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Percolating Snort Valve

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Jan 27, 2003, 12:38:20 AM1/27/03
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Oiorpata

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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:38:20 +0000, Percolating Snort Valve
<blac...@incandessa.SPAMYENOT.org.ORELSE.uk> wrote:

>http://blackbess.members.easyspace.com/sifahigh.jpg

Someone been climbing the curtings?
--

Kran
Oiorpata at brevet dot nu

Mad From The Farting Crowd

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Jan 27, 2003, 5:42:22 AM1/27/03
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:12:26 +0100, Oiorpata <fa...@bogus.com> wrote
this:

>On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:38:20 +0000, Percolating Snort Valve
><blac...@incandessa.SPAMYENOT.org.ORELSE.uk> wrote:
>
>>http://blackbess.members.easyspace.com/sifahigh.jpg
>
>Someone been climbing the curtings?

Nope. He just made a giant leap off the joanna with his bionic back
legs.


--
Bess.

Holly G Pence

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Jan 27, 2003, 11:36:25 AM1/27/03
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:38:20 +0000, Percolating Snort Valve
<blac...@incandessa.SPAMYENOT.org.ORELSE.uk> wrote:

>http://blackbess.members.easyspace.com/sifahigh.jpg

He just wants to make sure you know your place, human. I mean, where
would you expect him to sit? On the floor??

--Holly

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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Feb 1, 2003, 5:54:08 AM2/1/03
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Suzie does: http://www.sessile.org/b3ta/mycatlikestohideinboxes.jpg

Little smirker.

J
--
"Choose the Dark Side... now why would I do a thing like that?"
-- Obi-Wan Renton

Fenny

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Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.rec.sheds, I heard
Jaimie Vandenbergh say...
> Suzie does: http://www.sessile.org/b3ta/mycatlikestohideinboxes.jpg
>
>
Flippin eck. Are that the cat wot used to be "ickle Fluffy" wot I have
a photo of on my wallpaper? Ain't she growed?
--
Fenny
Thought for the Day...
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Austin Shackles

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Feb 1, 2003, 1:30:48 PM2/1/03
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On or around Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:52:49 -0000,
allspamwil...@rickmansworth.mersinet.co.uk (Fenny) enlightened us
thusly:

>Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.rec.sheds, I heard
>Jaimie Vandenbergh say...
>> Suzie does: http://www.sessile.org/b3ta/mycatlikestohideinboxes.jpg
>>
>>
>Flippin eck. Are that the cat wot used to be "ickle Fluffy" wot I have
>a photo of on my wallpaper? Ain't she growed?

aye, thobut I suspect the bocks am smaller than you think.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt"
(confound the men who have made our remarks before us.)
Aelius Donatus (4th Cent.) [St. Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes]

Holly G Pence

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Feb 1, 2003, 2:55:35 PM2/1/03
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On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:54:08 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:36:25 -0800, Holly G Pence
><hgp...@SpiritOne.com> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:38:20 +0000, Percolating Snort Valve
>><blac...@incandessa.SPAMYENOT.org.ORELSE.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>http://blackbess.members.easyspace.com/sifahigh.jpg
>>
>>He just wants to make sure you know your place, human. I mean, where
>>would you expect him to sit? On the floor??
>
>Suzie does: http://www.sessile.org/b3ta/mycatlikestohideinboxes.jpg
>
>Little smirker.

Heh, a little sentry, guarding the catputer! You'll have to get her
a teeny bearskin hat wiv a chinstrap. "Halt, Who goes there? Give the
password, poltroon, or taste the wrath of my claws!"

--Holly

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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Feb 2, 2003, 2:38:20 PM2/2/03
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On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:30:48 +0000, Austin Shackles
<aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>On or around Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:52:49 -0000,
>allspamwil...@rickmansworth.mersinet.co.uk (Fenny) enlightened us
>thusly:
>
>>Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.rec.sheds, I heard
>>Jaimie Vandenbergh say...
>>> Suzie does: http://www.sessile.org/b3ta/mycatlikestohideinboxes.jpg
>>>
>>>
>>Flippin eck. Are that the cat wot used to be "ickle Fluffy" wot I have
>>a photo of on my wallpaper? Ain't she growed?
>
>aye, thobut I suspect the bocks am smaller than you think.

Mebbe. I've just packed it into a cardboard bockus to send to a chap
in Treznal, but it's about 14" tall, 8" wide & deep.

But yes, she has grown, she's coming close to matching her brother
now, and she's got a 2" layer of fur all over too.

One experiment with the kitchen scales and a large bowl later: she's
three and an eighth xvybf, or 7lb. Amynthas tells me that the heaviest
of the trio of next-litter Austin kits is currently 5lbs - they're 5
months younger. Eep.

J
--
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't
believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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Feb 2, 2003, 6:53:29 PM2/2/03
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On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:38:20 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

>One experiment with the kitchen scales and a large bowl later: she's
>three and an eighth xvybf, or 7lb. Amynthas tells me that the heaviest
>of the trio of next-litter Austin kits is currently 5lbs - they're 5
>months younger. Eep.

Further experimental result: Tim(id) is 9lb and a half. Chunky.

J
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

Guy King

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from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> contains these words:

> One experiment with the kitchen scales and a large bowl later:

Meeeowreka?

--
Skipweasel:-
"...and ninthly...."

Mad From The Farting Crowd

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On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:55:35 -0800, Holly G Pence
<hgp...@SpiritOne.com> wrote this:

>On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:54:08 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
><jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

>>http://www.sessile.org/b3ta/mycatlikestohideinboxes.jpg

>Heh, a little sentry, guarding the catputer! You'll have to get her
>a teeny bearskin hat wiv a chinstrap. "Halt, Who goes there? Give the
>password, poltroon, or taste the wrath of my claws!"

http://blackbess.members.easyspace.com/alibox.jpg
The bocs pitchered housed a divvid player.


--
Bess.

Holly G Pence

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Feb 3, 2003, 12:46:10 AM2/3/03
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If the box fits, wear it.


