Harlequin

Symptom of 'dumbing down' popular with trendy young people..

So yesterday

Isn't it an Americanism transferred from German immigrants?

So, Herr Doktor!!!

Can anybody else remember the real Heinz sandwich Cream - luvverly stuff!

That grown men would play with toy trains ...

What are the chances of that?

@RJS1977 in 100 seconds?

Your time starts…NOW!

How about naming railway companies which existed before the Grouping but still existed after the Grouping (although its acceptable that their ownership might have changed)?  But probably too narrow a field for Pointless.

Going back to the original question my favourite for a pointless answer would be the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway (which was jointly leased by the GWR and LC&DR/SECR).

Did you need a passport on that railway?

Cheesemakers to the rescue!

What a curious nose!

Can we be sure somebody hasn't heard of that annual foodfight on Cooper's Hill?

I don't really know. I don't know any men down any pubs.

Just get a cheap one from ebay and put it at the back of the shed on blocks minus the drivers...

have what you want its your layout

Ooph! That wasn't a swear word, honest! Just an old term for rolling tobacco. (This is all getting a bit distasteful, sorry.)

One secondhand item I bought did smell of diesel, mind you it was 1:1 scale and weighed 73 tons lol

Well over half of my models are secondhand, saving me many hundreds of £ pounds on new prices. Problems or faults are rare, which is ok, considering I take my layout to some of the local exhibitions

There's more than a grain of truth in this rumour...

Anyone might imagine a soccer match between Swindon and Oxford - almost certainly a "friendly" ... .

The phrase "friendly fire" comes to mind...

I hear ye're a racist now, Father! How'd ye get into that type of thing? Should we all be racists? What's the official line the Church is taking on this?

I blame the Greeks for inventing 'Gayness'

I thought that is a boozy drink from Ireland

A day.. they were there for all of 60 mins 1 day, 90 the next... that’s a long expensive trip needing a UK visa. to fly and give up sightseeing so easily... I think the credibility of Russian cover stories was better before trotting out these two... they’ve pretty much admitted to it.

As always, should you or any of your team get caught, the First Secretary will disavow your actions

They are much like the mysterious "little green men" who invaded Crimea for make benefit glorious nation of Rossiya.

I can understand the attitude, some software is as user-friendly as a cornered rat.

Wasn't near Nottingham by any chance?

@Captain Kernow Tubs? Luxury! We have now got wonderful useless bags for the cardboard that can end up in a different postcode on a day like today.

We used to have bags and frankly, I preferred them, as they took paper and card in the same bag and once sealed, the paper or card stayed where it was put! (even if the bag itself did sometimes go down the road on it's own accord)...

We have proper wheelie bins that are emptied on alternate weeks (recycle:household waste) but we're down to putting them out once every four weeks and that's only because the cats and dog tins (even flattened) and plastic bottles (crushed) take up a lot of space and I daren't leave the household waste for longer than that because of - um - smells and flies, especially in the summer :(. Green waste is recycled 'in-house' as it were, and there's a bottle bank not 100 yards away.

I once worked for one of the biggest motorcycle dealerships in Europe.  I wasnt particularly surprised when I was told our service receptionist had been one of Back Street Heroes 'Readers Wives'.  The skirts she wore were so short it was difficult to find a safe place to look when she bent over the photocopier.

Perhaps that should have been Friendly/supportive?

Due to the number of adverts for Riley & Son that I have seen, I assume that the algorithms are also unable to distinguish between a desire to repair my 4mm:1ft locomotives and a desire to repair my 12inch:1ft locomotives.

You must be quackers!

Somewhere in here, there's a joke about a Mallard's chuff, but I'm not clever enough to work it out...

Is that a watertight statement?

The Assyrian king?

Hans Zimmer's adaptation of it in Dunkirk is great by the way.

Everything Hans Zimmer does seems to be an "adaptation" of someone else's work...

They apparently have a tea party in America!

Yes but they throw tea into cold water

Share and enjoy!

Oi !

If you are not careful you will be strapped to a chair and played Topographic Oceans in its entirety. 

"Silly human, Silly human race."

Says it all, really.

"Look out, look out!  You're too Close to the Edge".

Guess what album you encouraged me to dig out today...

Absolute Classic. Enjoy!

It's one of my all-time faves, even got it on vinyl a while back.

Not so sure about the press conference, though ...

Certainly TMI there....

That's the naked truth.

Things just happen, what the hell.

Precisely how vague do you want to be?

A nationwide strike by the union of philosophers, sages and allied luminaries would br disastrous. For a start there wouldn't be any trains running because trains are certainly uncertain and with nobody to speculate on whether a train might exist, since it couldn't certainly exist then it certainly wouldn't exist. You might be able to ask Deep Thought but who would wait 3.5 x 10^6 years for the next train.

Priority access to emergency services. Do you only have to dial '99'?

Can I have mine with a flake?

Do you have to pre-order priority access now?

I bet Freddy would have liked it.

I'd like to see John Lewis have a go at doing The Shamen's "Ebeneezer Goode"

It's sort of ok to start with, then it just goes downhill

They filmed part of it in Stevenage!

Kennedy changed his mind as usual, he played hendrix instead.

He had some tunes there that Johnson should have heard...

But when will the walrus complete the work you've paid for?

Luv you too ! 

I think your chromosomes are broken.....

That's all as may be but you haven't told us which book.

"Railways through the Vale of the White Horse" (2015)

You should be greatly satisfied that you now have a book containing a photo of my great grandfather in the Uffington PerWay gang..

Found all sorts of other rubbish and a few treasures but no MekPak yet. More boxes to go through.

Found it! 3 bottles, one empty two with something in and a bottle of Humbrol "Liquid Poly".

If it has been stored in the right conditions it might contain some - but probably nowhere near all - of the mekpak that used to be in it.