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Post by OnlyMark on Dec 4, 2016 16:25:35 GMT 2
I remember my father either writing or reading me a short story set on a cruise ship. Just as they were leaving port a piece of paper fluttered into the hand of a passenger. He read it and was shocked. He passed it on to his friend who also uttered words of shock. The friend passed it on to a couple who had asked him if he was ok and what was the matter. They reacted in the same way. The story goes on to cover a few of the other passengers, then sailors and eventually the Captain who all had the same emotion. The Captain was on deck when a gust of wind took the note out of his hand, it fluttered over the side into the sea and disappeared.
That's when the story ended. I asked my dad what was written on the note. He said, "I have no idea".
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 4, 2016 18:41:04 GMT 2
Baz - can you make that find the "hook" for your next book?? Good idea. But I am giving it a separate thread so we can all join in.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 4, 2016 19:02:41 GMT 2
Hmmm. Doesn't the BBC proofread before it posts stories on its site?
It will be a staggered revolution, with new arrangements put in place as and when franchises (the concession to run the rains - typically granted every seven to ten years) come up for renewal.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 5, 2016 2:34:10 GMT 2
"may contain trace nuts"
on tzar's florentine
They'll be crap if they only contain traces of nuts.
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 5, 2016 10:44:42 GMT 2
Like the mysterious contents of the box, in "Belle de Jour".
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 7, 2016 11:01:10 GMT 2
Recently, whilst sitting on a rock at the top of the slope in my garden, and surveying the view; I saw a man walking towards me loosening his belt. Still facing in my direction he proceeded to pee down the bank of the brook that boarders my garden.
I was shocked !!!
How on Earth do they manage to reproduce?
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Post by tzarine on Dec 9, 2016 5:31:19 GMT 2
i once saw a worker ejaculating into a flower box
i supposed he was angry @ his employers
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 10, 2016 1:04:20 GMT 2
The least used railway station in Britain is Shippea Hill. It is on the line from Cambridge to Norwich. One train a week stops there, on a Saturday. No train going in the opposite direction stops there. Last year 12 passengers got off in Shippea Hill.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 10, 2016 4:10:09 GMT 2
at the eye doctor's on monday, in ny magazine, an ad for giorgio armani baby bottles & a few pages later, a customizable sex doll. that was about $6,000 us
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 10, 2016 10:23:24 GMT 2
Talk about inflation!
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 11, 2016 0:58:02 GMT 2
I am late bringing you this news but the National Garden Bureau (no, I don't know either) declared 2016 to be the Year of the Carrot.
We live in interesting times.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 11, 2016 4:22:12 GMT 2
about drunk santas in the neighborhood
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Post by OnlyMark on Dec 11, 2016 12:40:45 GMT 2
at the eye doctor's on monday, in ny magazine, an ad for giorgio armani baby bottles & a few pages later, a customizable sex doll. that was about $6,000 us When I was younger and around my home town/city it'd cost me far less than that to get a regular shag, so I can't see the point in buying one. I'd get a conversation as well.
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Post by OnlyMark on Dec 11, 2016 12:43:49 GMT 2
Quantas are going to fly regularly from London to Perth, non-stop. It would take 17 hours. Sod that for a bag of soldiers (local expression, sorry). It would be purgatory having to spend that long on a plane. Not even in business class would it be acceptable.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 12, 2016 2:32:13 GMT 2
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Post by tiltedflipcurves on Dec 12, 2016 3:38:07 GMT 2
I am late bringing you this news but the National Garden Bureau (no, I don't know either) declared 2016 to be the Year of the Carrot. We live in interesting times. 2016 was indeed the year of orange insentients suitable as dildoes.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 12, 2016 11:01:21 GMT 2
I am late bringing you this news but the National Garden Bureau (no, I don't know either) declared 2016 to be the Year of the Carrot. We live in interesting times. 2016 was indeed the year of orange insentients suitable as dildoes. You have put me off eating them.
