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Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.


'tis only 50 years

Which Navy did you come out of at the age of eight?

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On 5/6/05 14:16, in article , "Janet
Baraclough" wrote:

The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.


Janet.

Oh please. Pull yourself together. I *insist* that our varlets wear the
above described livery and they're not allowed out of the bothy until they
do so.
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On 5/6/05 20:07, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:

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I've some spare flatcaps, too, but unfortunately not of the 'Ecky Thump'
variety. I take it he brings his own tacketty boots?

Yes but you will of course, pay for them and replace them every year, on his
birthday. And his wife will be given 3 yards of strong cotton twill to make
up new shirts, every Christmas.

*WIFE?* I need someone small enough to send up the chimneys!

Now come - get a grip. On what you're going to pay them she'll be so
under-nourished she'll be a pipe cleaner. Really - some seigneurs have no
imagination.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

On 5/6/05 20:08, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:

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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

--
Mike.

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

That's most frightfully non-U. We refer to him as the Gov'nor, what?

Tsk. 'Sir', surely!
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www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from "Harold Walker" contains these words:
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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from "Harold Walker" contains these
words:

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be,
it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.


'tis only 50 years

Which Navy did you come out of at the age of eight?////born 1925....Royal
NavalAir Service 1943 to 46 + 1949 to 1955 and thence to Yankee land

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On 5/6/05 20:08, in article
,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:

The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

Must come over in July and get up to date on 'what in and what out' these
days...if they will let me in...H

--
Mike.

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be,
it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

That's most frightfully non-U. We refer to him as the Gov'nor, what?

Tsk. 'Sir', surely!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

Harold Walker wrote:
[...]
"Mike Lyle" wrote in
message
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for
a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

Must come over in July and get up to date on 'what in and what out'
these days...if they will let me in...H
[...]
You'll find that these days almost everybody's using exactly the same
style as the one in Rusty's prospectus, at the link above. It's the
new street-talk.

(Oh, and if you want to try the famous echo in the British Museum
Library Reading-Room, they've moved it to St Pancras.)

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Harold Walker wrote:
[...]
"Mike Lyle" wrote in
message
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for
a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

Must come over in July and get up to date on 'what in and what out'
these days...if they will let me in...H
[...]
You'll find that these days almost everybody's using exactly the same
style as the one in Rusty's prospectus, at the link above. It's the
new street-talk.

(Oh, and if you want to try the famous echo in the British Museum
Library Reading-Room, they've moved it to St Pancras.)

--
Mike.

Oh shucks...shudda moved it to King's Cross...H

"Harold Walker" wrote in message
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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

--
Mike.

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H



So what if they do?

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On 5/6/05 14:16, in article , "Janet
Baraclough" wrote:
The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.


Janet.

Oh please. Pull yourself together. I *insist* that our varlets wear the
above described livery and they're not allowed out of the bothy until they
do so.

Quite right too! I'd cut their ration of nourishing cabbage stalks if
they don't.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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from Sacha contains these words:
On 5/6/05 20:07, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

I've some spare flatcaps, too, but unfortunately not of the 'Ecky Thump'
variety. I take it he brings his own tacketty boots?

Yes but you will of course, pay for them and replace them every
year, on his
birthday. And his wife will be given 3 yards of strong cotton
twill to make
up new shirts, every Christmas.

*WIFE?* I need someone small enough to send up the chimneys!

Now come - get a grip. On what you're going to pay them she'll be so
under-nourished she'll be a pipe cleaner. Really - some seigneurs have no
imagination.

What, stiff and fluffy?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

That's most frightfully non-U. We refer to him as the Gov'nor, what?

Tsk. 'Sir', surely!

Ah, we call him "Sir" to his face when we speak to him, don't y'know. We
*REFER* to him as "the gov'nor".

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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from Janet Baraclough contains these words:
The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Must come over in July and get up to date on 'what in and what out' these
days...if they will let me in...H

Don't forget the dress code. Burberry check is very popular for
smart-casual occasions, save your hooded sweatshirt and baseball cap for
weekend wear while out shopping with friends.

Knee-breeches and loud check socks are de rigeur, or plus-fours. Spats
are not as popular as they were last year. Trilbies are old-hat, and the
man about town wears a bowler these days.

Government Ministers and gangsters (these are interchangeable) wear a
Homburg (Fedora), while leaders of Her Majesty's Opposition have to wear
baseball caps.

HTH

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
k...
The message
from Janet Baraclough contains these words:
The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Must come over in July and get up to date on 'what in and what out'
these
days...if they will let me in...H

Don't forget the dress code. Burberry check is very popular for
smart-casual occasions, save your hooded sweatshirt and baseball cap for
weekend wear while out shopping with friends.

Knee-breeches and loud check socks are de rigeur, or plus-fours. Spats
are not as popular as they were last year. Trilbies are old-hat, and the
man about town wears a bowler these days.

Government Ministers and gangsters (these are interchangeable) wear a
Homburg (Fedora), while leaders of Her Majesty's Opposition have to wear
baseball caps.

HTH

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

I will act like a member of the oppositon and wear a nice new baseball cap
and make sure I have my fanny pack strapped around my waist to hold the UK
passport and the likes.....H

On 6/6/05 16:02, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:

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from Sacha contains these words:
On 5/6/05 20:07, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

I've some spare flatcaps, too, but unfortunately not of the 'Ecky Thump'
variety. I take it he brings his own tacketty boots?

Yes but you will of course, pay for them and replace them every
year, on his
birthday. And his wife will be given 3 yards of strong cotton
twill to make
up new shirts, every Christmas.

*WIFE?* I need someone small enough to send up the chimneys!

Now come - get a grip. On what you're going to pay them she'll be so
under-nourished she'll be a pipe cleaner. Really - some seigneurs have no
imagination.

What, stiff and fluffy?

That's *Too* much imagination!
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)