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Posted: Sun 02 Mar, 2014 12:53 am
by zip55
Jogon wrote: Shuffled off, another From Hamlet "shuffled off this mortal coil".
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 11:22 am
by j.c.d.
"Snuffed it" years ago when extinguishing a candle.
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 1:13 pm
by jonleeds
What about Cheyne-Stoking? As seen in the excellent 'Dead Mans Shoes' where it is a somewhat cryptic warning to the films characters that they are indeed breathing their last breaths.
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 1:34 pm
by jim
Chain stokers are devices for automatic firing of coal-fired industrial boilers, which run continually at pre-determined rates using small coal. Possibly the connection?
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 1:51 pm
by Steve Jones
jim wrote: Chain stokers are devices for automatic firing of coal-fired industrial boilers, which run continually at pre-determined rates using small coal. Possibly the connection? No,it is the Cheyne Stokes pattern of breathing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyne%E2% ... ationwhich apart from associated with sleep apnoea can also be the taking the final breath,see my earlier post on croaking as well.
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 3:38 pm
by jonleeds
From what I can ascertain the pattern of breathing related to Cheyne-Stokes is characterised by the affected person taking rapid smaller breaths rising to slightly larger breaths then descending back to smaller breaths with a sustained pause inbetween before the cycle repeats again.
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 5:25 pm
by jim
Steve Jones wrote: jim wrote: Chain stokers are devices for automatic firing of coal-fired industrial boilers, which run continually at pre-determined rates using small coal. Possibly the connection? No,it is the Cheyne Stokes pattern of breathing. I bow to your and jonleeds' superior knowledge Steve. Shame though, I could envision images to nearly match the repeated shots of railway coal wagons heading north in "The Ladykillers"!.
Posted: Mon 03 Mar, 2014 8:46 pm
by Lilysmum
"Carked it" ?
Posted: Tue 04 Mar, 2014 3:30 pm
by stutterdog
Lilysmum wrote: "Carked it" ? I last heard this term "Tailed it" when I was in my teens around 1957-60. Unfortunately it was not very nice and referred in a boastful way of "having had sex with"! I have never heard it in any other context. Quite a few people I worked with at that time used this term.