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Originally posted by DaveCox
[B]FV - I think we not only think alike, we even smoke the same stuff - always makes me chuckle even more than the health warning on the pack.
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I have to be careful with these smileys, the Obergruppenforumführer Binnington-Wall tells me I have a ration of 7 per posting.
McSpool tells me it means half-heavy and a medium cut, this doesn't help at all really. I now see it as the gentleman taking the weight on his elbows, as thoughtful people should, and has just returned from the pub.
I don't expect McSpool has time to comment though as he is very busy now with the two little McBobbins.
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"You might be better served with our National Lottery, a device where 20 million of the poorest people sponsor 250 of the richest to attend the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. "
They're giving money to everyone EXCEPT those that need it ( ie ME)
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Yes, so we will both be hanging about until the ice-age descends on Hell with a return to good judgement and common sense.
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"Obscene waste I call it, but then everyone else thinks I'm a cantankerous and awkward arse-hole."
And I'm often told that my politics are 'slightly to the right of Attilla the Hun.'
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Just maybe we need more of that.
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A square meal refers to the 'hard-tack' or ships biscuit. Cooked twice so that it didn't decay, only the weevils gave it any noticeable flavour.
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Hmmmmm, well, I'd cite the square plates that were used to get the whole gun crew around the tiny table; also these had a pronounced raised edge known as a fiddle; taking excess rations and so filling your plate excessively to this level would then be. . . . .
On the fiddle.
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2-6 - can't remember that one.
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Ah, the ships gun crew are numbered, Nos. 2 and 6 are the ones that pull the ropes to run the cannon back out of the port to the firing position after a reload.
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It's not that I live close to Pompey, but spent 4 years as a Petty Officer Instructor with the Sea Cadet Corps.
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Aha, all hands to dance and skylark then.
Mr Ball-Spinning, I do hope you appreciate all this detailed and free culture we are magnanimously supplying you with from this green and pleasant isle.
R.
