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BE <>
, , ..., Sun Feb 12 19:09:04 2012

Dear Di, Whenever I hear of Kathmandu, I think of the famous poem. Do you remember hearing, or reading it? allpoetry.com/poem/8506921-The_Green_Eye_Of_The_Little_Yellow_God-by-J_Milton_Hayes
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Feb 12 18:58:12 2012

Dear Di, Condolences on the loss of your MiL. She certainly had a long life.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Sun Feb 12 17:18:49 2012

no not id, but if
s <>
, , , Sun Feb 12 16:47:32 2012

Beatle Mayor, both DJ and Salty performed at Alexandra Hall ten years before in 1951, only the parents were impressed,....and id you can imagine it, there was a massive turn out.
Salty <>
, , , Sun Feb 12 16:46:32 2012

Gus, The Beatles played Alexandra Hall on Thursday 19 Jan 1961. I can't imagine a massive turnout!
Beatle Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sun Feb 12 11:28:04 2012

Salty an afterthought for some incredible scat, the best I have ever heard go to youtube and punch in Lambert Hendricks and Ross airegin
DJ <>
, , , Sun Feb 12 01:41:42 2012

Wow Salty, Looking a bit more lively and very enjoyable. A rather nice mixture of Dixie, Scat and with a faint reminder of Lambert Hendricks and Ross . Thanks for the intro to Chris Barber et all.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Feb 12 01:22:49 2012

Di, Sorry to hear of your loss. My M.in L. passed away in 2008. What a loss, she was a great lady, never had an unkind word to say about anyone and always found a positive spin in every situation. Just like her daughter.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Feb 11 16:37:50 2012

What you need Diana is a dollop of: youtube.com/watch?v=HOEXOBx9eVc&feature=related
Salty <>
, , , Sat Feb 11 15:04:04 2012

My MiL has just passed away last week at the age of 96years. My Brother in Law is 77years old, then hubby not far behind. Coping and looking after parents in your 70s is not an easy task.The funny thing was/is, is that the in Laws still treated their children as if they were in their 20s. My Father in Law is now being taken care of at home by a 48 years old lady carer from Katamandu...He's in his element...especially when it comes to bath time..My hubby is jealous........
Diana <>
, , , Sat Feb 11 06:19:43 2012

Dear Gus, Please advsie when he replies and whether you get the scanned copy!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Feb 10 22:17:48 2012

Just learned today via facebook that the very first newspaper article on the Beatles appeared in - believe it or not - The Crosby Herald. They were appearing at the Alexandra Hall and the article introduced them as just having returned from Hamburg. The tip off came from Ted 'Kingsize' Taylor who when the scene died down worked for many years as a butcher in Birkdale - now back playing rock and roll in Hamburg at 73 years young!(another non-retiree) I've asked him if he could scan and send me a copy.
gus <>
Lon, , , Fri Feb 10 21:56:37 2012

BE, must have been a bad day for Chris and Ollie. I still have quite a few very old records with those guys playing trad (Including a 331/3 long playing mono of the 1953 concert in London). I think Lonnie Donnegan and Monty Sunshine were part of the band at one time. Chris Barber came over to Toronto about two years ago to a full house. Thanks Diana - even if they are all either half asleep or stoned.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Feb 10 21:41:08 2012

Good Show Bonnie. I hope Clegg is not trying to take away your pension as Harper in canuck is doing
Old Canuck Dog <>
, , , Fri Feb 10 20:59:59 2012

Many happy returns Bonnie, notice that dreadful woman in Red is still keeping your bum warm. Nuns loose their marbles, to be replaced with phonies.
;o) <>
, , , Fri Feb 10 14:17:01 2012

Thanks John. According to the chart for her breed she's 91.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Feb 10 13:23:16 2012

Happy Birthday WooFBowWowWoof... But at 15, she must be a hundred and five in real-world terms. Take care there Bonnie, Lass!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Feb 10 13:16:02 2012

Happy Birthday Bonnie The Dog. 15 today. Woof!
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Feb 10 11:10:20 2012

Anyone know how the Smiths are coping with the Bankruptcy Courts, Official Receiver, etc? Wasn't Dom due in court this week?
Joe Public <>
Crosby, , , Fri Feb 10 01:08:48 2012

Thursday Feb 9. Incredible weather for this time of year. Feb is usually the harshest of the winter months. Today there is not a cloud in the sky,The temp is 6 degrees c and most of the snow has melted.The vast and endless rolling waters of Uxbridge pond, that unforgiving relentless 2.5 acres of water is losing the icy covering fast. Come on Spring ! !
DJ <>
, , , Thu Feb 9 19:17:56 2012

Di, I'm not familiar with this group ,Chris Barber, but I would like to know who is the dweeb sitting in front of the singer slapping his thighs. He is either stoned or needs a shot of Lucozade.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Feb 9 01:36:34 2012

Dear Di, I really am a brute. Thanks for all the you tube links. Only problem is that when I get on you tube, I'm there for at least an hour!!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Wed Feb 8 22:40:37 2012

Dear Di, I like Trad, but I would have walked out of that performance by Chris Barber and his sleepies. British-style Trad has the reputation of being hard-driving with a forceful rhythm. These guys played without spirit. No offense intended, and none taken, I hope. P.S. the dancers went along with the band.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Wed Feb 8 22:02:22 2012

Those kids jiving, reminds me of the weekend dances in the late 50s at the Corona Ballromm on College Road. Did any of you folks go there?
Diana <Down Memory Lane.>
, , , Wed Feb 8 17:34:52 2012

youtube.com/watch?v=6aKOqjAqmSs&feature=related
Diana <and this, you all must remember...>
, , , Wed Feb 8 17:23:34 2012

youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5r9E8iL6E&feature=related
Diana <Can anyone remember this music and the series..>
, , , Wed Feb 8 17:18:54 2012

youtube.com/watch?v=RMEpjDFHN50...........of course I remember..
Diana <Brian ,for you.>
, , , Wed Feb 8 17:16:18 2012

Thank you Brian.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Feb 8 00:42:44 2012

Dear Mike, what year were you working in the small factory? I lived in Endbutt lane, opposite the Endbutt hotel, a stones thow from Musker street, from '48 to '59./////Dave, you done good!!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Feb 7 18:38:42 2012

Mike, do not ever retire completely . I did it at age 60 and within a month knew I had made a mistake. Worked at a almost dream job until I was 65 and retired. Did home renos for one year and went back to work at 66. Now at a young 73 I still have a part - timer that gives me a focus as well as my tractor restoration activities,genealogical research and chasing SWMBO I'm a busy chap and loving it.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Feb 7 18:27:23 2012

Charlie Dickens would be 200 years old today. True.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Feb 7 18:21:12 2012

