19 February - birthday information

[Roger Burton West]

The hills are alive with the sound of ... music.... erm...
Well, the sound of woodlice singing Happy Birthday, anyhow.
Yes, it's the 19th of February, and that's Kimmi the Scullery Maid's
birthday.
Where did I put the woodlice-snuffers?
Happy birthday, Kimmi the Scullery Maid.

Firedrake R
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[Melo...@icebaymals.co.uk]

Happy happy day, Kimi's Birthday woohooo

Hope you have a great day

Melody

[Paul Bines]

Many Happies Kimmi! Please accept this bottle of "Mrs. Twitchlow's
Reknowned and Catagorical Elixir Vitae and Lead Blacking" the ONLY PROVEN[1]
antidote to Housemaid's Knee, Scullerymaid's Elbow, Butler's Wrist,
Gardener's Twinging Screws and many other ailments of the below-stairs
Person.
Au Res.,
Paul

[1] Not actually proven, but Mrs Twitchlow has found it most efficacious in
making her forget the aches and pains of daily servitude, also where she
lives, works and, in fact, almost everything about her life except the more
sordid details of the Late Mr Twitchlow and how he becamse Late. Look for
her somewhat illegible mark on every bottle. May contain trace quantities
of a rari tropical opiate known only to Certain Lost Amazonian Tribes who
have good reason for being Lost (and Certain) in the first place. Only for
use by trained operatives - use of heavy machinery is not recommended, but
if you're in Service, you do what The Master tells you anyway and hope the
thing passed all the neccessary health and safety checks. Ignore the Skull
and Crossbones somewhat luridly printed on the back - there was a printing
error at the bottlers and we were not going to get the whole lot reprinted
at the last minute, despite what Young Nigel in PR suggested.

[Rafe Culpin]

In article <3c6dnX-4tILy6b7M...@bt.com>, p.a....@btinternet.com
(Paul Bines) wrote:

> the ONLY PROVEN[1] antidote to ...

> Gardener's Twinging Screws

The best treatment for the Twinging Screws is to mash up some humgrummits with a
floggle-toggle and apply as an ointment.

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To reply email rafe, at the address cix co uk

[anon...@firedrake.org]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:19 +0000 (Eur)
nos...@see.sig.to.reply (Rafe Culpin) wrote:

> In article <3c6dnX-4tILy6b7M...@bt.com>,
> p.a....@btinternet.com (Paul Bines) wrote:
>
> > the ONLY PROVEN[1] antidote to ...
>
> > Gardener's Twinging Screws
>
> The best treatment for the Twinging Screws is to mash up some
> humgrummits with a floggle-toggle and apply as an ointment.
>

Good gad1 I haven't been able to get hold of a floggle-toggle for
years! Do you have a source for them?

Beetle

[Harry Payne]

On 20/02/2013 13:33, anon...@firedrake.org wrote:

> Good gad1 I haven't been able to get hold of a floggle-toggle for
> years! Do you have a source for them?
>

Never mind the floggle-toggle: are the humgrummits cork-tipped?
--
The Miller

[ppint. at pplay]

- hi; in article, <20130220133317....@firedrake.org>,
beetlea...@firedrake.org expostulated:

> nos...@see.sig.to.reply (Rafe Culpin) wrote:
>> p.a....@btinternet.com (Paul Bines) wrote:
>>>the ONLY PROVEN[1] antidote to ... Gardener's Twinging Screws
>>
>>The best treatment for the Twinging Screws is to mash up some
>>humgrummits with a floggle-toggle and apply as an ointment.
>
>Good gad1 I haven't been able to get hold of a floggle-toggle for
>years! Do you have a source for them?

- in brass, iron/mild steel or unbelievable sharpness [a] ?

- love, ppint.

[a] - this is an approximate translation made along "if only
it were english" principles; i'm not completely certain
they _were_ floggle-toggles; but they were very shiny...</wist>

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