--Holly

Cerumen

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"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote in message
news:srbr3v4dp5sgnclld...@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:38:20 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
> <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>
> >One experiment with the kitchen scales and a large bowl later: she's
> >three and an eighth xvybf, or 7lb. Amynthas tells me that the heaviest
> >of the trio of next-litter Austin kits is currently 5lbs - they're 5
> >months younger. Eep.
>
> Further experimental result: Tim(id) is 9lb and a half. Chunky.
>
How long is that at gas mark 7?
--
Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland

Lizz Holmans

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Feb 3, 2003, 2:21:24 PM2/3/03
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On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:57:50 +0000, xenoph...@mowthegrass.hotmail
com wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:53:29 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
><jai...@usually.sessile.org>, nervously arranged the Scrabble tiles to
>spell out -

>>On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:38:20 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
>><jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>
>>>One experiment with the kitchen scales and a large bowl later: she's
>>>three and an eighth xvybf, or 7lb. Amynthas tells me that the heaviest
>>>of the trio of next-litter Austin kits is currently 5lbs - they're 5
>>>months younger. Eep.
>>
>>Further experimental result: Tim(id) is 9lb and a half. Chunky.
>>

>Who are you callin' Chunky?

Kavanagh, for one. Tim(id) seems to be following in his brother's
pawprints.

We call him the Red Menace. Morse is the Black Plague. No explanation
needed, I hope.

LizzH.

--
Boys is easier, and if you have sons it's worth trying for three.
Nanny Ogg

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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Feb 3, 2003, 6:36:11 PM2/3/03
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On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:21:24 +0000, Lizz Holmans
<di...@jackalope.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:57:50 +0000, xenoph...@mowthegrass.hotmail
>com wrote:
>>On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:53:29 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
>><jai...@usually.sessile.org>, nervously arranged the Scrabble tiles to
>>spell out -
>>
>>>Further experimental result: Tim(id) is 9lb and a half. Chunky.
>>>
>>Who are you callin' Chunky?
>
>Kavanagh, for one. Tim(id) seems to be following in his brother's
>pawprints.

I was wondering about him out loud to Amynthas. Looks like his larger
two are going to end up heavier than Timb, though the third is pacing
Suzie instead.

>We call him the Red Menace. Morse is the Black Plague. No explanation
>needed, I hope.

Time for a supervillain cat named White Devil.

J
--
"In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded." Terry Pratchett

Rusty Hinge

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from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> contains these words:

> Time for a supervillain cat named White Devil.

Tabitha Terwur

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Rusty http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm
You must look out in Britain that you are not cheated by the charioteers.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC - 43BC
Service @sheddiknights.org temporarily suspended.

Guy King

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The message <r3vt3vkj1o5bb9v0d...@4ax.com>
from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> contains these words:

> Time for a supervillain cat named White Devil.

IRTA surveillance cat.

Linz

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Feb 4, 2003, 8:08:19 AM2/4/03
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Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:38:20 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
> <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>
>> One experiment with the kitchen scales and a large bowl later: she's
>> three and an eighth xvybf, or 7lb. Amynthas tells me that the
>> heaviest of the trio of next-litter Austin kits is currently 5lbs -
>> they're 5 months younger. Eep.
>
> Further experimental result: Tim(id) is 9lb and a half. Chunky.

Hah.
Bandit is over a stone. And he's been that way for about 3 years and he's
only four. Good grief.


Richard Eney

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Feb 5, 2003, 3:23:50 AM2/5/03
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In article <qujr3vspimec9n5ib...@4ax.com>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>--
>"We all recall that the difference between a computer salesman and
>a car salesman is that the car salesman *knows* he's lying to you"
>"... and probably knows how to drive"
> - F O'Donnell and M Smith, in afs

Toot rue. Warning, rant begins:

I needed a new monica since the old one was making my face feel like I'd
been out in the sun too long every time I hfrq it. So I gooved I'd ohl an
LCD monica that wouldn't qb that to me. I asked 'em, I did, does it have
to be installed or can I just plug it in like a real monica. Droid said
something like "mumble and I like this one over here". *sigh* So I ohled
one and got it home and lbooyd ehll it had a CD in the package to load the
drivers from. And the box said nothing about having to load drivers, or
"requires CD-ROM drive" or anything like that. Lying abstrads. So I took
it back and snarled and - yes, it was CompUSA, the abstrads - they charged
me US$40 for the privilege of returning a totally unused item that I had
not even opened the interior packaging of, only slit one piece of tape on
the outside. _And_ they said they didn't carry any monicas that would
jbex with my old pooter. Liars, they did so have some, but by then I
wasn't going to ohl a monica from them even if I had to go back to hfrvat
the one that's been toasting me with Rays.

I went to the Office Depot across the highway and ohled a monica that just
plugs in. Crummy picture quality but it jbexes and it was one quarter the
ZU of the other one. They were nice as pie, had it in writing that there
was no charge for returns, and said they never heard of a monica that
couldn't be hfrq with older pooters, even the LCD ones. So maybe someday
I'll try again, but not from CompUSA, never again.

Today I had to return the other item I had ohled there, a UPS that had a
defective switch. This time at least they didn't charge extra for the
privilege of hauling the piece of junk back to them. I ohled a different
brand this time, which I'm still waiting to test since it has to be
charged for four hours. Stupid lbooyd design too, has lights on both ends
to signal prombles, that ought to be visible at all times. The old one I
got what, five years ago, was a much, much better design, but they don't
seem to molish that one any more.

=Tamar

Oiorpata

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Feb 5, 2003, 5:50:09 AM2/5/03
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On 5 Feb 2003 08:23:50 GMT, dic...@radix.net (Richard Eney) wrote:

> So I took
>it back and snarled and - yes, it was CompUSA, the abstrads - they charged
>me US$40 for the privilege of returning a totally unused item that I had
>not even opened the interior packaging of, only slit one piece of tape on
>the outside.

Robbers! 40 dollars? That's ..... loadsa zbarl! I'll never ever even
consider buying owt from CompUSA, thanks for the warning!

