sheddi plates
Austin Shackles
number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me to
wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
--
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cage - Citroen BX19TXD :big cage - 8-seater LDV minibus which is Cothi Taxis
web: http://www.telinco.co.uk/anshackles/index.htm my opinions are just that
c o jones
Austin Shackles <aus...@telinco.co.uk> wrote in message
news:01bf30dc$494bb560$LocalHost@default...
> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me
to
> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
One of me mates saw PEN 15
coj
Fruitbat
>
> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me to
> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>
BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
--
batty
Andrew Pattle
Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
is 666.
I yoosed to hev a Norman that was
JBJ
121
That had a rarver pleasing sort of flzzrgel about it. Last I heard it
was still alive and well and living in Croydon.
--
Andrew Pattle
Wumpus
Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk...
> At 08:11:56 on Thu, 18 Nov 1999,
> Fruitbat said:
> >Austin Shackles wrote:
> >>
> >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
the
> >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
me to
> >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> >>
> >
> >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
> >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
> >
>
> Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
> is 666.
>
V-V-V- Vincent !!!!!
Oh! Been there, dun that - been terrified.
1000 ???
Wumpus.
Bye-bye, bat. Been nice, and all that but....
Big black bike full of struts and varoooom?
Afternoon dreams and memories.
Rosie Cox
_c_o_j...@my-deja.com.no.spam> writes
>
>Austin Shackles <aus...@telinco.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:01bf30dc$494bb560$LocalHost@default...
>> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me
>to
>> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>
>
>
year.
--
Rosie Cox
I can only please one person a day. Today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't
look too good either.
Fruitbat
>
> Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk...
> > At 08:11:56 on Thu, 18 Nov 1999,
> > Fruitbat said:
> > >Austin Shackles wrote:
> > >>
> the
> > >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> > >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
> me to
> > >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
> > >
> >
> > Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
> > is 666.
> >
>
> V-V-V- Vincent !!!!!
>
> Oh! Been there, dun that - been terrified.
>
> 1000 ???
>
> Wumpus.
>
> Bye-bye, bat. Been nice, and all that but....
You what? Eerk!!
> Big black bike full of struts and varoooom?
> Afternoon dreams and memories.
--
nitty.
c o jones
<xenop...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u2Q0OCnakOvRSL...@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:14:50 +0000, Andrew Pattle
> <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wandered to the table and
> absently arranged the Scrabble tiles to spell out -
> >At 08:11:56 on Thu, 18 Nov 1999,
> >Fruitbat said:
> >>Austin Shackles wrote:
> >>>
> >>> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
the
> >>> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> >>> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this
prompted me to
> >>> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> >>>
> >>
> >>BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
> >>Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
> >>
> >
> >Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
> >is 666.
> >
> >
> >JBJ
> >121
> >
> >That had a rarver pleasing sort of flzzrgel about it. Last I heard it
> >was still alive and well and living in Croydon.
>
>
> I wish I had it now!
>
I saw a pink mini, with two men inside it, "GAY 69 L"
coj
Wumpus
Fruitbat <donald...@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:3834658F...@virgin.net...
> "Wumpus
> >
> > Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk...
> > > Fruitbat said:
> > > >Austin Shackles wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car
with
> > the
> > > >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close
to
> > > >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this
prompted
> > me to
> > > >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
> > > >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me
Vincent
> > > is 666.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Oh! Been there, dun that - been terrified.
> >
> > 1000 ???
> >
> > Wumpus.
> >
> > Bye-bye, bat. Been nice, and all that but....
>
> You what? Eerk!!
>
Cor, batty, who knocked you off your rafter?
You know how it goes, boy. Biggest vroom-vroom wins.
Yrs, faithlessly, V.A. Leach.
Andy Spragg
<donald...@virgin.net> wrote:
>Austin Shackles wrote:
>>
>> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
>> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me to
>> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>
>BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
When I were a lad in Brum 25 year ago, there used to be a nice looking
Jag wot used to chee down our road sometimes, whose plate was 5 BOB,
which I always thought at the time had a nice pre-decimal irony to it.
Now I'm older and sheddier, I also think it has sort of sheddy
overtones - you know, spending 5 bob rather than 20 grand, sort of
thing...
I'll get me coat
Andy
Sue
_c_o_j...@my-deja.com.no.spam> writes
>
>
>I saw a pink mini, with two men inside it, "GAY 69 L"
>
aspersions!) Haven't seen HEV1Y lately, though.
The other year near Fort William and the fish farms we saw a SA4MON.
--
Sue
Guy King
from "c o jones" <please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam>
contains these words:
> I saw a pink mini, with two men inside it, "GAY 69 L"
Someone was trying to sell ANU5 80Y some time ago.
--
| |\_/|
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Hounslow, Middlesex | /=(Y)= could I want than
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www.users.zetnet.co.uk/gking/ | \ Stig of the Dump
Carl .LHS. Williams
Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote:
>At 08:11:56 on Thu, 18 Nov 1999,
>Fruitbat said:
>>>
>>> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
>>> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>>> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me to
>>> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>>>
>>
>>BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>>Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>>
>
>is 666.
'Ere, were you at that Vincent owner's meetin' up by Llandrindod, then?
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Wumpus <wumpy@hornbeam<nosplinters> wrote:
>
>Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk...
>> Fruitbat said:
>> >Austin Shackles wrote:
>> >>
>> >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
>the
>> >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>> >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
>me to
>> >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>> >>
>> >
>> >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>> >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>> >
>>
>> Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
>> is 666.
>>
>
>
>Oh! Been there, dun that - been terrified.
>
>1000 ???
>
>Wumpus.
>
>Bye-bye, bat. Been nice, and all that but....
>
>Afternoon dreams and memories.
Flaymineck, not anuvver one. You know how much they want fer arj hengines
for them ubggres? More'n an arj Ducati 996, that's how much. More even than
an Augusta MV4. Insanity. Gimme a nonda fer reliability an' summat red
and exotic fer fun, and I'll oil me own boots wivva can.
Andrew Pattle
Wumpus said:
>
>Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk...
>> At 08:11:56 on Thu, 18 Nov 1999,
>> Fruitbat said:
>> >Austin Shackles wrote:
>> >>
>> >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
>the
>> >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>> >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
>me to
>> >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>> >>
>> >
>> >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>> >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>> >
>>
>> Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
>> is 666.
>>
>
>V-V-V- Vincent !!!!!
Gud innit? I'm very careful just to say Vincent, cos if I goes further
it ends up as a terrible disappointment.
>
>Oh! Been there, dun that - been terrified.
Mine is terrifying - but in an altogether diffrunt way
>
>1000 ???
Confession time - 45
It's the one the Vincent Owners Club nevver used to talk about -
although they seem to have gained some respectability in recent years.
A Vincent Firefly: ickle 45cc engine that bolts to a bicycle. Dates
from mid-50s when Vincent was getting into trubble and trying all sorts
of fings to rake in cash - like the Amanda water scooter, and hiding
their big bikes under acres of GRP.
Firefly goes well, will cruise along at constant 31. If you've ever
done a constant 31 on an old Raleigh 3-speed bike, you can see why the
terrifying bit still applies.
