water pipe
use...@hotmail.com
my kitchen sink pipe broke! i want to write a letter to my landlord
but i do not know what is the name of the broken pipe. you know the
sink, after the sink there is a pipe that takes the waste water
to .... somewhere? that pipe is broken, the link or the contact to the
sink is broken so the pipe is like flying alone and not contacting the
sink.
could you please help me to describe that better. thanks.
rtn...@yahoo.com
the drain pipe
mm
When you write your landlord, try to punctuate and capitalize
properly. And either indent or skip lines as one is supposed to.
For several reasons incluging that you'll likely get better service
that way
If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
tony cooper
It's a drain pipe, and it's probably the j-pipe (which has a "j" or
"u" shaped bend) that has come disconnected. Just tell your landlord
that the pipe under your kitchen sink is disconnected. That's enough
information for him.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Purl Gurl
(snipped)
> my kitchen sink pipe broke! i want to write a letter to my landlord
> but i do not know what is the name of the broken pipe. you know the
> sink, after the sink there is a pipe that takes the waste water
Here is a novel idea.
Quit your complaining and fix the damn pipe yourself.
--
Purl Gurl
--
So many are stumped by what slips right off the top of my mind
like a man's bad fitting hairpiece.
Raymond O'Hara
"Purl Gurl" <purl...@purlgurl.net> wrote in message
news:obCdnZGxSZVU3RjV...@giganews.com...
The angry tennant letter request has become so common that I believe its a
standard ESL lesson.
By answering these questions you are doing his homework for him.
Purl Gurl
> Purl Gurl wrote:
>> userme wrote:
(prior snips)
>>> my kitchen sink pipe broke! i want to write a letter to my landlord
>>> but i do not know what is the name of the broken pipe. you know the
>>> sink, after the sink there is a pipe that takes the waste water
>> Here is a novel idea.
>> Quit your complaining and fix the damn pipe yourself.
> The angry tennant letter request has become so common that I believe its a
> standard ESL lesson.
> By answering these questions you are doing his homework for him.
In this case, quit your begging and do your damn homework yourself,
and fix that damn drainpipe while you are at it.
One of my pet peeves is helpless people; they annoy me.
R H Draney
>
>
>"Purl Gurl" <purl...@purlgurl.net> wrote in message
>news:obCdnZGxSZVU3RjV...@giganews.com...
>> userme wrote:
>>
>>> my kitchen sink pipe broke! i want to write a letter to my landlord
>>> but i do not know what is the name of the broken pipe. you know the
>>> sink, after the sink there is a pipe that takes the waste water
>>
>> Here is a novel idea.
>>
>> Quit your complaining and fix the damn pipe yourself.
>
>standard ESL lesson.
>By answering these questions you are doing his homework for him.
The letter should begin as follows:
"Dis is your tenant Cohen. Last night de vind came outside mein house, and I
vant you should send a carPENter to mend de damaged shutter."
....r
--
Evelyn Wood just looks at the pictures.
Steve Hayes
Drainpipe.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
The UnInmate
>
> One of my pet peeves is helpless people; they annoy me.
Is that because your ancestors used to abandon the weak, sick, and helpless
for the coyotes to eat? How about babies of the wrong sex?
the Omrud
obAUE: that is only "U-bend" in BrE. I had never heard of a j-pipe.
--
David
SW France
The UnInmate
"the Omrud" <usenet...@gEXPUNGEmail.com> wrote in message
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I've heard of something called a "U joint." Is that the same thing as a U
bend? (And, please, no marijuana jokes.)
the Omrud
I'm not familar with U-joint. AFAIK the trap under the sink can only be
called a U-bend in BrE.
--
David, in SW France
pete142
> "the Omrud" <usenet.om...@gEXPUNGEmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:g64k8p$anu$1...@registered.motzarella.org...
> I've heard of something called a "U joint." Is that the same thing as a U
> bend? (And, please, no marijuana jokes.)
A "U-joint" is a bar/pub whose patrons are mainly university students.
A "You!" (joint) is the response of two or more people to a third who
has asked "Well, who /is/ at fault, then?"
A "U joint" is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_joint
-- p
tony cooper
In the US, it would be a "j-pipe" if you had to specify the specific
pipe. Normally we would buy the drainpipe components separately.
There's a straight pipe from the sink drain to the j-pipe, a j-pipe, a
curved section that connects the "j" and the next pipe, and a straight
pipe to the rest of the system. If we have to replace a section, it's
usually the j-pipe.