"For the Beer Festival...and to look for an apartment": Glad to see that you've got your priorities quite, quite right, Mike!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Feb 7 14:12:36 2012

jj, Memory does serve you well! I shall be saying goddbye to Elopak at the end of May DV. Will be over in the 'Pool' at the end of March for the Waterloo Beer Festival and will take some time to look around for an apartment in either Crosby or Waterloo.
Mike <>
Schifferstadt, , , Tue Feb 7 07:48:23 2012

Mike! Great to hear from you again! Happy New Year, mate! Weren't you retiring later on this year by the way, as you posted a while back, if memory serves?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Feb 6 13:21:16 2012

Hi Brian, Remember it well. It was always played during the morning at the small engineering factory in Musker Street off Enbutt Lane. I worked there one summer holiday while I was at St. Marys
Mike <>
Schifferstadt, , , Mon Feb 6 07:49:52 2012

Brian, probably wouldn't go down too well these days, so few listeners.
Salty <>
, , , Sun Feb 5 16:25:14 2012

Does anyone remember the BBC program "Music While You Work?"
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Feb 5 12:12:35 2012

Bobby "Blue" Bland - Little Boy Blue
DJ <>
, , , Fri Feb 3 16:37:10 2012

Feb 3 1959, "The day the music died". Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens all died in a plane crash. This has been mentioned on the various news stations today,apparently is has some rock & Roll significance for many.//// I was not a listener of any of the music these chaps played - too teenagerish and far too white for my liking. For some real gut bucket down home blues go to youtube and punch in Bobby "Blue" Bland - Little Boy BlueBland and Maria Callas are right up there on my favs list.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Feb 3 16:36:17 2012

Dear ?, You most certainly got the spelling of 'cute' absolutely nailed down! I Ilke that, showing these word who's boss. Good on yer, mate. We could do with more of that spirit!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Feb 3 14:54:25 2012

cute....CUTE....CUTE!
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, , , Fri Feb 3 14:47:39 2012

Very cutely observed Saly, altogether!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Feb 2 21:07:42 2012

DJ, This is pretty much what goes on in the waters off Somalia
Salty <>
, , , Thu Feb 2 20:26:40 2012

J.J. I can see a great future in the " Express Kidnapping business". Today we have drive in banks, drive in fast food outlets etc. Why not have drive in Ransom outlets?. Drive thru to the window, pay the ransom and get the kidnapped one out the next window. Free enterprise strikes again.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Feb 2 15:21:34 2012

nuze nuze nuze
, <>
, , , Thu Feb 2 11:35:46 2012

now if only your supreme leader was improvong, datwud be buze
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, , , Thu Feb 2 11:34:29 2012

Dear Bri', I know aught of Snoddy save one detail: he didn't mention the young; I did. It was a, probably doomed to failure, effort at a facetious mentioning of how we're all getting on down THE ROAD; if the 'young' are, say, 10+ years behind me, then there are oodles more than previously. Now, I, of '41 vintage, consider any charlie below 60 as 'young' wherefore the apparent proliferation now, in comparison to when I - and the world - were younger. Facetiousness doesn't always find its mark though so my apologies if mine turned out more obscurantist than sought. /////In other news, the Mexican government is miffed because their ambassador here and his wife were kidnapped two days ago in what's known here as "un secuestro express", "an express kidnapping" where the victim is released on quick payment of a sizable but less-than-huge amount of cash and valuables. The embassy paid up and the crooks, still at large, went by in a sliver BMW to pick up their loot. The whole thing was over in less than 5 hours. The weather's improving though.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Feb 1 23:56:46 2012

Dear B.E. Was feeling rather fragile when I sent the Churchill message. Having been close up to a few of those cruise ships it seems to me that they are top heavy and my wife tells me that as they sail in international waters many rapes take place So I do not feel like putting myself at risk.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Feb 1 00:09:42 2012

Dear dj (no longer DJ? hmm.) Thanks for your anecdote of Churchill. A twisted compliment! I've never been on a cruise, but there are many sailing from this area, and I have heard unfavorable comments about the food on Italian ships - alright if you like spaghetti every day, but next time I'm going to sail Norwegian - like. The service degrades considerably when you hit a rock. Best to stay close to the captain!!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Jan 31 21:46:18 2012

Dear Snoddy of RAF Woodvale, FORMBY: My googly was prompted by your question "has anyone realized how many more youngsters there are these days than when I was going to see "Quo Vadis" at the Regent" I entered "British birth rate" and a number of alternatives was displayed, so I selected "white British birth rate." That's all.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Jan 31 20:45:36 2012

The current plight of the Costa Concordia reminds us of a comment made by Churchill. After his retirement he was cruising the Mediterranean on an Italian cruise liner and some Italian journalists asked why an ex British Prime Minister should chose an Italian ship. “There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship” said Churchill. “First their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second their service is superb. And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first”.
dj <>
, , , Tue Jan 31 16:29:43 2012

becoz it woznt second
:o) <>
, , , Tue Jan 31 14:22:41 2012

Bearing in kind the meaning of 'to foist', one is constrained to enquire the why of its having been selected in this case.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jan 31 13:39:01 2012

I believe that "Biggles" and "the Captain" are existing posters who are trying to keep the pot boiling. Do yer really think so, what was yer foist clue
:-( <>
, , , Tue Jan 31 01:49:50 2012

BE old chap, why on earth did you look up such information? Interesting to note that Wikis 2002, live in England results show: "White Irish (691,232), not far behind Indian (1,053,411 and Pakistani at 977,285. Perhaps those that live abroard should think about coming back home to ballance things out a little and help with a bit of 'good ole' income tax. Captain Snodgrass RAF (and RAC) Retired. <>
Woodvale, Ainsdale-by-the- Sea (nearly), , Mon Jan 30 21:46:54 2012

.......the search term is "white British birth rate" As before, ignore the racist results.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Jan 30 20:57:44 2012

Dear JJ, I believe that "Biggles" and "the Captain" are existing posters who are trying to keep the pot boiling. As soon as I can think of something intelligent to say, I shall post it! Meanwhile, do a googly on "white British births." Some of the results are clearly racist, so ignore them. The Guardian has a reasonable assessment.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Jan 30 20:52:02 2012

Cher Capitaine, you're on the glidepath and welcome, as it were, to join the fray. Did you ever read Biggles at all, btw? I did, down to the last one, VERY wayback when but there it is. In which vein, has anyone realised how many more youngsters there are these days than when I was going to see "Quo Vadis" at the Regent?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jan 30 18:47:15 2012

This is Air Canada flight 203 incoming from Noo York. Would Ginger and Biggles please clear the air waves and stop waving those flash cards, I trying to land. Merci beaucoup
Captain La Toque <>
, , , Mon Jan 30 16:17:46 2012

