THE BRITISH THREAD II

Marrons chauds ... heiße Maronen ...



Joyeux noël et bonnes fêtes de fin d'année à Francis (et tous).

I got a girl named Boney Marroni
She's as skinny as a stick of macaroni

Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr, for you Walter and for all our British friends!

Now I am going to attempt to make cranberry and apple sauce...

Anyone got a recipe? What do you do with the skins? They look quite thick.

Here I go a googlin'.

x

ok so who will be the first on brit thread 2 page 500?

Almost certainly Walter 1/2
Smorgs...too busy with skins 5/1
me...............15/1
spendius 2/1
Francis 9/4


if a bookie does his sums right he makes 54% profit on those odds.

So over to you Walter, my Xmas money is in your capable hands.

edit...may have got my sums wrong. its 54% infavour or against the bookmaker, cant figure it out right now, too full of chicken dansak and champagne.

I don't care who. You are all such wonderful people, I love you all equally.

Well, you aren't on Steve's list ...

Steve-- it's about 155 over round which means the bookie makes 55 out of every 155 he has in the bag assuming each runner takes out 100. He should be banned. He's taking advantage of Ladies Day.

You shouldn't eat too much chicken or you'll need a bra.

Cranberry and apple sauce is easy. You spoon it out of a jar onto your plate.

Can you believe it? Yes, and he's going to answer for that on the Day of Judgement.

This is so exciting

British are so non opportunistic, rules and all. Merry Christmas and may somebody bless us everyone.

We can do better underpant jokes than that performance on You-Tube Treasures by the Yank wits but we hold back because we know this is an American site where just saying the word "underpants" seems to suffice.

Anyway- we figured that having invented the industrial revolution it was fair enough to say "take it away Sam". And we know how to pick and choose from the gear you send us. How we pay for it mystifies me.

Budweiser for example is pure piss. I'm off just now for a few pints of John Smith's Extra Smooth. They're charging a fiver to get in tonight as a festive gesture but I'm getting in free because I'm a highly valued customer.

HO HO HO!

Cristmas Day!

I've just put me sprouts on.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.

Won't be around much as I'm cooking for 10.

xxxxxx

You have got to be kidding, smorgs. Sprouts take ten minutes cooking, tops. Seven or eight for gourmet results.

That is, of course, unless you intend to dip them in chocolate later, as Steve suggests.



Unless you've got a cooking method outwith my range of expertise, I should say. I never do them in the oven, for example.

Did you see that scene in Love Actually where the English gump says ta-ta to his black mate at Heathrow on his way to the USA , the shagging road as he called it, with the words "cos I've got a bog knob." and it cuts to him in a taxi and he says to the driver-"just drop me off at any old typical American bar" and when he orders his beer the girl on the next stool pulls back her facial coverings and says expectantly "are you English?" and he says "yes I am actually" and then her mate comes in and she gets told he's English and then another one and they have a party and then we see some shadows on a window blind of the four of them doffing off and subsiding out of view.

You could tell he knew his Darwin backwards.

smorgsie wrote-



Did they sprout?

I'm going fishing tomorrow, on our annual frosty meet.

I've got to get my tackle out.

It was a joke, Muckty...

You know, about how they used to boil sprouts to death in the old days before we descovered nouvelle sprouts.

Then I finished them with panchettea, a little butter and a dash of balsamic...

Cos we is dead posh.

I'm off to the pictures this afternoon with daughter and nephew, to see I Am Legend, we remember it as Omega Man with Charlton Heston.

x

Well thank goodness for that, Smorgie. I thought you wre serious then. You're much more subtle than me.

Or as some would say, than I.



My tackle seems to be all present and correct, and in working order.