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Erik-Jan Geniets wrote:
> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>>
>> Erik-Jan Geniets wrote:
>>> Richard Brookman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh well, can't have everything.... The thought was nice while it
>>>> lasted. A sort of grown-up version of the "deaf, dumb blonde
>>>> nymphomaniac who owns a pub".
>>>
>>>
>>> My kind of...they won't remember it was me the day after.....
>>> Erik-Jan.
>>
>> Deaf, no.
>> Blonde, yes.
>> Nympho .... I'll leave ONE of you to find out :)
>> Owns a pub, no. But I do have a nice wine cellar.
>>
>
> So far so good! Phone number?
> Erik-Jan.

Maybe I should add:
Dumb, no :)

K

--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast


 
Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:

> William Tasso wrote:
>> Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On or around Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:42:59 +1300, EMB <[email protected]>
>>> enlightened us thusly:
>>>
>>>> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I keep a couple of A2 charts above my Myford lathe to help work out
>>>>> what's
>>>>> what, along with Zeus tables ...
>>>>
>>>> You can weld, you can turn - what else can you do? And where are
>>>> all the other women like you?
>>>
>>> that's what I was thinking. 's enough to make one emigrate, I swear.
>>
>> heh - and the girl is a sys-admin too - now let me see, what else do
>> we need?
>
> As long as you don't ask me any questions on Land Rovers after the S11A -
> never had the need to update a 4WD since then :)
>
> And I notice my 38 year old S11A is worth more than a 10 year old Disco
> for
> some bizarre reason.

Seems self-evident to me, but then I'm easily confused.

> But then I do have a sexy little Honda as my main car
> these days, the Series is only used when I need a 4WD, a ute, or a
> dog-mobile. I don't think my IT clients would approve if I turned up to
> look
> at their networks in a dirty, smelly (but practical) old LR - the oil
> stains
> are hard for them to remove from their carpark tarmac.

heh - try it, you may be surprised. IME, turning up in an 'odd' vehicle
never does any harm so long as it doesn't appear to be dripping cash - the
odd bit of vehicular fluid will be more conversation piece than
show-stopper

--
William Tasso

110 - V8
 


Karen Gallagher wrote:

> Maybe I should add:
> Dumb, no :)

Even better! Who wants dumbs?
So....
Erik-Jan.
 
Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Erik-Jan Geniets wrote:
>> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>>>
>>> Erik-Jan Geniets wrote:
>>>> Richard Brookman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oh well, can't have everything.... The thought was nice while it
>>>>> lasted. A sort of grown-up version of the "deaf, dumb blonde
>>>>> nymphomaniac who owns a pub".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My kind of...they won't remember it was me the day after.....
>>>> Erik-Jan.
>>>
>>> Deaf, no.
>>> Blonde, yes.
>>> Nympho .... I'll leave ONE of you to find out :)
>>> Owns a pub, no. But I do have a nice wine cellar.
>>>
>>
>> So far so good! Phone number?
>> Erik-Jan.
>
> Maybe I should add:
> Dumb, no :)

ROTFLOL - please do go to the top of the class (don't take yer bags - you
won't be staying)

--
William Tasso
 
William Tasso wrote:
> Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> William Tasso wrote:
>>> Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On or around Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:42:59 +1300, EMB
>>>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I keep a couple of A2 charts above my Myford lathe to help work
>>>>>> out what's
>>>>>> what, along with Zeus tables ...
>>>>>
>>>>> You can weld, you can turn - what else can you do? And where are
>>>>> all the other women like you?
>>>>
>>>> that's what I was thinking. 's enough to make one emigrate, I
>>>> swear.
>>>
>>> heh - and the girl is a sys-admin too - now let me see, what else do
>>> we need?
>>
>> As long as you don't ask me any questions on Land Rovers after the
>> S11A - never had the need to update a 4WD since then :)
>>
>> And I notice my 38 year old S11A is worth more than a 10 year old
>> Disco for
>> some bizarre reason.
>
> Seems self-evident to me, but then I'm easily confused.
>
>> But then I do have a sexy little Honda as my main car
>> these days, the Series is only used when I need a 4WD, a ute, or a
>> dog-mobile. I don't think my IT clients would approve if I turned up
>> to look
>> at their networks in a dirty, smelly (but practical) old LR - the oil
>> stains
>> are hard for them to remove from their carpark tarmac.
>
> heh - try it, you may be surprised. IME, turning up in an 'odd'
> vehicle never does any harm so long as it doesn't appear to be
> dripping cash - the odd bit of vehicular fluid will be more
> conversation piece than show-stopper

I did once, a few years ago after I'd just rebuilt the engine. However, the
crankshaft oil seal was a hairs-breadth out of place, and when I parked
about a pint of nice, clean, fresh oil flooded out of the flywheel housing
drain hole. Till then I'd been SO proud of the re-build. Had to whip the
engine out again to fix it of course ....