I described it as a pipe with a "j" or "u" shaped bend; not as a
"u-pipe" or "u-bend". The "u" describes the shape of the final
assembly, but is not used to describe the pipe. The "j" description
is because the actual pipe is longer at the top of the bend than it is
at the other end.
The illustration at
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uologos/ubend_shaded.png shows two pipe
components, not one. The j-pipe component is the section on the left.
They can be purchased separately. The seals deteriorate over time and
water leaks or the pipes disconnect because the seals don't grip.
Wood Avens
<haye...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:29:05 -0700 (PDT), use...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>hi
>>my kitchen sink pipe broke! i want to write a letter to my landlord
>>but i do not know what is the name of the broken pipe. you know the
>>sink, after the sink there is a pipe that takes the waste water
>>to .... somewhere? that pipe is broken, the link or the contact to the
>>sink is broken so the pipe is like flying alone and not contacting the
>>sink.
>>could you please help me to describe that better. thanks.
>
>Drainpipe.
In BrE, a drainpipe comes down from the roof and conducts rainwater
into a gully or a soakaway. At least, that's what I'd think of if I
were a (Brit) landlord and a tenant called to say the drainpipe was
broken.
--
Katy Jennison
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @
Raymond O'Hara
"The UnInmate" <relap...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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Amerindians saw the disabled and deformed as touched by the Great Spirit .
They were well cared for and not left to coyotes.
Glenn Knickerbocker
> The angry tennant letter request has become so common that I believe its a
> standard ESL lesson.
Hmmm, I didn't think an angry Tennant was all that common in comparison
with some earlier Doctors, and I thought nobody had to learn ESL around
him anyway because of the automatic translation the Tardis did.
ŹR
Skitt
Isn't it "tenant" on both shores?
--
Skitt (AmE)
Tom P
Paul Wolff
Yes, there is a subtile difference between a drainpipe and a drain pipe.
In BrPlumbE that pipe under the sink is a waste pipe rather than a drain
pipe. A drain and its pipes are, by and large, on the outside of a
dwelling.
--
Paul
Paul Wolff
water closets, toilet bowls, or whatever they are properly called.
There is the S-trap, and there is the P-trap. But if the reader thinks
there is any question of fitness for purpose, he is probably wrong. The
S-trap is just aimed at a vertical fall, while the P-trap is aimed at a
more horizontal or laid-back destiny. But, come to think of it, from a
man's point of view...
--
Paul
tony cooper
wrote:
Like me, you probably don't watch the "Dr Who" series. However, my
perception to "Dr Who" references has been tweaked up by reading aue.
David Tennant is an actor in that series. The "Tardis" is some sort
of device in that show.
Skitt
> "Skitt" wrote:
>> Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
>>> Raymond O'Hara wrote:
>>>> The angry tennant letter request has become so common that I
>>>> believe its a standard ESL lesson.
>>>
>>> Hmmm, I didn't think an angry Tennant was all that common in
>>> comparison with some earlier Doctors, and I thought nobody had to
>>> learn ESL around him anyway because of the automatic translation the
>>> Tardis did.
>>
>> Isn't it "tenant" on both shores?
>
> Like me, you probably don't watch the "Dr Who" series. However, my
> perception to "Dr Who" references has been tweaked up by reading aue.
> David Tennant is an actor in that series. The "Tardis" is some sort
> of device in that show.
Ah, thanks. I am totally ignorant of the Dr Who series.
--
Skitt (AmE)
Dr. who?
R H Draney
>
>In BrPlumbE that pipe under the sink is a waste pipe rather than a drain
>pipe. A drain and its pipes are, by and large, on the outside of a
>dwelling.
Now you've been and gone and done it...I've come this far in the thread with
only the most fleeting thoughts of the Bonzo Dog Band, and suddenly I've got a
raging case of STS....r
Raymond O'Hara
"Glenn Knickerbocker" <No...@bestweb.net> wrote in message
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Opps an extra n.
I was just getting used to that doctor when he left.
Raymond O'Hara
"Skitt" <ski...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Thats sad.
Dr Who was a standard on the Boston PBS station WGBH.
Now its on the sci-fi channel.
It is well worth watching if you like cheesy pulp sci-fi if you're not then
skip it..
Raymond O'Hara
"tony cooper" <tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:j4qc84lgsl0kr0ol7...@4ax.com...
>> Like me, you probably don't watch the "Dr Who" series. However, my
> perception to "Dr Who" references has been tweaked up by reading aue.
> David Tennant is an actor in that series. The "Tardis" is some sort
> of device in that show.