The bike is black, and I've put alumininiumium mudguard onnit to make it
a tad more Vincent-like
--
Andrew Pattle
Andrew Pattle
Carl .LHS. Williams said:
>In article <bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk>,
>Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote:
>>Fruitbat said:
>>>Austin Shackles wrote:
>>>>
>>>> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
>>>> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>>>> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me
>to
>>>> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>>>>
>>>
>>>BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>>>Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>>>
>>
>>Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
>>is 666.
>
>
wunce, but it took two days and that was acrost a narrer bit.
My Vincent is a shade pathetic compared to those Black Shadders. I've
orlreddy confessed in anuvver post so I'm not doin it again here.
--
Andrew Pattle
Wumpus
Andy Spragg <spa...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:38347f23....@read.news.globalnet.co.uk...
> >>
> >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
the
> >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
me to
> >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> >
> >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
> >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>
> Jag wot used to chee down our road sometimes, whose plate was 5 BOB,
> which I always thought at the time had a nice pre-decimal irony to it.
> Now I'm older and sheddier, I also think it has sort of sheddy
> overtones - you know, spending 5 bob rather than 20 grand, sort of
> thing...
>
> I'll get me coat
>
wumpus.
Wumpus
> At 14:11:29 on Thu, 18 Nov 1999,
> Wumpus said:
> >
> >Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk...
> >> Fruitbat said:
> >> >>
> >> >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car
with
> >the
> >> >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> >> >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this
prompted
> >me to
> >> >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
> >> >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
> >> >
> >>
> >> is 666.
> >>
> >
>
> Gud innit? I'm very careful just to say Vincent, cos if I goes further
> it ends up as a terrible disappointment.
> >
> >Oh! Been there, dun that - been terrified.
>
> Mine is terrifying - but in an altogether diffrunt way
> >
> >1000 ???
>
> Confession time - 45
>
> It's the one the Vincent Owners Club nevver used to talk about -
> although they seem to have gained some respectability in recent years.
> A Vincent Firefly: ickle 45cc engine that bolts to a bicycle. Dates
> from mid-50s when Vincent was getting into trubble and trying all sorts
> of fings to rake in cash - like the Amanda water scooter, and hiding
> their big bikes under acres of GRP.
>
> Firefly goes well, will cruise along at constant 31. If you've ever
> done a constant 31 on an old Raleigh 3-speed bike, you can see why the
> terrifying bit still applies.
>
> The bike is black, and I've put alumininiumium mudguard onnit to make it
> a tad more Vincent-like
>
market.
Sir, I take my hat off to you.
Wumpus.
Peter Dewhirst
<please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam> wrote:
>One of me mates saw PEN 15
Last time I saw that it were on a silver Merc in Royston.
Some Bike hero's missis, innit?
--
Dewey
International Goatkeepers Society
Member Number 001906
Peter Dewhirst
wrote:
>> I saw a pink mini, with two men inside it, "GAY 69 L"
>
>Someone was trying to sell ANU5 80Y some time ago.
There's a Market Trader's truck, based at Westoning near M1J12 with
reg DEL80Y.
Dave Dunford
<please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam> wrote:
>
> Austin Shackles <aus...@telinco.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:01bf30dc$494bb560$LocalHost@default...
> > while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
> > number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> > JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me
> to
> > wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>
>
> One of me mates saw PEN 15
>
> coj
Saw a car with reg COJ today, and I thought of you.
Dave
c o jones
Dave Dunford <ddun...@rmplc.net> wrote in message
news:383565c0...@news.rmplc.net...
I wondered why me ears were burning and I had a tingle in me cojs
famks Dave
coj
Austin Shackles
Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in article
<bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk>...
> Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
> is 666.
don't, wotever yer do, get rid of it. The powers that be refuse to issue 666
numbers now, after some silly git noticed that it was "the number of the beast"
[1], which, according to some, is mentioned in the bible; however, 'twas the
effect of the "omen" films that brought it to some narrow minded eejit's
attention, and thus, from thenceforward, no new 666s were issued. you can now
buy a whole raft of numbers from the DVLA, but not 666 ones. bah. mind you,
the council refused to issue me hackney carriage plate number 13, despite me
saying that I didn't mind, spose the ultimate would be a taxi wiv plate number
13 and the number 666...
Austin Shackles
Peter Dewhirst <peterd...@dial.pipex.com> wrote in article
<drla3s0uor1j9fmte...@4ax.com>...
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:06:16 GMT, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >> I saw a pink mini, with two men inside it, "GAY 69 L"
> >
> >Someone was trying to sell ANU5 80Y some time ago.
>
> There's a Market Trader's truck, based at Westoning near M1J12 with
> reg DEL80Y.
I fink I seen that, once.
Niall
<peterd...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:25:43 -0000, "c o jones"
><please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam> wrote:
>
>>One of me mates saw PEN 15
>
>Last time I saw that it were on a silver Merc in Royston.
>
>Some Bike hero's missis, innit?
>
>
Belongs to Steve Parrish, the truck racer, AFAIK.
I only know this because it was mentioned in a book I read the other
night.
--
"Be Ye Not Lost Among Precepts of Order..."
"The Out House For what is left over"
(from the Principia Discordia)
Niall. http://www.btinternet.com/~niallcw
The Pattles
Austin Shackles <aus...@telinco.co.uk> wrote in message
news:01bf32ce$95722200$LocalHost@default...
>
>
> Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in article
> <bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk>...
>
> > Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
> > is 666.
>
> don't, wotever yer do, get rid of it
I know... It was on the NACC [1] stand at the Stafford Show wunce. A friend
of mine took it there because I CBA to take it meself. Apparently he had
several offers of large wads of cash for it. They orl said wot a nice bike
it was an made no menshun of the fact that orl they wanted was the number.
Who do they guvax they wos kidding?
If you can lay your hands on a Noctober 1991 edition of The Classic Motor
Cycle, you'll find some pictures of it... and me, in me bestest brown
warehouse coat and flat 'at.
--
Andrew Pattle
(remove "splod." to reply
Jon Gurr
Fruitbat wrote:
> Austin Shackles wrote:
> >
> > while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
> > number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> > JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me to
> > wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> >
>
> BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
> Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>
>
Saw UPU2 orlso on a Jaguar, in Richmond many years ago. Not very Sheddi, but
zrzbenoyr.
--
JonG (JBC No. 37 3/4)
You've got to cut the ICE
to reply
Andy Spragg
I knew you were a Brumpy Wumpy cos of that Origins fred or wotever it
woz called. Never quite got around to chipping in there although I
could lay claim to a few BINGs, you in particular. So, since you
arsked:
Yardley till I woz 7, then Moseley till I was 18. (Then Exeter till I
was 21, then East Kilbride till I was 33, then Lane End [High Wycombe]
till now [38])...
Seem to recall you were more of a Black Country sort of Wumpus tho?
Ere, you being into motorbikes and stuff if I remember correctly, you
don't know Monica Vann, do you?
Andy
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:25:49 -0000, "Wumpus"
<wumpy@hornbeam<nosplinters>.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>Andy Spragg <spa...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:38347f23....@read.news.globalnet.co.uk...