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:08:19 -0000, "Linz" <sp...@lindsayendell.org.uk>
wrote:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>
>> Further experimental result: Tim(id) is 9lb and a half. Chunky.
>
>Hah.
>Bandit is over a stone. And he's been that way for about 3 years and he's
>only four. Good grief.

Tim's got four months to catch up then! He's put on over a pound a
month on a straight line graph, so he might just make it.

Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.

J (metricated for some things)
--
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
When that hammer is C++, everything begins to look like your thumb.

Silverback

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Feb 6, 2003, 6:29:25 AM2/6/03
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Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.

Bloody kids.
16oz = 1lb
14lb = 1st
2st = 1qtr
4qtr = 1cwt
20cwt = 1ton

Silverback

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Feb 6, 2003, 6:46:13 AM2/6/03
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Sn!pe wrote:
> Wot's that in new zbarl?

Who cares?


Jaimie Vandenbergh

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:29:25 -0000, "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk>
wrote:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
>
>Bloody kids.
>16oz = 1lb
>14lb = 1st

It's those two that I can never unforget which is which. Got it right
though, didn't I?

>2st = 1qtr
>4qtr = 1cwt
>20cwt = 1ton

Never seen qtr referred to before. 1cwt was about what I hefted to put
this muscle spasm into my back/shoulder/neck region, thobut.

J
--
"You hear someone break into your home. You pull out your chainsaw
and crank it up. It makes its very distinctive chainsaw noise; he
hears it. What criminal is going to stay in a house with someone
that crazy?" -- Home defence with Franklin Hummel r.a.sf.w

Silverback

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Feb 6, 2003, 7:48:58 AM2/6/03
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Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> Never seen qtr referred to before. 1cwt was about what I hefted to put
> this muscle spasm into my back/shoulder/neck region, thobut.

In that case I can probably blame Linz for my shoulder aches, as she's a
smidgeon over a hundredweight and I do sometimes heft her a bit.

I've always loved the hundredweight being so named because it's a hundred
pounds, plus a dozen.


Thomas Rushton

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:13:43 AM2/6/03
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Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.

16 oz to the lb. 14 lb to the stone. 8 stone (or 108 lb) to the
hundredweight. 20 cwt to the ton.

--
Thomas Rushton
Somewhere in Bradford...

Silverback

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:18:25 AM2/6/03
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Thomas Rushton wrote:
> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
>
> 16 oz to the lb. 14 lb to the stone. 8 stone (or 108 lb) to the

112
otherwise how would there be 2240lbs to the ton, eh?

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:32:41 AM2/6/03
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:48:58 -0000, "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk>
wrote:

And it's handy for modern yoof like me who can remember "hundredweight
= 50xvybf" and jbex it out from there.

But we always forget that it's 112 to a hundredweight.

J
--
It's time to light the candles!
It's time to chant the rites!
It's time to summon Satan on the Muppet Show tonight!

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:30:25 AM2/6/03
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The message <b1thu7$2tkf$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>
from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:

> Who cares?

AOL <pssst!> Anyone want to ohl a bushel of grane? And I jbex
(sometimes) in drachms and scruples.

Rusty Hinge

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The message <3ud44vcf92e4hk0fn...@4ax.com>

from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> contains these words:

> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.

There always used to be 14, though devaluation may have set in.

Thomas Rushton

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Feb 6, 2003, 9:11:01 AM2/6/03
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Silverback wrote:

Oh hooter. My brian has definitely died. I blame lack of T in my
lunchtime G.

Thomas Rushton

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Feb 6, 2003, 9:18:13 AM2/6/03
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Rusty Hinge wrote:

>> >> 20cwt = 1ton
>> >
>> > Wot's that in new zbarl?
>
>> Who cares?
>
> AOL <pssst!> Anyone want to ohl a bushel of grane? And I jbex
> (sometimes) in drachms and scruples.

And wot about Troy weight?

Ron Clark

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Feb 6, 2003, 9:28:24 AM2/6/03
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:48:58 -0000, in the message
<b1tljo$184$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>, Silverback wrote this, or at least
some of this :-

>Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>> Never seen qtr referred to before. 1cwt was about what I hefted to put
>> this muscle spasm into my back/shoulder/neck region, thobut.
>
>In that case I can probably blame Linz for my shoulder aches, as she's a
>smidgeon over a hundredweight and I do sometimes heft her a bit.

That's beautifully put. (Fb zhpu zber pynffl guna 'fyvccvat ure bar')

--
®óñ© © ²°°³

Guy King

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Feb 6, 2003, 6:51:25 AM2/6/03
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The message <b1tgul$2rmf$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>

from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:

> 2st = 1qtr

Nonsense. 4oz = 1qtr. No one in their right mind would go into the sweet
shop and ask for 2 stone of liquorice imps.

Guy King

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Feb 6, 2003, 11:58:25 AM2/6/03
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The message <Xns931A91A41FE...@130.133.1.4>
from Thomas Rushton <Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com> contains
these words:

> And wot about Troy weight?

Ask Marina, but if he's a gentleman he'll take his weight on his elbows
anyway.

Mad From The Farting Crowd

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:48:58 -0000, "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk>
wrote this:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

>I can probably blame Linz for my shoulder aches, as she's a
>smidgeon over a hundredweight and I do sometimes heft her a bit.

Oaf.


--
Bess, trying to stop giggling

Dewey

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:18:25 -0000, "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk>
wrote:

>Thomas Rushton wrote:

and 2205lb to the tonne.

So ton nearly = tonne


Dewey
Eccles, Manchester

Frank Erskine

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Feb 6, 2003, 12:36:18 PM2/6/03
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Rusty Hinge wrote:
>
> AOL <pssst!> Anyone want to ohl a bushel of grane? And I jbex
> (sometimes) in drachms and scruples.


I've got no scruples.

Ackshirley, I do have some scruple weights, hidden away in a Nelastoplast
tin somwehere.

--
Frank Erskine
MJBC


Frank Erskine

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August West wrote:
>
> Quite right; they'd ask for 2 stone of liquorice allsorts.

