OT: Spend a Penny...

Tom Woods wrote:

> If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a
> staffordshire semi then let me know

Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and
optional children)?


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On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:03:52 +1200, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

>Tom Woods wrote:
>
>> If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a
>> staffordshire semi then let me know
>
>Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and
>optional children)?

Your own, or someone elses?

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'06 Nissan Navara aka "The Truck"

On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:10:01 +0100, Mother wrote:

> It / they won't let it be changed, but tis a good point and I'll bear
> that in mind when I relist it.

Make sure it's in the title as well, not the sub title. You don't see
subtitles in searches, neither are subtitles searched.

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On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:14:33 +0100, Mother wrote:

> Yeah - pretty useless for a 'novelty' fundraiser like this. Add to
> that the 25p taken by PayPal and it trims the funds somewhat :-(

I like playing spot the person selling at a loss, *excluding* any orginal
cost price. Very easy to do for low selling price items.

>> (*) People will buy anything, she sold a 12 year old used plastic bag
>> last week for £1.99 + £1.20 P&P.
>
> What on earth would a 12 year old want with a plastic bag?

Now if there was an "a" between old and used I could read it like that
but not otherwise, admittedly a comma or two might be useful.

> Mind, you're right - someone once bought a very broken mobile phone
> off me! ;-)

IIRC that was a phone broken in a very special way, not just a broken
phone.

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Alan J. Wylie wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:10 +0100, Steve Taylor
> <[email protected]> said:
>
>> Mother wrote:
>>> Tetley, Stones, Wards and the like were intended, historically, to
>>> be weak as p!ss. The steelworkers etc would be so dehydrated that
>>> they'd easily sup 8+ pints at lunchtime.
>
>> Don't we have the Sheffield workers bosses to thank for the original
>> licencing laws, brought in under the defence of the realm act for
>> the first world war ?
>
> In Carlisle, during WW1, the government nationalised the brewery and
> all the pubs in order to preserve the sobriety of local munitions
> workers.
>
> H2G2 has some useful words on the subject:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A644645
>
> The locals seemed to mourn its passing when it was privatised in the
> early seventies, proving perhaps that the *only* thing a government
> can be trusted to run well is a ****-up in a brewery.

Unlike Easyjet who wouldn't even be able to find the brewery let alone run a
****-up!


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On Wed, 24 May 2006 19:08:42 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>things, and people in the office suggesting I clear the store room we
>can never get anything into due to other precious things.

NOW we know where those stolen 101's are ending up.....

Alex

On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:03:52 +1200, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

>Tom Woods wrote:
>
>> If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a
>> staffordshire semi then let me know
>
>Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and
>optional children)?

Slightly used? That depens on how many kids you've had.....

Alex

On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:28:55 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:42:07 +0100, Austin Shackles
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>Why what? Why I'm selling them off on eBay?
>>
>>no, why have stacks of mint 1966 pennies (and other coinage) was what I had
>>in mind. I mean, collection of odd coins, yeah - I've got some, but not
>>thousands all the same.
>
>I think the answer to that is now ashes scattered to the wind.
>You rather had to 'know' my uncle and his quirky eccentric ways to
>understand (or not) some of the odd things he did. His estate
>realised 4M - a fair chunk of which went to that nice Mr Brown.

I'd rather see my inheritance go to charity than let that grasping
neo-communist get his hands on it.

Alex

Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:

|| On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:28:50 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
|| <[email protected]> wrote:
||
||||| eBay Item: 8815654450
|||
||| Arrived today - thanks Martyn.
||
|| You're more than welcome - thanks for your support.
||
|| Where's me bleeding positive feedback!!!???!!! ;-)

Oops, forgot, sorry. Now rectified.

OT, but why does everyone gush so much on eBay? Even an ordinary
transaction gets "Best seller in the world!!!!!!! I want to have his
babies!!!!!!! A+++++++++++++++++++++++++". What do you say if you are
really pleased with something? There's no vocabulary left. A bit like when
Ford brought out the first Cortina (or was it the Anglia?) with the "de
luxe" as the base model in the range. Grade inflation at GCSE, comment
inflation on eBay...

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On Thu, 25 May 2006 18:05:23 GMT, "GbH" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> can be trusted to run well is a ****-up in a brewery.
>
>Unlike Easyjet who wouldn't even be able to find the brewery let alone run a
>****-up!

I got very ****ed one night at a 'trade do' (all 'on the house', oops!
Did I really drink that much Bombay Saphire???).

The next morning I got a huge bollocking from some really bolshy and
irritating French tart* for getting Stelios Haji Lmao (or whatever his
bleeding name is) into such a state.

Didn't know who he was and I could swear he wasn't even in our little
group anyway. Just goes to show I guess...


* not a word I use often - but she really was one.

Tim Hobbs wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:03:52 +1200, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Tom Woods wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a
>>>staffordshire semi then let me know
>>
>>Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and
>>optional children)?
>
>
> Your own, or someone elses?
>
Mine - unless she changes her mind about making me dispose of some of my
LR products she'll have to go.