>
>
> --
> Tony Cooper - Orlando,
the TARDIS is his spaceship/time machine and its an acronym for 'Time And
Reletive Dimensions In Space'.
It is the coolest ship in sci-fi.
Dr Who sets the bar low for cheesiness, but it is a lot of fun..
tony cooper
Tha's what I said: device. Delayed Entry Vectoring Into Cheesy
Entertainment. I set mine for when the show is over.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Purl Gurl
> The UnInmate wrote:
>> Purl Gurl wrote:
>>>One of my pet peeves is helpless people; they annoy me.
>> Is that because your ancestors used to abandon the weak, sick, and
>> helpless for the coyotes to eat? How about babies of the wrong sex?
> Amerindians saw the disabled and deformed as touched by the Great Spirit .
> They were well cared for and not left to coyotes.
This is true, Raymond. However, babies of the wrong sex,
we make pot roast of them every Sunday evening supper.
Girl babies taste the best, especially with sweet potatoes.
Part of this myth is based on a traditional behavior
within some tribes, not all tribes. This tradition
is never practiced today.
Old tradition has it an elder or a severely disabled
person through accident or war, such as been torn
apart by a bear, these people, typically elders, when
they can no longer contribute to the welfare of a tribe,
they will _choose_ to die rather than cause a tribe
to suffer hardship by caring for them. This is a choice,
none are forced to leave nor abandoned.
For almost all cases, an elder simply says his good-byes,
then walks off on a journey to death. Many of our peoples
literally pick the time and place of their deaths.
This is done for the good of a tribe. We are saddened,
we express sorrow, but know this is the right way to
help ensure survival of the tribe, rather than individual.
Returning to pot roast babies, when a child is orphaned
in a tribe, this child is always adopted by tribal
members, typically a married couple. No Indian child
remains an orphan in our traditional culture.
Raymond, you are most correct about being touched by
spirits, not just the Great Spirit, but many different
spirits depending on intended outcome.
Not long back, I am proud to report, I made dishonorable
mention within the Barack Obama campaign website, along
with some discussion of me, and not really pleasant words.
I have discovered some, perhaps many of Black America do
not well cope with blunt truth.
I am not allowed to participate at the Barack Obama website.
This masturbates my massively bloated ego.
An issue came about. This is an issue of psychotic homophobia
within Black America. To be black and gay is almost a death
sentence, in some cases, a literal death sentence.
This issue led to my adamant defense of gay people. I cited
our American Indian tradition of treating gay people as those
honored by spirits. We refer to gay as "Twin Spirits" in both
language and thought. Same sex coupling (Anglo marriage) is
well accepted in our traditional culture. Bisexual people are
also well accepted. Our belief system is gay people, which
includes bisexual, are not only touched by spirits, they
are spirits inside a human body, two spirits to be exact.
Our Twin Spirits are often healers, shamans and leaders.
People touched by a spirit or spirits is very common.
This is endearing and somewhat comical.
During my childhood there is a boy who is severely mentally
retarded. Actually, an older man with boy like behavior.
He is Moss Joiner. Our Moss is the most loved boy around
our rural farming community. Moss is warm, friendly, happy,
always laughing, and also making people smile and laugh.
Moss is an absolute delight, a warm ray of sunshine on
a cold Winter's day. Moss would make "twiddle sticks"
for people. This is nothing more than a twig run through
a tree leaf or piece of paper. You hold each end of this
twig with your fingers then spin it to delight in watching
the leaf or paper spin round and round. Such a simple toy
but what delight this toy gives. In our modern world, given
a chance, Moss would probably be a toy maker.
Literally each time you see Moss, he is walking along spinning
a twiddle stick and laughing like crazy.
My Choctaw elders taught me Moss is touched by the spirits
and Moss is to be revered, to be honored. My elders tell
me the purpose of Moss is to give joy to all he encounters.
He did. Moss made us laugh and always gave us a toy to keep.
My Anglos elders taught me something different, rather comical.
"Moss is like that cuz his daddy was drunk when he got his
momma pregnant." This was the extent of Anglo philosophy.
This did have an effect; most of us girls were very careful
to not have sex with a drunk boy. We girls could be drunk
but not the boys.
Are we to judge which is the better philosophy? I think so.
As you write, Raymond, American Indians honor those who are
disabled, somehow affected, different than most. Traditional
Indians display great tolerance and compassion from an Anglo
point of view. Within our culture, we believe these people
to be touched by spirits and are to be honored. This is not
tolerance our on part, this is respect for others, all others.
"Two Old Women" by Velma Wallis is a story you might enjoy.