Pronounced "lickrish", of course.

--
Frank Erskine
MJBC


Jaimie Vandenbergh

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On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:34:29 +0000, Mad From The Farting Crowd
<blac...@incandessa.SPAMYENOT.org.ORELSE.uk> wrote:

>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:48:58 -0000, "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk>
>wrote this:
>
>>Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
>>I can probably blame Linz for my shoulder aches, as she's a
>>smidgeon over a hundredweight and I do sometimes heft her a bit.
>
>Oaf.

Attributions! I'll get in trouble if you're not careful.

Welcome back, BTW - hadn't had a chance to say.

J
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

Mad From The Farting Crowd

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Bajs, I've just maid Jaimie luke as if he were under the influence of
Harry.


--
Bess.

Mel Rimmer

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In article <v0754vo3kcqsj8ohs...@4ax.com>, Dewey
<peterd...@ntlworld.com> writes

>>
>and 2205lb to the tonne.
>
>So ton nearly = tonne

Are you still here, ArDewey? When are you off to San Francisco?
--
Mel Rimmer

Austin Shackles

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Feb 6, 2003, 1:26:22 PM2/6/03
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On or around 5 Feb 2003 08:23:50 GMT, dic...@radix.net (Richard Eney)
enlightened us thusly:

>ZU of the other one. They were nice as pie, had it in writing that there
>was no charge for returns, and said they never heard of a monica that
>couldn't be hfrq with older pooters, even the LCD ones. So maybe someday
>I'll try again, but not from CompUSA, never again.

persoomably, the problem is in your not having a CDrom drive?

I guess it's possible that to get the best out of it, you'd need specific
drivers. ISTR hunting some for the Unisys minotaur which is currently on
this'n. But mostly, SVGA should be SVGA, I guess. Whether it *is*, is
another matter.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then
something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk." Pink Floyd (1994)

Ron Clark

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Feb 6, 2003, 1:48:51 PM2/6/03
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:36:18 +0000 (UTC), in the message
<b1u6ei$lfl$1...@knossos.btinternet.com>, Frank Erskine wrote this, or at

least some of this :-

>Rusty Hinge wrote:


>>
>> AOL <pssst!> Anyone want to ohl a bushel of grane? And I jbex
>> (sometimes) in drachms and scruples.
>
>
>I've got no scruples.

Who gives a drachm?

--
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Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 9:33:20 AM2/6/03
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The message <vuo44v8tceafvtemc...@4ax.com>

from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> contains these words:

> But we always forget that it's 112 to a hundredweight.

You speak for yourslef - I don't.

How many poles to the chain, huh?

Peter Thomas

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Feb 6, 2003, 2:29:31 PM2/6/03
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In article <7473385.z...@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>Wot's that in new zbarl?
56lb = half-hundredweight=gjragl-svir xvybf, isn't it?
--
Peter Thomas

Dewey

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Feb 6, 2003, 3:34:48 PM2/6/03
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:16:39 +0000 (UTC), Mel Rimmer
<mel.r...@btopenworld.com> wrote:

>>and 2205lb to the tonne.
>>
>>So ton nearly = tonne
>
>Are you still here, ArDewey? When are you off to San Francisco?

I'm still here, want to get travel insurance before I go anywhere
foregin (that's how they spelled it on a pencil I once had)

LloydsTSB want me to change to a Gold account, which costs £8 a month
unless you keep a certain amount in there. But there's free travel
insurance ferra year. So I'm going for it if they will recognise
pre-existing medicule condition isn't a promble any more. It's all
under control, and my blood pressure has gone up a bit from 80/50 to
100 over summat sensibule.

I've still got that bockle of wine for you. Must come over to
Stockport to get my hair cut, and then on to Poynton.
Dewey
Eccles, Manchester

Andy Spragg

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Feb 6, 2003, 4:07:19 PM2/6/03
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Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> pushed briefly to the front of the
queue on Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:58:25 GMT, and nailed this to the shed
door:

^ The message <Xns931A91A41FE...@130.133.1.4>
^ from Thomas Rushton <Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com> contains
^ these words:
^
^ > And wot about Troy weight?
^
^ Ask Marina, but if he's a gentleman he'll take his weight on his elbows
^ anyway.

Hehehe. When they said anything can happen in the next half hour, I
think that was one thing they weren't bonking - er, banking - on.

Andy

--
sparge at globalnet point co point uk

"It's your fault we don't have a no-blame culture"
Lee Hartley, RHM Technology

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 4:30:41 PM2/6/03
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The message <b1u6ei$lfl$1...@knossos.btinternet.com>
from "Frank Erskine" <frank....@btinternet.com> contains these words:

> Ackshirley, I do have some scruple weights, hidden away in a Nelastoplast
> tin somwehere.

Oooo. Wanna swap them wiv somethink? Arj pair of glasses, mayhap? Pair
of active pootery speakers? Some dride Jew's ear? Dozen marbles and a
gob-stopper?

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 4:29:59 PM2/6/03
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The message <Xns931A91A41FE...@130.133.1.4>

from Thomas Rushton <Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com> contains
these words:

> And wot about Troy weight?

Yer, but that were weeeieieered. 20 pennyweight to the oz and 12 ozs to
·68 lb avoir Dupont.

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 4:30:08 PM2/6/03
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The message <200302061...@zetnet.co.uk>
from Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:

> The message <b1tgul$2rmf$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>
> from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:

> > 2st = 1qtr

> Nonsense. 4oz = 1qtr. No one in their right mind would go into the sweet
> shop and ask for 2 stone of liquorice imps.

Troo, but no-one in their right mind would ask for liquorice imps - er
- period.

<runs away>

<from behind big long wall>

but 2 stone of Annie Seedballs are a diffrunt matter.

Peter Thomas

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Feb 6, 2003, 5:00:08 PM2/6/03
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In article <1555377.b...@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes

>Thomas Rushton wrote:
>
>> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
>>
>> 16 oz to the lb. 14 lb to the stone. 8 stone (or 108 lb) to the
>> hundredweight. 20 cwt to the ton. ^^^
>
>How many? I should stick to pooters, Thomas...


