Froody!

[erastes]

Seen in my local shop:

For Sale:

FROD FIESTA.

My birds are bloody fussy – they’ve left all the ordinary seed – think it’s wheat. Fussy buggers.  I spoil them.

I love my gardener (well, the man who mows my lawn once a fortnight) he mowed my lawn yesterday and mowed AROUND the primroses.  :) You’ve got to love a man who does that.

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Comments

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

I bet Frod Fiesta doesn't know where his towel is :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It made me giggle all the way home. I'm easily amused.

[aunty_marion]

My usual swear words are 'Frak, frod and felgercarb!'.

'Frod' was actually coined by a friend of mine for an all-purpose swearword: 'you frodding idiot', 'frod off', 'oh, froddit!' etc. I believe I originated the word 'frodnik', for 'one who commits acts of froditude'.

As such, I wouldn't buy a frodding Frod Fiesta if you frodding paid me to.

My birds also spurn the plain wheat. What they'd really like me to put out is just the suet pellets pleaseandthankyou. Even the frodding pigeons barely touch the wheat. WTF?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh GOD yes, I made the mistake of buying suet pellets and they loved them. but no more of those! not at those prices!!

[aunty_marion]

I get mine from a cheapo shop where they cost a lot less than they do in a garden centre, and I mix them with the general bird food (which is usually a mix of an all-purpose one with some robin food, and often some mealworms). If the shop has them I sometimes buy a three-pack of the suet blocks, too, but they last quite well usually. I can't put out the fat balls, because I don't have a protective feeder for them, and if I just hang them out the squirrels hijack the whole thing...

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

They're just frodding junk food junkie birds, that's what.
I like your cursewords. Frodnik just sounds so bad!

[aunty_marion]

*g* Thank you! It was sort of analogous to 'sputnik' and 'beatnik' - 'frodnik' seemed the obvious way to go. I believe smallship1 and soren_nyrond, who are the main friends to blame for 'frod', were using 'frodder' generally. I like to think, in my humble way, that 'frodnik' is more elegantly abusive. *g*