This story, Raymond, at first glance appears tragic and harsh.
Two old women are abandoned and left behind by their tribe up
in the Yukon. Winter is severe, food is short, those two old
women are a liability. Much of this is the two women spend
their time "complaining not contributing." Both believe they
are infirm, disabled and must be taken care of by their
tribe. They discover their tribe believes differently.
Not to spoil, the final outcome is not at all expected.
Amongst the most difficult of cultural behaviors displayed
by my peoples for Anglos to understand, is how we are so
damn pragmatic about everything, including life itself.
R H Draney
>
>the TARDIS is his spaceship/time machine and its an acronym for 'Time And
>Reletive Dimensions In Space'.
It was enough of a cultural icon a few years after I left college that when
"Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" came out, we called their telephone
booth/time machine the "retardis", and everyone on the BBSes of the day
instantly got the reference....
(It may be helpful to those unfamiliar with B&T to note that one advertising
catchphrase for the film was "History is about to be rewritten by two guys who
can't spell")....r
tony cooper
wrote:
Is that reletive to this thread?
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
The UnInmate
Then do helpless people bother you because they don't have the decency to
"choose" to make that final journey into death, "for the good of the tribe?"
I'm just coming back to what started this discussion.
Steve Hayes
wrote:
That too, though I sometimes call it a downpipe.
Glenn Knickerbocker
>Tha's what I said: device. Delayed Entry Vectoring Into Cheesy
>Entertainment. I set mine for when the show is over.
Really? I wouldn't have taken you for a "Stargate Atlantis" fan.
ŹR "People late for work only deal with the essentials, cutting away
uneccesary tasks like Occam's Razor with no time to shave." --oTTo--Bahn
Purl Gurl
> Purl Gurl wrote:
>> Raymond O'Hara wrote:
>>> The UnInmate wrote:
>>>> Purl Gurl wrote:
(snipped my usual rant)
>>>>> One of my pet peeves is helpless people; they annoy me.
>>>> Is that because your ancestors used to abandon the weak, sick, and
>>>> helpless for the coyotes to eat? How about babies of the wrong sex?
>>> Amerindians saw the disabled and deformed as touched by the Great Spirit
>>> They were well cared for and not left to coyotes.
>> This is true, Raymond. However, babies of the wrong sex,
>> we make pot roast of them every Sunday evening supper.
>> Girl babies taste the best, especially with sweet potatoes.
>> Part of this myth is based on a traditional behavior....
> Then do helpless people bother you because they don't have the decency to
> "choose" to make that final journey into death, "for the good of the tribe?"
> I'm just coming back to what started this discussion.
I use "helpless" in the sense of those who refuse
to help themselves. Welfare mommas, white trash,
street gangs, rednecks and, yes, drunk Indians.
Most annoying of all are panhandlers who sit by
roadside holding a sign, "I need help. Give me money."
You look at them, and discover they are able bodied.
They can work a shovel, they can harvest crops, they
can pick cotton, they can perform many types of work,
just as my husband and I did many years back to escape
from poverty. There was no job we would not take to
earn money, to better our family and our lives.
We never begged for money.
I am seriously considering slipping on a pretty dress,
nice shoes, attractive jewelry, fixing up my hair,
then standing roadside holding a sign,
I Have A Job
I Have Money
I Have A Home
Don't Need Anything
You Have A Good Life
I will not do this to mock panhandlers. I will
not do this to make a statement. I will do this
simply to make headlines on section B of our
local newspaper. I love masturbating my ego.
A story, as short as possible.
We are approached by a typical idiot panhandler
at a gas station. He says his tire is flat, not
enough money to fix it. I tell my husband to be
still then climb around in our truck cab. Behind
our seat, I pull out a can of "flat fix" stuff,
an aerosol can which fixes flat tires. Been back
there for years, we will never use this.
"Here you go, this will fix your flat tire."
This panhandler is baffled then looks at me
like I am moron. So, I add, "Are you going
to fix your flat tire or not?"
My peoples do not abandon our truly helpless,
sadly helpless, nor do we eat our babies.
However, we are known to scalp white boys
who annoy us.
The UnInmate
> The UnInmate wrote:
>
>> Purl Gurl wrote:
>>> Raymond O'Hara wrote:
>>>> The UnInmate wrote:
>>>>> Purl Gurl wrote:
>
> (snipped my usual rant)
>
>>>>>> One of my pet peeves is helpless people; they annoy me.
>
>>>>> Is that because your ancestors used to abandon the weak, sick, and
>>>>> helpless for the coyotes to eat? How about babies of the wrong sex?