I was about to agree when I realised it wasn't I committing that one...
--
Peter Thomas

Andrew Marshall

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Feb 6, 2003, 2:33:18 PM2/6/03
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In article <200302061...@zetnet.co.uk>, Guy King
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> writes

>The message <Xns931A91A41FE...@130.133.1.4>
>from Thomas Rushton <Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com> contains
>these words:
>> And wot about Troy weight?

>Ask Marina, but if he's a gentleman he'll take his weight on his elbows
>anyway.

Cloff pliz!
--
Andrew Marshall

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 5:14:18 PM2/6/03
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The message <1569173.D...@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>
from Sn!pe <snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> contains these words:

> Snap test, sit up at the back:
> How many fortnights in a rod, pole or perch?

Sirsirsirsirsir! Are they holiday fortnights or fpubby fortnights?

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 6, 2003, 5:16:12 PM2/6/03
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The message <13939960....@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>

from Sn!pe <snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> contains these words:

> Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.

Well done that wading bird! Let me pin this rasher of streaky bacon on
your breast.

Nick Leverton

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Feb 6, 2003, 5:52:03 PM2/6/03
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In article <b1uko9$1un$1...@warren.leverton.org>,
sam ende <s...@sende.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>Richard Eney wrote:
>
>> I needed a new monica since the old one was making my face feel like
>
>'wots a monica ?' i asked himself just now
>'it's a name' he sed.
>"it can't be, it don't meke sense'
>'tis' he sed
>'yebbut, he sed he needs a new monica'
>'its shedi speak for moniker'
>'yebbut i'm sure he's not saying he needs a new name cos the old ones
>meking his face feel like he's bin out in the sun too long, or ?'

And neither alcohol nor nutmeg had yet passed my lips.

Nick

Andrew Marshall

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Feb 6, 2003, 5:51:55 PM2/6/03
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In article <13939960....@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes

>Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.

MTAAW, absolootely as far as is possibule these fortnights. Metricity
are for hfr in ynobengbevrf and simla plaices, not for ohling a joint of
beef, some King Teds and a cabbij, innit.

Regards,
Andrew.
--
Andrew Marshall
Unsolicited advertising matter unwelcome. Offenders may be blacklisted.

Nick Leverton

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Feb 6, 2003, 7:04:39 PM2/6/03
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In article <b1upjd$9os$1...@warren.leverton.org>,
sam ende <s...@sende.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>Nick Leverton wrote:
>
>> And neither alcohol nor nutmeg had yet passed my lips.
>
>is married pliss is wot it is, or wood be if,like,you know. whatever.

**grinnnn** :))

Keep yer beak up ol' Sn!pe. V nz fher gung OO jvyy pbzr onpx gb ure
evtug frafrf bar qnl naq ernyyl nccerpvngr jbg fur unf.

Ugs ...

Nick

Frank Erskine

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:19:04 PM2/6/03
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Rusty Hinge wrote:
> The message <b1u6ei$lfl$1...@knossos.btinternet.com>
> from "Frank Erskine" <frank....@btinternet.com> contains these
> words:
>
>> Ackshirley, I do have some scruple weights, hidden away in a
>> Nelastoplast tin somwehere.
>
> Oooo. Wanna swap them wiv somethink? Arj pair of glasses, mayhap? Pair
> of active pootery speakers? Some dride Jew's ear?

IRTA:- "Sun-dried Jew's ear".

The weights cam with a Napothecaries balance (no, not balanitis) wot I had
but have since lost.

--
Frank Erskine
MJBC


Nick Leverton

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:23:21 PM2/6/03
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In article <b1utva$h1e$1...@warren.leverton.org>,
sam ende <s...@sende.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>bb ? wotsa she got to do wif it ?
>it, not ti<w wit. that is. darling.

No, BB is Sn!pe's otherarf not a filmstar, will explanificate offline :)

Nick

Frank Erskine

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:23:33 PM2/6/03
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Sn!pe wrote:

> Dewey wrote:
>
>>> otherwise how would there be 2240lbs to the ton, eh?
>>>
>>>
>> and 2205lb to the tonne.
>>
>> So ton nearly = tonne
>
> Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.

IRTA:- "I eschew electricity".

MTAAW.

--
Frank Erskine
MJBC


Nick Leverton

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Feb 6, 2003, 8:43:33 PM2/6/03
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In article <b1v1ql$ev2$1...@venus.btinternet.com>,
Frank Erskine <frank....@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Sn!pe wrote:

>> Dewey wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.
>
>IRTA:- "I eschew electricity".

Those infernal electric rays ensured that I did too.

Nick

Mel Rimmer

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Feb 7, 2003, 2:51:28 AM2/7/03
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In article <cbh54vk0hsmgdgklg...@4ax.com>, Dewey
<peterd...@ntlworld.com> writes

>
>I've still got that bockle of wine for you. Must come over to
>Stockport to get my hair cut, and then on to Poynton.

Good-oh. Bill? Are you still lurking? Fancy meeting up with me and
ArDewey and showing us where to get good Ethnogrub in Poynton?
--
Mel Rimmer

Thomas Rushton

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Feb 7, 2003, 3:36:27 AM2/7/03
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Peter Thomas wrote:

>>> 20cwt = 1ton
>>
>>Wot's that in new zbarl?
> 56lb = half-hundredweight=gjragl-svir xvybf, isn't it?

Near enough.

--
Thomas Rushton
Somewhere in Bradford...

Thomas Rushton

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Feb 7, 2003, 3:46:11 AM2/7/03
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Sn!pe wrote:

> Thomas Rushton wrote:
>
>> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
>>
>> 16 oz to the lb. 14 lb to the stone. 8 stone (or 108 lb) to the
>> hundredweight. 20 cwt to the ton. ^^^
>
> How many? I should stick to pooters, Thomas...

I know, I know...

In my defence, I never claimed to be a mathematician.