But I do occasionally take the Series onto a building site with the cable
trailer (I install communications systems now & again). There's never a
subbie who does not want to buy the Series from me - but never for a fair
price of course.

It's priceless to me if only because of the use I get out of the rear PTO,
spraying the weeds round my paddocks.

But yes, I take your point. Having a flash office and/or a flash car is the
quickest way to inform your clients you are making too much money from them.
I learnt that lesson while working in London 25 years ago at an engineering
company, when I asked the CEO why he didn't replace the oily old carpet in
the reception area.

K
--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast


 


William Tasso wrote:

> ROTFLOL - please do go to the top of the class (don't take yer bags - you
> won't be staying)

Never asked her to stay.....didn't I.
Erik-Jan.
b.t.w. She doesn't want it either.
 
Erik-Jan Geniets wrote:
> William Tasso wrote:
>
>> ROTFLOL - please do go to the top of the class (don't take yer bags
>> - you won't be staying)
>
> Never asked her to stay.....didn't I.
> Erik-Jan.
> b.t.w. She doesn't want it either.

But I like being on top ....

K


--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast


 


Karen Gallagher wrote:

>
> But I like being on top ....
>
That's fine with me ;-)
Erik-Jan.
 
Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:

> ...
> But I do occasionally take the Series onto a building site with the cable
> trailer (I install communications systems now & again). There's never a
> subbie who does not want to buy the Series from me - but never for a fair
> price of course.

Yeah - I have the same 'problem' with the rather tatty 110.

btw: 'communications systems' sounds rather grand, I do the odd bit of
network cabling installation.

> ...
> But yes, I take your point. Having a flash office and/or a flash car is
> the
> quickest way to inform your clients you are making too much money from
> them.

Aye - the office ain't quite so bad, but having a flash motor really rubs
their noses in it when you visit.

--
William Tasso
 
Karen Gallagher wrote:
>
> And I notice my 38 year old S11A is worth more than a 10 year old Disco for
> some bizarre reason. But then I do have a sexy little Honda as my main car
> these days, the Series is only used when I need a 4WD, a ute, or a
> dog-mobile. I don't think my IT clients would approve if I turned up to look
> at their networks in a dirty, smelly (but practical) old LR - the oil stains
> are hard for them to remove from their carpark tarmac.

Hah! I've just got back from one of my IT clients offices where I was
sorting out a recalcitrant firewall. I took my ratty 1963 Series IIa
because it looked like it needed to be used. True to form it marked
it's territory in their carpark so I'll expect some feedback about that
tomorrow. ;-)

--
EMB
 
Karen Gallagher wrote:

> But I'm too old for most of you, I suspect. I got my Series (new) when I was
> 21, to give you hungry wolves a hint as to my age.

I'll let me dad know (another SIIa owner who's had one from new)
although he's probably a wee bit old for you ;-)


--
EMB
 
Karen Gallagher wrote:

> But I like being on top ....

It just keeps getting better. :p


--
EMB
 
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:02:37 +1000, "Karen Gallagher"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>But I'm too old for most of you, I suspect. I got my Series (new) when I was
>21, to give you hungry wolves a hint as to my age.

Many a fine tune is played on an old fiddle etc... :)

 
On or around Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:24:04 +0000, Steve Taylor
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Dougal wrote:
>
>> Some confusion beginning to be introduced here between thread forms,
>> pitches etc. on the one hand and the material on the other!
>
>Yes, but why are metric fasteners so manky ?

they're not all manky. I susepct that it's not worthwhile for the elcheapo
manufacturers to make nonmetric stuff. with the exception of that easibolt
threaded rod which seems to come in metric or whitworth.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Travel The Galaxy! Meet Fascinating Life Forms...
------------------------------------------------\
>> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ << \ ...and Kill them.
a webcartoon by Howard Tayler; I like it, maybe you will too!
 
