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From: Beav on 10 Feb 2010 15:26 "darsy" <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote in message news:fa9630ba-e653-465c-ab8b-a4bd50fe3d26(a)z17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... On Feb 9, 4:14 pm, ginge <the.gingeREM...(a)THISgmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:41:25 -0800 (PST), darsy <dar...(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > >On Feb 9, 9:40 am, ginge <the.gingeREM...(a)THISgmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:19:26 GMT, R C Nesbit <s...(a)ukrm.net> wrote: > > >> >I'm sure you will all be relieved to discover that today > >> >this old gimmer survived the: > >> >"we ran out of LPG at the weekend so I had to lug 2 empty > >> >47Kg bottles into the back of the Alfa, drive to the local > >> >FloGas distributor and buy 2 full bottles[2]load them up in > >> >the back of the Alfa, drive home, unload, lug into back > >> >garden and hook them up" > >> >episode. > > >> Gas in bottles isn't a part of modern living and should be reserved > >> for campsites and gypsies, IMHO. > > >you don't have a patio-heater? > >> No. Never really saw the appeal of sitting outside when it gets cold. >> Might get a conservatory built though, if I decide to stay here a >> while longer. >Look at it inversely: if you're having a good time sitting outside, >and it starts to get a little chilly, it's nice to have an extra >option other than having to go inside. Ahhh, you've never rolled the barbie into the garage when the rains come then:-) >> >Hang on, I expect being a northern mahnkey, you don't have a patio. > >>You'd be wrong. It's all detached houses and garages round here. >beautiful views, I take it. Silence. I kill you. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
From: ginge on 10 Feb 2010 15:30 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:19:14 -0000, "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: >"ginge" <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> wrote in message >news:11b2n5df9vi81ggd4jhh8c3kg56jd337l5(a)4ax.com... >> Gas in bottles isn't a part of modern living and should be reserved >> for campsites and gypsies, IMHO. Don't they have mains gas anywhere >> in your town? > >Mobile gas is a necessity when part of your heating system is mobile and >*needs* to be mobile. > >Blanket statements aren't always right and they're definitely not the best >way to show how intelligent your thought processes are. Mobile just = too pikey to heat everywhere to the same level, which more or less = gypsies. :-)
From: ogden on 10 Feb 2010 18:36 The Older Gentleman wrote: > ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > > Champ wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:56:18 GMT, "Jérémy" <a(a)b.com> wrote: > > > > > > >>>Having a mountaineering obsession is a good way to meet > > > >>>shortly-to-be-dead people, too. > > > > > > >> I knew two people who went out to the Himalayas and didn't come back. > > > > > > >On one sad occasion I left London for Chamonix in a party of four, and > > > >returned in a party of two. > > > > > > Fack! That is proper serious. > > > > > > >I've known at least three or four other > > > >people who died climbing, and that's just in the Alps. > > > > > > On Tuesday of race week at the Manx Grand Prix I was sharing tea and > > > hobnobs with Tommy Clucas in his pit awning. The next day he died on > > > the run in to Balaugh Bridge. > > > > I did a FOT with some mates a couple of years ago. Four went out, three > > came back. > > FFS, what is this, some kind of ukrm dead pool? Folding, eh? -- ogden
From: DR on 10 Feb 2010 19:39 darsy posted: >On Feb 10, 10:00�am, Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >> I still drink Mexican beer with a slice of lime wedged in the neck > >The West Midlands: The Land that Time Forgot! I raise you Cumbria: The Land that Time Didn't Know Existed in the First Place, and then convieniently ignored when it was brought to his attention... -- Darren GSF1200N K3
From: Scraggy on 11 Feb 2010 05:20
"DR" <motorbandit(a)hotmail.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message news:hdl6n55ktt883dr3kr6sf8hivpqmpo9rti(a)4ax.com... > > The odd thing about Alexander Armstrong is that he's from (extremely) > rural Northumberland, which should mean that nobody else here but Pip, > Andrew R and me can understand a word he says... A member of the Hebburn old boys writes: "Haddaway an shite man " |