Silverback

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Feb 7, 2003, 4:26:51 AM2/7/03
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Rusty Hinge wrote:
> The message <vuo44v8tceafvtemc...@4ax.com>
> from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@usually.sessile.org> contains these
> words:
>
>> But we always forget that it's 112 to a hundredweight.
>
> You speak for yourslef - I don't.
>
> How many poles to the chain, huh?

I never really got to grips with rod pole or perch
Is it 12?


Silverback

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Feb 7, 2003, 4:30:40 AM2/7/03
to
Dewey wrote:
> LloydsTSB want me to change to a Gold account, which costs £8 a month
> unless you keep a certain amount in there. But there's free travel
> insurance ferra year. So I'm going for it if they will recognise
> pre-existing medicule condition isn't a promble any more. It's all
> under control, and my blood pressure has gone up a bit from 80/50 to
> 100 over summat sensibule.

It goes up as you age anyway. I hear the latest info is that the 2nd figure
is now believed to be more significant than the 1st, a turnaround from
previous medical guesswo^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexpertise. Also that everybody has
their own healthy figures and it's changes in that you need to watch rather
than the absolute figures, only most of us don't get it monitored
monthly/weekly/whatever so this idea isn't much use and doesn't really have
much in the way of evidence to back it up.

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 7, 2003, 4:30:28 AM2/7/03
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The message <b1v1i8$rbt$1...@sparta.btinternet.com>

from "Frank Erskine" <frank....@btinternet.com> contains these words:

> > Oooo. Wanna swap them wiv somethink? Arj pair of glasses, mayhap? Pair


> > of active pootery speakers? Some dride Jew's ear?

> IRTA:- "Sun-dried Jew's ear".

Well, that TAAAW. I plucks it orft (mainly) elder trees through the
year and dries it. When I wants to add mushroomy flavour to a casser
hole or stoo, I grinds a small amount into grindings with a grinder and
tosses some in. It molisheth a fine thickening thingy.

> The weights cam with a Napothecaries balance (no, not balanitis) wot I had
> but have since lost.

I have a balun.

Oiorpata

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Feb 7, 2003, 5:36:09 AM2/7/03
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:16:12 GMT, Rusty Hinge
<tqt.h...@sheddiknights.org> wrote:

>The message <13939960....@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>
>from Sn!pe <snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>> Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.
>
> Well done that wading bird! Let me pin this rasher of streaky bacon on
>your breast.

Fly away Sn!pey, don't let him pin bacon onyer, his intentions are
culinary!
--

Kran
Oiorpata at brevet dot nu

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 7, 2003, 5:28:42 AM2/7/03
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The message <b1vu4t$6ij$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>

from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:

> > How many poles to the chain, huh?

> I never really got to grips with rod pole or perch
> Is it 12?

/| |
/ | |
/ | |
/___|_ ---_---
| (_)
| (_)

Austin Shackles

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Feb 7, 2003, 5:59:08 AM2/7/03
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On or around Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:29:31 +0000, Peter Thomas
<pe...@godthoms.demon.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

approximately. 25Xt are about 55.summat lbs.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Austin Shackles

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:01:44 AM2/7/03
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On or around Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:23:36 +0000, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
>>>I've always loved the hundredweight being so named because it's a
>>>hundred pounds, plus a dozen.
>>
>> And it's handy for modern yoof like me who can remember "hundredweight
>> = 50xvybf" and jbex it out from there.


>>
>> But we always forget that it's 112 to a hundredweight.
>

>Speak for yerself, young feller-me-lad. Some of us went to Skool; and
>those of us that did had conversion tables printed on the back of every
>rkrepvfr book.


>
>Snap test, sit up at the back:
>How many fortnights in a rod, pole or perch?

hooter all.

rods, poles etc. depend on the rod or pole wot are in hfr.

Yer marster builder had, in the old days, a pole, wot were hfrq to measure
things, but they din't all have the same pole.

having said that, I suspect someone fgnaqneqvfrq the poles at some point.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"
John Donne (1571? - 1631) Devotions, XVII

Austin Shackles

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:03:12 AM2/7/03
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On or around Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:19:15 +0000, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>Silverback wrote:
>
>> I've always loved the hundredweight being so named because it's a
>hundred pounds, plus a dozen.
>

>Wot's more, it's divisible by civilised numbers.
>If it won't divide by three, I can't be doing with it.

snot, thobut, is it?

Silverback

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:03:00 AM2/7/03
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Rusty Hinge wrote:
> The message <b1vu4t$6ij$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>
> from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:
>
>>> How many poles to the chain, huh?
>
>> I never really got to grips with rod pole or perch
>> Is it 12?
>
> /| |
> / | |
> / | |
> /___|_ ---_---
> | (_)
> | (_)

Aye, I used it as an opportunity to demo the units command to the local
linux dweeb, as he'd never heard of it and had to install it.
I dunno what units is using as its base unit for length, but it claimed
4.000something poles to the chain, so I asked it for poles to feet and it
got 16.4997.
I could never remember what it was in feet because 16anarf is such an
unusual number, but 1/4 chain, fine, I'll be able to remember that.


Austin Shackles

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:07:14 AM2/7/03
to
On or around Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:19:15 +0000, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>Silverback wrote:
>
>> I've always loved the hundredweight being so named because it's a
>hundred pounds, plus a dozen.
>
>Wot's more, it's divisible by civilised numbers.
>If it won't divide by three, I can't be doing with it.

120 would've been betterer.

divides sensibly by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,20,24,30,40,60

Austin Shackles

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:08:41 AM2/7/03
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On or around Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:32:56 +0000, Dewey
<peterd...@ntlworld.com> enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:18:25 -0000, "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk>
>wrote:


>
>>Thomas Rushton wrote:
>>> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
>>>

>>> 16 oz to the lb. 14 lb to the stone. 8 stone (or 108 lb) to the
>>

>>112


>>otherwise how would there be 2240lbs to the ton, eh?
>>
>>
>and 2205lb to the tonne.

I gooved it were 2204.

>So ton nearly = tonne

much closer to a short ton, as hfrq in the colonies.