>
>>>> Amerindians saw the disabled and deformed as touched by the Great
>>>> Spirit They were well cared for and not left to coyotes.
>
>>> This is true, Raymond. However, babies of the wrong sex,
>>> we make pot roast of them every Sunday evening supper.
>>> Girl babies taste the best, especially with sweet potatoes.
>
>>> Part of this myth is based on a traditional behavior....
>
>> Then do helpless people bother you because they don't have the decency to
>> "choose" to make that final journey into death, "for the good of the
>> tribe?" I'm just coming back to what started this discussion.
>
>
> I use "helpless" in the sense of those who refuse
> to help themselves.
That's not how any dictionary I've ever heard of defines "helpless." It's
also not the way any person I've spoken to defines it. Also, your definition
is nonsense, because I doubt that anyone on earth has ever "refused" to help
himself when he's been able to. Finally, I consider the notion of anyone
"refusing" to help himself to be neo-Reaganite self-congratulatory nonsense
that basically means "I made it in the world, fuck anyone who didn't." So I
just kinda lost all interest in talking to you.
Purl Gurl
> Purl Gurl wrote:
>> The UnInmate wrote:
>>> Purl Gurl wrote:
>>>> Raymond O'Hara wrote:
>>>>> The UnInmate wrote:
>>>>>> Purl Gurl wrote:
(snipped)
>>>>>>> One of my pet peeves is helpless people; they annoy me.
>> I use "helpless" in the sense of those who refuse
>> to help themselves.
> That's not how any dictionary I've ever heard of defines "helpless."
Yeah, so what?
> that basically means "I made it in the world, fuck anyone who didn't."
Yeah, this is about right, except I would not fuck them;
this reward has to be earned.
> So I just kinda lost all interest in talking to you.
So I will not fuck you. No Tickie, No Washie!
Chuck Riggs
wrote:
<grandiose, overly long twaddle, snipped>
>However, we are known to scalp white boys
>who annoy us.
For some reason, you seem proud when alluding to a brutal practice by
a handful of early colonizers, some of them military, of North
America, apparently used to keep track of the corpses of Indians
killed in battle. If the practice was adopted by the Indian, it was
not as prevalent as Hollywood would lead us to believe.
--
Regards,
Chuck Riggs
Near Dublin, Ireland
Chuck Riggs
Assuming that is a play on "relative" and "relevant", I missed your
joke, Coop.
R H Draney
>
>On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:26:51 -0400, tony cooper
><tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>On 22 Jul 2008 21:05:54 -0700, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>catchphrase for the film was "History is about to be rewritten by two guys who
>>>can't spell")....r
>>
>>Is that reletive to this thread?
>
>Assuming that is a play on "relative" and "relevant", I missed your
>joke, Coop.
I think it's also a play on "guys who can't spell"....r
Purl Gurl
> Purl Gurl wrote:
> <grandiose, overly long twaddle, snipped>
>> However, we are known to scalp white boys
>> who annoy us.
> For some reason, you seem proud when alluding to a brutal practice by
> a handful of early colonizers, some of them military, of North
> America, apparently used to keep track of the corpses of Indians
> killed in battle. If the practice was adopted by the Indian, it was
> not as prevalent as Hollywood would lead us to believe.
This practice of scalping was first introduced to my peoples
by the French. However, we did not adopt their long practice
of quickly waving a white French flag of surrender.
Scalping was initiated by the English and the Spanish.
The French, being well known culinary artists, took
this fine art to an extreme, with such handsome rewards
offered by the British for Indian scalps.
The British also introduced mutilation of bodies of dead
Indians, for whatever value this serves. I suppose the
British wanted to make sure Indians stay dead with their
such extreme fear of us. My peoples response was to do the
same in turn; turnabout, fair play.
Europeans introduced the most horrific and savage of behaviors
to my peoples, yet labeled us savages.
The British, the Spanish, the French, some Dutch, others of
Europe scalped dead Indians. We upped the ante and took to
scalping white boys while alive. Typically we would scalp
a white boy but leave him alive to show some decency. We
also know amongst the worst of fears of white boys is to
suddenly become bald.
We Indians do not become bald; we have sense enough to allow
our hair to grow long and thick, rather than insult our hair
by haircuts. Insulted hair refuses to grow.
Interesting this relationship between white boys becoming bald
and pot bellies, gold neck chains and convertible Corvettes.
