Memory test

[Jim the Geordie]

The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
If I told you any more then you would know.

Memory only!
NO GOOGLING!

Why that popped out of my memory, I have no idea.
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[John Williamson]

In.
You are inside a small building.


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John.

[Brian Gaff]

I cannot spell it, does it actually exist I thought somebody made it up
though apparently the word was written down in the studio when recorded by
Max.
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[Sam Plusnet]

Grate!

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[Kerr-Mudd, John]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:38:36 +0000
Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:

> On 13-Feb-24 18:29, John Williamson wrote:
> > On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:
> >> The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
> >> There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream

I gooved it was a rather long name. Max for short.

> >> If I told you any more then you would know.
> >>
> >> Memory only!
> >> NO GOOGLING!
> >>
> >> Why that popped out of my memory, I have no idea.
> >>
> > In.
> > You are inside a small building.
>
> Grate!
>

Please do not feed the troll. or throw axes at him.


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On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:23:49 -0000
Jim the Geordie <j...@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:

> The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
> There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
> If I told you any more then you would know.

Bedquilt.

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Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

[Mike Spencer]

Unsure what this is about; as a Leftpondian I may be missing something
obvious to a Brit.

But the first thing that came to mind was the exterior of the Tooth
Fairy's castle as seen by Susan Sto Helit and Bilious in Hogfather.

--
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[John Williamson]

V gubhtug onpx gb n CQC 10 va na Nzrevpna havirefvgl, naq n cynpr arne
Ghpfba Nevmban. But that's getting awfully close to a spoiler.

[Jim the Geordie]

In article <20240213204944.a0fa...@127.0.0.1>, admin@
127.0.0.1 says...

I wanna tell you a story.

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[Mike Fleming]

On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Was that where a lovely lass had a lovely dream, which came true quite
unexpectedly? I have some vague recall of a shilly shilly dum de dum de
dum by the seeeeeeaa. I don't think I've heard it since watching
Crackerjack [16:55] one Christmas in the mid-60s, so that's probably
wildly inaccurate.

[16:55] CRACKERJACK!

[maus]

By the sea, if I remember,(50's?)


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[nev young]

On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:

> The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
> There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
> If I told you any more then you would know.
>
> Memory only!
> NO GOOGLING!
>

Summat like
Tvyyl-tvyyl-bffrasrssre-pnfra-obtra-ol-gur-frn.


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[Brian Gaff]

No it was a song called after a place with a very long name which as far as
I know does not exist, but apparently its by the sea. Let me say that his
next hit was about a love affair between toothbrushes. They said the English
were mad!

He also had a hit about rain where he was joined by a very off key child
performer. Then he got one called Tulips from Hamster Jam and you need hands
where he tap danced on the record. Cutting edge stuff.

Brian

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[Brian Gaff]

It goes back a bit further than that.

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[Brian Gaff]

Spelling is wrong but I don't miss hearing Gilly Gilly gosenfeffer
catsenella bogen by the see.
Mind you there are a lot of songs that are in effect nonsense. what about
that one about doe's eat oats and lambs eat ivy?
Gilbert O'Sullivans Oh whackado Whacka day is another one, but then he
likes nonsense and ridiculous songs I mean what is Mr Moody's Garden about?

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[Jim the Geordie]

In article <uqhupt$2ijtc$1...@dont-email.me>, newsforpasiphae1953
@yahoo.co.uk says...

>
> On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:
> > The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
> > There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
> > If I told you any more then you would know.
> >
> > Memory only!
> > NO GOOGLING!
> >
> Summat like
> Tvyyl-tvyyl-bffrasrssre-pnfra-obtra-ol-gur-frn.

Indeed
You must be as old and daft as me.
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[Jim the Geordie]

In article <uqhvgi$2itlh$1...@dont-email.me>, brian...@gmail.com says...

>
> No it was a song called after a place with a very long name which as far as
> I know does not exist, but apparently its by the sea. Let me say that his
> next hit was about a love affair between toothbrushes. They said the English
> were mad!
>
> He also had a hit about rain where he was joined by a very off key child
> performer. Then he got one called Tulips from Hamster Jam and you need hands
> where he tap danced on the record. Cutting edge stuff.
> Brian

All true.

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[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <MPG.4036a0361...@paganini.bofh.team>, Jim the
Geordie <j...@jimXscott.co.uk> on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 10:03:13 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote

You, me and him, tree
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[chr...@privacy.net]

On 14/02/2024 09:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Spelling is wrong but I don't miss hearing Gilly Gilly gosenfeffer
> catsenella bogen by the see.
> Mind you there are a lot of songs that are in effect nonsense. what about
> that one about doe's eat oats and lambs eat ivy?