Dear Biggles, Hearing you loud and clear & glad to be! It's been a while! Have flashcards with "Roger", "Over", "Wilco", "Say again" and "Over and out" all ready so please transmit at your discretion.
Ginger & Algy <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jan 29 17:10:16 2012

testing testing 1 2 3
biggles <>
, , , Sun Jan 29 15:38:31 2012

Powerful stuf from north of the border : "A Drunken Man looks at the thistle" Cheers
Jimmie of the porridge features <>
, , , Wed Jan 25 20:23:00 2012

Powerfull stuff from Canada; uplifting altogether! w¿w¿w.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZVV4Ciccg&feature=email though hanky proximity possibly advisable.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jan 24 21:08:45 2012

Since the tcc left me| i found a new place to dwell | its down at the end of south rd | its called the liver hotel
thank you Mam <>
, , , Tue Jan 24 14:35:47 2012

mabe de dont now wot youse is yacking abot
britains future <>
, , , Tue Jan 24 14:27:45 2012

cud b dat most ov the inteligenti have gon on a winter holiday
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, , , Tue Jan 24 13:51:44 2012

The cornucopia of conversation that once flowed from the fertile minds belonging to the essence of quintessence of Crosbyites globally appears to have ceased its endless flow of sparkling conversation,thought provoking wisdom and continuing wit, some amusing some not.Nothing in this world is static so I must bow my head to the apparent decline of the TCC
DJ <>
, , Heartbreak Hotel, Tue Jan 24 01:18:15 2012

This was my finishing school w*w*w.ivpworld.com/EN.html. Not too many chaps there in fact oneme. Mater & Pater insisted that I attend.
DJ Esquire <>
, , , Mon Jan 23 00:02:37 2012

As one who might not have finished school -- don't remember too well, that far back -- I can only say that I'm suddenly out of my depth, unfortunately, a sensation far too frequent but there it is. (straightfacédly) I do like "Inspector Lynley" though....
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jan 22 15:40:05 2012

finishing school? DJ, I never knew you had been a guest of Her Majesty.
Salty <>
, , , Sun Jan 22 14:03:25 2012

J.J. Great site, lots of detail, although I don't know how it happened. In the flicks the sailors stuff a mattress or two in the hole and sail home to Blighty from Australia./ / / / /Jolly good bit of verse John./ / / / Salty we used to make slides in the schoolyard but I missed a lot of this when I was away in finishing school. / / / Beautiful day here in Uxbridge, sun is shining and the clear blue and cloudless sky has raised the temp to an above 0 level, why I even shovelled the snow away using the armstrong method.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jan 21 17:40:17 2012

Re the ask-an-expert query on salvage options for the Costa Concordia, see w=w=w.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16573312 where options are set 4th. A major problem is the large size of the vessel compared to striken capsized ferries.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jan 21 16:06:58 2012

From a Crosby Gent (on the "Crosby Past and Present" site), a poem, "Why I wear a Poppy": "Why do I wear a poppy? I’ll tell you if I may, Because I believe remembrance Is not only for one day. I wear it for the fallen, And for those falling still For those who come back broken In body or in will. For the parents, spouses, siblings Where bereavement takes its toll. ... Whose pain will never leave them, It eats into their soul For the wino on the corner, Of his old...life nothing’s left. Now he wishes when in battle He had died a hero’s death. For the lad who loved a kick-about In the park with all his mates, But now his legs are held together With pins and metal plates For the selfless men and women Whose final journey home Is in a Union flag-draped coffin On comrades’ shoulders borne. For all those marching proudly In Remembrance Day parades My poppy’s worn in gratitude For the sacrifice they made." By Jack Colbert
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jan 21 00:33:39 2012

On a very quiet morning with a bit of a chill to the air (ans snow on the ground), this old one tends to think back to earlier times. Do any of the youngsters in Crosby still 'borrow' their Mam's bucket, fill it serveral times with water and make a slide in the local 'quiet' piece of roadway. As a kid this was one of our great pleasures of winter (no school ski trips to Switzerland, no sunny breaks to Morocco) just a bluddy slide to wipe out on when the short bit of ice came to an end. Thinking back it must have been all of 25/30 feet long, but hours of fun, until "Come in Jimmie, yer teas on the table"
Salty <>
, , , Fri Jan 20 16:16:30 2012

meow
P***y Galore <>
, , , Fri Jan 20 16:16:14 2012

Ach So!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jan 20 14:08:33 2012

Ecnomoies are in dire straits, but I can count on this!
Janae <webmaster@dolorez.de>
ymrKniZmGVe, MPsmOtnqyQadPlFs, ksCukYWdjPaYaGrZx, Fri Jan 20 13:17:27 2012

Dear DJ, I like much of his too but, today, would recommend a spot of down-to-earth enginneering at w¿w?w.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4&feature=youtu.be it went silent on me for few moments byt piacked up a agin so run it through.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jan 19 14:28:44 2012

John, I am not great poetry reader but some poets really capture my interest, Housman wrote some wonderful verse.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jan 19 14:13:33 2012

Dear DJ, I see you've got a weakness for the good stuff there... with you all the way.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jan 19 02:24:37 2012

Oops, not my fault
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jan 19 01:40:10 2012

One of my favourite pieces of Verse: NOW hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go. Oh never fear, man, nought’s to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There’s nothing but the night. A.E. Housman . A Shropshire Lad
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jan 19 01:33:46 2012

Maybe he has been made into a robotic man, rather pricey.
What do I know <>
, , , Wed Jan 18 20:02:42 2012

for something a little less naughtycal, you think the NH costs are high see: bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16587126
☹ <>
, , , Tue Jan 17 14:44:51 2012

ps, but then, not being 'from out of town', I am no 'expert'.
s <>
, , , Tue Jan 17 14:32:39 2012

DJ, without knowing the extent of the damage (which apears fairly heavy) all those methods might be employed together with pumping air into the vessel to displace more water. Some vessels, if still capable of floating, are simply towed (right side up, up-side-down, or on their sides) to an area with high tides and slowly cut up for scrap an pulled farther up the beach at each tide. The insurance brokers are not amused, especially if scrap is cheap today. For some further details you might want to read: bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16573312
Salty <>
, , , Tue Jan 17 14:11:27 2012

Always ask an expert.. Salty, if that hull was patched could this vessel be brought upright, say by using air bags while pumping out water on board ?
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jan 16 23:54:34 2012

