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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 15 Apr 2010 21:18 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> saying something like: >Ash is now appearing in the sky over leeds: > >http://twitpic.com/1fqvkc Ol' Fishlips is back!
From: The village previously known as Charlie on 16 Apr 2010 06:17 On 15/04/2010 18:38, steve auvache wrote: > When I were about 15 we would go fishing off Southend Pier during the > summer hols. As a matter of course we used to travel 1st class and one > day some Brigadier (retired) type took exception to us in our mucky > fishing togs sitting in "his" smoking compartment smelling strongly of > something he disapproved of and unable to get us to leave by issuing > orders called the guard to check our tickets. Having checked our > tickets and found them in order the guard duly made to leave and I > suggested that he might like to check hyphen tossers while he was here. > He did and guess what, our upstanding citizen, who "always travels 1st > class" to avoid types like us had only a 2nd class ticket and was > escorted away to the office for a little chat with railway plod. We was > well happy. Years ago, a mate was driving the family back from Sunday lunch with friends in London. As they were going down Fulham Palace Road, the car was hit a glancing and insignificant blow, thanks to a moment's inattention by a lad coming out of one of the many side-roads. His wife went completely tonto ("what about the children?") and, while mate and other driver were quietly working it out like gents, called plod. When they arrived, she insisted that she had smelt booze on the lad and that they must breathalise him. He was clear, but plod then gently observed that, to be scrupulously fair and for the avoidance of all doubt, they ought to check my mate - purely as a formality, like. Bzzzt!
From: Hog on 16 Apr 2010 06:28 The village previously known as Charlie <nospam(a)all.ta> wrote: > Years ago, a mate was driving the family back from Sunday lunch with > friends in London. As they were going down Fulham Palace Road, the > car was hit a glancing and insignificant blow, thanks to a moment's > inattention by a lad coming out of one of the many side-roads. > > His wife went completely tonto ("what about the children?") and, while > mate and other driver were quietly working it out like gents, called > plod. When they arrived, she insisted that she had smelt booze on the > lad and that they must breathalise him. He was clear, but plod then > gently observed that, to be scrupulously fair and for the avoidance of > all doubt, they ought to check my mate - purely as a formality, like. > > Bzzzt! *Lovely* "Failure to keep S/O in check". Has to be an offence. -- Hog
From: Adrian on 16 Apr 2010 07:02 "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Years ago, a mate was driving the family back from Sunday lunch with >> friends in London. As they were going down Fulham Palace Road, the car >> was hit a glancing and insignificant blow, thanks to a moment's >> inattention by a lad coming out of one of the many side-roads. >> >> His wife went completely tonto ("what about the children?") and, while >> mate and other driver were quietly working it out like gents, called >> plod. When they arrived, she insisted that she had smelt booze on the >> lad and that they must breathalise him. He was clear, but plod then >> gently observed that, to be scrupulously fair and for the avoidance of >> all doubt, they ought to check my mate - purely as a formality, like. >> >> Bzzzt! > *Lovely* > "Failure to keep S/O in check". Has to be an offence. Indeed. You can only imagine the conversations that went on after that... Charlie - did their marriage survive?
From: Charlie on 16 Apr 2010 08:10
On 16/04/2010 12:02, Adrian wrote: > "Hog"<sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying: > >>> Years ago, a mate was driving the family back from Sunday lunch with >>> friends in London. As they were going down Fulham Palace Road, the car >>> was hit a glancing and insignificant blow, thanks to a moment's >>> inattention by a lad coming out of one of the many side-roads. >>> >>> His wife went completely tonto ("what about the children?") and, while >>> mate and other driver were quietly working it out like gents, called >>> plod. When they arrived, she insisted that she had smelt booze on the >>> lad and that they must breathalise him. He was clear, but plod then >>> gently observed that, to be scrupulously fair and for the avoidance of >>> all doubt, they ought to check my mate - purely as a formality, like. >>> >>> Bzzzt! > >> *Lovely* >> "Failure to keep S/O in check". Has to be an offence. > > Indeed. You can only imagine the conversations that went on after that... > > Charlie - did their marriage survive? Last time I heard, yes. He is, after all, an accountant! |