THE BRITISH THREAD II

Going back to the art-deco record player on You Tube reminded me of an incident I witnessed.

We had a record player. It had a fake, veneer mahogany front due to us being posh. It wasn't naff like that one in the video. Those sort of things were for the lower orders. My Mum didn't belong to the lower orders.
Anyway we were sat round one night watching the turntable revolve at 45 rpm, like in the video, and somebody, it wasn't me, got hold of the cat and sat it on the record.

It jumped off immediately. So it was put back again for another try, It jumped off again and ran out of the room. Whether it said "Sheesh" I don't know.

So then a discussion started about why young ladies were always spinning around at the bopping, in the "routine", a popular form of very energetic line dancing only suitable for girls under 18, or Olympic hopefuls, and even in the Royal Bellet Corps at Covent Garden in front of Her Majesty, when pussies obviously hated it under experimental conditions.

Then we broke up and went to bed and to work in the morning and we never got to the bottom of it.

Spendy, you've evidently led a very instructive and full life.

At the bopping where I grew up the only "line dance" that the young ladies and their older sisters and mums did was far from energetic. It was called "The Slosh". Imagine a Hawaiian hula without the sexual element, and you're not far off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKi0enSg464

but this is not The Slosh quite as I remember it. There are obviously regional variations.

No wonder the 45 rpm cat ran away. They associate record players with small dogs.

Hello Brits.

Just in the middle of my packing and it's getting me down.



2 rooms left.

I stink.

Got to go to the tip now.

Oh the glamour.

well have a good tip trip.

There's some spectacular cycling going on at the Manchester Velodrome. I didn't know we were good at anything these days...but we have some fast ladies in lycra. I await Spendy's withering comments.

I didnt know triptrych was spelt like that

But that isn't an Olympic sports until now, just doing it at the World Championship in Manchester, right? (With a tricycle, during triathlon.)

could be


or more like the specific act of taking an unwanted three panel painting to the community recycling centre

hence tip-trip.

I get a free pass for the quarantine block Steve. :wink:

Aw heck... little Bear told me you were pretty contagious!! :wink:

Hey Mathos - pleased to meet ya

ok no problem, just dont go around biting anyone for a while.

Here's an eco tip.

When the apple juice container is empty saw the top off with a bread knife. Then when the Baked Beans can is empty it fits neatly inside if you press it a bit. Then the tea bags go inside that and the tops off the milk bottles and any other of the smaller **** and visitors will think an apple juice container is a sign of intelligence although it won't make any difference to your pollution coefficient it will look like it does and that's the main thing.

Hey- didn't you just love the Terminal 5 fiasco? There were bags of pristine underwear piled up on the outgoing flights and bags of dirty underwear piled up on the incomings.

No wonder the CEO apologised to the nation. Demonstrating how utterly ridiculous it all is is something that deserves an apology.

Hey did anyone else hear Charlotte Green reading that obituary on the Today programme while unsuccesfully trying to stifle laughter?
It's even been on TV news since.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/audio/2008/mar/28/charlotte.green

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3642678.ece

I heard the original, and wondered what on earth could have caused it. The explanation seems very unlikely. What did they really whisper in her ear??

Somebody said, in her headphones, "It sounds like a bee in a bottle".

Ditto.....

You see, that is what I mean. Not funny.

Hi Clary..

Hi Mathos. I hope everything is fine for you and yours and that you'll have a wonderful remainder of the day.