Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 39

[glenrobbo]

Bobberoo said:

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Bobberoo said:

They were all being mean to Gilbert!!!

Oh, I say.
Bit offside don't you think?

Wait! I nearly forgot....

"The Brass Shovel Has a New Handle".

Nope - me neither.

Code book V.2.4.3.1 translates that as...........


"Return address is Helsinki, use the blue pen"

I think it means carry on digging to find the gas leak

"PUT THAT RUDDY FAG OUT!!!"

The code books are useless. It's a new volume, FFS. We should all get an updated version

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

I think it means carry on digging to find the gas leak

"PUT THAT RUDDY FAG OUT!!!"

The code books are useless. It's a new volume, FFS. We should all get an updated version

Battert is working on it as we speak. He's making good progress but tells me he's lost all the lower-case e letters from his John Bull printing outfit.

[glenrobbo]

spikeyhead said:

Morning all.

There's hints of blue sky outside and I've got a day of sums, lifting some weights and a meeting this afternoon.

Bobbers, if wemakeplanebits can't supply enough people to get everything done, then just chose what can be achieved.

This is sound advice, Bobbers.
Otherwise you will find that the more you do, the more they will give you to do.
'Twas ever thus.

If they want double the performance from half of a department, they should pay double the price.

[Mallard126]

Morning all.

Negative elbows in the new volume - that's a weight off my mind.

New code books? Chance would be a fine thing. I'm still using the one that I found fixed to the underside of the potting shed workbench back in volume 31.

Traffic was horrible last night going to pick up boy number one so air fryer scampi with chips and salad was abandoned in favour of a chippy tea.

IOTN I somehow managed to slice my chin open with the rear-mounted single blade on my razor this morning.

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

BattErt is working on it as wE spEak. HE's making good progrEss but tElls mE hE's lost all thE lowEr-casE 'E' lEttErs from his John Bull printing outfit.

Oh dEar. Who could possibly havE takEn all of thosE ' 's?

ThEy must havE bEEn raving...

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

DickyC said:

BattErt is working on it as wE spEak. HE's making good progrEss but tElls mE hE's lost all thE lowEr-casE 'E' lEttErs from his John Bull printing outfit.

Oh dEar. Who could possibly havE takEn all of thosE ' 's?

ThEy must havE bEEn raving...

Battert's not too concerned. Every now and then I hear him say, "Bah gum," and then chuckling to himself.

[glenrobbo]

Mallard126 said:

Morning all.

Negative elbows in the new volume - that's a weight off my mind.

New code books? Chance would be a fine thing. I'm still using the one that I found fixed to the underside of the potting shed workbench back in volume 31.

Traffic was horrible last night going to pick up boy number one so air fryer scampi with chips and salad was abandoned in favour of a chippy tea.

IOTN I somehow managed to slice my chin open with the rear-mounted single blade on my razor this morning.

Mallard! You're dripping bodily fluids on the new floor! FFS, man!

I have never tried air-fried salad. Is it better than the boil-in-the-bag salad?

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

Battert's not too concerned. Every now and then I hear him say, "Bah gum," and then chuckling to himself.

I heard it was rife amongst students at Hallam University.

[Mallard126]

glenrobbo said:

Mallard126 said:

Morning all.

Negative elbows in the new volume - that's a weight off my mind.

New code books? Chance would be a fine thing. I'm still using the one that I found fixed to the underside of the potting shed workbench back in volume 31.

Traffic was horrible last night going to pick up boy number one so air fryer scampi with chips and salad was abandoned in favour of a chippy tea.

IOTN I somehow managed to slice my chin open with the rear-mounted single blade on my razor this morning.

Mallard! You're dripping bodily fluids on the new floor! FFS, man!

I have never tried air-fried salad. Is it better than the boil-in-the-bag salad?

It is, but it's not a patch on Fruit Salad chews.

[DickyC]

Mallard126 said:

It is, but it's not a patch on Fruit Salad chews.

Four a penny



in old money



960 four-a-penny sweets for £1

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

Mallard126 said:

It is, but it's not a patch on Fruit Salad chews.