The British did effect a countermeasure to prevent their becoming
midlife crisis bald men. Those British took to wearing these
really stupid looking white curly wigs. We Indians are very
hesitant to kill women and children, contrasting Europeans
who delight in killing defenseless women and children.
Those silly wigs fooled my peoples into thinking a lot of
European women are old, fat, masculine acting women with
white curly hair and rather odd dress. We figured this out
to be a disguise. However, still more confusion. My ancestors
would come riding into a British fort, grab the hair of one
of those sissy British men, damn, their hair came right off
and more hair underneath! Kind of a Cat In The Hat thing.
Boy howdy, did this cause the British to flip their wigs.
So much so, the British took to hanging Indians who took
white boy scalps and took to giving gold coins to white
boys who took Indian scalps.
Despite all this hypocrisy, cowardice and savagery amongst
the British, we liked them somewhat; they did not instantly
wave a white French flag of surrender upon seeing their shadows.
The British were good sports about being scalped alive.
Last laugh is ours, though; there are no bald Indians
and the British still wear those comical wigs.
Chuck, do you wear a wig?
Skitt
I dislike sci-fi and don't watch it.
--
Skitt (AmE)
Stayin' real
the Omrud
Quite.
David Tennant grew up as David Maclean, or something similar. He had to
change his name for professional reasons, and chose Tennant because he
liked the Pet Shop Boys. I will leave the connection as an exercise for
the reader.
--
David, in SW France
the Omrud
> Paul Wolff filted:
>> In BrPlumbE that pipe under the sink is a waste pipe rather than a drain
>> pipe. A drain and its pipes are, by and large, on the outside of a
>> dwelling.
>
> Now you've been and gone and done it...I've come this far in the thread with
> only the most fleeting thoughts of the Bonzo Dog Band, and suddenly I've got a
> raging case of STS....r
... which you've inflicted on the rest of us.
No matter - I am sitting on my terrace in Languedoc Rousillion, looking
at the evening sun on the Mediterranean. All is well with the world.
And the French don't go in for gutters, so they have little need for
drainpipes of any colour.
Heranonymous Boss
wrote:
>The UnInmate wrote:
[...]
>> that basically means "I made it in the world, fuck anyone who didn't."
>
>Yeah, this is about right, except I would not fuck them;
>this reward has to be earned.
That remark brings to mind one of my favorite bits of TV dialog.
An apparent prostitute is relaxing against the wall in the corridor of
a courthouse. A man asks her something like if she can tell him how
to get to a certain courtroom.
She: "For five dollars."
He: "Kiss my ass!"
She: "That would be ten dollars."
tony cooper
wrote:
Re-read the post, Charles. It's still on the screen.
tony cooper
<usenet...@gEXPUNGEmail.com> wrote:
>
>And the French don't go in for gutters, so they have little need for
>drainpipes of any colour.
So the French felt that pants with narrow legs were not fashionable?
Paul Wolff
>R H Draney wrote:
>> Paul Wolff filted:
>>> In BrPlumbE that pipe under the sink is a waste pipe rather than a
>>>drain pipe. A drain and its pipes are, by and large, on the outside
>> Now you've been and gone and done it...I've come this far in the
>>thread with
>> only the most fleeting thoughts of the Bonzo Dog Band, and suddenly
>>I've got a
>> raging case of STS....r
>
>... which you've inflicted on the rest of us.
>
>No matter - I am sitting on my terrace in Languedoc Rousillion,
>looking at the evening sun on the Mediterranean. All is well with the
>world.
Glad to hear you're in the pink (which, ObAUE, I understand to be a
floral reference).
>
>And the French don't go in for gutters, so they have little need for
>drainpipes of any colour.
Paint it black.
--
Paul
Roland Hutchinson
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Steve Hayes
wrote:
>Like me, you probably don't watch the "Dr Who" series. However, my
>perception to "Dr Who" references has been tweaked up by reading aue.
>David Tennant is an actor in that series. The "Tardis" is some sort
>of device in that show.
When I saw it, in the 1960s, in black and white, the Tardis used to be a
police box, or had the appearance of one.
On my last visit to London, however, there wasn't a police box in sight --
cell phones presumably did away with the need for them. So perhaps the Tardis
is now a cell phone, oops, BrE "mobile".
Don Aitken
<haye...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:13:55 -0400, tony cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Like me, you probably don't watch the "Dr Who" series. However, my
>>perception to "Dr Who" references has been tweaked up by reading aue.
>>David Tennant is an actor in that series. The "Tardis" is some sort
>>of device in that show.
>
>When I saw it, in the 1960s, in black and white, the Tardis used to be a
>police box, or had the appearance of one.