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Post by Voy on Dec 12, 2016 14:55:45 GMT 2
Baz said: The least used railway station in Britain is Shippea Hill. It is on the line from Cambridge to Norwich. One train a week stops there, on a Saturday. No train going in the opposite direction stops there. Last year 12 passengers got off in Shippea Hill. There was an article in yesterday's paper about the " Ghost Trains" and the people who ride them. They operate to save money. If the lines aren't used they must be officially abandoned, which would cost a bomb. So you have the effect you mentioned. The official name of these runs is "Parliamentary Trains",just to satisfy the law, and they don't care if anybody rides them or not. One stretch of the no longer used main line from London to Birmingham, now stops at West Ruislip - a train goes daily, and they use the line to train drivers!
Interesting stuff. thanks for the heads up, or I never would have read the entire article. edited to add: NYTimes/Des Shoe
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 12, 2016 16:28:07 GMT 2
They operate to save money. If the lines aren't used they must be officially abandoned, which would cost a bomb. ... The official name of these runs is "Parliamentary Trains", ... Not quite, but very close. Parliamentary Trains existed in Victorian times to favour the less affluent. You could travel anywhere for no more than 1d per mile in a closed passenger carriage on any day that the regular full price service ran. This was not popular with the train companies and such trains were scheduled to be as slow running and inconveniently scheduled with the fewest possible carriage whilst staying within the Act. The modern ghost trains are unofficially referred to by the same name. ETA: Bob Cratchit`s 15/- a week would nearly have covered two return journeys London to Brighton by Parliamentary Train; for they were not poor.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 15, 2016 11:05:42 GMT 2
Before Boris Johnson became Foreign Secretary he was mayor of London. One of his actions was to buy three water cannons. However he was blocked from ever using them by Teresa May who was Home Secretary (before she became Prime Minister - oh do keep up). Now the current mayor is trying to sell the water cannons and I'm sure any Potter who wants one will not have a reasonable offer refused. A bonus which has just come to light is that Boris had the water cannons improved by the addition of... wait for it... CD players at a cost of £970. Oh frabjous joy. Did they play Handel's Water Music?
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Post by Voy on Dec 15, 2016 15:26:42 GMT 2
maybe you could sync them to the cannons in the 1812 Overture - noise AND a fountain effect ?
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Post by tiltedflipcurves on Dec 15, 2016 19:21:29 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 16, 2016 0:49:05 GMT 2
"your hole is our goal" - proudly displayed as motto of a drilling company. bit risqué!
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Post by Voy on Dec 17, 2016 2:46:27 GMT 2
A license plate that said: GO BAZ !!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 17, 2016 4:47:09 GMT 2
a woman clad in black in line @ the post office yelling into her electrical device"just die! i dont give a eff!"
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 18, 2016 10:38:32 GMT 2
1) On the marketing site "Social Chain": What Brands Can Learn From Donald Trump?
2) Also the "Social Chain" itself.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 18, 2016 18:37:10 GMT 2
A license plate that said: GO BAZ !! Where?
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 18, 2016 18:43:32 GMT 2
Good news for those of us with only one leg.
This happened half a century but has only just reached the British press. Dr Gary Wood (and somehow I feel he is not a medical doctor) died in a car accident - but only for 20 minutes. This was just long enough for him to ascend to heaven and be given a brief conducted tour. He was shown into a room where a lot of legs were hanging up. This sounds uncomfortably like a butcher's shop but apparently God pops one on you if you ascend to heaven missing a leg.
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Post by Voy on Dec 19, 2016 16:20:54 GMT 2
Baz, it was on Lake Worth Rd, in Lake Worth,Fla. Wish I could have got a picture, but traffic was moving... sorry! edited to add: it didn't have the exclamation point...duhhh.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 22, 2016 11:03:23 GMT 2
This is not seen but heard. We are after a new mobile phone and tracked down the one we want to Carphone Warehouse. Mrs Faz rang them up to discuss details - including the quite important one of the price which wasn't in their ad. The man at CW said he couldn't tell her the price over the telephone. Does he think his - or our - phone is being tapped?
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