Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I find the stripes a bit tough.

You are not supposed to swallow it whole.

I was in Strasbourg on business and wanted lunch. I went into a restaurant called Cheval Blanc, which should have been a clue. I was having trouble picking something. I saw 'poulain in daube'. I thought that it had to be chicken of some sort as there is poulet and poussin. I knew that 'en daube' meant a type of stew. As I was waiting for the waiter my companion looked it up in the dictionary. She grabbed my arm and suggested that I order something else. Poulain is foal!

I looked up the restaurant and it is still there. I think it had a Michelin star.

I guess one man's veal is another man's foal!

I was in a restaurant in Frankfurt with a friend and someone local. They had venison on the menu, but we did not know the German. My friend asked what this dish was and the German guy did not know the English word for venison. A bit later while we were reading the menu, he suddenly said "I have it, Bambi".

if you are hungry enough you will eat anything

Pot noodles!?

A starving father in North Korea has been executed for murdering his two children for food, reports from the secretive state have claimed.

A 'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae is believed to have killed up to 10,000 people and there are fears that incidents of cannibalism have risen in the country.

The grim story is just one that has come to light, as residents are battling against starvation after a drought hit farms and shortages were compounded by party officials who were confiscating food.
and the lunatic running the country fat as a pig but the pig is better looking
he spends billions on rockets and is people starve

to north korea rise up and fight or lie down and die
fight for your lives not seek pity
like most asian countrys do

TANKER re 20804
Cheers that clears it for me :-)
MRW have to leave that for a while (maybe this years ISA)
Still with CNA, it's not racing away yet but with the results due next month, could be a rise from here.

op divs are good

When Insults Had Class



These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.



The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd poison your coffee."
He said, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."



A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."





"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill



"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow



"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).




"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas



"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain



"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde



"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill


"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.



"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop



"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright



"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb



"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson



"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating



"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker



"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West



"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde



"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts.. . for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)



"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder



"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

I must try and remember some of those, thanks Skinny.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21243737.. Rather early to start on the Ribena don't you think?

Looks like the huntsmen are still fenced in!

That should increase the odds.

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Interesting statement from Hammond:

""The role of British troops…is clearly not a combat role and will also not extend, as we envisage it at the moment, to a force-protection role," he told Parliament. "We are very clear about the risks of mission creep and we have defined very carefully the support that we are willing and able to provide to the French and the Malian authorities."


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It seems Cameron is going to oversee the French.


Probably, to avoid the Lib Dems. or is own party.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21240676 Don't panic stay calm, but as a precaution I have on behalf of Money AM "volunteered" a certain Taffy Tanker to the armed forces from these boards.. all in favour say I.

Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye.............

Is fred too old to go?

I'll take that as a yes then.. whatda ya say Tanks?

"Is fred too old to go?"

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