>
>On my last visit to London, however, there wasn't a police box in sight --
>cell phones presumably did away with the need for them. So perhaps the Tardis
>is now a cell phone, oops, BrE "mobile".
Police boxes disappeared quite soon after Dr Who started - certainly
some time during the first run of the show. It was explained then that
the camouflage circuits of the Tardis had malfunctioned, so that it
could no longer change its appearance.
The main purpose of police boxes, although they could be used by the
public to make 999 calls, was to enable police officers to check in
with their station. They therefore became superfluous when the police
acquired personal radios, which was long before cell/mobile phones.
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Peter Duncanson (BrE)
Where "999 calls" equals "emergency calls". The 999 code was
introduced much later. Dial phones had to be invented first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box
The typical police box contained a telephone linked directly
to the local police station allowing officers on the beat to
keep in contact with the station, reporting anything
unusual, requesting help if necessary or even to detain
prisoners until a vehicle could be sent to transport them to
the station or to jail. This was in the day when most police
officers walked a beat or rode a bicycle rather than using a
police car. A light on top of the box would flash to alert a
beat officer that he was requested to contact the
station. Members of the public could also use the phone
(which was on the exterior) to contact a police station in
an emergency.
The provision in public places of dedicated phones for
contacting the police was pioneered in the US.
The first police telephone was installed in Albany, New York
in 1877, one year after Alexander Graham Bell invented the
device. Call boxes for use by both police and members of the
public were first installed in Washington, D.C. in 1883;
Chicago and Detroit installed police call boxes in 1884, and
in 1885 Boston followed suit. These were direct line
telephones placed on a post which could often be accessed by
a key or breaking a glass. In Chicago, the telephones were
restricted to police use, but the boxes also contained a
dial mechanism which members of the public could use to
signal different types of alarms: there were eleven signals,
including "Police Wagon Required", "Thieves", "Forgers",
"Murder", "Accident", "Fire" and "Drunkard".
The first public police telephones in Britain were
introduced in Glasgow in 1891. These tall, hexagonal
cast-iron boxes were painted red and had large gas lanterns
fixed to the roof, and a mechanism which enabled the central
police station to light the lantern as a signal to policemen
in the vicinity to call the station for instructions.
Rectangular, wooden police boxes were introduced in
Sunderland in 1923, and Newcastle in 1925. The Metropolitan
Police introduced police boxes throughout London between
1928 and 1937; the design that later became most well-known
was created for the Met by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench in 1929.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
Wood Avens
wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:44:37 +0200, Steve Hayes
><haye...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:13:55 -0400, tony cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Like me, you probably don't watch the "Dr Who" series. However, my
>>>perception to "Dr Who" references has been tweaked up by reading aue.
>>>David Tennant is an actor in that series. The "Tardis" is some sort
>>>of device in that show.
>>
>>When I saw it, in the 1960s, in black and white, the Tardis used to be a
>>police box, or had the appearance of one.
>>
>>On my last visit to London, however, there wasn't a police box in sight --
>>cell phones presumably did away with the need for them. So perhaps the Tardis
>>is now a cell phone, oops, BrE "mobile".
>
>Police boxes disappeared quite soon after Dr Who started - certainly
>some time during the first run of the show. It was explained then that
>the camouflage circuits of the Tardis had malfunctioned, so that it
>could no longer change its appearance.
>
Don't I remember an episode in which a dodgy antiques dealer tries to
half-inch the Tardis for its supposed antique value? Or am I
imagining it?
--
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the Omrud
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:32:39 +0100, the Omrud
> <usenet...@gEXPUNGEmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And the French don't go in for gutters, so they have little need for
>> drainpipes of any colour.
>
> So the French felt that pants with narrow legs were not fashionable?
You're asking the wrong person. I have to examine myself to discover
what I am wearing today. Oooh, look, only swimming trunks.
Chuck Riggs
wrote:
<sniperoni>
>We Indians do not become bald; we have sense enough to allow
>our hair to grow long and thick, rather than insult our hair
>by haircuts. Insulted hair refuses to grow.
Nonsense.
Like most other Orientals, American Indian men find it difficult to
grow a beard, if they can at all. Most white men with a beard will
tell you that shaving it off every now and then causes it to grow in
fuller next time. It is much the same with our hair. Every now and
then, just for the health of my hair, I have it all shaved off, or I
do it myself. Invariably, I wind up with a better head of hair
afterwards.
>Interesting this relationship between white boys becoming bald
>and pot bellies, gold neck chains and convertible Corvettes.
