THE BRITISH THREAD

The ground is partly frozen, but there is no snow here to speak of.
Perhaps tonight we will have some.

These winters are quite mild though compared with the old days oop north. By eck it were parky then.

Yes. In this case, it WAS unusual!

A 19-year-old today had a full English breakfast tattooed on his head.

Mr Spendius, who already has four tattoos, said: "My friends and family keep asking me why I'm doing this. For me it's just something different which has never been done before."

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2009780,00.html

Whether that remark was intended to allude to matters pertaining to my already surfeited discomfiture in a sly sort of underhand leering snottiness I do not know but I will say that my aversion to tattoos is directly proportional to my aversion for pricks and the sensations I have been led to believe they cause.

I just saw on the News a really flash 40fter go past the camera with large letters emblazoned on the side in three different and striking styles to the effect--" BERNARD MATTHEWS---BOOTIFUL family food."

It takes a big-head to put his name on the side of a truck but to have it in formal capital letters is going it a bit. I bet there's no arguing with Mr Maffeews.

If there's a cookery book called Ways with Turkeys the first recipe should be what he did with one of the silliest creations of our *DEITY*. Have you ever had a good look at a turkey production unit. I have. Silly is an understatement. Rattlesnakes are sensible creatures.

I thought I had better use capitals for* DEITY* just in case.

Eddie Stobart
Norbert Dentressangle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6347555.stm

Poultry sales figures at Sainsbury's down 10% (only!)

Tyson H Burridge.

I saw a tattoo once of a no limit sign but I won't say where it was.

Perhaps Queenie should consider one of those in view of her signature-



Do you know the one about the Matron telling the young nurse that the patient in Bed 5 had LUDO tattooed on his penis?

Evenin' all.

Sad about Anna Nicole Smith.

Yes, sad. Her wedding pictures looked a bit odd, mind you.

She kind of modelled herself on Marilyn Monroe, she said, but the paper said she was more like Jayne Mansfield, the "world's first female female impersonator".

Still, when she was in her pomp, you wouldn't have thrown her out for eating biscuits in bed.

(also, from today's paper, apparently three men are contesting paternity & seeking custody of her daughter...DNA testing to be done)

How to bore holes in rock formations.

Yes she was very beautiful.

What happened to all that money? I know there was a legal battle with her late husband's family but I'm not sure what the outcome was.

From what little I have learned about the American legal system it will be a long time yet before anybody will know what happened to all that money.

One day it will all end up back in the US Treasury from whence it will be dispersed again according to a system which is far too complex to explain in a short post such as this. It won't standstill for long though. At the moment it is in motion. Its volume has probably not been accurately estimated yet or its rate of increase. Once the motion ceases we've had it. All the boilers won't work.

Here's some more 'boring' stuff:

On the motorway to Stretford, an old type black and white mini was in front of me with two Dalmation dogs on the back seat... it looked funny! Just wanted to share...

And, I am packing like mad! We move a week on Saturday.

x

Shut up Spendy you snivelling fart.

yeah...

But what about the mini with the dogs in McT?

Wouldn't you have found it funny?

You know we have an old (but working) VCR machine here... can't give it away, how technology becomes obsolete so quickly!

x

Congratulations you English Cricket fans. England rose from the Ashes and defeated Australia in the 50 over series final in Sydney.

Your plucky countrymen turned around a summer of pain and suffering to hand Australia a 34 run defeat and hoisted the Commonwealth Bank trophy in extraordinary scenes.

Well done, give them a heroes welcome on their return to home soil.

I would have answered before if I could've got A2K to work.

Black 'n' white mini with dalmatians sounds a scream. Probably deliberate on the owner's part.
Some people have a couple of westies, one black, one white, just like the whisky picture.

I feel like I've been put through a mangle....I was digging out a big hedge today, leylandii. Heavy mothers. I got halfway along, more to do tomorrow if it's not too wet.

Come on it only the one day series. <snort> It doesnt really count you know.

Come on it only the one day series. <snort> It doesnt really count you know.[/quote]

Give credit, where credit is due dadpad!

Give credit, where credit is due dadpad![/quote]

Thank you Dutchy. I accept your congratulation on behalf of the British nation, since no Englishmen are here. Ricky Ponting was a bit more sporting in defeat than old dadpad there, cor strewth strike a light there's a jumbuck in the tucker bag.

Mac wrote in that original style of his-



I too saw a funny thing today like smorgsie and her two doggies. It was a fleeting vision of this intrepid lower-middle class ugly lunk, way past his prime, sweating and heaving with some evidently large trees of that species well known for keeping the light off other people's premises until he staggered away exhausted and fell into the tangle of last month's long-johns and yesterday's bloomers which his 'erindoors was feeding into the squeezer to remove the dilute products of the washing and rinsing operation and was duly mangled in the tangle. Oh what tangled webs we weave- some wit once said. His intrepid nature is such that he is determined to do it tomorrow as well.

And with all those wonderful alternatives to go at instead.

Hi dadpad-

Didn't I predict the outcome for you. Our lads have only just got acclimatised. It's been great fun though. Sprawled out on the couch being nannied whilst cruddling one of Clary's acronyms. Your women look pretty healthy I must say. Maybe the Australian attitude to the female sex is good for them. Maybe its your weather. It can't be because Australian men are so handsome and virile I feel sure.