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I’ve watched a live demonstration of that sort of suspension.
And was the suspendee a volunteer or a volunteer
Uh...
They were consensual, if that's what you mean.
I don’t think they’re tenterhooks.
I was thinking more to the image on being on them than the shape of the hooks
That photo is pretty tame by comparison.
I decided to pick one of his less florid looking photos - black and white does it a lot of favours 😉 - thats an early work, in later works he had less hair but more ears - having had a third one grafted onto his forearm.
You should all read Susie Dent's books if you're interested in this stuff. She wants to bring back lost positives, from when a well attired, polite person who conformed to regulations could be described as kempt, couth and ruly. I've heard her describe herself as combobulated. Couth clings on in parts of Scotland as couthie. As others have noted, the contented meaning of gruntled is the QI klaxon one, being Wodehosian wordplay. I love this stuff.
I decided to pick one of his less florid looking photos
Ah. I shall have a google tomorrow.
I don’t think they’re tenterhooks. Tenterhooks are kinda like floorboard nails bent 90′.
Yes. Tenterhooks are used for stretching cloth, i.e. putting it under tension. To be "on tenterhooks" means to be under tension, i.e. nervous.
