On 2021-12-23, Richard Robinson <
rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
>>
snip...@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
>>> Tone <
em...@address.com> wrote:
>>> > On 22/12/2021 21:23, Peter wrote:
>>> > > Ahem A Rivet's Shot <
ste...@eircom.net> wrote in
>>> > >> Sam Plusnet <
n...@home.com> wrote:
>>> > >>> On 22-Dec-21 7:20, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>> Its the longest day down under of course.
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> Stealing our daylight!
>>> > >>> Abstrads!
>>> > >>
>>> > >> There's nothing for it, we'll all have to go up to the North
>>> > >> Pole and give it a good yank (not Yank), and tip the planet over a
>>> > >> bit.
>>> > >
>>> > > I'll bring a bit of rope for us to yank on.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > If we anchor one end of the rope and secure t'other end through a hole
>>> > in the pole, wooden it yank itself over as the earth turns and the rope
>>> > winds round the pole?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,
>>> and I shall move the world. --Archie Meads
>>
>> Mead ? Yes excellent idea, it's a tad chilly up there by all
>> accounts, but let's use glasses not horns eh ?
>
> "Bring me the mead of Alfredo Garcia".
>