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:11:56 +0000, Fruitbat
>> <donald...@virgin.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Austin Shackles wrote:
>> >>
>> >> while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
>the
>> >> number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>> >> JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
>me to
>> >> wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>> >
>> >BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>> >Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>>
Guy King
from "Austin Shackles" <aus...@telinco.co.uk> contains these words:
> "the number of the beast" [1],
+++ Missing footnote error. Redo from Start +++
Helen Deborah Vecht
from Oiorpata <dav...@algonet.cutthisbitout.se> contains these words:
> Shame that, you could have kitted it out in Transalvanian style and
> charged extra at Halloween.
IRTA 'Halesowen'. Where's Wumpus?
--
Helen D. Vecht
helen...@zetnet.co.uk
Somewhere around North-West London
Jon Thompson
Guy King wrote in message <199911182...@zetnet.co.uk>...
>The message <811qj4$e3g$1...@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>
> from "c o jones" <please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam>
>contains these words:
>
>
>
>
>Someone was trying to sell ANU5 80Y some time ago.
Saw NC BOY once.
--
Jon "Terwur@" Thompson.
"Spike lives in his head. He actually LIVES in his head..."
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>
>
>Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in article
><bCkLpGA6...@egplc.demon.co.uk>...
>
>> Although the free letters are nuffink speshul, the number on me Vincent
>> is 666.
>
>numbers now, after some silly git noticed that it was "the number of the beast"
>[1], which, according to some, is mentioned in the bible; however, 'twas the
>effect of the "omen" films that brought it to some narrow minded eejit's
>attention, and thus, from thenceforward, no new 666s were issued. you can now
>buy a whole raft of numbers from the DVLA, but not 666 ones. bah. mind you,
>the council refused to issue me hackney carriage plate number 13, despite me
>saying that I didn't mind, spose the ultimate would be a taxi wiv plate number
>13 and the number 666...
>
>
As I understand it (and I probably don't), the number of the beast is
actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
plate.
(Bob
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Guy King
from Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
> As I understand it (and I probably don't), the number of the beast is
> actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
> plate.
Not if you write in in base 1.031442479849e+28 in which case its "1"
near enough.
Julian Barkway
nia...@btinternet.com (Niall) glanced nervously around the room before
whispering hoarsely:
>Belongs to Steve Parrish, the truck racer, AFAIK.
>I only know this because it was mentioned in a book I read the other
>night.
Now there's a boodly pointless sport. Car racing is ok I suppose if you
like that sort of thing but why race summat that was never _designed_ for
speed in the first place? Why not just stick a fecking big engine and some
wheels on a wardrobe and race that instead?
Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
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following:
>
>As I understand it (and I probably don't), the number of the beast is
>actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
>plate.
>
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Written on the box of a Safeway carrot and apple sauce cake
Sue
<jon...@clara.co.uk> writes
>
>
>Fruitbat wrote:
>
>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>> >
>> > while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with the
>> > number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
>> > JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted me
>to
>> > wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
>> >
>>
>> BUL541T on a disgustingly large stretched Jaguar spotted in
>> Hampstead a few days ago. Prob is, wasn't John Prescott driving.
>>
>>
>
>zrzbenoyr.
>
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c o jones
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The message <mvWCgmAW...@godwit.demon.co.uk>
> from Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
> > actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
> > plate.
>
> near enough.
Don't you mean 10 ?
coj
Brian Skinner
> The message <mvWCgmAW...@godwit.demon.co.uk>
> from Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
>
> > As I understand it (and I probably don't), the number of the beast is
> > actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
> > plate.
>
> Not if you write in in base 1.031442479849e+28 in which case its "1"
> near enough.
6^6^6 could also mean (6^(6^6)) which is slightly larger. [1]
[1] 36,306 digits, starting with 26 and ending with 6.
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Brian
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>[Re: <3835cc40...@news.btinternet.com>]
>
>nia...@btinternet.com (Niall) glanced nervously around the room before
>whispering hoarsely:
>
>>Belongs to Steve Parrish, the truck racer, AFAIK.
>>I only know this because it was mentioned in a book I read the other
>>night.
>
>Now there's a boodly pointless sport. Car racing is ok I suppose if you
>like that sort of thing but why race summat that was never _designed_ for
>speed in the first place? Why not just stick a fecking big engine and some
>wheels on a wardrobe and race that instead?
>
>Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
>
Because one doesn't come past for ages then you get three together?
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>The message <mvWCgmAW...@godwit.demon.co.uk>
> from Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
>> As I understand it (and I probably don't), the number of the beast is
>> actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
>> plate.
>
>Not if you write in in base 1.031442479849e+28 in which case its "1"
>near enough.
If you say so. And you could always put a fecking great sign on top of
the car to explain this.
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>Bob Goddard's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmer's guns to bring me the
>following:
>>
>>actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
>>plate.
>>
>
Yes.
Carl .LHS. Williams
Julian Barkway <addre...@my.sig> wrote:
>[Re: <3835cc40...@news.btinternet.com>]
>
>nia...@btinternet.com (Niall) glanced nervously around the room before
>whispering hoarsely:
>
>>Belongs to Steve Parrish, the truck racer, AFAIK.
>>I only know this because it was mentioned in a book I read the other
>>night.
>
>Now there's a boodly pointless sport. Car racing is ok I suppose if you
>like that sort of thing but why race summat that was never _designed_ for
>speed in the first place?
*Splutter*! Not very sheddy racin' things _qrfvtarq_ forrit, issit?
I reckon Pattles orter race sum of 'is motorized bicycle thingies,
innit.
>Why not just stick a fecking big engine and some
>wheels on a wardrobe and race that instead?
Why not, indeed... hmmm....
>Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
You never been to brum, then?
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Carl .LHS. Williams
Oiorpata <dav...@algonet.cutthisbitout.se> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:14:10 GMT, "Austin Shackles"
><aus...@telinco.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>don't, wotever yer do, get rid of it. The powers that be refuse to issue 666
>>numbers now, after some silly git noticed that it was "the number of the beast"
>>[1], which, according to some, is mentioned in the bible; however, 'twas the
>>effect of the "omen" films that brought it to some narrow minded eejit's
>>attention, and thus, from thenceforward, no new 666s were issued.
>
>nudespapers wot Englund does so well. There was a daft lookin chappie
>photographed by his car with the 666 license plate, saying as'n how it
>carried a curse, and all the dreadful things that had happened to him
>and the car since he got it. He even claimed that some clergyman had
>come and read prayers over it and blessed it an that, in an attempt to
>drive out the evil, but to no avail.
Oh aye, and did this chap have a flat 'at and thick glarses? And
was the car an Ovlov?
Carl .LHS. Williams
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The message <mvWCgmAW...@godwit.demon.co.uk>
> from Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
>> actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
>> plate.
>
>near enough.
'ere, I think you gottit! An end to the telephone numbers crisis!
All they gotta do is re-hfr the old ones, only inna different base!
