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Shelley, sorry it's taken me so long to answer - didn't look for a couple of days and then the site went into hibernation. Anyway, if you still want to know how to get two elephants into a Mini (though I hope you haven't been losing sleep over it), the answer is quite simple: One in the front and on...

Do you know what the difference is between an elephant and a post box?

Erik, where is the help that you seemed to be promising in the title of your posting? You got my hopes up for a moment.

How do you get two elephants into a Mini?

gdwdwrkr wrote: Are you holding that door for me because I'm a lady?
No, I'm holding the door for you because I'm a gentleman.

Priceless!

That sure is one very small elephant!

In Israel we call it a strudel, or sometimes a snail. I do like Jane's "cabbage" though - let's see if we can get it to catch on.

Oh, wish I'd known about this character back then!

The butter reference reminded me of a visit to a friend who, sitting next to me on the sofa, said, 'Do you want a drink?' When I naively replied in the affirmative, she said, 'Great, get me one too.' As for "would you like to" - when I was new in England I got a job as a typist and when one of the p...

P.S. Penguin Dictionary of Economics (1998) defines turnover as "total sales receipts" or "total sales revenue" of a business. So it seems to me that revenue and turnover are not necessarily identical, in that a business can have revenue that is not from sales (e.g. bank interest).

Sorry Quoc, my earlier posting was simply based on looking up the words in a dictionary, and my understanding was that these words are indeed interchangeable in that particular sense. But having read Tony and Harry's postings I am now not so sure I understand what these terms mean. Maybe someone els...

Oh yes, have heard that one and I think it's great. Thanks for the reminder. I think I still sometimes make that mistake - oh look at her, she's so strong and with-it and I'm so feeble. When actually she just looks strong and with-it, and probably I do too! (at least some of the time)

Quoc, turnover and revenue are both terms which can be used to describe the gross income of a business, i.e. how much money the business receives.

(But be careful with usage, as revenue is also used in other contexts, e.g. what the government takes as tax.)

Yes, I think this is a mix-up between two phrases: quiet as a mouse; poor as a churchmouse.

But in my experience mice are quite squeaky actually.

Oh, absolutely!
One of my favourite books is Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them (by John Ortberg).
Normal? Who's normal? Ever met a normal person? I haven't.