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EMB

On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:20:11 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Thu, 25 May 2006 00:18:06 +0100, Tom Woods
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> They came from my uncle - who was a
>>>tad wierd (see: http://www.101fc.net/kent-2002/index.htm ).
>>
>>I'd love to buy somewhere like that!
>
>
>You don't want to know how little it went for, then :-(

bummer

I do feel like a bit of a cop out buying a normal house - but ive got
to live somewhere and dont see the point in renting.

Ive only just started paying for it and already want to buy something
different!

I did find some nice boats but was buggered if i could find a mooring
with more than one parking space

On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:03:52 +1200, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

>Tom Woods wrote:
>
>> If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a
>> staffordshire semi then let me know
>
>Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and
>optional children)?

If she came with a nice house in NZ i'll deal It doesnt sound like
she'd be impressed though since i have too many vehicles and dont know
how i can bear to part with any of em!

On or around Thu, 25 May 2006 21:28:12 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:
>
>|| On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:28:50 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
>|| <[email protected]> wrote:
>||
>||||| eBay Item: 8815654450
>|||
>||| Arrived today - thanks Martyn.
>||
>|| You're more than welcome - thanks for your support.
>||
>|| Where's me bleeding positive feedback!!!???!!! ;-)
>
>Oops, forgot, sorry. Now rectified.

ditto and ditto.
>
>OT, but why does everyone gush so much on eBay? Even an ordinary
>transaction gets "Best seller in the world!!!!!!! I want to have his
>babies!!!!!!! A+++++++++++++++++++++++++". What do you say if you are
>really pleased with something? There's no vocabulary left. A bit like when
>Ford brought out the first Cortina (or was it the Anglia?) with the "de
>luxe" as the base model in the range. Grade inflation at GCSE, comment
>inflation on eBay...

I agree with the foregoing.
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On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:42:23 +0100, Alex <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>things, and people in the office suggesting I clear the store room we
>>can never get anything into due to other precious things.
>
>NOW we know where those stolen 101's are ending up.....

That's the lock-up - not the store room ;-)

I reckon Charlotte will be banging on about me clearing all of the
precious things from that next, too - not that she even knows what's
in there...

On Thu, 25 May 2006 22:34:41 +0100, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>You don't want to know how little it went for, then :-(
>
>bummer

Yeah - but as things go, Mr Brown and his henchmen get their claws in
so quick and so deep that one needs to pay him and his gangsters
before the rest of the estate is settled.

>I did find some nice boats but was buggered if i could find a mooring
>with more than one parking space

I've found the moorings with more parking space than you could shake a
brace of Stalwarts at - and at less than a Grand a year - sadly
they're nowhere near anywhere I'd like to live :-(


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increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

On Thu, 25 May 2006 23:00:08 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>>I did find some nice boats but was buggered if i could find a mooring
>>with more than one parking space
>
>I've found the moorings with more parking space than you could shake a
>brace of Stalwarts at - and at less than a Grand a year - sadly
>they're nowhere near anywhere I'd like to live :-(

Not round stoke on trent/cheshire way by any chance?

EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tim Hobbs wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:03:52 +1200, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Tom Woods wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a
>>>> staffordshire semi then let me know
>>>
>>> Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and
>>> optional children)?
>> Your own, or someone elses?
>>
> Mine - unless she changes her mind about making me dispose of some of my
> LR products she'll have to go.
>

Coincidentally, this landed in the bit bucket today ....

The Husband Store
==================

A store that sells husbands has just opened, where a
woman may go to choose a husband.

Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the
store operates. You may visit the store ONLY ONCE!

There are six floors and the attributes of the men increase as the
shopper ascends the flights. There is, however, a catch...
you may choose any man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go
up a floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to The Husband Store to find a husband.
On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men have
jobs and love the Lord.

The second floor sign reads: Floor 2 -
These men have jobs, love the Lord, and love kids.

The third floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love the
Lord, love kids, and are extremely good looking.
"Wow," she thinks, but she feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads: Floor 4 - These men have
jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead gorgeous and help with
the housework.
"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads: Floor 5 - These
men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help
with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but her suspense and curiosity get the best
of her and she continues on to the sixth floor.

She gets to the 6th floor and the sign reads:

Floor 6 - "You are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor.
There are no men on this floor. This floor is here to simply prove
that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at The
Husband Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a
nice day!"


--
William Tasso

110 V8

William Tasso wrote:
>
> Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads: Floor 5 - These
> men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help
> with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.
>

5 out of 6 ain't bad

Lizzy

On Thu, 25 May 2006 23:39:14 +0100, "William Tasso"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>... women are impossible to please.

Young lad over the road came home very proud that he'd got a part in
the school play - the part of the husband. His dad immediately called
the school to complain that he hasn't got a speaking part...