Mersey Docks and Harbour Board?

Chris

[nev young]

I am now ear wormyed.
You can be too:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h9SChjqE07Q

[Sn!pe]

The clerk will now proceed to read the order of the day.

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My pet rock Gordon just is.

[Kerr-Mudd, John]

I wanna Pencil. ANNA Blue Peter Badge. Gimme.

[Sn!pe]

My pal Round Roger did 'Double Or Drop', got the pencil and had it
nicked in the skool playground by a big boy wot dunnit and runned off.

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:26:39 +0000
Mike Fleming <mi...@tauzero.co.uk> wrote:

> [16:55] CRACKERJACK!

It's only Wednesday, you're twirly by two days.

[Sam Plusnet]

Tvyyl Tvyyyl Bffrasrssre Xngmraryyra Obtra Ol gur Frn.
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[Sam Plusnet]

On 14-Feb-24 10:53, nev young wrote:
> On 14/02/2024 10:41, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <MPG.4036a0361...@paganini.bofh.team>, Jim the
>> Geordie <j...@jimXscott.co.uk>  on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 10:03:13 awoke
>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>> In article <uqhupt$2ijtc$1...@dont-email.me>, newsforpasiphae1953
>>> @yahoo.co.uk says...
>>>>
>>>> On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>>>> The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
>>>>> There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
>>>>> If I told you any more then you would know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Memory only!
>>>>> NO GOOGLING!
>>>>>
>>>> Summat like
>>>> Tvyyl-tvyyl-bffrasrssre-pnfra-obtra-ol-gur-frn.
>>>
>>> Indeed
>>> You must be as old and daft as me.
>>
>> You, me and him, tree
>
> I am now ear wormyed.
> You can be too:
> https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h9SChjqE07Q
>

Talking of earworms...

I have this bad habit of whistling 'tunes' when in certain rooms - it
must be the acoustics.

I should have said the tunes whistle me - since I don't do it
consciously - and if I try to stop it starts up again a few seconds later.

Yesterday I wandered from the kitchen into the storeroom whistling Tommy
Steel's "Little White Bull". I came out a couple of seconds later,
whistling some of the more interesting bits of the 1812 Overture.

Quite how one morphed into the other I cannot tell.

Is there a cure?

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[Richard Robinson]

Sam Plusnet said:
> On 14-Feb-24 10:53, nev young wrote:
>> On 14/02/2024 10:41, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>> In article <MPG.4036a0361...@paganini.bofh.team>, Jim the

>>>> In article <uqhupt$2ijtc$1...@dont-email.me>, newsforpasiphae1953

>>>>> On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>>>>> The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
>>>>>> There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
>>>>>> If I told you any more then you would know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Memory only!
>>>>>> NO GOOGLING!
>>>>>>
>>>>> Summat like
>>>>> Tvyyl-tvyyl-bffrasrssre-pnfra-obtra-ol-gur-frn.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed
>>>> You must be as old and daft as me.
>>>
>>> You, me and him, tree
>>
>> I am now ear wormyed.
>> You can be too:
>> https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h9SChjqE07Q
>>
> Talking of earworms...
>
> I have this bad habit of whistling 'tunes' when in certain rooms - it
> must be the acoustics.
>
> I should have said the tunes whistle me - since I don't do it
> consciously - and if I try to stop it starts up again a few seconds later.
>
> Yesterday I wandered from the kitchen into the storeroom whistling Tommy
> Steel's "Little White Bull". I came out a couple of seconds later,
> whistling some of the more interesting bits of the 1812 Overture.
>
> Quite how one morphed into the other I cannot tell.
>
> Is there a cure?

Cork ?

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[Hymermut]

On 14/02/2024 20:24, Sam Plusnet wrote:
.
>
> Yesterday I wandered from the kitchen into the storeroom whistling Tommy
> Steel's "Little White Bull".

Jeez! How old ARE you!

Tone
>

[Sam Plusnet]

That was 1959 (google tells me), so I was a a worldly wise nine year old.

Unforgetting stuff like that is easy.
What we had for dinner yesterday? Now that's a tricky one.

--
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[Hymermut]

I actually bought the 78rpm out of my garage hand wages!

Tone

[Sn!pe]

My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.

