RMweb Premium Dave John Posted August 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 9, 2020 Och, If Napoleon had been exiled to Ireland he wouldn't have known his erse from his elba........... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 3 hours ago, wagonman said: I think you'l find the whole point of having a nanny was to save mater and pater from having any but the most cursory contact with their heir and spares. It seems in many quite high profile cases the point of having a nanny (as understood by the husband) was to do with convenient opportunities for infidelity... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rilksy Posted August 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2020 11 hours ago, wagonman said: I think you'l find the whole point of having a nanny was to save mater and pater from having any but the most cursory contact with their heir and spares. Well you know what they say............."Always keep away from children"! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Re: Napoleon and Waterloo. I would remind people that, despite the ABBA song, Bonaparte did not surrender immediately after Waterloo, but some days afterwards to Captain Maitland RN of His Majesty's Ship Bellerophon. Re: Early Steamship Boilers. A major limitation was having to use seawater as boiler feed. It is too easy to criticise in hindsight. Changes in maritime technology have to be proven in the face of a remorseless adversary; the sea itself. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10, 2020 46 minutes ago, drmditch said: Re: Napoleon and Waterloo. I would remind people that, despite the ABBA song, Bonaparte did not surrender immediately after Waterloo, but some days afterwards to Captain Maitland RN of His Majesty's Ship Bellerophon. ... four weeks later, on 15 July, though he had abdicated only four days after Waterloo, having failed to gain political support in Paris. The news that the Chamber of Representatives would not continue to support him was brought to him by Regnaud de Saint Jean d'Angely - a name I've only once come across once before, and that in a railway modelling context. Waterloo was not the final battle of the campaign. Apart from the battle of Wavry, commenced on the same day as Waterloo but carrying on into the following day - and a French victory over the Prussian rearguard, the latter's prolonged resistance enabling Blücher to bring the main Prussian force to Waterloo - there were some minor battles at Issy and Sevres before the Allied occupation of Paris on 7 July. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 4 hours ago, drmditch said: Re: Early Steamship Boilers. A major limitation was having to use seawater as boiler feed. It is too easy to criticise in hindsight. Changes in maritime technology have to be proven in the face of a remorseless adversary; the sea itself. When did condensing steam-circuits become typical for ships? I know that battleships were built with then in the last quarter of the 19th century, and I know that they could be a failure point. Canopus, a pre-dreadnought battleship, was stopped at the Falklands with condenser failure in 1914 and thus managed to locate the fleeing German fleet for the battlecruisers to finish off. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 (edited) Just to veer off course... Here's one of the new Spitting Image puppets that might amuse the Mayor. He's having problems... Edited August 10, 2020 by Hroth Thought of a nifty adjustment... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Just to veer off course... Here's one of the new Spitting Image puppets that might amuse the Mayor. He's having problems... He looks strangely familiar .... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Seems to have problems with his foresight and his hindsight, too. Seems to manage to get close enough to get the rear-sight in focus, 'though!! Julian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Went for an eye test last week, a bit too exciting with all the masks, visors and sprays but I needed new glasses, and the first thing the optician said to me was "Have you been to Barnard Castle?" 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2020 35 minutes ago, jcredfer said: Seems to have problems with his foresight and his hindsight, too. Which is odd, really, as you'd think someone who is reputedly so bright would arrange for his second face to look backwards. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, Regularity said: Which is odd, really, as you'd think someone who is reputedly so bright would arrange for his second face to look backwards. Given it is a Roman God, would that be a silent "J"? Julian 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, jcredfer said: Given it is a Roman God, would that be a silent "J"? Julian Depends, Ulian: his first name might be Hugh... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Regularity said: Depends, Ulian: his first name might be Hugh... GRIEF!!!!.......... I hope the "H" isn't silent, too!!!!!!!! Ulian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Edwardian said: He looks strangely familiar .... No, that was William Hague. 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Gah, can't make a pipe pun work! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 17 hours ago, Edwardian said: He looks strangely familiar .... It has been noted elsewhere on RMweb that the Spitting Image looks similar to a Stingray character, Surface Agent X-2-Zero, Titan's inept agent on land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_(1964_TV_series)#Recurring_villains I think "inept" is the mot juste..... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 35 minutes ago, Hroth said: It has been noted elsewhere on RMweb that the Spitting Image looks similar to a Stingray character, Surface Agent X-2-Zero, 1) I don't think it really does; 2) How on earth do people remember minor characters from Stingray half a century or more down the line? 3) I think the Spitting Image puppet captures him perfectly (as they always do). Whoever had the idea to add the collar is a genius, because it somehow speaks of inflated self-image, bad temper, and unbalanced genius all at the same time. Is it lifted from the Wizard of Oz? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2020 28 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: 2) How on earth do people remember minor characters from Stingray half a century or more down the line? Better/different memory than you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Yes, the probably fail miserably when it comes to remembering important stuff, like the price of Matchbox cars in 1964. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted August 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2020 37 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: 2) How on earth do people remember minor characters from Stingray half a century or more down the line? how could you forget Nick B 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 13 minutes ago, nick_bastable said: how could you forget Nick B Looks like a very young Muammar Gaddafi ..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2020 "Marina, you give me wood." Too much? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 (edited) It does! How could I forget? We rarely had a TV, so I'd only see it at friends' houses, ditto Thunderbirds, although bits of that have stuck in my mind. Actually, we always had about twenty TVs, of all ages back to the ones with a 9" square magnifying glass at the front, but it was rare that any of them worked for any length of time. My father was a wiz with anything involving thermionic valves, variable condensers etc, and he used to buy "dead" tellies and radios from jumble sales to repair. The terminal problem with tellies was always when the CRT "went soft", which isn't something even an enthusiastic amateur can fix, so we would often be on the lookout for a good CRT to be mated with the contents of the shed to make a functioning unit. We also had a graveyard of antique washing machines, motors from which went on to power things as diverse as a near lethal extractor fan in the kitchen, and an even-nearer-lethal lawn-mower made mostly from off-cuts of hardwood and push-chair wheels (this one was banned by my mother after one use!). Barely any electrical appliance or toy was less than ten years old when we acquired it, and many were pre-war, which is part of why I have a taste for retro toy trains. Oh, and we had about a dozen clocks (clockwork clocks), all of which were permanently "being restored" all over the dining table, when it wasn't covered in a Lone Star "push-along" replication of Clapham Junction. Edited August 11, 2020 by Nearholmer 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Nearholmer said: 2) How on earth do people remember minor characters from Stingray half a century or more down the line? Who could forget the Titan Terror Fish? Anyway, never mind Stingray - what about Supercar? 1 hour ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: Looks like a very young Muammar Gaddafi ..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi No she doesn't. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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