What's with the "Newbie" rating?

[pmccarthy]

I thought I had bought sustainable underwear but it turned out the salesman had a bad stammer.

[old man emu]

10 hours ago, facthunter said:

A collaborator colludes with the enemy. Nev

Actually, the use of "collaborator" in the negative sense only arose during WWII, and most likely in France where the word is collaborateur .  The first recorded use of "collaborator" was in 1802, simply meaning an associate in labour, or one who works with another. "Colleague" is from a completely different root. 

[Marty_d]

10 hours ago, old man emu said:

"Colleague" is from a completely different root. 

Not if your name's Barnaby... and we're back to politics!

[pmccarthy]

Why does Barnaby make you think of a different root?

[Jerry_Atrick]

Ya can't beet-a-root

[Marty_d]

10 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Why does Barnaby make you think of a different root?

Well, his root was a colleague, and she was different from his wife.

[facthunter]

She was employed by him actually. Perhaps the  job description was not complete. Nev

[Marty_d]

I wouldn't have thought a job description that required the rooting of the Beetroot would be all that attractive to most people on the planet.

[nomadpete]

And that was the only surprising thing about the whole affair. (What was she thinking? Was she too afraid to chew her arm off, the next morning))

[Marty_d]

He, of course, was only thinking with the "little Beetroot".   

 

(Hope you haven't got a visual imagination!)

[Jerry_Atrick]

A small, red, swollen head goes with his big red swollen head, I guess