[maus]

It says in the song what place it is from, "Where the tulips Grow,"

The Netherlands. or as most people from West of There call it, Holland.
Unless they are thinking of the english "Holland"

[Simon]

Yes please, whistling is the stuff of the devil.

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RLU: 222126

[Simon]

I know the song, but only because of the Barron Knights Little white
bum.

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RLU: 222126

[Brian Gaff]

For years I thought Some Enchanted Evening was Sam and Janet Evening mis-
heard lyrics are a very rich vein to mine.
Car and Mirror Mine
Bears and cubs have a devil for a sideboard

Of course the song written by Bruce Springsteen Blinded by the light is
total nonsense as he admitted himself, indeed it took Manfred Manns Earth
band to make it sound like it referred to female sanitary products to make
it a hit.

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[Brian Gaff]

74 in December if I make it.

I even remember the pheasant pluckers song.

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[Brian Gaff]

For me the toothbrush song was the ear worm. Incidentally the sheddi
language in this thread is totally incomprehensible when read by my
screenreader.

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:25:29 -0000 (UTC)
Simon <Sim...@eu.invalid> wrote:

> Yes please, whistling is the stuff of the devil.

Aw now
♫
If you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle
That's the thing
♫

[Brian Gaff]

Yes don't you think Little White Bull took advantage of the fact that in
those days we did not understand the cruelty involved in bullfighting? Tommy
The Toreador would never be made today, nor do Spanish children singing in
English sound like those in the film.
I just wonder at what point Tommy Steele morphed from a pop singer to an
actor and purveyor of comedy songs? Who remembers I puts the lighty on, all
about a little man who lived in his fridge.
Mind you, over the years of pop music there have been some bizarre things
recorded by otherwise well respected singers. Take The Little Blue Man by
Petula Clark or her rendition of Make Way, which appears to have a lot in
common with the Yellow rose of Texas and other traditional songs.
If Helen Reddy were still alive and had just recorded Angy baby would it
have been as much of a hit as it was?


I just have to go and play Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley. I'm sure that
song inspired Rap-Ture.

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[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <uqjr2k$2tdvo$1...@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <to...@email.com> on
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 at 01:57:39 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote

C*rses, I cannot get Ferrous Tommy out of my mind now. He has quite made
me forget what I had for dinner (at least that is my excuse, and I am
sticking to it).
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[Brian Gaff]

That post had everything twice. What is going on. Oh I have it on 45, having
migrated to these quite recently. Was it not Singing Time on the B side of
the single? Decca have a lot to answer for.
Yes I can remember what I did yesterday too, but the problem seems to be
that it has to do with named people or telephone numbers I never know what
they were. Likewise the order in which I do things seems seldom to be
preserved. I think as we age the memories get fragmented and re-stored
making things like ordering and details hard to recall at the time you need
them. That is why we are so bad at remembering passwords.

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[Brian Gaff]

I heard Little White Bull only three days ago on Boom Radio.
Like the old saying goes, what goes around comes around.

Going on to the 70s, I still get ear wormed by Harry Nielsen's Coconut song.
Total rubbish but somehow annoyingly catchy.

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> "Oů sont les neiges d'antan?"

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:38:34 -0000
"Brian Gaff" <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If Helen Reddy were still alive and had just recorded Angy baby would it
> have been as much of a hit as it was?

Dunno but it goes down well at the open mic night when I play it.

[Peter]

Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote in news:sd9zN.113179$c1y8....@fx15.ams1:

V nyjnlf urneq gung nf "bffracrccre".Arire vzntvarq gung vg zvtug or bgure
guna n pbaqvzrag.

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Hymermut <to...@email.com> wrote in news:uqjk8j$2p10k$3...@dont-email.me:

I ohled Tommy Steele's "whistling the blues" (1957) on a 78 out of my pocket
money. I'd have been 11.

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[maus]

On 2024-02-15, Brian Gaff <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes don't you think Little White Bull took advantage of the fact that in
> those days we did not understand the cruelty involved in bullfighting? Tommy
> The Toreador would never be made today, nor do Spanish children singing in
> English sound like those in the film.
> I just wonder at what point Tommy Steele morphed from a pop singer to an
> actor and purveyor of comedy songs? Who remembers I puts the lighty on, all
> about a little man who lived in his fridge.
> Mind you, over the years of pop music there have been some bizarre things
> recorded by otherwise well respected singers. Take The Little Blue Man by
> Petula Clark or her rendition of Make Way, which appears to have a lot in
> common with the Yellow rose of Texas and other traditional songs.
> If Helen Reddy were still alive and had just recorded Angy baby would it
> have been as much of a hit as it was?
>
>
> I just have to go and play Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley. I'm sure that
> song inspired Rap-Ture.
> Brian
>

Tommy was big when i was young. The rumor was that whoever controlled
him would only allow rubber strings in his guitar, and when he visited
Ireland, he had to leave his hotel room, while a group of specially
hired thugs trashed it, the image of a pop star included him trashing
the room. Migh have been a decent guy, but we will never really know.

