Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Techno]

Don't you have to go back each day, and watch it again ?
Never seen GHD....Is it any good ?
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Hasn't this news item been on this thread before?

[Techno]

 



Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Redheads. No comment.

http://www.newslinq.com/redhead-humans/

[Techno]

I was SO looking forward to a quiet afternoon.....and falling asleep in front of a DVD.

Mrs T playing with the Gee-gees...then going out see someone else's new Gee-gee.

Now the whole afternoon is going to be taken up with taking down a bit of fencing.....Having a hole dug by someone with a mini digger......and then putting back the frigging fencing.
A job that's got to be done....But I really , really didn't want to do it today. 

Cheers - Fed up of Wales.

[FierceKitty]

...taking down a bit of fencing.....

I took up fencing as an undergraduate. How does one take it down?

[JeffNNN]

A while ago when he was registered unemployed he got a phone call from the employment exchange:

"We've got you an interview with Haydock fencing"

Son "Why?"

"Well you've got a fencing qualification"

Son "Have you seen 'Die Another Day'?"

""Why"

Son " It's that sort of fencing"

The fact that on his CV it was between an archery qualification and a zip wire one might have been a clue.

[Techno]

I took up fencing as an undergraduate. How does one take it down?

By using a claw hammer, a chainsaw, (to cut one of the rails,) and a mini-digger, used as a hoist, to remove a post. 
The mini-digger was exceptionally useful, in digging the 3' deep trench to find the end of the septic tank's outlet pipe. (Then scraping all the soil and rocks back in the trench when we finally found the end of the pipe.....Thank goodness !)

It was almost like 'Time Team'.....Though sadly, we didn't find anything interesting or valuable. Apart from a couple of golden torcs.....I WISH !...The number of times I thought we'd found the end of the pipe.....Only to find it was yet another joint. (No !.....Not that sort.)

Though I really didn't want to do this yesterday, in the end I was chuffed to bits with what we'd achieved.
(When I say 'WE', my friend Richard did at least 90% of the work ! I just seemed to stand in the trench marking where the pipe was, and getting in the way of the bucket...Very occasionally shoveling soil out of the trench.)

It's such fun on 'the farm'.  ....Surpisingly, my back isn't moaning this morning.....Huzzah !...I can get on with the werewolves and a new or revamped 'tigger' for the samurai apes.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You - loose with a mini digger ??

IanS

[Orcs]

A Mini Digger    , at last I know where to come when I strangle my lazy stepdaughter.   Your friend Richard can dig a nice deep trench 5' 4" long by the septic tank , A suitable place to bury her!

[Ithoriel]

"Well you've got a fencing qualification"

Son "Have you seen 'Die Another Day'?"

""Why"

Son " It's that sort of fencing"

Sergeant (standing by piano),"Do any of you 'orrible lot know what to do with one of these?"

Two or three sheepish admissions of the "well, I play a little" type later.

Sergeant,"Right, you three, move this one to the Officer's Mess!"

[JeffNNN]

Quoth the Sergeant. " Gather round you horrible lot. In a few minutes the officer is going to give you a lecture on Keats. Now most of you won't even know what a Keat is but try to look interested." 8😎

[Orcs]

Sergeant (standing by piano),"Do any of you 'orrible lot know what to do with one of these?"

Two or three sheepish admissions of the "well, I play a little" type later.

Sergeant,"Right, you three, move this one to the Officer's Mess!"

Something similar happened to my dad in WW2 ,He had volunteered for bomb disposal.  

Seargent : Can anyone play the piano?

Dad: Yes

Seargent : Right come with me  your going to learn to drive.

He then got about an hour with the sergeant being taught how to drive the Tilly.

The next day he had to drive it with an  Officer sitting next to him with a live 25Kg bomb in his lap that they had been unable to remove the fuse from due to damage to the bomb casing.  Trying desperately not to do  "kangaroo hops" in case it set it off.

They took it to the bomb cemetery and blew it up.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Blimey! 

[Orcs]

He ended up being the section driver having to drive whatever vehicle was required.  On leaving the army he was given a "chit" saying "this man can drive". 

This was exchanged many years later (late 50's early 60's) for a full British driving licence, so he never actually took his driving  test.  Managed 50 years without an accident that was his fault.  I suppose driving with live bombs makes you careful.