A fitting tribute to one who was so lucky to have touched many funny bones; and then have those same funny bones (which in his own mind) turned round and beat the cr*ap out of him, poor sod. As for cruising those interested might like to take a decko at previous sinking of the "Oceanos". As a marine Engineer (in a previous life) I would just love to hear all the excuses those chappies on the bridge are making right now, as to why that particular piece of real estate came out of the mists, so quickly and stuck the vessel's underwater parts. What's that, the Captain was 'almost' last off?
Salty <>
, , , Sun Jan 15 16:02:16 2012

some on this channel might include 'cruising' down Lime Street, c*m on now I cud give yuz a good time
Maggie May <>
, , , Sun Jan 15 15:32:36 2012

tom cruise, cruise missile,cruising down the river,cruising for a bruising, Wot ?
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, , , Sun Jan 15 15:30:34 2012

AN OBITUARY AFTER MY OWN HEART: Ronald Searle Ronald Searle, artist, limner of St Trinian’s and St Custard’s, died on December 30th, aged 91. Nigel Molesworth of St Custard’s writes Jan 14th 2012 | from the print edition ART is for weeds and sissies whose mater hav said Take care of my dear little Cedric, he is delicate you kno and cannot stand a foopball to the head. Whenever anebode mention Art they all sa gosh mikelangelo leenardo wot magnificent simetry of line. Shurely the very pinnackle of western civilisation etc.etc. Pass me my oils Molesworth that I may paint my masterpeece. The headmaster sa gosh cor is that the medeechi venus hem-hem a grate work so true to life reminds me of young mrs filips enuff said. Molesworth sa on the contry the most beatiful form in art is a Ronald Searle GURL from St Trinian’s in a tunick with black suspenders and armed with a hockey stick to beat the daylites out of another gurl or maybe just a teacher chortle chortle. Mr Searle sa he hav based her on his sister Olive. She hav wild platts and an empty gin bottle in her pocket a sack of poysinous todestools two sticks of dynamite and possibly a hippo on a lede while an old crone alias a teacher sa from a window Elspeth put that back AT ONCE. Or she will be sharpening a massiv knife on a grinder with grusome heads of gurls on a shelf behind and the headmistres will be telling the surprized parent this is Rachel, our head gurl, ha ha ha. We offer every attention to your prescious chicks including drunken orgeys wiches sabbaths every form of the subjunctive in fr. or lat. and coffin-making for a modest charge. The luvely creaturs of St Trinian’s so pleased the publick that Mr Searle sa, people think I have drawn nothing else, I am sick to dethe of them, so he began in 1953 to draw from Geoffrey Willans words the farest forms of St Custard’s, viz, Peason my grate frend who hav a haircut like a chimney brush, fotherington-tomas with curlie hair who believe in fairies, Molesworth 2 my younger bro who is uterly wet and a weed and Grimes the headmaster, alias soho sammy with a face of evil unparralled. Not to mention Me n. molesworth brave and feerless wot a noble BOY in his yellow blazer and his cap at a rakkish angle, a gift to Art with the lite of geenius gleeming from his glasses and an expreshun that strike fear into every teacher in the skool. Mr Searle hav drawn too the charming scenes of the place, viz, the headmaster’s office with escape runways, the many varities of Kane one with telescopic sights, the Glurk and Lesser Titwort as found in Botany, the hairy gerund as found in lat. chiz chiz, Matron smoking in her room ahem, a corner of the playing fields with pouring rane and a ghastly THING with many feet and claws that is Molesworth 1 about to curse the skool for EVER. Mr Searle left skool at 15 cheers cheers. He was office boy for a solicitors but he could not stop drawing, even on leegal dokuments scratch scratch, is that a kartoon you have done my lad, yes it is a fantasy of the future Molesworth, wot a horrible thing I think you had better leave. Cambridge Art Skool and then in the war camooflaging pill-boxes as haystacks, how about sum more straw round the doorway, perhaps a dunghill outside, how artistick feel free. A mistery voyage to Singapore then followed drawing all the way, but then come the Japs invading, Boom KABOOM!! ack-ack-ack-ack-ack, motorbikes roring by, urum-urum-urum-uraaaaaa, too late, into prison camp, still drawing. He staid four yeres there and was six stone when he left. A wunder he could smile agane after seeing men die all around him from cholera or torchure with bodes like sticks, but what he drew afterwards had a savvage melankoly underneath it as the art master sa, old majors with large noses and small handkerchiefs, dogs that are undoutedly plotting an evil dede, lugubrioos couples dancing hem-hem, criket bats and balls killing players at a single blo, a man catching music like flys in a jar, a child-hater selling balloons that carry the pathetik little weeds far away. Yet in 1961 tired of drawing for Punch or roming America for Holiday magazine he zoomed across to France, where there were long thin men in berets long thin loaves of bred and many swurly balconys besides the usual sad dogs, maniack cats, mademoiselles with long eyelashes ahem who sa, how about a good time will you have a glas of Champagne. And he looking autour de lui sa Houp-la I am so happy here pore as a mouse in my attick in Paris and then on my hilltop in Provence, I will never return to boring old Blighty, but I will work for Le Monde and Le Figaro Littéraire, and also Life and the New Yorker. For I recall that for my first t.v. over there I was paid ,000 a minit, super smashing good show. And he drew New York City as per ushual very tall and thin and inky humans with bodies still like sticks scowling among the skycrapers but also collossal painted butterflys flutering by, hullo clouds, hullo sun, and giant flowers of many coluours sprowting out of desks. And his Nature was v. grand and beattful red and blue while the spiky tarts and bisnessmen raced round not seing it or ruining it all. And speking of Life, sa silently the long black undertaker in his tall black hat sitting by the grave, I do not think much of that as a titel for a magazine, why not Dethe, but Dethe where is thy sting, where Grave thy victory cry Molesworth (over the WHACK of the Kane), when everbode still kepe larffing at the world Mr Searle hav made.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jan 15 13:15:21 2012

Not mine to go on at length but, with the death of Ronald Searle -- St. Trinians, Molesworth and the rest -- I copy The Economist's obituary in a separate post, hereto juxtaposed. How long is it that we've not heard of Old St. Trinians, then?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jan 15 13:14:10 2012

Which one? I've never been a fan of the Tom version myself but I hear there's a whole ship for sale, "Mediterranean coastlines our speciality", it said. See you there?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jan 15 12:57:37 2012

Anyone for a Cruise...?
Diana <>
, , , Sun Jan 15 12:53:19 2012

The positive side of this is that I would be really concerned if SWMBO showed an interest in my playboy playmates magazine Right ?
Dj <>
, , , Sun Jan 15 00:48:24 2012