[Sam Plusnet]

On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
> Hymermut <to...@email.com> wrote:
>
>> On 14/02/2024 20:24, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> .
>>>
>>> Yesterday I wandered from the kitchen into the storeroom whistling Tommy
>>> Steel's "Little White Bull".
>>
>> Jeez! How old ARE you!
>>
>> Tone
>
> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>

We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out. I assume
that was at much the same time as the filum.

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[Hymermut]

I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !

Tone

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <uqlsj9$3ff0j$1...@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <to...@email.com> on
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 at 20:35:52 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote

Last Train to San Fernando.
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[Sn!pe]

Nicholas D. Richards <nich...@salmiron.com> wrote:

> Hymermut <to...@email.com> wrote:
> >On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> >> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:

[...]

> >>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
> >>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
> >>>
> >>
> >> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
> >> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
> >> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
> >>
> >
> >I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
> >
>
> Last Train to San Fernando.
>

# Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
# If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
# Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.

[sigh]

[maus]

Don't Miss It

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snip...@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snip...@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas

from his slumbers and wrote

>Nicholas D. Richards <nich...@salmiron.com> wrote:
>
>> Hymermut <to...@email.com> wrote:
>> >On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> >> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>[...]
>> >>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>> >>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>> >> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>> >> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>> >>
>> >
>> >I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>> >
>>
>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>
>
># Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
># If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
># Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>
>[sigh]
>

I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
his parents sent him away to boarding school.


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[James Heaton]

Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...

James

[chr...@privacy.net]

Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*

Chris

*Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?

[Abandoned Trolley]

>
> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>
> Chris
>
> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>
>

I think Beeching just wrote a "report" - and the actual axe swinging was
carried by the incoming Labour Government ?

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <l3bmnk...@mid.individual.net>, chr...@privacy.net
<chr...@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas

But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops, at
the now non-existent platform.
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[Chris Elvidge]

Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....


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[Kerr-Mudd, John]

Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
for tea?

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[Peter]

Chris Elvidge <ch...@mshome.net> wrote in
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because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.



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[Richard Robinson]

Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>
> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
> for tea?

It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
CBA to butter them.


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[Kerr-Mudd, John]

Precisély

[Tim+]

Richard Robinson <ric...@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>
>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>> for tea?
>
> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
> CBA to butter them.
>
>

Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??

Tim

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[Adrian]

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>Richard Robinson <ric...@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>>
>>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>>> for tea?
>>
>> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
>> CBA to butter them.
>>
>>
>
>Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??
>

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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[Richard Robinson]

Tim+ said:
> Richard Robinson <ric...@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>>
>>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>>> for tea?
>>
>> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
>> CBA to butter them.
>
> Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??

An elephant. HTH.

[Sn!pe]

Richard Robinson <ric...@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:

> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back.
> And then whether you CBA to butter them.

Buttered shops? I'm up for: battered (with chips and pickled Onion);
Pizza alla stylee Romanian; curried; sweet 'n' sour chinese; but neither
laundrettes nor poast offices, TYVM.

I suspect that butter may be inappropriate in some of the above cases.

[me9]

snip...@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

> Richard Robinson <ric...@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
> > CBA to butter them.
>
> Buttered shops? I'm up for: battered (with chips and pickled Onion);
> Pizza alla stylee Romanian; curried; sweet 'n' sour chinese; but neither
> laundrettes nor poast offices, TYVM.
>
> I suspect that butter may be inappropriate in some of the above cases.
>

Well I CBA to cook my fish and chips today so had buttered fish instead.

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[Brian Gaff]

I had not realised before a few days ago that London Overground were in fact
originally lesser used lines of the old British Rail, which with some
investment and new stations actually make money for the company with the
franchise and TFL now. It does make you wonder if the Beeching remit was, as
has been mooted to deliberately run down the railways in order to make large
road projects more likely to be built as members of the Government had
shares in the companies building them.

