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On 23/04/2024 at 11:46, Steamport Southport said:

St George's Day today, also William Shakespeare's birthday and death day.

 

It's a good job he did write all that stuff rather than Francis Bacon as some suggest, as all those fine actors would have ended up working for the Royal Bacon Company.

Franz Schultz claims he wrote all of Shakespeare's works. Schultz also claims that his wife and him wrote the sonnets*

*Monty Python, "Stake your Claim Sketch"

19 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

True story,  Foreman tells the apprentice  to go to the shop and get him 20 Woodbine.  Apprentice says, what will I get if they don't have Woodbine?  Foreman tells him to just get anything...

Apprentice came back with two pies!

On a Storyteller's Night- Magnum

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

There were fake towns earlier in the war, near to towns that had already been bombed, with patterns of fire to represent still burning buildings, to attract subsequent raids away from the real thing.

 

Near Glasgow they were known as Starfish Sites, trenches laid out to look like a town. These were filled with petrol and set alight when a raid was due to try and fool the German pilots.  Sadly they were ineffective as the bombers used the reflection of the moonlight off the Clyde as their navigation aid.  There was one on the moors behind Eaglesham and some decaying infrastructure remains.  More info here 

https://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/StarfishDecoy

After Forever - Black Sabbath

9 minutes ago, RFS said:

In this version, if you buy a hotel you don't charge rent, just leave it to go derelict and stop the trains using the railway station square.

On 10/04/2024 at 20:50, martin_wynne said:

 

If the dams didn't block a watercourse the Elan Valley reservoirs would take a very long time to fill up!

 

The correct term for an earth mound or embankment to retain water in a storage reservoir, as at Bartley, is a bund, not a dam:

 

 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bund

 

The word dam means to block or stop something. There was nothing to be blocked or stopped at Bartley when they built the reservoir. If that's what they call the earth mound, they are the ones talking rubbish. 🙂

 

Here's the bund around the reservoir at Trimpley, well-known to passengers on the Severn Valley Railway, which runs alongside it.

 

 

 

 

 

With not a whacky sign in sight. This topic drift needs damming up. 🙂

 

cheers,

 

Martin.

The Bund Busters doesn't really have the same ring to it does it?

And in other news, the innuendo society has seen a hugh rise in it's members.....

I can still remember my Grandfather's last words.....

Stop shaking the ladder you little bu.......

My caravan park Facebook Group informed us this morning about the latest in Static Caravans being produced by Willerby.

On 29/03/2024 at 08:04, big jim said:

that line is now a foot and cycle path into Glasgow, had a look on my strava and I rode it back in 2022 all the way from arrochar and tarbet on the west highland line, 40 miles (and it rained all day!) 

 

here’s a screenshot of part of the map the top yellow arrow is where the first pic is and the bottom one the 2nd pic, a bit further along the old trackbed there are quite a few of the famous Glasgow pigeon lofts 

in fact I’ve just realised this pic is the bridge the 08 is passing over looking in the opposite direction to the old picture 

F you are interested in this line check out this guys photo montages on You Tube

https://youtu.be/FCoo1E0PLEE?si=4TdqZfvd-5FunM-w

9 hours ago, 5944 said:

Billy Connolly would caption this with "C'mon big yin, stop hoggin' the controller and give us a shot"

1 hour ago, Tim Dubya said:

And just like Fox News, somewhat innacurate.....

https://www.foxnews.com/science/mischievous-north-carolina-foxes-steal-newspapers-and-place-them-in-mans-backyard-video-shows

Did you hear about the explosion at a cheese factory in France?

(Groan button at the ready)

Nothing left but de Brie.

Dogs can't operate an MRI machine.........

But catscan.

50 minutes ago, MikeParkin65 said:

Yes a very good price. I bought a 3 car set for £150 in the grand Hattons closing down sale and thought I'd done well with that.

On the stand they had the factory weathered 3 car sets at £150, unweathered £130.  Unfortunately they only had blue and grey sets left unweathered.

Bought two maroon ones for £42.70 each from the Heljan Stand at Model Rail Scotland.  Very pleased with that price, other dealers were asking considerably  more.

Jim

Gnarly old prospector rides into town an ties up his dusty flea bitten mule outside to saloon.

He then proceeds to lift the mules tail and plant a big kiss on the mules rectum.

A passing cowpoke notices this and asks the old prospector why he did it.

The prospector replies "chapped lips"

The cowpoke asks "does that cure them"

The prospector replies " Nope, but it sure stops me lickin' them"