"WaltA" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:49:42 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
Oh drool. You'll have me weeping into my beer soon, stoppit :-)
I also had an AJS 990 cc (?) Vee-twin side-valve for a while.

BSA Bantam Bushman 125cc(??)
1947 Hilman Minx sidevalve (capacity unremembered!)

delete
Note to self - dont tell him about the Triumph Cub.
/delete



Triumph Cub? Potent little 200cc jobby? My mate's used to leave my Lambretta
150LI standing :-(( and I mean standing as if I hadn't even started the
engine :-((

I did like the Triumph 21, the 350?cc bike. Saw one the other day :-))

On 23 Aug 2005 11:53:08 +0100, Egbert Egret
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:47:26 GMT, WaltA wrote:

On 23 Aug 2005 09:38:48 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,
martin writes:
| On 23 Aug 2005 08:46:07 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
| | This is getting really weird.
| Nah. Try uk.rec.sheds.
| Pervert! :-)

Now, THAT'S unfair! I must stand up for the sheddies here.

Here ? Amongst us, now ?
shed
Can the minister explain how this was allowed to happen,
where were our border patrols?
Inside some huts drinking tea perhaps ? Consuming wild mushrooms
gathered from their gardens and compost heaps ?

What does the minister propose to do to rectify this situation.
I propose that he should immediately begin a program of super-shed
building to contain these miscreants.

The Miscreants are in uk.misc, over there --
unless somebody crossposts this thread over there as well.

Oh no ! Anything but uk.misc,
said Brer Rabbit jumping into the briar patch

Psst, that's where his white-rabbit hole is, with exits into
multiverses.

In message , Ali Hopkins
writes

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
martin writes:
| On 23 Aug 2005 08:46:07 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
|
| | This is getting really weird.
|
| Nah. Try uk.rec.sheds.
|
| Pervert! :-)

Now, THAT'S unfair! I must stand up for the sheddies here. They
aren't perverted, but are such independent thinkers that they have
little direct contact with the real world[*] or even uk.rec.gardening.

[*] As many authors have pointed out, the inside of ancient and
well-cluttered storage units, such as sheds and wardrobes, tends
to attach itself to other universes. Nobody knows why. This is
why things disappear and strange things appear in such units, and
accounts for the postings on uk.rec.sheds.


And sometimes, posters drift in and out too.... I was here at the dawn of
urs and voted for it, too. Then, RL got heck tick. But I like it here, so
I'll waft across now and then. :)

Strange, the people you run into in the unlikeliest places.


--
Bernard Peek
In search of cognoscenti, again

Oh drool. You'll have me weeping into my beer soon, stoppit :-)
I also had an AJS 990 cc (?) Vee-twin side-valve for a while.

BSA Bantam Bushman 125cc(??)
1947 Hilman Minx sidevalve (capacity unremembered!)
delete
Note to self - dont tell him about the Triumph Cub.
/delete

Triumph Cub? Potent little 200cc jobby?

175 ? 200? cant remember, something like that

My mate's used to leave my Lambretta

Lambretta !!!! Well but of course, nuff said :-))
Sry, coud'na resist :)

I did like the Triumph 21, the 350?cc bike. Saw one the other day :-))

The cub was my first and last Triumph.
I got a Comet after that.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, WaltA typed this :

Some poor souls have even tried to use this as a worm-hole to other
places and times by incorporating an extra door in the shed and
attempting to traverse the shed-hole within its Schwarzschild radius.
This inevitably ends in tears.

What sort of tears - those in the fabric of Space/Time or Boo-hoo?
Or both?
--
Roger Hunt

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:37:42 +0100, Roger Hunt wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, WaltA typed this :
Some poor souls have even tried to use this as a worm-hole to other
places and times by incorporating an extra door in the shed and
attempting to traverse the shed-hole within its Schwarzschild radius.
This inevitably ends in tears.

What sort of tears - those in the fabric of Space/Time or Boo-hoo?
Or both?

hehee :-)))
Yes !

Or even tares
sometimes used by gardeners to improve fertility, (dont ask !)

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
martin writes:
On 23 Aug 2005 08:46:07 GMT, (Nick Maclaren)
wrote:

This is getting really weird.

Nah. Try uk.rec.sheds.

