Was it too bitter, Nicki?
QUOTE(noodle @ Aug 14 2006, 09:20 PM)

QUOTE(La_Chopiniste_ @ Aug 14 2006, 09:16 PM)

Too bad isn't too good , I'm afraid
A music inspector said that to me once!

I told the class 'they weren't too bad' and he said it wasn't specific enough because it neither meant too bad or too good.
Reminds me of a German teacher we had at school. She never, ever used the word "bad". If something wasn't up to standard she'd use the word "moderate". And then one day we had a vocabulary test, and no-one had learned any of the words so she came out with the marvellous comment "These tests were extremely moderate"