And who are these popular mechanics that they merit a magazine all for them? Should I look into circulation potential for "Popular Layabouts" with myself, as one such claiming (quite undue) popularity?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jan 14 20:10:51 2012

wots she after
? <>
, , , Sat Jan 14 17:07:04 2012

Friday was a blur to me, three grandsons over for a visit. Today has brought an interesting comment from SWMBO. She picked up a copy of my "Popular Mechanics" magazine and mentioned to me later that she thought it was very interesting. I was gobsmacked let me tell yer ! ✌
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jan 14 17:02:05 2012

to the friday cemetery, like all crozbie fridays from time immemorial. itz on that lain behind the nagz head.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Jan 14 15:51:32 2012

wer did friday go to
? <>
, , , Sat Jan 14 14:37:20 2012

That went right over my head. A little less cryptic, perchance next time?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jan 12 20:15:04 2012

wot yuz call it over there
☹ <>
, , , Thu Jan 12 16:07:54 2012

Is that wot you call it over there?
☺ <>
, , , Thu Jan 12 15:24:15 2012

Wise advice John, I'm going to immediately rush upstairs and contemplate my dear wife.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jan 12 14:27:46 2012

Dear DJ, Listen to the stuff and those rather flimsy taboos will evaporate before the sunshine of yesteryear, unchanged and still bright in our hearts and under which we contemplate our wives daily.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jan 11 20:42:06 2012

J.J. Hankies are a bit taboo as of late due to a rather ill conceived repugnant reference to such as posted here.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jan 11 20:08:27 2012

In other news, go to h¿t¿t¿p://upchucky.com/JukeCity/1955/juke.htm where you can access hits from when the world was younger. For the fancied year, just alter the 1955 bit up or down and Bob's yer Auntie's fella. Depending on mood-of the-moment factors, hankies may be in order...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jan 11 19:40:17 2012

and Tony Blair and Co were truely Aholes to leave a mess as they did.
☹ <>
, , , Wed Jan 11 19:10:04 2012

"Quod Verum Tutum"
:-() <>
, , , Wed Jan 11 16:11:01 2012

Crikey I hope you blighters are kidding about another maggie
amazed <>
, , , Wed Jan 11 00:53:58 2012

not too sure about 'er front though
☹ <>
, , , Wed Jan 11 00:05:14 2012

arrerz. finally. a bit of common sense. sheez looking better bye the minnit.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed Jan 11 00:02:09 2012

wot we nead is Maggie back
<>
, , , Tue Jan 10 19:38:30 2012

PPS. Also England
() <>
, , , Tue Jan 10 14:26:17 2012

ps. or France
<>
, , , Tue Jan 10 13:01:28 2012

Well said & how true
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jan 10 00:50:58 2012

don't look any farther than Ottawa dj
<>
, , , Mon Jan 9 22:03:32 2012

I am totally aghast at the line up of candidates for the republican presidency in the U.S. ////////Diana, you must be feeling a little uncomfortable with Iran's obvious bomb making intentions and on top of this we have the self proclaimed " Military Genius" in N. Korea, another member of J.J.'s Daft Twerps International.
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jan 9 15:53:07 2012

I chap I know who was born in Yorkshire still uses the fourknot hankie to cover his bald pate much to the amusement of much younger Canucks./////////Salty is correct, the weather in this part of Canada is amazingly tepid for this time of year. One pleasant side effect of Global warming perhaps ?
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jan 7 16:08:27 2012

Gee, Mate! Is that your most uplifting shot? You must have been a whizz at finding the lowest common denominator!
jj <etc>
ec, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jan 7 14:15:26 2012

snot rags?
. <>
, , , Sat Jan 7 02:59:52 2012

FROM LIVERPOOL TO THE WORLD!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jan 6 23:47:10 2012

Said headgear is not peculiar to scousepersons. Many baldies from other parts utilize them.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Jan 6 22:15:30 2012

deer fello. devious no. practical yes. and creative. up scousers. sey eye.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, , c, Fri Jan 6 20:07:03 2012

For those the slightest bit interested who think Canada is a continous land of ice and snow (a 4 letter word) I went out on my scooter this morning and did not turn into a pillar of salty. This has to be some sort of record.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Jan 6 18:17:21 2012

Scouse sunhat; devious devils these scousers
;-0 <>
, , , Fri Jan 6 16:38:35 2012

Likewise!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jan 5 21:31:22 2012

Great Video Diana, Thanks
D J <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 20:53:38 2012

h/t/t/p://vimeo.com/31202906
Diana <for jj and co..>
, , , Thu Jan 5 16:18:31 2012

especially as worn by John Clease,Micheal Pailin and gang
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 15:58:39 2012

We have just found out that my in laws have Khat growing at the bottom of their garden.....h/t/t/p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat........Lord knows how it got there, but we think some local youths probably sneaked in and planted it, as they knew my in laws are bedridden and don't check their garden anymore....Its not illegal over here, so I won't let hubby out on his own anymore.....wink wink...We have pulled it all up and destroyed it...Otherwise maybe my 96 year old in laws will be having a good time...There is a large Yemeni community in the village where my in laws reside and the old men could frequently be seen in their garden playing back gammon, chewing on the Khat and drinking black coffee, thick like treacle...Their teeth a permanent shade of dark brown to black...The younger generation, no...
Diana <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 15:58:10 2012

Have you guys forgotten the original scouse sunhat ?..A hankie with a huge knot tied each corner.(Clean one of course!!!)...My Dad's favorite attire during the Crosby heatwaves.....
Diana <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 15:45:42 2012

Obs, must admit those two pot-heads would do much better cultivating the stuff over here (Canada). After a 'bust', the local police always quote a price/plant of around $1000 each - you guys are getting the goods really cheap.
Salty <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 14:51:25 2012

Lots of news in the C. Herald. Pot farms,devious nuns,bad bobbies.read all about it.
Observer <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 14:32:29 2012

sticky-lice - yes (i wunder wot a non sticky variety wos like?),
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jan 5 14:02:30 2012

I have to admire the horticultural respect of Police-station thieves who, throughout the the country, abstained from nicking a single Aspidistra, be it the biggest in the world or just a journeyman Aspidistra. None stolen, for how many straight years running? A record to be proud of! /////In other matters, does anyone recollect buying, eating, sucking a cinnamon stick, being a paper-thin roll of cinnamon, a couple of inches long, with several paper-thin laminae? We had some "canela" - cinnamon - this morning on oatmeal and I was reminded of those days in the 50's when we had themtherres.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jan 5 13:28:13 2012

"The list of stolen itemsis truely astonishing" ...."a packet of crumpets and ₤48 tea money, a fern and a plastic plant pot, dogs, bikes, and cars and much, much more!" is nobody safe anymore.....bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16380862
Constabule Fred <>
, , , Wed Jan 4 21:14:36 2012

Could it be "of with"? If so, please mail me the Rowntree's. If anyone tried to rob me in Caracas, they'd be so disappointed that they'd probably kill me!
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Wed Jan 4 20:13:02 2012

