What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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GordonG Dec 2020 9:34am, 11 Dec 2020 8,399 posts	0 GordonG Thanks to the Grammar thread I've learnt that the phrase "...then you've got another thing coming" is actually "think", not "thing", which makes sense.
swittle Dec 2020 9:39am, 11 Dec 2020 70,687 posts	0 swittle [I find the forensic approaches used in that thread ^ reassuring. ]
Badger Dec 2020 10:05am, 11 Dec 2020 13,147 posts	0 Badger [I had no idea how much that would kick off! Didn't realise how common the 'thing' version was!]
Snoot Dec 2020 10:26am, 11 Dec 2020 1,010 posts	0 Snoot It was always “thing” for me too and as mentioned often follow by a clip round the ear!!
DeeGee Dec 2020 11:29am, 11 Dec 2020 20,245 posts	0 DeeGee There's a peak in the Brecons called Fan-Y-Big and it's not terribly far from a suburb or Merthyr called Pen-y-Darren. So that's a ready made trip out for me!
Cerrertonia Dec 2020 12:15pm, 11 Dec 2020 13,506 posts	0 Cerrertonia [There's a Pant-Y-Stain near Wrexham, DeeGee]
Not mushroom at the Inn Dec 2020 12:17pm, 11 Dec 2020 1,382 posts	0 Not mushroom at the Inn That the songwriter of A Winter's Tale for David Essex (Mike Batt) also wrote A Wombling Merry Christmas and Bright Eyes
Fragile Glass Bauble Dec 2020 6:16pm, 11 Dec 2020 7,451 posts	0 Fragile Glass Bauble Howto turn on the fog lights on my car (I can’t see the controls for the lights from my driving position and I kept forgetting to look for the right button when parked).
Merry Fizzmas :-) Dec 2020 10:03am, 12 Dec 2020 4,879 posts	0 Merry Fizzmas :-) The song “I’d like to teach the world to sing” was written specifically for the Coke advert, and not simply used by it.
Night-owl Dec 2020 10:11am, 12 Dec 2020 35,096 posts	0 Night-owl Fizz were you watching the same programme as me last night ☺