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  1. Steve Taylor

    surprising stuff to learn: off to the guitar shop for strings for making springs and CSB'ing the world, and found that the shopowner used to make own a company making strings!

  2. Steve Taylor

    All books can be indecent books Though recent books are bolder, For filth (I'm glad to say) is in The mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd. (I could tell you things about peter pan, And the wizard of oz, there's a dirty old man!)

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Smut!

      Give me smut

      And nothing but!

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmmmmmm time to bring out the old dope pedlar?

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      though first,

      (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,

      Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!

      More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

       

      Stories of tortures

      Used by debauchers,

      Lurid, licentious, and vile,

      Make me smile.

      Novels that pander

      To my taste for candor

      Give me a pleasure sublime.

      (let's face it, I love slime.)

  3. Steve Taylor

    Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'.

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Sounds like a verse of "Privatise" by Coope Boyes and Simpson

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      ....and ever since I meet this man,

      My life is not the same,

      And Nicolai Ivanovich

      Lobachevsky is his name

      Hoi!

      Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachev...

       

      I am never forget the day

      I am given first original book to write:

      It was on Analytic Algebraic Topology of Locally-Euclidean Metrization of Riemannian Manifold...

      This I know from nothing.

      But I think of great Lobachevsky and get idea, ha ha!!

       

      I have a friend in Minsk,

      ...

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      2 more points.

      http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom+lehrer/lobachevsky_20138409.html for those wondering.

  4. Steve Taylor

    ....."for there is surely nothing more beautiful in this World than the sight of a lone man facing singlehandedly A half a ton of angry pot roast!"

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Out came the matador

      Who must have been potted, or

      Slightly insane

      but who looked rather bored.

      Then the picadors, of course,

      Each one on his horse;

      I shouted "Ol

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      2 pts Mr Tan

       

      I cheered at the bandilleros' display,

      As they stuck the bull in their own clever way,

      For I hadn't had so much fun since the day

      My brother's dog rover

      Got run over.

       

      (rover was killed by a pontiac. and it was done with

      Such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the

      Driver both ears and the tail - but I digress.)

  5. Steve Taylor

    ain't no fun waiting round to be a millionaire

    1. Michael Delamar

      Michael Delamar

      this time next year Rodney

  6. Steve Taylor

    Birmingham. Engine room: standby to make revolutions for ramming speed.

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    2. steam-driven boy

      steam-driven boy

      Tee-Hee

      Brummieland: God's Wonderful Real estate - enjoy! Change?

      The Bull Ring not 'Bullring'

      Curzon Street not 'Eastside'

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmm looking at the weather, I shall dress accordingly..... gold plated waders and a chrome sou'wester. Bring round my flagship and prepare to make smoke. Also, given the moist atmospheric conditions today have my zeppelin crew stand down.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      run away. A tactless retreat undertaken in the face of "chicken curry pasty"!

  7. Steve Taylor

    bridge to engine room: all stop.

    1. Worsdell forever

      Worsdell forever

      Left hand down a bit?

    2. N15class

      N15class

      I do know my left and right I am the navigating officer.

    3. Worsdell forever

      Worsdell forever

      Oh, Lummy...

  8. Steve Taylor

    office day. I can feel the warmth draining out of the world already.

  9. Steve Taylor

    brain meltdown resulting from trying to visualise 90deg r/h lead transfered t oan upright wheel press from an upside down chassis. THUNK.

  10. Steve Taylor

    Csb on ivatt 4 tender complete. Bemused by spring rates. To my mind looks to saggy but it matches the pictures. The test will be will it match the loco.

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      Aye thats the one. Its gone together not too badly considering my two left thumbs, but if this was a car i'd be saying stiffer/longer spring rates or up the coilover rates. Should it sit on the bumpstops?

