RE: Operation Swordfish

[apache]

Clive, You've obviously got too much time on your hands........so where did the gudgeon pin get it's name then

[steve-p]

quote:Hey, has anyone heard anything about the latest Brooklands book about TVR's? Haven't heard a thing!

You mean this one? http://www.brooklandsbooks.com/pages/tvrpp95ack.html

[ZERTEC]

I have some screen shots of both Halle Berry (in u/wear) and Tuscan, if anyone wants copies I will e-mail the Acrobat files. I noticed one or two continuity problems in the film such as disappearing bullet holes and boot lids that close themselves. I realy should get out more... Clive Reed Zertec Limited [e-mail] www.zertec.co.uk

[ZERTEC]

Well you did ask... In the early part of the last century many immigrants from Europe decided to chance their luck in the New World. They travelled across the pond the cheapest way possible, steerage-class on the great ocean liners. Obviously in steerage they weren't served lobster thermidor. One shipping company came up with a dish that was both filling, cheap and (if made correctly) fairly nutritious. This simple meal consisted of a beef patty in a bun. It was called a Hamburger. It was named after the shipping line. Hamburg-America Line Don't ask me about the origins of the phase; "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" it's too long. Clive Reed Zertec Limited [e-mail] www.zertec.co.uk

[apache]

yes but....about the gudgeon pin

[PetrolTed]

quote:Don't ask me about the origins of the phase; "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" it's too long.

Cannon balls... Similar origins to chundering...

[nubbin]

Some say that hamburger is a corruption of hand-burger a meat pattie held in the hand to be eaten - burger being a German word ....a burger. A brass monkey was a stand to stop cannonballs rolling about - in cold weather, the brass contracted and your balls fell off! A powder monkey was a little hairy chap who fetched gunpowder from the hold... blah, blah, blah....

[campbell]

I don't want to think if this film is relevant to todays problems, it proberly is but it was a good film and what relevance has hamburger got to do with the film ??