Niall
wrote:
>Now there's a boodly pointless sport. Car racing is ok I suppose if you
>like that sort of thing but why race summat that was never _designed_ for
>speed in the first place? Why not just stick a fecking big engine and some
>wheels on a wardrobe and race that instead?
Don't think of it as *truck* racing, just think of it as a racing
formula with slightly different technical regs. Same way as F1 has sod
all to do with road cars.
Makes for a bit of spectacle, when the rules call for 11 litre
engines, diesel fuel and vehicles weighing around 6 tonnes. Plus many
of the drivers are nutters, which adds to the fun.
>
>Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
>
Been done. The bus preservation people hated it.
David Reid
bring me the following:
>>wheels on a wardrobe and race that instead?
>
>
S'been done innit? Ana sofa, ana bog ana shed.
I'm sure I used to have a URL somewhere.
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He was an idiot, he believed things he read in colour supplements.
Julian Barkway
Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> glanced nervously around the room
before whispering hoarsely:
>As I understand it (and I probably don't), the number of the beast is
>actually not 666 but 6^6^6, which is somewhat too big to fit on a number
>plate.
Also rather too big to be a birthmark on Sam Neill's 'ed....
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Sn!pe <snipe....@penix.NOSPAM.freeserve.co.uk> glanced nervously around
the room before whispering hoarsely:
>>Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
>
>Coz they're luvverly, that's why. No right~fimkin' peeps would run the
>risk o' bendin' a nice bus. Innit.
Sn!pe, you're weird. Ever heard the phrase 'he/she looks like the back-end
of a bus'? I rest my case.
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Guy King
from "c o jones" <please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam>
contains these words:
> Don't you mean 10 ?
Er....
c o jones
> The message <81761v$ev8$2...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>
> from "c o jones" <please_no_spa...@my-deja.com.no.spam>
> contains these words:
>
>
> > Don't you mean 10 ?
>
> Er....
Any number x, written base x is 10
In binary, the number two is written 10
In octal, the number eight is written 10
In decimal, the number ten is written 10
In hexadecimal, the number sixteen is written 10
So in your humungous grate lBooyd number is written 10
I fimk
coj
Warwick
"Fruitbat" <donald...@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:3833B4CC...@virgin.net...
> Austin Shackles wrote:
> >
> > while out driving the anklebiters 'tother day, I saw a small car with
the
> > number plate letters JBX, which I thought was uncomfortably close to
> > JBEX...then this morning I saw one with the letters WWP...this prompted
me to
> > wonder what other sheddi numbers people might've seen.
> >
Sheddi for a different reason.. I was passing through Devizes t'other week
and let a Vauxhall Omega pull out from the Wadworth Brewery
S 11 XEX
*sigh*
Warwick
Laurence Fryer
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>
>I'm still not very good at recognising diffrunt sorts o'cars. Just
>when I start to learn wot a certian type of car looks like they go and
>bring out a new version, often one that looks a lot like another car
>of a completely different mark that I'm just starting to recognise.
>
>I know several of those little logo thingies they stick on cars
>though. Audi has a row of circles frinstance. But if a car whizzes
>past and somebody asks me to describe it I usually go by the colour,
>number of doors and if it is squarish or more bulgy.
Me too. When I'm thimking of changing my car I briefly become acquainted
with the appearance of the ones I might be interested in, then promptly
lose interest again once I've made my choice. It's not that I don't
appreciate the differences in specifications, just that once I've got a
car there's no point in knowing that somebody else's has more valves or
lower ground clearance or fatter wheels or less comfortable seats or six
gears or a CD player or handles like a plateful of jelly. Not my
problem, innit?
>
>Karen, who was able to give a very full description of the man who
>came in to rob the post office while she was buying some stamps. He
>had a gun. It was black. And the barrel was square. A gun. A man. With
>a gun. Very observant me.
We seem to have got away with it, Moriarty...
Carl .LHS. Williams
Oiorpata <dav...@algonet.cutthisbitout.se> wrote:
>>Oh aye, and did this chap have a flat 'at and thick glarses? And
>>was the car an Ovlov?
>
>before the days when I could tell oVlovs apart from ovver cars wonnit?
Ovlovs are easy - they're the ones wot are indicatin' left whilst turnin'
right, whilst the ovlov-aimer squints myopically at the notice in the
middle of the steering wheel which reads "I'm sorry mate, I didn't see
you" in nine different languages. Other distinguishing features include
motorcycle and pedestrian parts embedded in the front grill, which also
features a characteristic diagonal-line logo, of the sort often seen
imprinted in the backs of other vehicles, bike helmets, etc.
>I know several of those little logo thingies they stick on cars
>though. Audi has a row of circles frinstance. But if a car whizzes
>past and somebody asks me to describe it I usually go by the colour,
>number of doors and if it is squarish or more bulgy.
Time was you could also rely on ovlovs to be boxy and big, but there
are stealth ovlovs now, which nonetheless attract the same class of,
shall we say, less confident driver.
Some bar steward tried ter gettus terday, but coodent tell if it were an
ovlov 'cos was dark - we wus gwin slowly enuff, but this eejit still
managed ter cause a bit of rapid brakin' on my part by deciding to
overtake at us when there clearly wasn't room. Prolly thought, fuck it,
that looks like a bike, it'll get out of my way. Another dent in the back
of me lid and the front of SWLB's, 'cos she 'ad 'er ands under me bum at
the time, tryin' ter keep 'em warm. (Lbooyd winter, buggrit.)
Andrew Pattle
Carl .LHS. Williams said:
>In article <B45CAA61...@isdn190.s.netic.de>,
>Julian Barkway <addre...@my.sig> wrote:
>>
>>nia...@btinternet.com (Niall) glanced nervously around the room before
>>whispering hoarsely:
>>
>>>Belongs to Steve Parrish, the truck racer, AFAIK.
>>>I only know this because it was mentioned in a book I read the other
>>>night.
>>
>>like that sort of thing but why race summat that was never _designed_ for
>>speed in the first place?
>
>
>I reckon Pattles orter race sum of 'is motorized bicycle thingies,
>innit.
Um, er, well I has been round Lidden [8] Hill on the Cyclaid - corse we
wasn't racing wuz we? We wuz 'parading' - jest parading as fast as the
lbooyd fings would go. Then there's Alan Hummerummerummerstone who
takes his motorized bike to a sprint every year - and allus comes last -
'cept one year when there was a second motorized bike there and Alan
came last but one. And last year Frank raced his Mini-Motor at
Thundersprint....
[8]Dont guarantee the spilling on that one - it's in deepest Kent anyway
- and the 'hill' bit snow joke; I had ter pedal like f^Hmad to get up it
--
Andrew Pattle
David Reid
following:
>
>Me too. When I'm thimking of changing my car I briefly become acquainted
>with the appearance of the ones I might be interested in, then promptly
>lose interest again once I've made my choice. It's not that I don't
>appreciate the differences in specifications, just that once I've got a
>car there's no point in knowing that somebody else's has more valves or
>lower ground clearance or fatter wheels or less comfortable seats or six
>gears or a CD player or handles like a plateful of jelly. Not my
>problem, innit?
>
approaching at high speed on a narrow bumpy road.