Four a penny



in old money



960 four-a-penny sweets for £1

Yes, but who on Earth got a whole £1 pocket money back then?
My weekly allowance was 6d. (2.5 New Pence)

24 Fruit Salads maximum. Or 6 gobstoppers.

Or 3 Woodbines.

[pequod]

Morneve all!

Still warm hereabouts and currently dry, although forecast is somewhat wetterer and breezierer later...

Now then, BOBBERS, your Gilbert is gonna be awfully wrinkly if you leave 'im in the water feature all day!!!



IOTN: off to watch the circus shortly...

Laters...

PQ

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

DickyC said:

Mallard126 said:

It is, but it's not a patch on Fruit Salad chews.

Four a penny



in old money



960 four-a-penny sweets for £1

Yes, but who on Earth got a whole £1 pocket money back then?
My weekly allowance was 6d. (2.5 New Pence)

24 Fruit Salads maximum. Or 6 gobstoppers.

Or 3 Woodbines.

It was aspirational not something we actually did.

I've told this before but when farthings were withdrawn I informed the lady in the corner shop that as I had been prevented from paying for one four-a-penny sweet she was under an obligation to let me have one for nothing. She felt she was under no such obligation and shooed me out of her shop. Nicolas Judd and me. He was my co-conspirator. How we would have divided the spoils was a bridge we no longer had to cross. We were five.

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

It was aspirational not something we actually did.

I've told this before but when farthings were withdrawn I informed the lady in the corner shop that as I had been prevented from paying for one four-a-penny sweet she was under an obligation to let me have one for nothing. She felt she was under no such obligation and shooed me out of her shop. Nicolas Judd and me. He was my co-conspirator. How we would have divided the spoils was a bridge we no longer had to cross. We were five.

So the two of you were actually five?

Were you all famous, like?

Obviously Judd became well known for his racing engine development work.
And you became a famous author of popular ephemera, but what of the other three?

[glenrobbo]

If I had a penny for every farthing I ever had, I'd still be in Dire Straits.

https://youtu.be/wTP2RUD_cL0

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

So the two of you were actually five?

Were you all famous, like?

Obviously Judd became well known for his racing engine development work.
And you became a famous author of popular ephemera, but what of the other three?

No, silly. The two of us were both five years old. If there was a gaggle of us we could get on the bus and go to Camberley to the cinema but only if Susan Hall was in charge. She was very responsible and looked after the bus fares and cinema tickets and intermission ice creams and crossing the A30. She was eight.

Don't start. I mean she was eight years old.

We went to see Summer Holiday. It was very exciting.

[White Stiletto]

Good afternoon all.

Here we are in '39, is it a phoney volume?

I've place some paper towels under the TV in preparation for PMQs.

I understand those who have been gluing themselves to roads etc will cite Dickie's online "How to use Super Glue" in their defence.

One phrase which won't be heard in court should MV be docked points for last year: "We won it fair and square".

I had two jabs last week and collected my new bins on Monday. I was blind but now I can see.

That's all for now.

[Bobberoo]

pequod said:

Morneve all!

Still warm hereabouts and currently dry, although forecast is somewhat wetterer and breezierer later...

Now then, BOBBERS, your Gilbert is gonna be awfully wrinkly if you leave 'im in the water feature all day!!!



IOTN: off to watch the circus shortly...

Laters...

PQ

Thanks for the warning pequod old chap, I was wondering where he'd disappeared to!!!

[KaraK]

glenrobbo said:

So the two of you were actually five?

Were you all famous, like?

Obviously Judd became well known for his racing engine development work.
And you became a famous author of popular ephemera, but what of the other three?

It's funny how certain things stick with you - for me the name "Judd" will forever be synonymous with the V8 as used in the back of the Williams FW12, that was in technical terms "a bit st". Of course it was only really a bit st in comparison to the turbocharged monsters that were kicking out 1000+bhp, but all 7 year old me knew was that since Williams had started using them after losing the Honda engine supply "Our Nige" was getting his arse kicked. And so Judd engines = st became indelibly ingrained into my psyche.

What were we talking about again?

[Bobberoo]

Thanks for the kind words chaps, I still very much enjoy my roll, however unrealistic expectations from management within the machine shop is proving difficult to ignore.
My manager and hus have categorically told the people making the demands to put them in writing and stop bothering us!!!