J.J. And what, may I ask is wrong about being a member ( in good standing) of the Daft Twerps International ?
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jan 4 19:05:57 2012

anyone spotting my deliberate mistake gets free Rowntrees Wine gums next time in Caracas!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jan 4 16:42:32 2012

Dear DJ, The baseball cap or the pith, either, infelicitously donned, worn or doffed at table, is redolent of a flawed upbringing and equally disconcerting for the more discerning eatery denizen so a move such as you exhort might not achieve the aim sought. Those indulging are likely to have much in common with MP's and members of with Daft Twerps International.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jan 4 16:40:12 2012

After much thought and reading the newspaper I finally understand the reference to the "Cats Stew". Give us a clue next time.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jan 4 15:33:13 2012

B.E. If a chap finds the heat of the mid day sun rather irritating he should jolly well purchase a Pith Helmet like any self respecting member of the Empire would do . What
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jan 4 15:10:21 2012

wear your hat which ever way you want------but DON"T eat the cat stew. ;o( <>
, , , Wed Jan 4 14:07:14 2012

Dear Bri', A statement indeed! Well, I don't like what it says. May it calls for a "tailored response"?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jan 3 22:26:10 2012

BTW, beware of those who wear their baseball hats sideways; it's a statement!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Jan 3 21:42:17 2012

May I ask at what age JJ set off for distant shores on a scooter no less. I had been as far as Japan with stops in between beforfe reaching the grand old age of 19; but had the good sense to live at home until married. Much cheaper. Bye the way In China around that time there were vere very few baseball caps, but EVERYBODY (even Mou) wore the regulation blue padded blue suits with hats to match, a certain show of Corporate Identity.
Salty <>
, , , Tue Jan 3 21:29:10 2012

Dear Bri', I don't think a corporate entity can do much about it. The way you look, mit or mitout baseball cap is more to do with self respect and that is something learned in the family, an institution with plenty of bad - but PC - press of late. No family, no values there inculcated and practised over periods of years. In the UK, if you don't like how your Mum butters your scones, you can get a paid-for flat and move out at 18 (correct me anybody if I err, but so I hear). So much for supporting family cohesion and letting associated values wither on the vine.
jj <>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jan 3 21:15:16 2012

I agree with you, DJ, but the world is in constant change, unaffected by what we think. As far as wearing a baseball hat backward, it does protect the neck in hot climates! Now if I were a powerful corporate entity, I might be able to nfluence some of these things!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Jan 3 20:04:20 2012

I hear you, Man!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jan 3 16:03:40 2012

My New Years resolutions:.. I will not allow myself to get annoyed when baseball hats are worn backwards. When worn in any manner in a restaurant. When young men wear their pants so low as to expose their underwear. People talking in loud voices on their cellphones. When hearing rap,hip hop,fiddle diddle and all other forms of no talent so called music. Upon seeing grown men with huge gold chains etc hanging from their necks.. . . . I may break some of these resolutions, after all I'm only human !
D.J. <>
, , , Tue Jan 3 01:10:35 2012

Dear Rev., Thank you for your prompt reply; it's nice to talk to someone who likes to move along. And thanks to for querying my ID, showing yourself to be of serious mien and a man that one can, as they say "do business with". Happy New Year and, now we've established a raport and with things on firmer footing, feel free to transmit those other odds&ends whenever you have a free moment.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jan 3 00:08:40 2012

reel name or film personage. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue Jan 3 00:02:50 2012

JJ. is dat yor reel name? wid reqests like dat you should be Dr. Mumbo Jumbo from Nigeria
The Rev J. Pezz <>
, , , Mon Jan 2 22:07:11 2012

Dear Rev. You're so right! In connexion with the funds transfer, 'way to go' but I need some details to complete the task, being your account no., sort code and, since I am currently upgrading my security platform, please also confirm your latest access requirement details. I'll let you know the moment I'm done though you ought to be bale to spot the change online.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jan 2 21:25:17 2012

May yuze all enjoy wots left of the New Year---don't forget the wirld ends on the 21st december---as doze old gys in der sandwich bords down at de peer 'ead used to proclaim---"the end is nie"---only 353 days to go---U mite as well send me all yor monie NOW.
The Rev. Josia Pezzamist <>
Crozzbie, , , Mon Jan 2 14:52:54 2012

dont sweat the small stuff. they say. and happy new year 2 orl.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Jan 1 19:01:13 2012

To call a Crosby/Canuck a yank is the supreme insult and calls for immediate retaliation !
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jan 1 14:29:02 2012

Ditto
Salty <>
, , , Sun Jan 1 14:12:14 2012

Happy Noo Year everyone. I can remember 2011 as if it were yesterday...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sun Jan 1 09:15:17 2012

butt yuze yanks are not there yet, wot yer on about la
Jimmie Riddle <>
, , , Sun Jan 1 03:06:18 2012

To Crosbyites all over the WorldHAPPY NEW YEAR.
Sir D.J. <>
, , , Sun Jan 1 01:16:04 2012

Sir Dirk Jiggler - I think not Sir
. <>
, , , Sat Dec 31 20:29:32 2011

Indeed........Why not Sir D. J. ?
DJ <>
, , , Sat Dec 31 15:07:44 2011

at the right price, most things are for sale me dear
:o) <>
, , , Sat Dec 31 14:32:26 2011

I don't think it's right that her gun-running son should have inherited the title SIR...Why indeed?
Diana <>
, , , Sat Dec 31 12:58:23 2011

Because Liverpool supported labour in the elections it was quite obvious that Maggie had decided that she would pay Liverpool back ... and she did. I despise this woman and all the human misery she caused.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 23:20:58 2011

Liverpool...."What an odious place to live in"....Sir Geoffrey Howe seemed to think so back in Maggies time....bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16355281
☛☻☚ <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 21:40:21 2011

liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/11/03/crosby-grandad-john-jewitt-found-dead-in-lanzarote-after-going-swimming-100252-29710946/............I just received this sad news from Elaine in the US. (She has trouble getting into TCC) OMG, I remember John, he used to live in Alexander Road, ex MTS. As a teenager he was one of the lovliest people I can remember.Nice look guy as a teenager. Poor John. Sad to read that bit of news. Does anyone else remember him?
Diana <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 17:46:32 2011

especially if you don't like dries fish
;o( <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 14:17:23 2011

I read an article written by a former N.Korean that said if one did not howl and wail you could be reported and whisked away on the other hand a real oscar winning performance could mean a job promotion or win favor with the authorities. I studied a lot of the press photos and noticed a distinct absence of tears. What an odious place to live in.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 14:11:55 2011

they are not 'howling their heads off for a dead tyrant', but and extra bit of dried fish this month.
✌ <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 13:03:56 2011

jj, its as pathetic as watching nearly every North Korean citizen howling their head off for a dead tyrant. Are these people for real ...........youtube.com/watch?v=WqlAoSTIVEE&feature=related ..Makes you want to cry just watching the mass hysteria. Sicko's
Diana <>
, , , Fri Dec 30 11:41:52 2011