Pervert! :-)

Now, THAT'S unfair! I must stand up for the sheddies here. They
aren't perverted, but are such independent thinkers that they have
little direct contact with the real world[*] or even uk.rec.gardening.

[*] As many authors have pointed out, the inside of ancient and
well-cluttered storage units, such as sheds and wardrobes, tends

I allus keeps a Lion & a Witch in mine.

to attach itself to other universes. Nobody knows why. This is
why things disappear and strange things appear in such units, and
accounts for the postings on uk.rec.sheds.
Narnia knows.
..

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article DGxOe.10628$g47.7290@trnddc07,
Travis wrote:

Since paraffin is a soild (isn't it) and gas is a gas I don't get
it.

Not at any civilised temperature, it isn't. It is a liquid. You
are thinking of paraffin wax. Also don't confuse (liquid) paraffin
with liquid paraffin :-)

No, it's a divided-by-a-common-language thing. Brit laymen use the
word "paraffin" for _kerosene_. Not as bad (from our pov) as the
French, who call it "pétrole"!

--
Mike.

In article ,
"Mike Lyle" writes:
|
| Since paraffin is a soild (isn't it) and gas is a gas I don't get
| it.
|
| Not at any civilised temperature, it isn't. It is a liquid. You
| are thinking of paraffin wax. Also don't confuse (liquid) paraffin
| with liquid paraffin :-)
|
| No, it's a divided-by-a-common-language thing. Brit laymen use the
| word "paraffin" for _kerosene_. Not as bad (from our pov) as the
| French, who call it "pétrole"!

Actually, I use the terms 'paraffin' and 'kerosene' as synonyms.
Both are abbreviations (for p. oil and k. oil) and the use of
paraffin in that sense predates the use of kerosene (by only a
few years, true).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article %VAOe.12345$g47.9087@trnddc07,
"Travis" writes:
[...]
Transpondia? When I Google that word I find something about
bringing a visitor or fiance to the UK.

It has been used to refer to our ex-colonies (especially the
rebellious ones) in north America for some time - on UK newsgroups.

Over on alt.usage.english, it's spawned a whole range of derivatives,
including (hyphens are included or not according to house style):
Right-pond
Left-pond
Else-pond
Other-pond
Trans-pond
all of which lead to the expected forms with -ial, -ian, and -iality.
There are also _pondial_ and _pondiality_. I believe I was myself
responsible for the divergent adjectival form referring to Oceania,
_Antipondean_.

Since we often refer to South Africa, I am about to introduce _up-_
and _down-pond_ -- also, perhaps, confections of my own.

--
Mike.

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from (WaltA) contains these words:

An excess of mass.

Something some of us sheddi are all to keenly aware of. There are three
of us who are careful not to stand too near each other at moots in case
of forming a singularity.

--
Skipweasel.
In the beginning was the word.
And the word was Aardvark.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Guy King typed this :
The message
from (WaltA) contains these words:

An excess of mass.

Something some of us sheddi are all to keenly aware of. There are three
of us who are careful not to stand too near each other at moots in case
of forming a singularity.

Hence the use of CC and PP as moderators, to absorb those excess
Neutrons? And to fill those Black holes too.
--
Roger Hunt

In article ,
Roger Hunt writes:
|
| An excess of mass.
|
| Something some of us sheddi are all to keenly aware of. There are three
| of us who are careful not to stand too near each other at moots in case
| of forming a singularity.
|
| Hence the use of CC and PP as moderators, to absorb those excess
| Neutrons? And to fill those Black holes too.

Attempting to fill in a black hole tends to be a time-consuming
task.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:55:59 +0100, Guy King wrote:
(WaltA) contains these words:

An excess of mass.

Something some of us sheddi are all to keenly aware of. There are three
of us who are careful not to stand too near each other at moots in case
of forming a singularity.

Indeed, one has to be so carefull.
Met a fella just the other day, peering out of a shed, think he said
his name was Wells ? Didn't say when he was from.
Muttering he was, worried, something about his chum Pycraft I believe.

Met a fella just the other day, peering out of a shed, think he said
his name was Wells ? Didn't say when he was from.
Muttering he was, worried, something about his chum Pycraft I believe.

Doh!
That would have been better if I had not mistyped and instead typed
Pyecraft.