J. S. Bach

1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said:

Wasn't he in Skid Row?

I have NEVER been there!!!!

9 hours ago, polybear said:

At the Great Empire there was a spate of bog wall poetry in one of the cubicles, starting with:

 

"Here I sit, broken hearted....about to download when Taccy Bell started"

I remember one (well, part of one) on a stall wall in a rest area on the PA Turnpike that started with the regular doggerel:

"Here I sit

Broken-hearted

Came to ****

And only f@rted."

The second verse had these two lines plus the two "Dah dah dahs" that I do not remember:

"?Dah dah dah

Took a chance

?Dah dah dah

**** my pants"

I think that the first "Dah dah dahs" line may have been something like:

"Felt an urge"

Anyway I liked it so much that I was going to go out to the bus we were dead-heading back to Cleveland and bring back paper

and a pen to copy it down. Either I did not complete the mission or the stall was occupied when I got back and I did not wait

around. Unfortunately, rhyming that "urge" has stumped me for years! Note that this was back around 1978 or so and even

now the mighty Google has been no help!

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

10 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

It's a Venn Diagram Dave - named for John Venn. The Blue Plaques are by "English Heritage" - this one is a pun.

 

It's funny and it's a wacky sign. So full marks.

 

I guess that humor does not necessarily cross the ocean and retain the intended humor.

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

I had measles as a kid (I think) and do not (yet) have any significant high-freq hearing loss.

When I first saw that, I thought it was in B's On2½ product line and seriously looked at it for about a second or so. But then common sense kicked in.

3 hours ago, jcredfer said:

 

Not so and not even close.  Given the thread title, I read through it, expecting something something like a joke. 

 

Instead, somewhat of a disappointment, c'est la vie.....   

 

 

Hmmm, the original has vanished!

????

17 minutes ago, steve1 said:

Had any RMWebber ever met anyone who had actually laid out real money on any of this junk fine selection of treasurable products?

 

steve

ME! I bought this Mallard:

But, it was only a dollar at a US train show. And, I have wanted a model of MALLARD; this will have to do.

EDIT: Note that it does have a tender!!

4 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

I always thought that special relativity was the reason that there are lots of funny people in remote parts of the Ozark mountains and suchlike.

 

Dave

Don't forget West Virginia!

Their new state motto:"One big, happy family. Really.".

2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 ...snip... So if I want fruit this year, I'm going to have to buy a 12-bore.

2 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

That will only do more damage to the tree than the pigeons .   😎

Maybe an air rifle/pellet rifle instead?

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Posted on wrong thread.

Since when has that stopped anyone before?????

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

Well, I just got back from an Irish Wake for a lady from our church, true Irish it was:

She will be missed.

2 hours ago, Northmoor said:

Probably very realistic then......?

But when Air Vice Marshall Hunt flew his F-4 into the scene??

I am whipped, I just finished harvesting the hay er, mowing the lawn; all acre and a half or so. Luckily I have this:

EDIT: The hard part (for me, anyway) is getting the ambition to get on it and start. Once on and doing the job, it is sort of fun. Note that it is capable of about 10 MPH flat out on relatively level ground.

When I first got it, I could not resist staying in one place with one arm all the way to the front and one arm all the way to the rear. It will actually rotate about it center axis leaving a circular cut in the grass.

With the arms out as in the photo, the transmission is locked and it will not move; also one has to be seated to get it to move; It can be started with out being seated as for maintenance or idling. Two safety devices that are very easy to co-operate with.

Note that the brand is HUSTLER and the model RAPTOR LIMITED.

7 hours ago, PatB said:

Back when JuniorB was in kindergarten, they had a school trip, which I can only admire for its genius and simplicity, consisting of herding all the kids onto a bus, taking them to the depot and through the bus wash, then back to school. Exciting (for 5 year olds), cheap, and the kids were kept contained at all times when off school premises.

Plus, the bus needed washing anyway!

5 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

Aren't most of the maps the Navy use just all blue?

 

Dave

Usually called charts.

10 hours ago, bbishop said:

All I know about guns is that when I put the sight thing to my eye, there is a bloody great bolt in front of my face.  In the CCF, the other cadets got the Lee-Enfields, I was given the map.

Don't feel bad, the very first high-powered rifle that I had to fire was the M-1 Garand!

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

7 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

A friend of ours is fanatical about closing the loo lid before flushing as she claims that otherwise there are zillions of widdle and/or poo particles ejected into the atmosphere.

 

Dave

So am I. Ever dropped anything down in the bowl?

2 hours ago, polybear said:

Add in the fact that Timber Preservative has gone all cuddly?  (Creocote?  Cr@p - you can't beat good ol' Creosote any day

 

There used to be a termite treatment product (named chlordane) that, after injecting into the ground at the foundation was good for thirty-plus years. It was banned in 1988 as harmful to health; whatever has replaced it for termite control barely lasts about five years.

Night Owl from the Piedmont.