This made me laugh

Or...

 

That’s funny

 

I may be daft - can somebody explain?

 

Just a reference to the book written 1605, Don Quiote. The guy really hated windmills.

 

Cheers mate - my brain was aching.

 

I got it

 

Isn’t it ‘Don Quixote’? Or was there a later translation?

 

Dunno. It was autocorrected while I typed, so I went with that. Should have known better.

 

Extreme dyslexia

 

Just like when you’ve finished painting your fence …
Done Creosoting.

 

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It does have an x. Has become an adjective of course-taking on an impossible and pointless challenge is described as Quixotic. And the book also gives us "tilting at windmills" to describe the same thing.

 

Yes, he thought the windmills were giants, who had to be defeated.

 

So, people on TTF read proper books, eh? Who knew?

I was listening to an old ‘In Our Time’ podcast (It’s a BBC radio broadcast, for our non-UK friends) about the book the other day and the learned people speaking with Melvyn insisted it was pronounced ‘kwiks-oat’. My girlfriend, a fluent Spanish speaker, is having none of it.

 

And she is entirely correct Saul. Kee ho tay. As Tonto might have said

 

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Conclusive proof! Case closed!

 

And he would be correct, even today.