The Christmas Thread

That's bargain basement .

 

need to shop there as 75% of my £17k salary is blown on @julie shoes.

 

“Reasonably tasteful and no way gaudy”?

You say that like it’s a good thing Ponders. Thought you embraced the full tacky campness of Chrimbo (the gayest religious festival since the Ancient Greeks gave up ritual bumming)?

 

So why do people call them The Canaries then?

 

Informal as there are multiple islands ...

 

Are you being this stupid on purpose?

 

No Dave, it was a simple enough question. If the islands are named after a dog, why are they called The Canaries?

 

"Because this is where the different type Canary birds were first found.

The guy who discovered them had his dog with him and the dog ate some of these birds and the owner killed the dog.

The dog was called dodo and this is where the phrase "Dead as a door knob" comes from."

Iain Pollock

 

See, that wasn’t so difficult was it @monacoger ?

 

All named after birds? Or dogs?

 

Birds

 

Dogs

Tenerife , Spanish for terrier

Lanzarote , Spanish for Labrador

Gran canaria literally means big canine

Palma ...Pembroke Welsh corgi

 

Latin for dog is "canaria", pretty sure I monsplained this already. The islands had/have lots of dogs on them. The birds were named after the islands.

 

Never mind that. Is Lanzarote a bird or a dog? Or both?

 

Gran Canaria !!!
Great Island of Dogs !
Monager seems to know his stuff

 

It's actually a sphinx, womans head, cats body with wings of the birds, canaries if you must.

 

Neither, it was named after some bloke.

 

Finally the truth comes out

 

Isle of Dogs is in East London mate. And it’s not an island.