on Netflix and you bought 2 episodes on a DVD.  Did you ever get any more?

Pen was going to report back on how she enjoyed the series but I don’t think she did.

[Hobbit]

I couldn't work out the relevance of the 31,

Hi Jack

My third picture had vanished   It was a cricket scoreboard showing 31 overs!

Pen was going to report back on how she enjoyed the series but I don’t think she did.

Sorry I loved the original version of the series set in the 1920's but could only find one series.  Now that you 2 have reminded me I'll see if I can find series 2 & 3 although I don't have Netflix any more. Don't know if I'll find it anywhere else! I wasn't quite so struck on the "modern" version set in the 1960's.  I don't know why.  I didn't warm to the characters quite so much.

I'm enjoying your weather theme at the moment though I haven't cracked your rebus yet!  It's very warm & muggy here today.  My washing's hanging dead still on the line.

I was a bit short of bright ideas today.  My rebus is a film from about 5 years before I was born.

#3 8 (#3 + #3 + #2) #4 #3

THE
I've tried to be a bit devious but I don't think it'll fox you.  Please remove the first letter of the second picture.

          

Zoe's toiling away upstairs so I'd better make her a cuppa

[Hobbit]

A joke going round when I was teaching in UK (many, many years ago) was:

Q - What do you call priests who don't have underwear?
A - (K)nickerless parsons! (ba-boom!)

I remember that joke Mike. Thought it was hilarious
Happy days!

[Ozzyjack]

SPOILER ALERT - My rebus

SPOILER ALERT - Mike's rebus

SPOILER ALERT - Pen's rebus

Pen, I didn't twig to the fact that one picture didn't come out but I hope my suggestion resulted in the word not needing to be pictured