On 9 Jun 2009, at 16:23, Roger Millin wrote:
> I said:
>>> Infamy, infamy, everybody's got it in for me ;-)))
>>
>> OK wise guy, who wrote that line originally?
>
> According to my sources (the internet) it was Frank Muir and Dennis
> Norden. Will that do, oh squeaky one? ;-)))
>
>
Good lad, tell Margaret I said you could have a chocolate biscuit
with your tea tonight.
>> It was her turn to steer. And anyway, I worked all the locks ;-}
>
> Her turn, her turn!!!! Sir Galahad is turning in his grave. What
> happened to the days of chivalry?
>
And it was my turn today, and she worked all the locks, apart from
the ones the nice lockies worked for her. Mind you, she's still
knackered tonight, but that's the stress of me steering down the T
*R* ent
>
>> Yeah well, some of us go for length, not breadth.
>
> No comment, except the famous line "Length isn't everything"
Good job, in your case ;-}} I know, we can't all be 6' 1"
>
>> And listen, sonny,
>> I went to school a lot further north than you are now, by trolley
>> bus, in the snow. And it was a point of honour not to wear a coat.
>> And then we moved to Glasgow, and I discovered what tough meant.
>>
>> (I used to share a bench in Physics with a 15 year old lad whose dad
>> was a debt collector. He used to help out on a Saturday, and looked
>> the part. You try explaining Ohm's Law to someone straight out of a
>> Tarentino movie.)
>
> Innocent look < Was he the only one that would share a bench with
> you then? I guess he had to be tough. >
>
Sometime, if we ever share a pint again, get me to tell you what it's
like being the only English lad in a classroom full of 15 year old
Glaswegians. I'm not looking for sympathy, you understand, but it
*did* scar me for life. It goes a long way to explaining why I'm as
weird as I am (before you say it!)
> Ehhh lad, you had a trolley bus? Think yersen lucky. In my day we
> only had a long walk and that was in bare feet 'cos we couldn't
> afford shoes. I suppose you had food as well? We had to chew the
> park railings for a bit of sustenance. Think yersen lucky. ;-))
We've been watching your box set of Monty Python again, haven't we?
All the best
Bruce
Go steady, but keep going.
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