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David's laws of car restoration:
3) If it won't bend, bend the car.
David Reid
bring me the following:
>
>Time was you could also rely on ovlovs to be boxy and big, but there
>are stealth ovlovs now, which nonetheless attract the same class of,
>shall we say, less confident driver.
>
now you've got people who *know* they own the road *and* know they're
totally safe.
>of me lid and the front of SWLB's, 'cos she 'ad 'er ands under me bum at
>the time, tryin' ter keep 'em warm. (Lbooyd winter, buggrit.)
>
A likely explanation.
Brian Skinner
> 6^6^6 could also mean (6^(6^6)) which is slightly larger. [1]
>
> [1] 36,306 digits, starting with 26 and ending with 6.
To avoid starting jbex, knocked up a quick proggy to calculate
(6^(6^6)). It is indeed 36,306 digits long, starts
26591197721532267796824894043879185949053422002699...
and ends
...91040537530672362313491705629432886056717863878656
To get the full number, please email me a SAE and a two shilling
postal order.
--
Brian
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>Bob Goddard's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmer's guns to bring me the
>following:
>>
>>Me too. When I'm thimking of changing my car I briefly become acquainted
>>with the appearance of the ones I might be interested in, then promptly
>>lose interest again once I've made my choice. It's not that I don't
>>appreciate the differences in specifications, just that once I've got a
>>car there's no point in knowing that somebody else's has more valves or
>>lower ground clearance or fatter wheels or less comfortable seats or six
>>gears or a CD player or handles like a plateful of jelly. Not my
>>problem, innit?
>>
>The last one has the potential to be your problem if, for example, it's
>approaching at high speed on a narrow bumpy road.
>
Yes, but it wouldn't be any less of a problem if I knew the
specification of every last nut and bolt on that model woodit? I would
hardly be able to redesign and remolish the thing in the time available.
A Plantigrade Omnivore
> Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
oh, but you do.....
My nephew just got a job driving buses.
Live in or around Bath? - Be afraid, be very afraid.
A Plantigrade Omnivore
> >Anyway, why do you never see bus racing?
> >
>
> Because one doesn't come past for ages then you get three together?
Rather more exciting than Formula 1 then......
A Plantigrade Omnivore
I see some madman has found a 2000 digit prime, just in time for the
millennium.
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Jon Thompson
Carl .LHS. Williams wrote in message <81a0gc$e...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>...
>
>Time was you could also rely on ovlovs to be boxy and big, but there
>are stealth ovlovs now, which nonetheless attract the same class of,
>shall we say, less confident driver.
>
Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
them's.
--
Jon "Terwur@" Thompson.
"Spike lives in his head. He actually LIVES in his head..."
Guy King
from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
> Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
> everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
> them's.
I usually travel at the speed limit and I am well aware that those
behind are getting hot under the collar. I do my best to let them
past whenever appropriate. Oddly, some of the most convenient times
are when we are about to pass a speed trap.
David Reid
following:
>
>specification of every last nut and bolt on that model woodit? I would
>hardly be able to redesign and remolish the thing in the time available.
>
you know how far into the hedge to dive.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
Place cake on a flat surface and cut into portions as required.
Written on the box of a Safeway carrot and apple sauce cake
c o jones
> The message <6EB_3.1791$gG2....@nnrp4.clara.net>
> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>
>
> > Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
> > everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
> > them's.
>
> I usually travel at the speed limit and I am well aware that those
> behind are getting hot under the collar. I do my best to let them
> past whenever appropriate. Oddly, some of the most convenient times
> are when we are about to pass a speed trap.
s'prolly early but IRTA I usually travel at the speed of light
coj (confused)
Quentin
>
> I usually travel at the speed limit and I am well aware that those
> behind are getting hot under the collar. I do my best to let them
> past whenever appropriate. Oddly, some of the most convenient times
> are when we are about to pass a speed trap.
Must be a sign of old age catching up on me. I find meself genrully not
being in such a tearing hurry all the time, and even unaccountably
sticking ter speed limits.
'Ooh, there's a thirty limit sign, better slow down a bit' just doesn't
feel right at all.
Quentin (driven lot of diffrent things, but never an ovlov)
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quentinATpavilionDOTcoDOTuk
Carl .LHS. Williams
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The message <6EB_3.1791$gG2....@nnrp4.clara.net>
> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>
>
>> Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
>> everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
>> them's.
I is, on the bike, I just toddles up, and blips past, and toddles
off, 'ardly 'as ter break the speed limit[1], and serpently needn't
break a sweat, innit.
Traffic jams are even better...
It's thems 2" behind me in big 4-wheeled things at 60 on slippery roads
wot bothers me.
>I usually travel at the speed limit and I am well aware that those
ITRA "The speed of light"...
>behind are getting hot under the collar. I do my best to let them
>past whenever appropriate. Oddly, some of the most convenient times
>are when we are about to pass a speed trap.
Snigger.
[1] For enough yards to get nicked, Gatsos notwithstanding.
Jon Thompson
Carl .LHS. Williams wrote in message <81fjvh$u...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>...
>In article <199911232...@zetnet.co.uk>,
>Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>The message <6EB_3.1791$gG2....@nnrp4.clara.net>
>> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>>
>>
>>> Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
>>> everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
>>> them's.
>
>I is, on the bike, I just toddles up, and blips past, and toddles
>off, 'ardly 'as ter break the speed limit[1], and serpently needn't
>break a sweat, innit.
>
>Traffic jams are even better...
>
>It's thems 2" behind me in big 4-wheeled things at 60 on slippery roads
>wot bothers me.
>
Have I said how much I dislike them's wot finks they's helpin' in some way
in slow-moving traffic by leaving a 60 foot gap between them and the car in
front. One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
Jon Thompson
Oiorpata wrote in message ...
>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:47:04 GMT, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>The message <6EB_3.1791$gG2....@nnrp4.clara.net>
>> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>>
>>
>>> Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
>>> everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
>>> them's.
>>
>>past whenever appropriate. Oddly, some of the most convenient times
>>are when we are about to pass a speed trap.
>
>the hard shoulder to let the maniac behind go past.
>
A lot of slower vans and lorries do that now over here. Respect due, innit.
The Pattles
Jon Thompson <jon.th...@ten.aralc> wrote in message
news:rdY_3.929$F7....@nnrp3.clara.net...
>
> Carl .LHS. Williams wrote in message <81fjvh$u...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>...
> >In article <199911232...@zetnet.co.uk>,
> >Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >>The message <6EB_3.1791$gG2....@nnrp4.clara.net>
> >> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed
limit
> >>> everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
> >>> them's.
> >
> >I is, on the bike, I just toddles up, and blips past, and toddles
> >off, 'ardly 'as ter break the speed limit[1], and serpently needn't
> >break a sweat, innit.
> >
> >Traffic jams are even better...
> >
> >It's thems 2" behind me in big 4-wheeled things at 60 on slippery roads
> >wot bothers me.
