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.

No snow here it's 12c

bos
Your right.

Hi driver ,,no thanks ,however buy yourself some Worthington Nichols (WNG) ,150p in two months . I'll send her through the post bos !! . Merry Christmas ..

jimmy
Nice chart that WNG a bit like CCT

wng


cct

Buy PDR and be in at the beginning of a similar chart in 2007 :o)

Happy Christmas to you all on here ,and a profitable new year . :-)

I echo jimmys comments..................

Just to let anyone in M&S know, they had a bad Christmas Eve............
Took the family there for the last minute locust job on the food aisles and to pick up some posh nosh we had had to order. The ham on the bone was missing so I kicked off in a lively manner and the manager kept stuffing food and booze into a bag I had dropped by my feet, for just such a purpose. It cost M&S a fortune to shut me up and just as they thought the worst of it was over.......my youngest was sick over about 2 grands worth of clothing.
Merry Christmas to all, especially the cleaners and manager at my local M&S.
Alan

Don't buy MKS not after Alan and his family have been in there, merry xmass to all.

merry christmas to everyone. may next year bring you everything you desire.

Indeedy :)



Merry Chocsmas

happy new year. may next year be everything you want it to be. personally , i'd just like it to go a bit slower than 2006 which seemed to be turbo-charged.

And very best wishes from me too.
My earnest new year wish is the same as every year. That I finish it with a pulse and a full set of limbs. Everything else is just gravy.
Alan

A Happy New Year from me to all on this thread ,the intellect here keeps me sane.

Afternoon all. "Frohes Neues Jahr" from Frankfurt.

Many thanks to all of you for the great wit and entertainment on the BB's in 2006. (Alan, were you able to get the security camera video of your M&S experience as I feel sure that that would make an excellent posting for this thread :o) ).

May all of your trading be profitable in 2007.

Best wishes,
ST.

Hello peeps.
Christmas was a blast (as always) but it was let down by one thing (as every year).
The quality of the Christmas Crackers. I got to thinking about how popular this thread is and what fun we have (?) and how I could improve Crackers in time for next year. So heres the deal. Anyone fancy joining me in designing and marketing a range of "bad taste" Crackers for next year???
You know, sick jokes, bad taste gift, that kind of thing. I think there is a totally untapped market for this and a hell of a lot of fun designing their contents.
Anyone up for it????
Alan

oh you know i'm up for that :))

btw, the taste ..... how bad?

Extremely.
I'm serious you know. Not only Xmas, but Hen and Stag night crackers, Adult party crackers. Owt.
I think it would be a big seller.

ho hum, back to work. what a miserable day.

Do You Think English is Easy???

Read to the end . . . a new twist to an oldie


Can you read these right the first time?




1) The bandage was wound around the wound.


2) The farm was used to produce produce.


3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse .


4) We must polish the Polish furniture.


5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present , he thought it was time topresent the present

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"


You lovers of the English language might enjoy this

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car . At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special .

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. I f you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP .

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP , so........... it is time to shut UP.....!

And what exactly is the difference between "flammible" and "inflammible"????