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Post by Crazy Horse on Jul 7, 2013 12:51:23 GMT 1
My Lord CH...Ooh, I can see the cause of your ongoing problems now... ooh, it's not vegemite, it's not MARMITE, hmmmm, oooohh, EARL GREY..... ooohh, hmm, not a good breakfast tea.. Hmmm, as a doctor ( Of not much), May I recommend YORKSHIRE tea, for it's strength and flavour, and general 'wake me up'ness!', as opposed to earl greys rather limp wristed approach! YORKSHIRE TEA! IF CAN KEEP T'MINERS GOING ( Pre 1984 anyways...), IT CAN KEEP THOU GOING AN'ALL! YORKSHIRE TEA AND MARMITE.......MMMMMMMMMM! PS: For the US cousins, it's not YORK-SHIRE... it's actually pronounced YORK-SHURE. Call it a shire ( as in lord of the rings, and you will be treated to complete disdain by polite people. If you are ever here, go to the mining museum, Caphouse colliery in Wakefield, and I promise you, you will be scared. 300 meters down, then they switch the lights off! I have nothing to do with the museum, it's just a good day out... It is ..Honest. Toff, How thoroughly I agree with most of your post with the exception of the tea aspect. Now don't get me wrong old chum, but the Earl Grey does go so splendidly with cucumber sandwiches at mid afternoon tea. The sandwiches must be prepared from good wholemeal bread, the crusts cut off, the cucumber sliced so thinly that I can still read the Times crossword through the slices. Then the sandwiches cut through diagonally and placed on fine china plates. We do have Yorkshire tea, but that is reserved for our valued downstairs servants, in order to sustain them through their 20hr days on duty. I am afraid that I have to take issue with you Toff. I do not wish to be pedantic nor cause offence old chap, especially as you are of such a robust nature as to be able to drink Yorkshire tea, (an admirable quality). You say 300 meters down. Perhaps it was the falling down fluid to blame Sir, but meters, METERS! Have you been converted to the improper spelling of that measurement by our American forumites? Indeed, I hope not. For the benefit of our fellow members across the ocean, Metre is a unit of measurement of length. Meter can be a device for measuring consumption of various commodities, (gas, electricity,etc), or indeed a measured arrangement of words in poetry. P.S. I used to have a great running mate who hailed from Yorkshire, we got along famously. He decided to move back to his much loved county and I still miss the banter and jokes we shared, taking the mickey out of each other mercilessly! |
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Post by toff on Jul 7, 2013 14:42:57 GMT 1
Oh lordy! Yes, blame the Americans..it's all their fault! What with their sneakers and sidewalks, and the impossible to pronounce American names (Like Fritz, and Erwin!).
Wish I'd never mentioned metric, and just said 900 feet as I was going to!
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Post by Crazy Horse on Jul 7, 2013 15:01:38 GMT 1
Ah Toff, All is forgiven, you are fun, I like that.  |
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Post by Crazy Horse on Jul 7, 2013 15:08:19 GMT 1
Ian, We have got this to six pages! Only another four to go and I think we have a record! Post, post, post!
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Post by renard80 on Jul 7, 2013 17:50:58 GMT 1
We have got this to six pages! Only another four to go and I think we have a record! Post, post, post! Posting simply to achieve a record, without having anything useful to add, would be unethical and rather silly. |
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Post by renard80 on Jul 7, 2013 17:51:16 GMT 1
Wouldn't it?
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Post by renard80 on Jul 7, 2013 17:51:46 GMT 1
Well, that's my opinion, for what it's worth.
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Post by renard80 on Jul 7, 2013 17:52:30 GMT 1
So I refuse to be drawn into such an exercise.
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Post by toff on Jul 7, 2013 18:35:57 GMT 1
LOL Ian!!!!
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Post by renard80 on Jul 7, 2013 23:54:15 GMT 1
Thank you. I hope you are well? |
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Post by iandhunt on Jul 8, 2013 4:07:53 GMT 1
See, i leave for a while and return to chaos!
Marmite has been disposed of while the Vegemite lives on in my fridge.
Unfortunately, the great debate is the least of my worries. We have a 30000 acre forest fire just north of our location at Eielson AFB. No evacuation yet. Will post a picture tonight.
Meters.....you mean YARDS!
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Post by toff on Jul 8, 2013 19:21:14 GMT 1
Thank you. I hope you are well? I am very well, young sir! Although now slightly damp from the hilarity that My lord CH has caused me! |
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Post by toff on Jul 20, 2013 13:17:13 GMT 1
Hmm, this thread seems to have quietened down.....
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Post by toff on Jul 20, 2013 13:17:24 GMT 1
I wonder why?  |
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Post by renard80 on Jul 20, 2013 23:24:15 GMT 1
You're right, Toff. He hasn't posted anything for seven days!  Are you there, CH - or away at some tribal gathering? (Hope it's not Marmite poisoning . . . ) |
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