April 17, 2009 at 7:41 am
This is totally trivial – imagine you’re standing at the back of an estate car putting something in the boot.The boot’s almost full,so you put the object in the position nearest you,so it’s behind the number plate when the boot’s shut.Now describe where you put it.Hubby says the back of the car and I say the front of the boot,and we both think we’re being totally logical.Where do you say it is ?
By: Brian Doherty - 22nd April 2009 at 22:34
Hi Frank,
Why your antibiotics should be standing there looking at that nasty cold and not doing anything, I just do not understand, maybe its the wrong kind of nasty.
I know antibiotics are getting very fussy these days, being now fed to top class salmon, racing horse and even, I am reliably told, to Bulls in Stud!!, as a result some have started becoming the prima donnas of the medical world, only willing to work if they have their own publicist and U tube clip!! – there goes the neighbourhood again!!
Cheers Brian.
The mad one in Wiltshire
By: frankvw - 22nd April 2009 at 21:48
Brian,
Check your private messages.
As for the puns, may I use the excuse of being on antibiotics regarding a nasty cold ? 😀
By: Brian Doherty - 22nd April 2009 at 20:57
Hi frankvw, or may I call you Frank for short, a moderator, just the specialisation I need, in Photographic – civil aircraft images, I have created a thread in which I am showing old aircraft photos that I took/from the fifties, I have been putting them in ‘Albums’ – today in uploading some new pictures, I have received a message telling me to join a group and apparently put these pictures through the group. I know understand how/why this has happened – your advice(printable of course) would be most appreciated
Cheers Brian Doherty
By: Flygirl - 21st April 2009 at 15:54
I’ve heard that they pray for a change of wind direction
I do that sometimes! even been known to beg.:D
By: mike currill - 21st April 2009 at 15:30
I’ve heard that they pray for a change of wind direction
By: Brian Doherty - 21st April 2009 at 11:09
It was intended to be a discussion about how the same event can be perceived entirely differently.Apologies for being an air-head,I didn’t know this was meant to be the Brains Trust .
It is about different perceptions, I’ve never thought of tumbleweeds having brains! – how do they steer those things? 😀
By: Brian Doherty - 21st April 2009 at 11:06
Hi Frank – yes, you are right – you should be ashamed.
By: BumbleBee - 21st April 2009 at 08:46
As if it ever had any, it’s like a tumbleweed just blowing along in the breeze.
It was intended to be a discussion about how the same event can be perceived entirely differently.Apologies for being an air-head,I didn’t know this was meant to be the Brains Trust .
By: mike currill - 21st April 2009 at 08:08
Brian, yes, I am a moderator, but hay, don’t worry, I was just getting back to the roots of the discussion. 😀
I should be ashamed of my puns, I know…
As if it ever had any, it’s like a tumbleweed just blowing along in the breeze.
By: mike currill - 21st April 2009 at 08:05
Ah – yes – I recognise that, the vertical violin!! – at some of our local jazz club gigs, one of the guy’s – Johnny Van Derrick, now dead unfortunately, used one of those and on occasions in the middle of a 1920’s jazz number, would even play a hornpipe on it like a guiter. He and his mate Stephen Grappelli?, same age, used to get together on occasions but Johnny went the full jazz route whilst Stephen went more the orchestral route. I have to say though that they never seemed to sweat as much as this Fender lot, must have been tougher in those days.
Cheers
Nearly right it’s Stefan
By: mike currill - 21st April 2009 at 07:59
Hi BB (If I may call you that?) – Yes, I am aware of being a certain age, but I’ve stopped asking about it, it became rather confusing. My Granny had a lovely brass one too, but it was probably because she was born before the turn of the century, 1900 that is, before that yankee bloke Ford (no – not the president, the one making horseless carriages) started all this nonsense. That reminds me, that Aussie guy I referred to previously, used the term ‘bumper’ – now I thought, through my readings of the colony’s newsheets that this was a local term for a glass of beer, obviously they lost the use of the word pint somewhere.
Anyway the state of England and English is terrible, but I must go, the wife needs me – to clean the filter on the washing machine – I knew I was supposed to be doing something ……
Cheers
:D:D They lost the use of the word pint because they brew horse P instead of Beer:) They try to tell us it’s lager but I don’t believe them
By: mike currill - 21st April 2009 at 07:56
Great thread everyone but I’ve been thinking – takes a while – that Aussie guy some time ago called a bumper a fender – now thats plain wrong – a fender stops hot coals from falling off the fire and setting light to the carpet – nothing to do with cars? – is that where this started?
Carpet? You pampered person. in our house it was there to stop the hot coals rolling across the floor and burning our feet or setting fire to our slippers:D (We had flag stone flooring in our kitchen and the front room was for Sundays or other occasions when you had visitors. I don’t think it was ever used on a daily basis until I was about 12)
By: frankvw - 20th April 2009 at 18:01
Brian, yes, I am a moderator, but hay, don’t worry, I was just getting back to the roots of the discussion. 😀
I should be ashamed of my puns, I know…
By: BumbleBee - 20th April 2009 at 17:00
She replied to my post first .
By: Brian Doherty - 20th April 2009 at 16:37
Thanks BB, sorry frankvw, bad day, missed the joke, Anna – who’s Anna – lives next door to Alice?
Cheers Brian.
By: BumbleBee - 20th April 2009 at 16:00
You guys are very close to the hedge of being off topic. Please be careful that nobody gets offendered 😉
Took a long time but I spotted the “offendered” joke eventually.Topic?What topic?Haven’t we established that Anna and the guys are right ?
By: Brian Doherty - 20th April 2009 at 15:26
Agree re being close to off the topic! – meandering is the word! – the only person likely to be offended is Cees who wants a ‘shrubbery’, which is unlikely – the rest is too general to be of any offence – other than someone worried about using their own language in its proper context for fear of upsetting someone who like them cannot speak or understand it properly in the first place. Suddenly realised, should have asked this in the first place, are you a moderator?
Cheers Brian.
By: frankvw - 20th April 2009 at 12:12
You guys are very close to the hedge of being off topic. Please be careful that nobody gets offendered 😉
By: Brian Doherty - 20th April 2009 at 11:57
Yes, don’t look now, but I think there’s one around and about, he keeps asking for a shrubbery!!, probably does’nt realise that its such a giveaway!
Cheers
By: Moggy C - 20th April 2009 at 10:48
from extensive reading of the Sam Malone Privet Eye series of American Literature
They write series of books about hedges?
Good grief!
Moggy