Oily <[email protected]> wrote:

> Don't forget the plumbers with their B.S.P (pipe) Austin ;-)

BSP rules in diving circles.

Because of the need for backward compatibility
people have kept using the threads they started
with so the DIN fitting is a 5/8" BSP thread
and I have Russian military kit with 1/4" BSP
filling junctions.

nigelH


 
On or around Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:02:37 +1000, "Karen Gallagher"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>EMB wrote:
>> William Tasso wrote:
>>> Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On or around Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:42:59 +1300, EMB <[email protected]>
>>>> enlightened us thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I keep a couple of A2 charts above my Myford lathe to help work
>>>>>> out what's
>>>>>> what, along with Zeus tables ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You can weld, you can turn - what else can you do? And where are
>>>>> all the other women like you?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> that's what I was thinking. 's enough to make one emigrate, I
>>>> swear.
>>>
>>>
>>> heh - and the girl is a sys-admin too - now let me see, what else do
>>> we need?
>>>
>> I'm sort of hoping she can cook too ;-)
>
>There are those who say I can :)
>
>But I'm too old for most of you, I suspect. I got my Series (new) when I was
>21, to give you hungry wolves a hint as to my age.

I could have done that. If it was a late series III.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Travel The Galaxy! Meet Fascinating Life Forms...
------------------------------------------------\
>> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ << \ ...and Kill them.
a webcartoon by Howard Tayler; I like it, maybe you will too!
 
On 2006-01-31, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

> It just keeps getting better. :p

I think Spring is fast approaching.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
On 2006-01-31, Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think my IT clients would approve if I turned up to look at
> their networks in a dirty, smelly (but practical) old LR - the oil
> stains are hard for them to remove from their carpark tarmac.

Oh I don't know, I used to dress up in suit, tie, trousers, shoes, big
"city boy" overcoat etc and go off to destroy the networks of large
blue-chip companies in a tatty red Defender 110 pickup with a rag top
and snorkel, covered in mud. I got a few double-takes when I jumped
out in car parks dressed in the gladrags. I stopped using the landy
in the end as the mileage wasn't kind to the truck, the fuel was
expensive, it was often hard to find a car park that would take the
truck and I ripped two pairs of trousers getting in and out!

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
In message <[email protected]>
Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2006-01-31, Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I don't think my IT clients would approve if I turned up to look at
> > their networks in a dirty, smelly (but practical) old LR - the oil
> > stains are hard for them to remove from their carpark tarmac.
>
> Oh I don't know, I used to dress up in suit, tie, trousers, shoes, big
> "city boy" overcoat etc and go off to destroy the networks of large
> blue-chip companies in a tatty red Defender 110 pickup with a rag top
> and snorkel, covered in mud. I got a few double-takes when I jumped
> out in car parks dressed in the gladrags. I stopped using the landy
> in the end as the mileage wasn't kind to the truck, the fuel was
> expensive, it was often hard to find a car park that would take the
> truck and I ripped two pairs of trousers getting in and out!
>

I was "asked" to remove my 109 hard top (in fetching silver with jam
sandwich stripes) from the front of Rolls-Royce in Crewe - it got
me out of going to any more endless boring software meetings!

On trips to MIRA it was a positive boon - one Software Reliabitlity
seminar opened with a rather irritating bloke asking, "Ok, so
who here hasn't got at least one microprocessor in their car?"

"Er, me!"

"Ah! But what about the radio!"

"What radio?"

"Oh Bum"

It completely threw him off the track of the rest of his rather
pompous "breifing".

Later I went for aninterview for a contract in Bradford in my very
muddy 110. The place was a Yuppie House, and I knew immediately I
had no intention of taking the job, but had to go through the motions
to keep the agency sweet. As ever when you really don't want the
job the interview went swimmingly until he said I wouldn't be able
to park "That" in the staff car park. This gave me the perfect
excuse to tell him what I though of him. The idiot kept ringing for
2 weeks before he got the message.

Happy days!

Richard
--
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Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:02:37 +1000, "Karen Gallagher"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> But I'm too old for most of you, I suspect. I got my Series (new)
>> when I was 21, to give you hungry wolves a hint as to my age.
>
> Many a fine tune is played on an old fiddle etc... :)

Not that old though ... still an active runner, Hasher & rogainer when time
permits :)

K


--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast


 
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