I neither have, nor have ever wanted, any of that.
Where did you acquire your prejudices and many racial hates, Kira?
They can't be making you happier.
>The British did effect a countermeasure to prevent their becoming
>midlife crisis bald men. Those British took to wearing these
>really stupid looking white curly wigs. We Indians are very
>hesitant to kill women and children, contrasting Europeans
>who delight in killing defenseless women and children.
What do wigs and killing women and children have in common?
>Those silly wigs fooled my peoples into thinking a lot of
>European women are old, fat, masculine acting women with
>white curly hair and rather odd dress. We figured this out
>to be a disguise. However, still more confusion. My ancestors
>would come riding into a British fort, grab the hair of one
>of those sissy British men, damn, their hair came right off
>and more hair underneath! Kind of a Cat In The Hat thing.
Now you're doing what your people are famous for: telling stories.
Snipping to the quick:
>Chuck, do you wear a wig?
No, but I'm thinking of getting a cod piece.
Chuck Riggs
wrote:
The best of the science fiction stories aren't available to be
watched, or at least not in productions that do the authors justice in
my opinion. There are some excellent short stories in the genre you
might enjoy.
Chuck Riggs
<tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:14:15 +0100, Chuck Riggs <chr...@eircom.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:26:51 -0400, tony cooper
>><tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On 22 Jul 2008 21:05:54 -0700, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Raymond O'Hara filted:
>>>>>
>>>>>the TARDIS is his spaceship/time machine and its an acronym for 'Time And
>>>>>Reletive Dimensions In Space'.
>>>>
>>>>It was enough of a cultural icon a few years after I left college that when
>>>>"Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" came out, we called their telephone
>>>>booth/time machine the "retardis", and everyone on the BBSes of the day
>>>>instantly got the reference....
>>>>
>>>>(It may be helpful to those unfamiliar with B&T to note that one advertising
>>>>catchphrase for the film was "History is about to be rewritten by two guys who
>>>>can't spell")....r
>>>
>>>Is that reletive to this thread?
>>
>>Assuming that is a play on "relative" and "relevant", I missed your
>>joke, Coop.
>
>Re-read the post, Charles. It's still on the screen.
I don't chew my cabbage twice, Coop, to use a corny expression.
Purl Gurl
> Purl Gurl wrote:
(snipped)
>> We Indians do not become bald; we have sense enough to allow
>> our hair to grow long and thick, rather than insult our hair
>> by haircuts. Insulted hair refuses to grow.
> Nonsense.
Not at all. Mother Nature provides us hair, not to cut
rather to grow.
Should each time you rear your ugly head, someone cuts
your head off, you would be insulted and stop rearing
your ugly head.
Mother Nature provides us hair, not only for warmth
and air conditioning, like on our heads, bodies, arms
and legs, She also provides us hair elsewhere to act
as a cushion against rubbing friction.
We have hairy armpits to prevent rawness and soreness
from our skin rubbing together. Same is true elsewhere.
You can spot a woman who shaves; she walks with a subtle
hint of being bowlegged.
Men become bald by cutting their hair which insults
hair spirit who, then, refuses to return.
>>Interesting this relationship between white boys becoming bald
>>and pot bellies, gold neck chains and convertible Corvettes.
> I neither have, nor have ever wanted, any of that.
> Where did you acquire your prejudices and many racial hates, Kira?
From mainstream Anglo White America, which currently is
suffering a mid-life crisis.
>> The British did effect a countermeasure to prevent their becoming
>> midlife crisis bald men. Those British took to wearing these
>> really stupid looking white curly wigs. We Indians are very
>> hesitant to kill women and children, contrasting Europeans
>> who delight in killing defenseless women and children.
> What do wigs and killing women and children have in common?
Redcoats.
>> Chuck, do you wear a wig?
> No, but I'm thinking of getting a cod piece.
Around me, this is good thinking.
Rambler III
"Chuck Riggs" <chr...@eircom.net> wrote in message
news:5p7h841okt4o30sjk...@4ax.com...
[snip]
> Nonsense.
> Like most other Orientals, American Indian men find it difficult to
> grow a beard, if they can at all. Most white men with a beard will
> tell you that shaving it off every now and then causes it to grow in
> fuller next time. It is much the same with our hair. Every now and
> then, just for the health of my hair, I have it all shaved off, or I
> do it myself. Invariably, I wind up with a better head of hair
> afterwards.
[snip]
Define "better".
Shaving a balding head will restore hair? What a marvelous idea! Why
didn't you tell me sooner?