BIODIESEL, Try it youll like it.

Benny sure did surround himself with some nubile females . . . I'd imagine that he had quite a pile stashed at the time of his death, too. He was syndicated right across the English-speaking world.

anyway, back to bennydiesel...

Almost all humor is good - funny is the only important criterion. Benny Hill and most British comedy generally play quite well over here. Odd, I didn't notice any of the U.S. folks here taking cheap shots at the Brits over nonsense like 'you get a cold; we get the flu' and 'too bad you guys didn't learn from Laurel & Hardy'. I think this reveals more about the (hopefully transient) qualities of the speaker than the object of this bile.

I sorta like Little Britain and I liked Ballykissangel. Black Adder was , perhaps my favorite.
To the Manor Born is waay too close to people I know. Pompous buncha dbags.

I seem to be using d bag alot today? I shall try to improve.

Steve :wink: good comeback. I rest my case about ol spendi.

The Brits should bear in mind we beat 'em twice - three times, if you count their support for aThe Confederacy, and if not for us, they'd be speaking German now, while Australia and New Zealand would be subjects of The Japanese Empire. Not that I wanna rub it in or anything

The story about gaining the rights to the "Yakkity sax" that he used as a bumper was similarly interesting.
Of course I ony heeerd the hiibilly side of it.

"Benny Hill"? Is that the "Benny" from "Crossroads"?

Some of you Americans are just so thin skinned. You cant take any criticism no matter how light hearted, Spendi meant absolutely nothing by his quip. Yet at the slightest opportunity we get it rammed down our throats that America saved us from the communists the nazis the martians the Japanese and socialism.

I will say this just once. I acknowledge with sincerity and gratitude the contribution of ALL those who gave their lives in the struggle against fascism and military dictatorship in WW2.

Now having said that we Brits owe you Yanks jack ****. We paid for all the lend lease stuff. We paid in blood to defend this island alone against the nazi onslaught, without which the liberation of Europe would not have been possible. We paid back the war loans: we gave you all our cutting edge technology, jet engines, the cavity wave magnetron, the design for an atomic bomb, electronic computers and ALL military secrets pertaining to ultra etc etc. After the war we gave you military bases around the world. We owe you nothing. By contrast the boot is very much on the other foot these days if you ask me. We were the first to stand shoulder to shoulder with you after 9/11 and in Afghanistan. We are supporting you in your illegal war to liberate Iraq of its oil. Thats something perhaps we should hang our heads in shame about. King George III was mad and relied too much on his Hessian mercenaries. Had he not been, we might just have been spared the madness of your George 2, a point not lost on the rest of the world.

Ok rant over just dont tell me again we would all be speaking Russian or German ok?

On a side issue, despite Palmerston's hysterical hatred for the United States and Lincoln, by no stretch of the imagination can England be said to have supported the southern Confederacy.

Carry on.

danke Set

Steve. I agree. If it wasnt for the RAF causing Hitler to question his Luftwaffe, maybe he wouldnt have turned to Russia so early. I always considered Russia to be the real softening up of hitler. He was met by an army crazed on vengeance, that didnt count losses in life and was gonna bleed Hitler out.

AS far as the Civil War, Britain was officially neutral, but the south always figured that they could count on Britin and France to come to its aid. Cotton diplomacy failed
1Britain was stockpiling huge amounts of cotton since the mid 1850s because they figured something was gonna happen
2 More and Better quality cotton was produced in India (a British zone of influence)

British naval officers could get their "bones" by resigning their commissions and signing up with "free enterprise" blockade runners ever since Lincoln declared a blockade against a belligerent nation.


As far as the 1812 disagreement, Ive always heard that US lost the war but won the peace. We were represented by a pack of horsetraders lofted into the field of diplomacy

The War of 1812 (or, the American War in the parlance of the English) was a war neither side wanted to or should have fought. It was fought to redress the greivances of a section of the country which not only did not support the war, but made a huge profit trading with the enemy. It was a war that put the final nail in the coffin of the American militia myth, and served notice to the Royal Navy that they were no longer the most professional navy in the world. The most important land battle was fought after the peace was concluded.

All in all, it was a war that basically everybody didn't need and everybody lost--except the Yankee smugglers. The Indians came off worst, which should surprise no one.

<chuckle> Hit a nerve, eh? Where's the skin the thinnest?

I don't blame him for a moment . . . as an American, i'm sick of hearin' that line of crap . . .

American jingoism is less defensible than other-than-American jingoism? Its all a buncha crap, IMO.

But then, without it, we'd all be more likely to get along - can't have that.

I said nothing of the kind . . . and i agree completely, it's all a buncha crap . . .

Hell with biodiesel, lets bust this thread out.
Benny Hill was about as funny as Cancer. Black Adder was funny. It was from BA that I learned the word "bibble", and oft pronounced by Rowan Atkinson in his various roles the word would go from "Biebel" to "Bibow".

I hope its not anything dirty. Because I have a profound appreciation of how "dirty words" unbeknownst to the utterer could have a terminal effect on ones life.
One time I was teaching one of my new junior reservoir engineers (who was a Madras Indian from Kerala institute of Mining and a life long speaker of Malayalum), I taught him the word "dildo" , To my surprise, he adopted this word and, because it flowed out of his mouth like "deeeeeldo" he quite frequently used it as a term of minor frustration in front of all the tech staff. His life could have ended badly had it not been for the fact that he was a needed reservoir modeler.
One day he came to me and said
"Ive been dealing with these dildos in the drill logger all day " I asked him whether he actually called any of the drillers or loggers by that name. (Most of these guys drove old HArleys to work and ate roadkill)
He said "yes certainly, and I am certainly getting their attention. It is a good word"

We never explained what a dildo was until that very moment. He went back and apologized to all the field hands and gained an instant name of "little Dick" One of the loggers helpers , who was good with a brush painted him a hard hat with "Little Dick" on it and it was proudly worn and I didnt lose an employee under mysterious circumstances. Sometimes life is good

Seems we had a fuel spill and slipperied up the slope some, don't it? Whutchya gonna do - gotta go with the flow

sometimes we wtart a thread and its fascinating to see where it winds up. ****, Ill betcha we'll even get some recipes soon.

PS, how comes Im not the only one not working today?

You don't need to be slingin' four letter words like that around, FM . . .