Silverback

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:27:34 AM2/7/03
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Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:19:15 +0000, Sn!pe
> <snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> Silverback wrote:
>>
>>> I've always loved the hundredweight being so named because it's a
>> hundred pounds, plus a dozen.
>>
>> Wot's more, it's divisible by civilised numbers.
>> If it won't divide by three, I can't be doing with it.
>
> snot, thobut, is it?

you can divide it by 3, but not into equal portions...
3 lots of 37 and 1 ("got to cover my overheads") slipped into Sn!pe's back
pocket, I'll wager.


Rusty Hinge

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:44:48 AM2/7/03
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The message <0s474vsnosgfvlf5m...@4ax.com>
from Austin Shackles <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> contains these words:

> >and 2205lb to the tonne.

> I gooved it were 2204.

> >So ton nearly = tonne

> much closer to a short ton, as hfrq in the colonies.

You'm gooving of 2240 lbs to the ton innit.

Peter Thomas

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Feb 7, 2003, 8:54:28 AM2/7/03
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In article <ra474v4aqutqb76pk...@4ax.com>, Austin Shackles
<aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> writes

>On or around Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:29:31 +0000, Peter Thomas
><pe...@godthoms.demon.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>In article <7473385.z...@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>, Sn!pe
>><snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>>>Silverback wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>>>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
>>>>
>>>> Bloody kids.
>>>> 16oz = 1lb
>>>> 14lb = 1st
>>>> 2st = 1qtr
>>>> 4qtr = 1cwt
>>>> 20cwt = 1ton
>>>
>>>Wot's that in new zbarl?
>>56lb = half-hundredweight=gjragl-svir xvybf, isn't it?
>
>approximately. 25Xt are about 55.summat lbs.
>
Ish.


Sacks used to be hundredweight of half-hundredweight, but now we are
deemed unable to lift more than half-hundredweight safely.


Now seven half-hundredweights on a sack-barrow was great fun.
Manoeuvrability not great, and if dendritic salt the bottom sack could
split.
--
Peter Thomas

Silverback

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Feb 7, 2003, 9:07:48 AM2/7/03
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Peter Thomas wrote:
> Sacks used to be hundredweight of half-hundredweight, but now we are
> deemed unable to lift more than half-hundredweight safely.
>
>
> Now seven half-hundredweights on a sack-barrow was great fun.
> Manoeuvrability not great, and if dendritic salt the bottom sack could
> split.

Don't think I ever did as many as 7 on one sacktruck. Maybe we had smaller
sacktrucks.

Oiorpata

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Feb 7, 2003, 12:37:34 PM2/7/03
to
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:45:07 +0000, Sn!pe
<snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Oiorpata wrote:
>
>>>> Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.
>>>
>>> Well done that wading bird! Let me pin this rasher of streaky bacon
>>> on
>>>your breast.
>>
>> Fly away Sn!pey, don't let him pin bacon onyer, his intentions are
>> culinary!
>

>Fear not, Kran; I've got me beady on 'im, and me Beek is freshly
>sharpened. I woz a stand in for Zorro once, y'know.

Phew, thassa relief, a succulent wading brid has to be always wide
awake and on guard when surrounded by so many carnivores.

Anthony Anson

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Feb 7, 2003, 2:28:56 PM2/7/03
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Foiled! (Wiv no bacon underneath)

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Rusty Hinge

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Feb 7, 2003, 2:30:11 PM2/7/03
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The message <b20ejl$1321$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>

from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:

I unloaded a (about) 40ft flatbed trailer of its load of 1 cwt and ½
cwt sacks of flour ect wiv a yoof wot coodn't lift the ½ cwt ones
without a rest between sackses.

We had ter stack them to as high as we - I mean I - cwd get them in the
store innit. Wooden like to try it now.

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 7, 2003, 4:48:30 PM2/7/03
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The message <l0584vs26jd85qqaq...@4ax.com>
from Holly G Pence <hgp...@SpiritOne.com> contains these words:
> On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:40:25 +0000, sam ende
> <s...@sende.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >Richard Eney wrote:
> >
> >> Toot rue. Warning, rant begins:
> >>
> >> I needed a new monica since the old one was making my face feel like
> >> I'd
> >> been out in the sun too long every time I hfrq it.
> >
> >'wots a monica ?' i asked himself just now
> >'it's a name' he sed.
> >"it can't be, it don't meke sense'
> >'tis' he sed
> >'yebbut, he sed he needs a new monica'
> >'its shedi speak for moniker'
> >'yebbut i'm sure he's not saying he needs a new name cos the old ones
> >meking his face feel like he's bin out in the sun too long, or ?'

> My monitor is displaying a very large lizard.

My monitor has just come round with ickle bockles of milk innit.

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:17 PM2/7/03
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snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk said...

> Silverback wrote:
>
> > Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> >> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
> >
> > Bloody kids.
> > 16oz = 1lb
> > 14lb = 1st
> > 2st = 1qtr
> > 4qtr = 1cwt
> > 20cwt = 1ton
>
> Wot's that in new zbarl?
>
Gawd nose. Does it matter?
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Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:21 PM2/7/03
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tqt.h...@sheddiknights.org said...

> > The weights cam with a Napothecaries balance (no, not balanitis) wot I had
> > but have since lost.
>
> I have a balun.

Wrasse?
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Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:24 PM2/7/03
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guy....@zetnet.co.uk said...
> The message <b1tgul$2rmf$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>

> from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:
>
> > 2st = 1qtr
>
> Nonsense. 4oz = 1qtr. No one in their right mind would go into the sweet
> shop and ask for 2 stone of liquorice imps.