> >
>
>
> Have I said how much I dislike them's wot finks they's helpin' in some way
> in slow-moving traffic by leaving a 60 foot gap between them and the car
in
> front. One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
>
Arbut, that can help. Not a constant big gap though, has to be a
variabubble one. As the traffic speeds and slows and everyone tries to keep
close to the car in front the slowing and speeding effect gets worser and
worserer as you gets further down the queueueue. By trying to keep your
speed steady and letting the gap in front open and close you can make life a
bit easier for people further back - prolly eases the fuel consumption a bit
too. Don't know if it still applies but the army yoosed to pick their
bestestest drivers and position them at strategigic points throughout a
convoy so they would even up the speed a bit.
--
Andrew Pattle
(remove "splod." to reply
Jon Thompson
The Pattles wrote in message <81hmtq$qq4$1...@gxsn.com>...
>
>Jon Thompson <jon.th...@ten.aralc> wrote in message
>news:rdY_3.929$F7....@nnrp3.clara.net...
way
>> in slow-moving traffic by leaving a 60 foot gap between them and the car
>in
>> front. One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
>>
>
>Arbut, that can help. Not a constant big gap though, has to be a
>variabubble one. As the traffic speeds and slows and everyone tries to
keep
>close to the car in front the slowing and speeding effect gets worser and
>worserer as you gets further down the queueueue. By trying to keep your
>speed steady and letting the gap in front open and close you can make life
a
>bit easier for people further back - prolly eases the fuel consumption a
bit
>too. Don't know if it still applies but the army yoosed to pick their
>bestestest drivers and position them at strategigic points throughout a
>convoy so they would even up the speed a bit.
>
Oh yeah. That's okay, but the buggers who annoy me STOP 60 feet behind too!
Carl .LHS. Williams
Oiorpata <dav...@algonet.cutthisbitout.se> wrote:
>If I think they are dangerously close I let my foot off the
>accelerator, and let the car gradually slow down to a safe speed for
>the amount of space between the cars. I know it is the car behind who
Lbooyd ehll, someone who dussit korrectly and by the book - Guy, are yer
readin' this - must be some sorta drivin' instructor's book of
records or summink to record this sorta thing!
Peter Thomas
<pat...@globalnet.splod.co.uk> enlightened us with
>
>
snip
>
>Arbut, that can help. Not a constant big gap though, has to be a
>variabubble one. As the traffic speeds and slows and everyone tries to keep
>close to the car in front the slowing and speeding effect gets worser and
>worserer as you gets further down the queueueue. By trying to keep your
>speed steady and letting the gap in front open and close you can make life a
>bit easier for people further back - prolly eases the fuel consumption a bit
>too.
Yup - acceleration converts fuel into xvargvp raretl, heat, noise and
assorted wastes. Braking converts xvargvp raretl into heat, worn rubber,
brake dust and the odd bit of noise.
Moral *Don't brake* or accelerate. Well, only when needed.{1}
> Don't know if it still applies but the army yoosed to pick their
>bestestest drivers and position them at strategigic points throughout a
>convoy so they would even up the speed a bit.
And who said "military intelligence" was an oxymoron?
>
>-
{1} As when having thirty minutes to get to a dining-room thirty-five
minutes away on Friday evening.....
Peter Thomas
Bob Goddard
mumbled...
>following:
>>
>>Yes, but it wouldn't be any less of a problem if I knew the
>>specification of every last nut and bolt on that model woodit? I would
>>hardly be able to redesign and remolish the thing in the time available.
>>
>Ahbut if you know the extent to which it handles like a plate of jelly
>you know how far into the hedge to dive.
>
I fear such finesse might be beyond my capabilities. Anyway, what if I
sees a Suzuki 4x4 approaching at speed round a sharp bend, thimk to
myself "Ah so, honourable Suzuki-san fall over on corners...", dive
cerpvfryl the right distance into a hedge and then the fecker doesn't
fall over after all? How am I going to explain that to my insurance
company, answer me that eh?
Guy King
from Oiorpata <dav...@algonet.cutthisbitout.se> contains these words:
> If I think they are dangerously close I let my foot off the
> accelerator, and let the car gradually slow down to a safe speed for
> the amount of space between the cars.
I prefer to give the windscreen a mighty long squirt until the chap
behind gets fed up with the spray dribbling over onto his screen as
well and drops back. Try it...it really jbexes.
Carl .LHS. Williams
Jon Thompson <jon.th...@ten.aralc> wrote:
>
>Carl .LHS. Williams wrote in message <81fjvh$u...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>...
>>In article <199911232...@zetnet.co.uk>,
>>Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>>The message <6EB_3.1791$gG2....@nnrp4.clara.net>
>>> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Or them wot finks that because them's doin 20 mph below the speed limit
>>>> everyone behind them must be as relaxed and happy on account of it as
>>>> them's.
>>
>>I is, on the bike, I just toddles up, and blips past, and toddles
>>off, 'ardly 'as ter break the speed limit[1], and serpently needn't
>>break a sweat, innit.
>>
>>Traffic jams are even better...
>>
>>It's thems 2" behind me in big 4-wheeled things at 60 on slippery roads
>>wot bothers me.
>>
>
>
>in slow-moving traffic by leaving a 60 foot gap between them and the car in
>front. One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
I persoom you mean for "car" values of slow-moving?
Also, spare a fort for those of us wot havn't got the tuit to fix our
car clutches yet, so can't keep up up hills...
David Reid
following:
>
>I prefer to give the windscreen a mighty long squirt until the chap
>behind gets fed up with the spray dribbling over onto his screen as
>well and drops back. Try it...it really jbexes.
It's hard work if you haven't got a nelectric washer though innit?
--
David Reid Da...@davita.demon.co.uk http://www.davita.demon.co.uk
David's laws of car restoration:
1) The quality of any given weld is inversely proportional to the
probability that the panel it is holding is in the right place.
Carl .LHS. Williams
Andrew Pattle <and...@egplc.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote:
>At 21:02:03 on Sat, 20 Nov 1999,
>Carl .LHS. Williams said:
>>In article <B45CAA61...@isdn190.s.netic.de>,
>>Julian Barkway <addre...@my.sig> wrote:
>>>[Re: <3835cc40...@news.btinternet.com>]
>>>
>>>nia...@btinternet.com (Niall) glanced nervously around the room before
>>>whispering hoarsely:
>>>
>>>>Belongs to Steve Parrish, the truck racer, AFAIK.
>>>>I only know this because it was mentioned in a book I read the other
>>>>night.
>>>
>>>Now there's a boodly pointless sport. Car racing is ok I suppose if you
>>>like that sort of thing but why race summat that was never _designed_ for
>>>speed in the first place?
>>
>>*Splutter*! Not very sheddy racin' things _qrfvtarq_ forrit, issit?
>>
>>I reckon Pattles orter race sum of 'is motorized bicycle thingies,
>>innit.
>
>Um, er, well I has been round Lidden [8] Hill on the Cyclaid - corse we
>wasn't racing wuz we? We wuz 'parading' - jest parading as fast as the
>lbooyd fings would go. Then there's Alan Hummerummerummerstone who
>takes his motorized bike to a sprint every year - and allus comes last -
>'cept one year when there was a second motorized bike there and Alan
>came last but one. And last year Frank raced his Mini-Motor at
>Thundersprint....
