Will be there, thank you Mark for keeping us updated.
Think it was Steve who posted this one, either way it would have made him laugh:
A lorry driver breaks down on the M6 with a cargo of live monkeys on board, bound for Chester Zoo. They need to be delivered by 9:00 am and the driver fears he will get the sack if they don’t get there on time.
He decides to try and thumb a lift for his monkeys and eventually an Irish lorry driver pulls over.
“Where are you going ?” asks the Irish chap.
“Do us a favour mate and take these to Chester Zoo for me” says the driver, “and here’s a hundred quid for your troubles.”
“Happy days,” says the Irish fella, loads the monkeys onto his truck and gets on his way.
The lorry driver goes about trying to fix his truck and is there for a good few hours when he notices the Irish fella coming back down the motorway, still with all the chimps on board. Panicking, he flags him down again.
“What are you playing at,” he fumes, “I told you to take them to Chester Zoo!”
“I did,” says the Irish fella, “but there’s still fifty quid left so now we’re going to Alton Towers.”
Think it was Steve who posted this one, either way it would have made him laugh:
A lorry driver breaks down on the M6 with a cargo of live monkeys on board, bound for Chester Zoo. They need to be delivered by 9:00 am and the driver fears he will get the sack if they don’t get there on time.
He decides to try and thumb a lift for his monkeys and eventually an Irish lorry driver pulls over.
“Where are you going ?” asks the Irish chap.
“Do us a favour mate and take these to Chester Zoo for me” says the driver, “and here’s a hundred quid for your troubles.”
“Happy days,” says the Irish fella, loads the monkeys onto his truck and gets on his way.
The lorry driver goes about trying to fix his truck and is there for a good few hours when he notices the Irish fella coming back down the motorway, still with all the chimps on board. Panicking, he flags him down again.
“What are you playing at,” he fumes, “I told you to take them to Chester Zoo!”
“I did,” says the Irish fella, “but there’s still fifty quid left so now we’re going to Alton Towers.”
Last week in the ‘What are you listening to/last song you heard’ thread on general discussion, Steve mentioned ‘Proud’ by Heather Small – he had heard it on the radio that morning, and thought what a great song it was. This is the day that Steve and Julie found out the good news about Julie’s mum, and Steve later posted the lyrics. Tonight I got in the car to drive home, turned on the radio, and what was playing? ‘Proud’…hope you all don’t mind, but I would like to repost the lyrics as posted by Steve here.
I look into the window of my mind
Reflections of the fears I know I’ve left behind
I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can’t stop me now
And you can do the same
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It’s never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
Still so many answers I don’t know
Realise that to question is how we grow
So I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can’t stop me now
And you can do the same
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It’s never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
We need a change
Do it today
I can feel my spirit rising
We need a change
So do it today
‘Cause I can see a clear horizon
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
‘Cause you could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today
You could be so many people?
Just make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
~Raising my glass of Aussie white to Steve~
Still absolutely numb here. Steve was the first person from the forums that I met off-line…3 years ago now…and I can honestly say hand on heart, he was one of the nicest people I have EVER met. I simply cannot believe I will never see him at a forum meet again and be greated with “all right mate, how’s it going?”.
My thoughts are with Julie, Haydn and Steve’s family and friends…I know what a good mate I have lost, I cannot even begin to imagine their loss.
Becka
Never mind the road tax, what are the petrol prices like your way Kev? At my local BP garage it’s currently 91.9p per litre for ordinary unleaded 😮
Never mind the road tax, what are the petrol prices like your way Kev? At my local BP garage it’s currently 91.9p per litre for ordinary unleaded 😮
Gerbils…I thought he killed himself at the end of the war? :confused:
Gerbils…I thought he killed himself at the end of the war? :confused:
Nice pecs Moggy ~swoons~ 😉 😀 :p
Happy birthday Mr Moggy, and may you have plenty more 🙂
And I would like to add, that in the light of recent forum spats, I hope we can all acknowledge that sometimes there are things far more precious in life…life itself…
Steve, I am so pleased to hear this news 🙂 Fingers very tightly crossed for continued improvement for Julie’s mum.
Becka
(Someone pass me a tissue :o)
You’ve never watched a Carry On film? ~Faints~
The Carry On series ran from the late 50s to late 70s (I refuse to include 1992’s Carry On Columbus here) They were renowned for their very British sense of humour – double entrendes, seaside postcard like sauciness, familiar British cast, running gags, and visual and verbal humour without resorting to pure slapstick. The films made household names of the likes of Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtry, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor to name just a few, and were seriously big box office hits in their time.
By today’s standards some would deem them inmature and tame, but at the time, they set a whole new standard in comedy film making. Probably the best films to sample the Carry On series are Carry On Camping, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Carry On Doctor. Ian and Steve, any further suggestions (still thinking about Ian’s original questions here)
You’ve never watched a Carry On film? ~Faints~
The Carry On series ran from the late 50s to late 70s (I refuse to include 1992’s Carry On Columbus here) They were renowned for their very British sense of humour – double entrendes, seaside postcard like sauciness, familiar British cast, running gags, and visual and verbal humour without resorting to pure slapstick. The films made household names of the likes of Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtry, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor to name just a few, and were seriously big box office hits in their time.
By today’s standards some would deem them inmature and tame, but at the time, they set a whole new standard in comedy film making. Probably the best films to sample the Carry On series are Carry On Camping, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Carry On Doctor. Ian and Steve, any further suggestions (still thinking about Ian’s original questions here)