Wot, the Imps wot came in lickle placcy boxes? Didn't know
they ever came loose; only ever came across them in their
ickle placcy boxen.
--
Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:22 PM2/7/03
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snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk said...
> Silverback wrote:

>
> > Sn!pe wrote:
> >> Silverback wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> >>>> Assuming there are 14lb in a stone. Or is it 16? Hooter.
> >>>
> >>> Bloody kids.
> >>> 16oz = 1lb
> >>> 14lb = 1st
> >>> 2st = 1qtr
> >>> 4qtr = 1cwt
> >>> 20cwt = 1ton
> >>
> >> Wot's that in new zbarl?
> >
> > Who cares?
>
> Troo. I never *could* get to grips with zbarl that
> doesn't divide by civilised numbers.
>
I just never mannidged to get to grips with numbers. Full
stop.
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Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:25 PM2/7/03
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tqt.h...@sheddiknights.org said...
> The message <200302061...@zetnet.co.uk>
> from Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:

> > The message <b1tgul$2rmf$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>
> > from "Silverback" <dDOT...@man.ac.uk> contains these words:
>
> > > 2st = 1qtr
>
> > Nonsense. 4oz = 1qtr. No one in their right mind would go into the sweet
> > shop and ask for 2 stone of liquorice imps.
>
> Troo, but no-one in their right mind would ask for liquorice imps - er
> - period.

Dinner fret, I'll have your'n.

> but 2 stone of Annie Seedballs are a diffrunt matter.

I'll share mine with you to make up for the loss of the
Imps.
--
Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:26 PM2/7/03
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snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk said...

> Oiorpata wrote:
>
> >>> Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.
> >>
> >> Well done that wading bird! Let me pin this rasher of streaky bacon
> >> on
> >>your breast.
> >
> > Fly away Sn!pey, don't let him pin bacon onyer, his intentions are
> > culinary!
>
> Fear not, Kran; I've got me beady on 'im, and me Beek is freshly
> sharpened. I woz a stand in for Zorro once, y'know.

My bro in law anniz wife once had an alsation called Zorro.
--
Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:27 PM2/7/03
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g8...@g8bur.demon.co.uk said...
> In article <13939960....@nntp.snipeco.fsnet.co.uk>, Sn!pe
> <snip...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes

> >Personally, I eschew metricity and the knoelidge thereof.
>
> MTAAW, absolootely as far as is possibule these fortnights. Metricity
> are for hfr in ynobengbevrf and simla plaices, not for ohling a joint of
> beef, some King Teds and a cabbij, innit.

Quite so. I hfrd SI units at fpubby, but since then I've
had babies born in pounds, shillings and ounces and I've
driven so many miles down the motorway. All of which is
totally irrelevant to just about everything... Tell you what
though - all this drive to metricate us... can anysheddi
eggs plain how it is that though us has to ohl fuel by the
litre the performance of a vehicle is rated in terms of
miles per gallon?
--
Fran

Sena

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Feb 7, 2003, 7:42:29 PM2/7/03
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ni...@leverton.org said...
> In article <b1uko9$1un$1...@warren.leverton.org>,

> sam ende <s...@sende.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >Richard Eney wrote:
> >
> >> I needed a new monica since the old one was making my face feel like
> >
> >'wots a monica ?' i asked himself just now
> >'it's a name' he sed.
> >"it can't be, it don't meke sense'
> >'tis' he sed
> >'yebbut, he sed he needs a new monica'
> >'its shedi speak for moniker'
> >'yebbut i'm sure he's not saying he needs a new name cos the old ones
> >meking his face feel like he's bin out in the sun too long, or ?'
>
> And neither alcohol nor nutmeg had yet passed my lips.

And he is a she, just to confuzzlicate you further. Richard
is HW...; our sheddi is Tamar, who is SWMBO.

--
Fran

Rusty Hinge

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Feb 7, 2003, 8:29:59 PM2/7/03
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from Sena <sh...@ynys.fslife.co.uk> contains these words:

Wot, do that mean I gets 3 stone then?

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

<rattle>

Rusty Hinge

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from Sena <sh...@ynys.fslife.co.uk> contains these words:

> My bro in law anniz wife once had an alsation called Zorro.

Wassan alsation?

Rusty Hinge

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from Sena <sh...@ynys.fslife.co.uk> contains these words:

> Wrasse?

balance/unbalance - porperly ewesed to connect balanced feedses to
unbalanced, typically in ærial connections to co-axial Kabul, but herein
ewesed to mean

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Rusty Hinge

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from Sena <sh...@ynys.fslife.co.uk> contains these words:

> can anysheddi

> eggs plain how it is that though us has to ohl fuel by the
> litre the performance of a vehicle is rated in terms of
> miles per gallon?

So youse doesn't jbex out how much you're spending per mile wivout a
struggle.

Andy Spragg

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^ The message <l0584vs26jd85qqaq...@4ax.com>
^ from Holly G Pence <hgp...@SpiritOne.com> contains these words:

^ > On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:40:25 +0000, sam ende
^ > <s...@sende.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

^ > >'wots a monica ?' i asked himself just now
^ > >'it's a name' he sed.
^ > >"it can't be, it don't meke sense'
^ > >'tis' he sed
^ > >'yebbut, he sed he needs a new monica'
^ > >'its shedi speak for moniker'
^ > >'yebbut i'm sure he's not saying he needs a new name cos the old ones
^ > >meking his face feel like he's bin out in the sun too long, or ?'
^
^ > My monitor is displaying a very large lizard.
^
^ My monitor has just come round with ickle bockles of milk innit.

My monitor is stomping around the maze at Knossos.

Andy

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We must be fearless
We must have fearlessness
We must not be fearlessnessless
We must not have fearlessnesslessness
We must be fearlessnesslessnessless

Richard Eney

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In article <3e44494e...@news.global.net.uk>,

Andy Spragg <spa...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>Rusty Hinge <tqt.h...@sheddiknights.org> pushed briefly
>^ Holly G Pence <hgp...@SpiritOne.com> contains these words:
<snip>

>^ > My monitor is displaying a very large lizard.
>^
>^ My monitor has just come round with ickle bockles of milk innit.
>
>My monitor is stomping around the maze at Knossos.

My arj monitor has a pencil sharpener on top of it, shaped like an
old manual typewriter. Like a sword of Damocles, y'see, pour encourager
les autres or summat.

=Tamar

Frank Erskine

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They useter come in ickle tins innit.

Yoofer today...

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Frank Erskine
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