Hmm. Wooden mind a go at moped racing - figure you could hfr quite a
small circuit for that...plus, it shouldn't 'urt too much when you
fall orft.
'ere, someone recently told me that the Swansea airport(?) authorities,
with approval of local dibbles, let the local nutters play on their
tarmac on bikes of a weekend. Sounds like it might be worth a visit...
Carl .LHS. Williams
Bob Goddard <new...@godwit.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I fear such finesse might be beyond my capabilities. Anyway, what if I
>sees a Suzuki 4x4 approaching at speed round a sharp bend, thimk to
>myself "Ah so, honourable Suzuki-san fall over on corners...", dive
>cerpvfryl the right distance into a hedge and then the fecker doesn't
>fall over after all? How am I going to explain that to my insurance
>company, answer me that eh?
"The hedge approached me at a dangerous speed..."
Carl .LHS. Williams
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The message <bgun3sc7bkl9v3q0n...@4ax.com>
> from Oiorpata <dav...@algonet.cutthisbitout.se> contains these words:
>
>
>> If I think they are dangerously close I let my foot off the
>> accelerator, and let the car gradually slow down to a safe speed for
>> the amount of space between the cars.
>
>behind gets fed up with the spray dribbling over onto his screen as
>well and drops back. Try it...it really jbexes.
Specially if you squirt it with used engine oil or hydroflouric acid. Or
d'you mean *your* windscreen?
A bloke once told me that, as a pillion passenger on a bike, he found
meaningfully holding a housebrick out over the offending bonnet
worked wonders.
Guy King
from Peter Thomas <Pe...@godthoms.doubledemon.co.uk> contains these words:
> Moral *Don't brake* or accelerate. Well, only when needed.{1}
If you wnat a really entertaining afternoon's fun, tape a dustbin lid
upside down and level to the bonnet of the car. Put a football in the
lid. Now driving round a car park in and out of cones and things
without the football falling out.
It is very very much harder than it sounds.
Brian Skinner
> If you wnat a really entertaining afternoon's fun, tape a dustbin lid
> upside down and level to the bonnet of the car. Put a football in the
> lid. Now driving round a car park in and out of cones and things
> without the football falling out.
When I learned to drive (about 1958), my instructor said "Imagine a
glass of water on the bonnet[1]. Now drive without spilling any of the
water". I found it more effective to imagine a glass of whiskey[2].
[1] cars had proper horizontal bonnets then.
[2] this was in Norn Irn.
--
Brian
Guy King
from ca...@nospam.demon.co.uk (Carl .LHS. Williams) contains these words:
> Specially if you squirt it with used engine oil or hydroflouric acid. Or
> d'you mean *your* windscreen?
I must admit I once had an Allaggro with an extra nozzle fitted to a
third pump that was only there to squirt cars behind. I experimented
with sugar solution in it to gum up windscreens, but it didn't jbex
all that well. Perhaps syrup solution would've been better.
Guy King
from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
> . One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
Talking of bikes...Inky saw a bike from the bus window today and I
asked him what he had on his head. "Helmet" he said...then added
"He's got his window open"
Jon Gurr
Oiorpata wrote:
> Ooh, it were ages ago, I can't unforget the details. Anyhow it were
> before the days when I could tell oVlovs apart from ovver cars wonnit?
>
> I'm still not very good at recognising diffrunt sorts o'cars. Just
> when I start to learn wot a certian type of car looks like they go and
> bring out a new version, often one that looks a lot like another car
> of a completely different mark that I'm just starting to recognise.
>
>
Is that very necessary where you are? If it's boxy, it's prolly a Saab. If
it's Very boxy, it's prolly a ovloV. Simple, innit.
--
JonG (JBC No. 37 3/4)
You've got to cut the ICE
to reply
Gid Holyoake
decided to share with us..
> I must admit I once had an Allaggro with an extra nozzle fitted to a
> third pump that was only there to squirt cars behind. I experimented
> with sugar solution in it to gum up windscreens, but it didn't jbex
> all that well. Perhaps syrup solution would've been better.
Nitromors.. you know it makes sense!..
Gid
--
The Most Noble and Exalted Peculiar , Harem Master to Veiled Concubines
Guardian of the Sacred !!!!!'s , Defender of the Temple of AFPdoration
ISTP http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~gidnsuzi/ for The Irrelevant Page! MJBC
Wit levels low.. attempting to compensate..
Carl .LHS. Williams
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The message <Kx6ppHAx...@godthoms.demon.co.uk>
> from Peter Thomas <Pe...@godthoms.doubledemon.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>
>> Moral *Don't brake* or accelerate. Well, only when needed.{1}
>
>upside down and level to the bonnet of the car. Put a football in the
>lid. Now driving round a car park in and out of cones and things
>without the football falling out.
Shirley you mean "Now sit inside with a BA and a PP, and watch passers-by
peer at it in puzzlement" or summat?
Carl .LHS. Williams
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The message <81i3uk$4...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>
> from ca...@nospam.demon.co.uk (Carl .LHS. Williams) contains these words:
>
>
>> Specially if you squirt it with used engine oil or hydroflouric acid. Or
>> d'you mean *your* windscreen?
>
>third pump that was only there to squirt cars behind. I experimented
>with sugar solution in it to gum up windscreens, but it didn't jbex
>all that well. Perhaps syrup solution would've been better.
Ketchup.
A Plantigrade Omnivore
>
> The message <Kx6ppHAx...@godthoms.demon.co.uk>
> from Peter Thomas <Pe...@godthoms.doubledemon.co.uk> contains these words:
>
> > Moral *Don't brake* or accelerate. Well, only when needed.{1}
>
> If you wnat a really entertaining afternoon's fun, tape a dustbin lid
> upside down and level to the bonnet of the car. Put a football in the
> lid. Now driving round a car park in and out of cones and things
> without the football falling out.
can i use a tabletennis ball, or a squash ball , or summat, in a biggish
saucer, instead?
Guy King
from A Plantigrade Omnivore <1999111...@mcc.ac.uk19991116>
contains these words:
> can i use a tabletennis ball, or a squash ball , or summat, in a biggish
> saucer, instead?
No, its only for extroverts.
Carl .LHS. Williams
> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>
>> . One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
>
>Talking of bikes...Inky saw a bike from the bus window today and I
>asked him what he had on his head. "Helmet" he said...then added
>"He's got his window open"
I know the feelin'. Any de-misting recommendations?
Guy King
from ca...@nospam.demon.co.uk (Carl .LHS. Williams) contains these words:
> I know the feelin'. Any de-misting recommendations?
Get a car?
Bob Goddard
then mumbled...
>In article <199911251...@zetnet.co.uk>,
>Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>The message <rdY_3.929$F7....@nnrp3.clara.net>
>> from "Jon Thompson" <jon.th...@ten.aralc> contains these words:
>>
>>> . One of these days I'll drop a cog and scoot round them!
>>
>>Talking of bikes...Inky saw a bike from the bus window today and I
>>asked him what he had on his head. "Helmet" he said...then added
>>"He's got his window open"
>
>
Neat jnfuvat-hc liquid.