When we say Last train, in some instances it means the last train today, but
as for the Nancy Whisky song, I don't know enough about US rail history to
know if its based on anything real.
I gather from that song City of New Oreans that Rail travel is declining in
the US as it is shall we say leisurely, and most people want to get to
places yesterday, so to speak. I used to like the trains when I was younger
and could see. You tended to have a good panoramic of country and towns and
you could lose yourself in thought. A friend of mine who is now no longer
with us said that you could meet some famous people on trains.

Brian

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[Brian Gaff]

Does anyone know if the platforms still exist at Minehead, no tracks no
trains when I was last there.

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[Brian Gaff]

Around those times, late 50s and early 60s, it now seems obvious that we all
spoke differently, and so much is different now in oh so many ways. The
films from back then seem like they are from another planet, but I lived
through the years and never really noticed the changes at the time, its only
later on that they become obvious.

Brian

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[Brian Gaff]

Off on a tangent, Does anyone recall Balham, Gateway to the South?


On that same Parlaphone LP was a track called Party Political Speech. Apart
from the accent, the words could apply to today.
IE he never answers the questions he poses but bullshits his way through
without saying anything at all.
And let me tell you, I do not consider existing conditions likely, we must
build, but build surely, and in conclusion , let me say just this....

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[Brian Gaff]

And is there Honey still for tea? Honey's off dear.

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[Brian Gaff]

Was that post trunkated?

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[Brian Gaff]

My news feed is going backwards now, bah humbug. Brian

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> 74 in December if I make it.
>
> I even remember the pheasant pluckers song.

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> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nich...@salmiron.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <MPG.4036a0361...@paganini.bofh.team>, Jim the
>> Geordie <j...@jimXscott.co.uk> on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 10:03:13 awoke

>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote

>>>In article <uqhupt$2ijtc$1...@dont-email.me>, newsforpasiphae1953
>>>@yahoo.co.uk says...
>>>>
>>>> On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>>> > The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
>>>> > There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
>>>> > If I told you any more then you would know.
>>>> >
>>>> > Memory only!
>>>> > NO GOOGLING!
>>>> >
>>>> Summat like
>>>> Tvyyl-tvyyl-bffrasrssre-pnfra-obtra-ol-gur-frn.
>>>
>>>Indeed
>>>You must be as old and daft as me.
>>
>> You, me and him, tree
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>> "Oů sont les neiges d'antan?"
>
>

[John Williamson]

On 19/02/2024 11:30, Brian Gaff wrote:
> I had not realised before a few days ago that London Overground were in fact
> originally lesser used lines of the old British Rail, which with some
> investment and new stations actually make money for the company with the
> franchise and TFL now. It does make you wonder if the Beeching remit was, as
> has been mooted to deliberately run down the railways in order to make large
> road projects more likely to be built as members of the Government had
> shares in the companies building them.
>

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[John Williamson]

Oops, finger trouble, trying again.

I heard that it was some of Beeching's personal friends that owned the
road builders.

On 19/02/2024 11:30, Brian Gaff wrote:

> It does make you wonder if the Beeching remit was, as
> has been mooted to deliberately run down the railways in order to make large
> road projects more likely to be built as members of the Government had
> shares in the companies building them.
>

[chr...@privacy.net]

I have always understood that Marples (Transport minister?) was the
problem? ISTR that he allegedly left the country with a large sack of
dosh and was never seen again?

Chris

[Simon]

Someone with jam and cream? The order I leave up to you depending on
your county of choice.

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[Kerr-Mudd, John]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:47:23 -0000
"Brian Gaff" <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And is there Honey still for tea? Honey's off dear.
> Brian
>

Darn it, you're right; Is that the time?

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <uqt4ak$169df$1...@dont-email.me>, Chris Elvidge
<ch...@mshome.net> on Sun, 18 Feb 2024 at 14:30:43 awoke Nicholas from

It was my father's favourite pome. Comes in my eight desert island
pomes.

One hot summer afternoon I visited Adlestrop, because of the pome.
Inside the village bus stop was the a bench seat from the station
waiting room and the platform 'Adlestrop' sign.

Somewhere or other I read that it had been nicked and a replacement
made.

"Not guilty Guv", and I am sticking to that.
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[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <l3gu56...@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
<johnwil...@btinternet.com> on Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 11:59:34 awoke

Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote

>Oops, finger trouble, trying again.
>
>I heard that it was some of Beeching's personal friends that owned the
>road builders.

I do not know about Dr. Beeching, he was a long term employee of ICI on
secondment.

