Knapping is the ancient art of making tools from flint and a flint knapper practises the art. Not really applicable here though, is it?:thumb:

I'll shut the door on my way out..........

lol! That usage I have heard of. Now that you remind me. I have absolutely no idea of what it might mean as a slang term though.

I'm guessing, because they are 'flappy', he means nappies. I'm thinking he's talking about a droopy, soggy diaper. Would make sense to chuck them in some kind of bin, wheelie or otherwise.

That really made me laugh.


Wheelie bin: don't know if you use that term or call them something else.

"garbage can with wheels"
we have them, they are so ubiquitous as to just be called garbage cans.

I call it a wheelie bin. No-one's done a double-take yet. :lol:

Ya, trash can. But I like wheelie bin.

We have two of those... :D

They might be humoring you.

most likely.

"At sixes and sevens" is hardly a Brit-ism.

Yes, it is. Although it is often adopted by theater fops wanting to appear more sophisticted, like so many other Brit phrases.

This showed up in my vanity search. In fact, I am named after the flint that you refer to here.

When I posted the above, I did so without thinking about my forebears. On my mother's side of the family there are generations of Flints back to about 1770. Can't be sure about the exact dates at the present, as the info is on my other computer. They all come from villages to the north west of York. I don't think that it is a particularly common surname so we may be related.:thumb:

Carruthers

It's Flint's first name, I believe. This is America.

lucky escape there..... ;)