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I thought the whole point was to have the suspension allowing the engine to sit in mid-travel, not on the bumpstops.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmmmm, thought so. The j-72 was set at mid (ish) travel. This seems to have settled on the stops so off to ye olde-worlde shoppe of geetars in town on my lunch break tomorrow. From tens to 12/13s me thinks.also time to check Chris Pendleton's article in MRJ 175.

  11. Steve Taylor

    why, if its something minor and I'm not relaly paying attention, does my soldering become incredibly neat. The opposite seems to applicable too. . :(

  12. Steve Taylor

    it has now been wet/missling/raining/foggy since sunday afternoon. Bored of it now and need t oget work done. Please change the weather ot the good stuff. Ta.

    1. halfwit

      halfwit

      I quite like a bit of drizzle...

    2. RJL

      RJL

      Change in weather ? No chance I feel.

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      I, regretfully, have to agree. I have that sense of foreboding that usually heralds uncontrollably slipping editorial deadlines :(

  13. Steve Taylor

    am looking at the Brassmasters Ivatt 4, out of the corner of my eye trying to sneak up on it when I'm ready. theme music needed:"One of these days"

  14. Steve Taylor

    All Hail the asymetrical 4-sided shape. The board shapes are sorted but I'm now thinking that even at 1/4 size maquette all layouts should be on embankments and not in cuttings.

  15. Steve Taylor

    another day in paradise?

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Oh, think twice...

    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      not a workers paradise

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmm yes, ground floor shopper's paradise. I'm now feeling disturbed that I inadvertently started the day with a Phil Collins lyric in my head, albeit ironically given the weather.

       

  16. Steve Taylor

    Armed only with this bottle of merlot, some drawings, card and the newsquiz on the i-player I have set forth on a quest for the 1/4 size layout mockup. There may be contours ahead, but while there's scalpels and spraymount and templot and maps, lets face the archive and guess.

  17. Steve Taylor

    with an inverted A1 rattling away on the desktop testing facility, my attention is drawn to the fact that this office is sadly lacking in features such as "the wall of crisps"

    1. AndyB

      AndyB

      "Shelf of tat" is a must. No-one gets their expenses paid for business trips unless they bring back some tat.

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      Hmmm, a bit more diplomatic term for that is needed, since the four shelves of stuff for model making could be, by some members of the household, described as shelves of tat

  18. Steve Taylor

    Hmmmm, brass S1 chairs in bulk at wholesale prices please

  19. Steve Taylor

    an hour spare, wind up the dynamo, its RSU o'clock

  20. Steve Taylor

    the high plains of Leicestershire are looking bright and verdant today, especially with the house closed down to anti-roasting mode.

  21. Steve Taylor

    bring me the asbestos thimbles, I'm going in.

  22. Steve Taylor

    All hail GW Models - quartering jig a-go-go

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      It only does 90-degree right-hand lead. If your engine is left-hand lead, or has 3-cylinders, you're on your own!

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      a fair point, but after today i shall console myself with the thought that unless picasso re-models my head..... I can only see one side at a time, and therefore all things shall be good

  23. Steve Taylor

    PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: SURRENDER YOUR RSUs. I must have one now

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      Its a Graskop of I've been using, got any contact details/info/price for Swanage models?

    3. N15class

      N15class

      his phone number is 07986 726169 the RSU is £145 plus £10 postage.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      cheers for the info

  24. Steve Taylor

    I'm fitting my mind with a tin hat and the rest of me with kevlar... have you seen the size of the hail today?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      How come we're not getting any of this relief from humidity down here!??

  25. Steve Taylor

    Mr H.Tan - proof of god's existence: 7.5 T of tunnocks caramel wafers have just overtaken me on the A5. Praise be, etcetc ad infinitum et nauseum

    1. davefrk

      davefrk

      How on earth did they pass border controls at Gretna....

      Dave, two miles from the factory.

      Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I'm going to have to see a dentist now.

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      I'm actually sat in my dentist's waiting room right now. If the checkup goes well i'll celebrate with a caramel wafer on the way up the m1 tonight.

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