The Minister of Transport who oversaw the great expansion in major
roadways and motorways was one Ernest Marples. He was an 80% majority
shareholder in Marples Ridgeway, a major Civil Engineering company with
fists in the roads expansion programme. Although he was supposed to
divest himself of all interests in Marples Ridgeway he went through all
sorts of chicanery to ensure that he could buy back his shares at the
price he sold them.

Marples was odious; OTOH my view of Beeching was that he was a business
man out of his depth where the railways were concerned. I would not
impute Beeching's motives and believe he was genuinely shocked at the
reaction to his two reports.
>
Top posted!

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <l3gvgk...@mid.individual.net>, chr...@privacy.net
<chr...@privacy.net> on Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 12:22:44 awoke Nicholas

from his slumbers and wrote

When the shit threatened to hit the fan he suddenly left the country. He
remained abroad until he had come to an 'arrangement' with the Inland
Revenue.

[Abandoned Trolley]

>>
> When the shit threatened to hit the fan he suddenly left the country. He
> remained abroad until he had come to an 'arrangement' with the Inland
> Revenue.

Not just the Inland Revenue - he could have been jailed for taking cash
out of the country

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <uqvmjq$1t5ae$1...@dont-email.me>, Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-
smith.co.uk> on Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 13:55:07 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>
>>>

I had forgotten about that, and exchange control was not a very large
amount, £50 and £15 in cash, IIRC. You can take as much as you like
now, but you have to report (to who/whom?) if you wish to take more than
£10,000 in cash.
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[Abandoned Trolley]

>>
>> Not just the Inland Revenue - he could have been jailed for taking cash
>> out of the country
>
> I had forgotten about that, and exchange control was not a very large
> amount, £50 and £15 in cash, IIRC. You can take as much as you like
> now, but you have to report (to who/whom?) if you wish to take more than
> £10,000 in cash.

According to wikipedia ... "In November 1977, he paid £7,600 to the
British government in settlement of his breach of exchange control
regulations" - so I am assuming that he must have exceeded the (£10 ?)
limit by some margin.

I am told that the Great Train Robbery plot started to unravel when one
of the junior gang members was detained at Heathrow airport and arrested
on the spot when he was found to be carrying £18,000 in cash

[Sam Plusnet]

On 19-Feb-24 11:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Off on a tangent, Does anyone recall Balham, Gateway to the South?
>
>
> On that same Parlaphone LP was a track called Party Political Speech. Apart
> from the accent, the words could apply to today.
> IE he never answers the questions he poses but bullshits his way through
> without saying anything at all.
> And let me tell you, I do not consider existing conditions likely, we must
> build, but build surely, and in conclusion , let me say just this....

Also Eccles counting the votes after the election.

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[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <ur01rn$1vnk9$1...@dont-email.me>, Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-
smith.co.uk> on Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 17:07:03 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>
>>>

I would suggest that the discovery was not accidental. I must go back to
my cousin's definitive book on said robbery. My cousin also made a TV
docudrama program about it.

On that weekend I started a 3 week exchange in France. The father of
the boy who was my exchange partner joshed with me that I was on the run
from les flics.

[Abandoned Trolley]

h
>>
> I would suggest that the discovery was not accidental. I must go back to
> my cousin's definitive book on said robbery. My cousin also made a TV
> docudrama program about it.
>
> On that weekend I started a 3 week exchange in France. The father of
> the boy who was my exchange partner joshed with me that I was on the run
> from les flics.

"docudrama" = fact ?

I believe that the Exchange Control Act of 1948 was still in force up to
1979, (long after we had joined the EEC) when the incoming Tory
government dispensed with it.

At the time the Thatcher woman explained it away by saying that it had
outlived its usefulness and would allow foreign investment in the country.

To me that sounds like "ThatcherSpeak" for "everything is for sale"

In that context, I don’t suppose the circumstances surrounding the
arrest of an armed robber are of much importance

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <ur1q2k$2e0v3$1...@dont-email.me>, Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-
smith.co.uk> on Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 09:06:28 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote

1963 (Macmillan/Home) and 1979 (Gungpure - spit) were very different
times. If you were around in 1963 you would be aware that the
establishment reacted as if they had been existentially affronted. East
End gangsters falling out, so what, especially when many in the
establishment were having their peccadilloes catered for by those self
same gangsters (see Lord(!) Boothby). East End gangsters rob, very
publicly, the establishment and the book is thrown at them. A belted
earl murders his children's nanny (by mistake) and he is helped to
escape ("Well, she was only the nanny").

[Richard Robinson]

"The brains behind the Windscale disaster".