Alan Price
<ca...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes>>The message <81i3uk$4...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>
>>> d'you mean *your* windscreen?
>>
>>I must admit I once had an Allaggro with an extra nozzle fitted to a
>>third pump that was only there to squirt cars behind. I experimented
>>with sugar solution in it to gum up windscreens, but it didn't jbex
>>all that well. Perhaps syrup solution would've been better.
>
>Ketchup.
>
>
--
Alan Price
Carl .LHS. Williams
Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The message <81m42q$d...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>
>
Got one, but the clutch is shagged, and I don't like contributin' to
congestion when I could be grinnin' ear-to-ear instead. Mindyou,
it is warmer, I'll grant you, and less likely to result in clenched
buttocks, swearing and damaged knees at this mud-, leaf- and diesel-
strewn time of year. Lbooyd diesel nearly got us in Brum. Not nice
feelin the front end suddenly step a foot sideways whilst negotiating
a 90° corner at about 5 or 10mph.
Mindyou, the more I ride in 'orrible conditions, the more impressed I
am wiv me Shoei winter jacket and the VFR, both of which quietly get
on wiv the job in a thoroughly competent manner.
I unforget mopedding in bad weather in me yoof, without the benefit
of water- and wind-proof boots and jacket. Snow was the absolute worse,
and I don't intend to try that on the VFR 'cos plastic's expensive,
but you haven't begun to experience the ill-manners and lack of
imagination of the average car driver 'till you've been tailgated
in falling snow on icy roads whilst riding a moped. Then there's the
hypnotic effect of heavy falling snow when you're delerious with
cold, feet that only return to "excrutiatingly painful" after being
indoors in the warm again for over an hour (I used to aim to be
asleep by then, and hope they were more or less back to normal come
morning)
I 'ad some sheddy stabs at improving things: molished some
serious leather fur-lined waterproof mittens out of old leather and
fur things obhtug from the local charidee shop, fertilizer-sack
waterproofing for old coat, placcy-bag boot liners, home-molished
handlebar windshields, etc. Having to get off and push up hills
helped keep the ole circulation going, too, assuming yer feet
still jbexq well enough to stand up at that point.
I unforget feeling reet sorry for another candidate when I did me
proper-size bike training, 'cos, though it was summer, nominally,
it belted down with rain one day and this lad was wearing thin
cotton trousers and an old lightweight waterproof-ish synthetic biking
over-jacket over a thin cotton shirt. The rain made no impact on me
at all, other than speckling the visor and making the road a bit slippy
and wet, so I only realized the kind of misery the other chap was in when
the poor sod ran out of petrol somewhere and I sat behind him watching
him trying to get it going again for a while, before he was ferried
off by the instructor to fetch a can of petrol after realizing that
someone had left the bike on reserve... Still, I spect it's
character-building and all that...
Wonder if he passed his test, ackshirly, he was terribly timid. But then
I would've been, first-time out on a 600 in heavy traffic and rain wearing
totally inadequate clothing, aged about 19. (I'm a bit surprised they let
'im wear what he was wearin', actually. Not zactly a Good Example, issit?
Then again, I spose it's not for them to force 'im to go out and
spend a packet on gear when he prolly won't be gettin' a bike for
ages anyway - he'd had the compulsory speil about what to wear and
why, s'up ter him if he wanted to ignore it all... they lent him
a reasonably protective jacket, and also some waterproof trousers
later on when it became clear the rain wasn't gonna stop... )
This sounds like the trainers were a Bit Of A Shower, which isn't
really the case - in some respects they were a bit relaxed, but in
quality of riding instruction they were anything but, insisting on
a commendably (and necessarily) high standard from the start.
I fluffed a gearchange or used the wrong gear somewhere on my test, and
got one "minor fault" for that. You're allowed 15 minor faults, I
discovered only later. I can heartily recommend intensive training
under close and unwaveringly critical supervision for getting you
focussed on the minutest detail of yer driving.
Interesting line in practical demos, too. I'd long (many years) since
trained myself to do shoulder-checks and "lifesavers" in the car,
so they never caught me out, but these ubggres tried; about a dozen
times, I'd check _just in case_ something had sneaked up in some
unlikely and obscure circumstance, and there was a lbooyd gert
pan-euro complete with nodding instructor, backing off again to
make room as I glowered at 'im. Quite right, too, people will try
to pass in the daftest of places. Someone else said my instructor
wasn't above all-but driving into anyone who failed to check, just to
make the point. Leave a gap on the inside approaching a left-hand
turn-off, and that's where the instructor'd be next time you
looked. Road narrowing from right, there'd be a dirty great bike
pullin' in from your right. Parked car, yup, instructor trying to
pass as you check before starting to pull out. Dunno if they've
actually managed to crash into anyone...
Must get signed up on an IAM course, I guvax, next summer or summat.
Jon Thompson
Guy King wrote in message <199911262...@zetnet.co.uk>...
>The message <81m42q$d...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>
> from ca...@nospam.demon.co.uk (Carl .LHS. Williams) contains these words:
>
>
>> I know the feelin'. Any de-misting recommendations?
>
>Get a car?
Fairy liquid on a tissue. Any detergent or soap will do. Wipe it on and
presto!
Carl .LHS. Williams
Alan Price <apr...@postern.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <81kjqr$a...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>, Carl .LHS. Williams
><ca...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>>The message <81i3uk$4...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>
>>>> d'you mean *your* windscreen?
>>>
>>>I must admit I once had an Allaggro with an extra nozzle fitted to a
>>>third pump that was only there to squirt cars behind. I experimented
>>>with sugar solution in it to gum up windscreens, but it didn't jbex
>>>all that well. Perhaps syrup solution would've been better.
>>
>>Ketchup.
>>
>>
>Diesel/paraffin/TVO
Rear-facing squirter shooting LPG, with spark-ignition unit under nozzle?
Carl .LHS. Williams
Jon Thompson <jon.th...@ten.aralc> wrote:
>
>Guy King wrote in message <199911262...@zetnet.co.uk>...
>>The message <81m42q$d...@yon-net.demon.co.uk>
>>
>>Get a car?
>
>
>Fairy liquid on a tissue. Any detergent or soap will do. Wipe it on and
>presto!
Tried that, didden jbex. Was warned not to by trainin' peeps. Sez it
knackers the antimist coating wot they put on 'em at the factry. They
wus rite. I'll 'ave a go wiv acshul Fairy, just in case (nuffin to
lose, tried it with other detgt. though) but prolly have a bash wiv
RainX or summat at some point, and try molishin' a breath-guard
snouty thing wot in my case I have not got in my lid. (SWLB's never
seems to steam up much, an' she got one of them thingies.)
David Reid
bring me the following:
>
>Rear-facing squirter shooting LPG, with spark-ignition unit under nozzle?
>
stick under your car door. Anti theft device apparently. You've probably
seen the pics already, I think it was here I saw it mentioned in the
first place.
--
David Reid Da...@davita.demon.co.uk http://www.davita.demon.co.uk
The first commandment shall be: You shall have no packet cheese cake.
- Kay Dekker.