In reply to ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 10 Oct, 17:40, "Cat(h)" wrote:
Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW
if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the
B stands for Blue?

Blessed.

Off course! While you're there ... saturday greniad crossword, stuck
on: across 1 Liniment - cabinet room (anag) (11) - I've already got 2
down for Cut Grass (3) which is Mow, 3 down Full (7) which is replete,
giving me for 1 across -M-R-----O-. The O is from 6 down Banish from
group (9) which I think is ostricise. I haven't found 5 down One of
elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) which should be the 8th letter.
Anyone?

embrocation

On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
embrocation

Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated
by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.

In article . com,
writes:
| On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
| wrote:
| embrocation
|
| Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated
| by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.

I think that you have it wrong. The only 5-letter ones I can find are
Theia, Coeus, Crius and (possibly) Atlas.

Clue: Search for "Titans".


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In reply to ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
embrocation

Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated
by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.

There were only 12 and none have 5 letters or begin with T!

What have you got wrong?

In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article . com,
writes:
On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
embrocation

Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods
defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.

I think that you have it wrong. The only 5-letter ones I can find are
Theia, Coeus, Crius and (possibly) Atlas.

Clue: Search for "Titans".

They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense.

He probably went postal and bashed up one of the Romans' ones by mistake :-)

That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions,
sometimes.

In article ,
"Uncle Marvo" writes:
|
| Clue: Search for "Titans".
|
| They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense.

The victor always defines the terminology!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 11 Oct, 11:34, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
In reply to ) who wrote this in
Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated
by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.
There were only 12 and none have 5 letters or begin with T!
What have you got wrong?

From Embrocation, 2 down Cut grass (3) Mow, 3 down Full (7) Replete,
4 down I don't know, Grapple - confirm (6) then 5 down One of elder
gods defeated by Zeus (5) and that should start with the T from
Embrocation. Innit.

In reply to ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
embrocation

OOhh... you're good. Ta very much. I know who to ask next Saturday ;o)

I'm not good, I'm just English :-)

In reply to ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 11 Oct, 11:34, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
In reply to ) who wrote this in
Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods
defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.
There were only 12 and none have 5 letters or begin with T!
What have you got wrong?

From Embrocation, 2 down Cut grass (3) Mow, 3 down Full (7) Replete,
4 down I don't know, Grapple - confirm (6) then 5 down One of elder
gods defeated by Zeus (5) and that should start with the T from
Embrocation. Innit.

I have mailed someone who will definitely know.

That means that several people can now get on with some work :-)

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...

In article ,
"Uncle Marvo" writes:
|
| Clue: Search for "Titans".
|
| They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense.

The victor always defines the terminology!



I'm nicking that for a sig line btw)
--
There is no God but Eris, and Jay and Silent Bob are her Prophets.

On Oct 10, 8:35 pm, Des Higgins wrote:
On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote:





On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:

"Cat(h)" wrote in message

.. .

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins
wrote:

On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote in message

groups.com...

On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,
David in Normandy writes:
| In article
.com,
Des
| Higgins says...
| ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big
things
| and made noises and had flashing lights.
|
| And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache!

Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and
traditional backups were on tape.

Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from
the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent
computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards
because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before
tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up.

I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli.

A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later
attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more
interest
than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap
tops
and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-)

Mary
gasp :-)
do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away
from mice?

If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs,

How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is
too hard for earplugs - I've tried it.

and when
you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make
spiffing chewing gum -

Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/

which can be composted in the end.

Why compost? Why not swallow it?

But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that...
Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very
very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.)

He doesn't do it very well.

Hmmm.

Cat(h)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you
watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night.

To my eternal shame, I missed it. I was waylaid, your Honor (and none
of your filty mind, Mister!)

Have you calmed down
yet.

Er. No. Not a hope tempting me from my telly on Sat night though.

I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you.


I didn't think the similarities were *that* uncanny.

Cat(h) (quickly checking out the oul' quads)

Uncle Marvo writes

That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions,
sometimes.

It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the
'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues.


--
Kay

In reply to K ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

Uncle Marvo writes

That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible
questions, sometimes.

It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the
'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues.

I only do the cryptic. Once I've done the killer, fiendish and whatever
other Su Doku they give you, the word puzzle and the Polygon. And been down
the pub.

I don't read the paper itself, someone else has that. I pay 10p for the
Times 2 and the back page for the crossword. Bargain.

:-)

Uncle Marvo writes
In reply to K ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

Uncle Marvo writes

That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible
questions, sometimes.

It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the
'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues.

I only do the cryptic. Once I've done the killer, fiendish and whatever
other Su Doku they give you, the word puzzle and the Polygon. And been down
the pub.

I don't read the paper itself, someone else has that. I pay 10p for the
Times 2 and the back page for the crossword. Bargain.

What do you have against the grauniad cryptic? Apart from not seeing
enough of Araucaria? And the fact that you have to pay an exorbitant
amount to do the crossword on the web.
--
Kay

On Oct 11, 1:48 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Oct 10, 8:35 pm, Des Higgins wrote:





On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote:

On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:

"Cat(h)" wrote in message

.. .

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins
wrote:

On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote in message

groups.com...

On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,
David in Normandy writes:
| In article
.com,
Des
| Higgins says...
| ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big
things
| and made noises and had flashing lights.
|
| And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache!

Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and
traditional backups were on tape.

Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from
the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent
computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards
because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before
tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up.

I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli.

A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later
attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more
interest
than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap
tops
and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-)

Mary
gasp :-)
do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away
from mice?

If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs,

How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is
too hard for earplugs - I've tried it.

and when
you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make
spiffing chewing gum -

Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/

which can be composted in the end.

Why compost? Why not swallow it?

But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that...
Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very
very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.)

He doesn't do it very well.

Hmmm.

Cat(h)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you
watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night.

To my eternal shame, I missed it. I was waylaid, your Honor (and none
of your filty mind, Mister!)


Gasp!

Have you calmed down

yet.

Er. No. Not a hope tempting me from my telly on Sat night though.

I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you.

I didn't think the similarities were *that* uncanny.


No no; I have never seen yer legs close up. I meant your great
passion for rugby players legs.
His was the only name I could spell quickly so I named him.

Anyway; good luck on Saturday.

Des


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