----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Pavement Etiquette was Travelpower 240V Generator
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steve Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>I am a great lover of Brough, once the only ward of the City of London to >>be >>outside of the city walls. I am a regular at Borough Market, the >>cathederal >>is a lost gem of London and Tate Modern a real testimony to the fact we >>can >>really do art in this country. > > Brough is on Humberside, although there's also one in Westmoreland. My > mother-in-law, when moving to Brough some years ago, failed to specify > to the removal men which one. The results were predictable. > > Borough too is nice. I have happy memories of working there before > university, in a laboratory with a view of what seemed the biggest brick > wall in existence: the arse-end of Bankside power station. We tested > dodgy pharmaceuticals. These included strychnine tablets, exported to > the middle east as aphrodisiacs. Strychnine causes the muscles to > contract and go rigid. The fatal dose was six of the tablets, which > caused everything to go permanently rigid. Overdoses made you die with a > smile on your face - the so-called risus sardonicus, caused by the > facial muscles contracting. Damn fine cathedral. > > Wassail! > -- > Martin E Phillips http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk That gets my award for the post of the year so far, I nearly fell off my chair - should have had a c'n'c warning, though. Luckily I had neither nearby at the time. Much more fund than road-pricing! Dorothy