Dear Di', Have a dekko at .bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16349845 for midweek amusuement...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 30 01:40:22 2011

h/t/t/p://w/w/w.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16345171
Diana <Forgot to post the Ven link...>
, , , Thu Dec 29 22:26:50 2011

OK, OK, I'll go to the back of the bus. Mr C is getting generous in his old age, will take out, but not replace boob jobs.
Diana <>
, , , Thu Dec 29 21:36:41 2011

or it could be....."Get to the back of the bus, you harlet you. I have a punch up to go to."
Rabbi Jim Smith <>
, , , Wed Dec 28 20:07:36 2011

For a mo I thought the Lt Col was referring to this guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/26/christmas-midnight-mass-brawl?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
gus <>
london n11, , , Wed Dec 28 15:13:23 2011

"there were no arrests, this sort of thing goes on every year, and they ARE men of God!"
Lieutenant Colonel Khaled <>
, , , Wed Dec 28 14:57:54 2011

at this time of the year, may the peace be with you my son....../news/world-middle-east-16347418
☹ <>
, , , Wed Dec 28 14:53:21 2011

Dear Salty & JJ, despite some trepidation, I also hope they still keep coming. So there!
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Wed Dec 28 08:36:07 2011

Bri, I was referring more to the 2012 part; 1987 would have been less likely to tempt fate!
jj <etc>
, etc, & God Bless, Tue Dec 27 14:33:22 2011

PS. in fact I just hope they keep coming.
s <>
, , , Mon Dec 26 23:43:20 2011

Surprised at you BE. Never worse, just different.
Salty <>
, , , Mon Dec 26 23:41:52 2011

Happy Boxing day. I too, when wishing a Happy New Year, say that it couldn't be as bad as the old one. Always wrong, of course.
BE <>
, , ..., Mon Dec 26 20:37:05 2011

Cut us a bit of nutty slack, for Heaven's sake! But, it's true to say that 'Kindle Fire' falls into the same category of over-the-shoulder nonchalance as the name of that Hollywood actor, 'Rip Torn, qG; if memory serves, and in this age-of-the-algorithm, it usually does, the head-gear was a Picklehaube, and looked pretty daft from the outset. Its overall layout survives in today's British Bobby [see h=t=t=p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custodian_helmet] which, at a stretch, could also be coöpted into coal-scuttle service if there were any people using coal fires to coöpt for its coöpting into such service. Like. Happy New Year to all for (whispering now)... 2012. I have gotten to the stage where I feel that saying it out loud actually tempts fate...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Dec 26 19:24:30 2011

Scuttle for der coal Dummkopf
Himmler <>
, , , Mon Dec 26 19:07:10 2011

Is Bob German, a funny sort of hat to want for Christmas?
Montague S the III <>
, , , Mon Dec 26 14:27:48 2011

You go out right now Bob and buy a new coal scuttle !
Charlie D. <>
, , , Sun Dec 25 17:30:35 2011

Happy Christmas Bonnie: hang in there lass! And to you and your lady, Mr. Mayor. It's cold here in Caracas; two (tropical) blankets again on the bed last night. Grin ye not: we were down to 16C at 0500 yesterday! Had to take a photo, not being used to that 'n all. Still, a lovely evening - Christmas is celebrated here on the evening of the 24th, known a "Noche Buena" whent eh traditional pig's leg and a special ham are the standard, along with the only-at-Christmas "hallacas" which are a long story but image-Googlable. I'm now the dubiously (I'm still figgerin' it out) owner of a Kindle Fire; it looks very promising, that's for sure. Love You Guys 'n Gals!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 25 14:46:34 2011

Merry Christmas to all from The Mayor, Bonnie The Dog (aged fourteen and three quarters) and all at Burbo.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sun Dec 25 14:26:43 2011

'as 'e been yet Dad?
☺ <>
, , , Sun Dec 25 14:17:09 2011

Have a Very Merry Christmas fellow posters. Here today, in the Holyland it is a very rainy morning, but not too cold. Bethlehem was inundated with thousands of tourists visiting the site where it all "happened"..Our local Mall is selling Christmas trees and decorations. At the local coffee shop, staff have Santa's hats on, so in other werds, one cannot get away from the fact that its Christmas. ................Still do miss the hustle and bustle of the Liverpool shops and the choirs around the town. Mayori hasn't shown his face for a while, hope all is well with him and his? Have a great holiday and cut down on the mince pies...
Diana <>
, , , Sun Dec 25 10:21:26 2011

Merry Christmas to all Crosbyites, Posters and Lurkers. I wish you all a Wonderful New Year filled with Good Health, Wealth and Wisdom.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Dec 24 18:11:04 2011

Dear Sarah, I had never realised just how tall you are! Happy Christmas!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 23 22:41:27 2011

Oh J.J. thank, I can see Carracas from my porch in Alaska
SARAH PALIN <>
, , , Fri Dec 23 20:31:43 2011

Don't mention it! All the very best for this Christmas and New Year to you too!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 23 19:42:36 2011

Thanks for your support JJ.
Faux News, Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, , etc. <>
, , A Democrat, Fri Dec 23 18:43:46 2011

And Merry Christmas to all our readers, just been out to our local zoo (the Mall). Reporting that the natives are a little restless tonight, Cuthbert, and those damn drums (cash registers) will probably keep us awake all night too. Spoze the the Chinese factory hands will be happy.
Salty <>
, , , Thu Dec 22 22:37:36 2011

It's what he does best.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 22 22:18:43 2011

The World watches as America falters.. All the best Obama
DJ <>
, , , Thu Dec 22 18:02:46 2011

Erratum: for ', please read". jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 22 16:44:05 2011

Erratum: for "of", please read 'off".
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 22 16:40:54 2011

Dr. Doom or Dr. Boom? The Finns caught the fireworks before they were set of...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 22 16:38:06 2011

Expect fireworks from N. Korea shortly; Big ones.
Dr Doom <>
, , , Thu Dec 22 15:39:07 2011

But they were different fireworks, "Light blue touchpaper and retire 500 km immediately!"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 22 14:16:18 2011

a strange old world indeed, Isle of Man sending 'Fire-works" to country which is reported to have first made them..../news/world-europe-16292244 ;o) <>
, , , Thu Dec 22 13:57:10 2011

Today is the shortest day of the year, funny though it just seems like the old 24 hour bit to me ?
DJ <>
, , , Wed Dec 21 23:47:58 2011

It wud almost seem that Father Christmas has had a bit too much Christmas cheer, the time of the year, Merry Christmas to you anyway
;o) <>
, , , Tue Dec 20 22:51:49 2011

