Ozzy: Mama, I Ain't Coming Home!

[Bogeyman]

Ozzy Osbourne says he no longer wants to move back to UK: 'If I had my way, I'd stay in America'

Ozzy Osbourne has changed his tune, proclaiming in a new interview that he will stay in the United States and no longer wants to move back to his native United Kingdom.

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[hotmetal]

Presumably on account of the shortage of cougars here.

 

[Mike Smart]

I worked with Ozzy on a good few occasions when i was in Security & i have to say he was class,
A Gentleman probably not a word he heard often.
in actually fact it was an Ozzy gig that made me leave that industry,
Nothing to do with Ozzy it was just a coincidence

 

[donnie_arko]

I worked with Ozzy on a good few occasions when i was in Security & i have to say he was class,
A Gentleman probably not a word he heard often.
in actually fact it was an Ozzy gig that made me leave that industry,
Nothing to do with Ozzy it was just a coincidence

You've met and worked with Ozzy?

Wow, he's one of my heroes. I'm a huge Black Sabbath etc fan.

 

[Bogeyman]

I was at the concert where he bit the head off the bat.

 

[donnie_arko]

I was at the concert where he bit the head off the bat.

Wow. Who was his guitarist at the time? Was it Randy Rhoads?

 

[Mike Smart]

You've met and worked with Ozzy?

Wow, he's one of my heroes. I'm a huge Black Sabbath etc fan.

Yes mate i was in that game for about 15 years.
I’m a huge Sabbath fan myself but actually working in that industry it actually puts you off music a bit or it did me.

 

[hotmetal]

They say if you can turn a hobby into a job you'll never work a day in your life. However the reverse is also true sometimes.

 

[Bogeyman]

Wow. Who was his guitarist at the time? Was it Randy Rhoads?

Yes. I still remember that they "hung" a midget monk in the opening. Tickets were $12 US if I recall. It was a few months before I turned 22.

 

[pjgh]

Hanged.

 

[Bogeyman]

Is it 'Hung' or 'Hanged'?

Yes, there are two words for the past tense of 'hang'. Sorry about that.

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[hotmetal]

So assuming the midget monk was a living being, and not a piece of monastic plastic, but did not die as a result of being used as decor at a Sabbath gig, he was indeed hung yet not quite hanged. I bet he is careful about the correct usage since then!!

 

[Bogeyman]

Bingo. However, over here we use both terms the same. I use plead in the past tense instead of pleaded as an example.

 

[pjgh]

Is it 'Hung' or 'Hanged'?

Yes, there are two words for the past tense of 'hang'. Sorry about that.

www.merriam-webster.com

Hung is a perfectly good word to use as the past tense of "to hang". Somebody strung up by the neck is still hanged, regardless of common mis-use of "hung". Both forms are not acceptable. It's "hanged". Hanged or "hung by the neck".

Likewise, overtaking on the inside lane of a motorway is not "undertaking" regardless of how many people mis-use that term. It's "overtaking on the inside". Preparing corpses for burial while driving a car on the motorway is not clever!

Merrian-Webster? Wonky "English" Dictionary. Remember ... look up the word "fanny". My dictionary has a remarkably different definition to yours, I wager Sir!

 

[Bogeyman]

So, if I as a yank, were to meet a comely English woman and "overtook her Motorways on the outside & inside" and converted them into a U.S. 4 lane interstate replete with rest areas would you call me hung or her hanged?

 

[pjgh]

I don't think we need to get hung up about it.