The Shed

prog-chick wrote:  oh brother!   If you boys are getting to the age where you are worrying about getting up for a wee in the night, it might be time for the old marigold treatment down the quacks office!

Syzygy wrote: Strange to think that one day the Marina, Allegro, Viva and Avenger may be highly sought after vintage cars fetching ludicrous prices on e-bay.

fandango wrote:   Rachel... I am 40 years of age...  I reached the stage you describe, 15 years ago...   and I wasn't called 'Incontinentia' at school for nothing...

prog-chick wrote:   well make sure you put some 3in1 on the hinges of the privvy door............ they squeak dreadful at night, and you'll have the whole shed awake!

Syzygy wrote: James wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Dean wrote: ^ sounds like a plan  - now, where do we get "burning browns" to effigy-ise in our gardens?   Let me ask you, is it possible that Labour can piss everyone off so much that a Tory government could actually come back? I fear that it so. Now let's get back to non-political affairs, before Dean, Jim, Andy et al. start to hyperventilate and spit some bile in sheer anger at the thought of a Tory Government coming back... A simple question: why did Morris Marinas always seem to come in "Poo Brown"?  It's a horrible colour for a car and it didn't help that the Morris Marina was a terrible car anyhow... although I think some Itals were also in "Poo Brown", as were some Allegros, so it must bit a British Leyland (sic) thing.   I think it was some kind of early warning system for potential purchasers. Strange to think that one day the Marina, Allegro, Viva and Avenger may be highly sought after vintage cars fetching ludicrous prices on e-bay.

fandango wrote: I wasn't called 'Incontinentia' at school for nothing...

Did you have a close friend called Biggus?

fandango wrote: I think Vicky had asked him to straighten the privvy door to keep it air-tight

Air tight? You want it air tight? You and your short term memory loss... Don't you remember what happened in the Grey Room when we tried that?

prog-chick wrote: You boys are nowt but worry

Which is why we need you & Vicky around here - to instill a sense of decorum, sanity & stability

Syzygy wrote: James wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Dean wrote: ^ sounds like a plan  - now, where do we get "burning browns" to effigy-ise in our gardens?   Let me ask you, is it possible that Labour can piss everyone off so much that a Tory government could actually come back? I fear that it so. Now let's get back to non-political affairs, before Dean, Jim, Andy et al. start to hyperventilate and spit some bile in sheer anger at the thought of a Tory Government coming back... A simple question: why did Morris Marinas always seem to come in "Poo Brown"?  It's a horrible colour for a car and it didn't help that the Morris Marina was a terrible car anyhow... although I think some Itals were also in "Poo Brown", as were some Allegros, so it must bit a British Leyland (sic) thing.   I think it was some kind of early warning system for potential purchasers. Strange to think that one day the Marina, Allegro, Viva and Avenger may be highly sought after vintage cars fetching ludicrous prices on e-bay.

Dean wrote: also available in an alluring shade of cack.

^ it never fails to amaze me the colours people pick for their cars. I was looking out of the window at a new Toyota in a rather unappealing shade of metallic mustard and asked myself (out-loud) what clown would deliberately pick a car that colour, where my boss just glared at me - it was his new car.

I love the (typically English) quote:

"They started looking through our bags, and came across this container which was unmarked which contained this mysterious creamy, white powder, and they started shouting, 'cocaine, cocaine' or something that sounded like that in Spanish"

I wonder if they also shouted "Aaaiieeeeee! Caramba!"