And a Merry Christmas to you Father Christmas (AKA Santa Clause)
DJ <>
, , , Tue Dec 20 21:16:42 2011

What on earth was that?
BE <>
, , ., Tue Dec 20 18:52:46 2011

Typical Tiny Tim, of todays scroungers. Come to this country take all the freebees you can get and then bellyache,. The trouble is you teach your own children all the tricks of the trade(BUMING) and little old ladies on a fixed income have to pay for it. Go back from wence you came and take your twenty odd wives and zillion children with you, and if I wished Merry Christmas to you, I'd probably get a knife in the back or a bomb outside my Crosby home.
Father Chrismas <>
, , , Tue Dec 20 18:50:05 2011

O.K. Tiny Tim you little twerp, your old mans fired and your getting a dead parrot instead of a goose,cheeky little brat.
Ebenezer <>
, , , Tue Dec 20 14:10:10 2011

And a Happy Christmas to you too, "Tiny Tim"; have you not heard of the saying, "Beggars can't be choosers"? You weren't always this mordant: have grown up and gotten married to a non-Seafield girl or something?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Dec 20 13:58:40 2011

Dear Eb'r, the new reformed, happy, sociable,generous Eb'n, wot a load of old bollux. Even tight with your werds this year, yer old skinflint. Biggest goose in the shop round the corner indeed, more like a capon you sent for the whole family too. Bollux I said and Bollux I meen. Bah Humbug!
Tiny Tim <>
, , , Tue Dec 20 12:41:39 2011

deer ebeneezer. i wud lyk to talk 2 u about the. generous. part u include ther. @ this christmas tyde.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue Dec 20 02:57:00 2011

God bless us all
The new reformed, happy, sociable,generous Ebenezer <>
, , , Tue Dec 20 01:26:17 2011

Well, when this came out last year, I was very happy to see quality stuff but the more so to see it being lapped up by the folk who were there, in some way or measure, reflecting their appreciation and want of it. It transpired that one born not-a-thousand-miles-from Five Lamps was more than diaphanously associated with this initiative too! Great to see a) it again; and b) that it has now piled up close on THIRTY-SIX MILLION VIEWINGS. It gladdens the heart and persuades one that there may yet be hope. And all sortsa thanks to Smiley for putting it on the front burner again.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Dec 20 00:24:33 2011

and a merry Christmas from; youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE and a prosperous New Year
;O) <>
, , , Mon Dec 19 22:04:54 2011

Tiny Tim.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Mon Dec 19 21:51:29 2011

TT? Bri', Are you holding back on us? And a Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year 2012 (shudder!) to you two too!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Dec 19 21:12:20 2011

Merry Christmas. God Bless Us Every One!
TT & BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Mon Dec 19 18:32:22 2011

JJ, I haven't heard "fizzog" (face)for decades, and never in the US. I found that it comes from physiognomy. Re the airbus crash: really, really scary stuff. Incidentally, retrieving the flight recorder was quite a feat.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Dec 19 18:28:13 2011

I sometimes think the 'Mists of Time' are all I have left (or right)
;o( <>
, , , Mon Dec 19 14:35:54 2011

Whilst being FIZZOGILLY aware, I was wondering when the last time I heard that term was and can't recollect, owing to the mists of time, I hasten to add, unless some charlie felt other mists might have been involved: is FIZZOG still extant or just something that "The Higher Mileage Gentleman" might know about?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Dec 19 14:24:49 2011

most sincere appologies...."FIZZOG"
;o( <>
, , , Mon Dec 19 14:05:58 2011

Why does it sound like something Spike Milligan might have on his grave-stone. "Told you I wuz -il, now it's all up to -un". It is expected that extra rations will be passed out to all proffesional mourners, those with copious tears will receive bonuses of Chines paper fans with the new leaders fizog printed on them.
;o( <>
, , , Mon Dec 19 14:03:05 2011

This inspires nobody: w*w*w.popularmechanics.com/print-this/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877?page=all
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Dec 19 13:16:02 2011

Another of my former workmates pulled the plug on Friday. He could swear smoke and drink like a champion but after he retired things changed. Apparently the Lord spoke to him and he quit all evils and joined a church choir, amazing transformation !
D J <>
, , , Sun Dec 18 23:20:28 2011

He must be a God - he managed to grow his hair back for Christmas.
:o) <>
, , , Sun Dec 18 22:01:08 2011

Nuff said: h*t*t*p://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/09/hugo-chavez-co-stars-with-baby-jesus-in-venezuelan-nativity-scene/ and a very FELIZ NAVIDAD to all TCC'ers too...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 18 21:21:12 2011

Unfortunately not been away Salts, I need a good holiday now. FiL is 95 years old, unfortunately he fell over at home about 10 days ago and is now hospitalized. .. Seems dementia is setting in too..Been running round trying to find a decent nursing home for him, as he's far too frail to go home again.Few days before his accident we brought MiL home from hospital, after she was admitted with blood clots in her lungs. She is also in her mid nineties.Till now they have lived in their own home and its so sad that we may have to split them up. MiL is as bright as a new pin, but confined to bed..He was Ok on his pins, but now they also seem to be a problem...I don't think I want to pass 90 years of age...
Diana <>
, , , Sun Dec 18 16:27:02 2011

A very interesting man. Those (mostly men) who dress up in funny hats and long dresses must be looking over their shoulders at a comfortable lifestyle and fat pension draining away these days. Localy many people are going for a quiet last performance with a 'Humanist' pastor or guide. For me personally makes as much sense as a grand ceremony at St. Paul's, and lets face it, the whole bag of postulation is for those left behind in the race for the inevitable./// Been away D?
Salty <>
, , , Sun Dec 18 14:39:32 2011

Dear Diana, I watched the link video and all very well; but, however articulate he was in conveying his opinions, can he be remembered as having said anything nice said about anyone or anything at all at all? And, whilst instantly being moved to compassion, can we have any notion at all about how his mother's suicide (over her failed marriage to his father, a and a resultant lover's appearance) plus that of a brother might have affected him?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 18 14:25:39 2011

RIP Hitchens. He was a very brave man who handled his illness with great dignity. I remember watching this interview and at the time I thought what remarkable man.h/t/t/p://w/w/w.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCq2T-v-Mo............Has anyone read his book Hitch 22?
Diana <>
, , , Sun Dec 18 05:41:46 2011

thankz be. but. appropriate. wow. is that orl the thankz i get. aphter orl this time. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Dec 17 19:45:26 2011

Hitchens
... <>
, , , Sat Dec 17 18:50:41 2011

Dear DJ: we don't need Hitchins; we have our own wordsmith here at TCC, with the appropriate measure of irony!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sat Dec 17 18:42:09 2011

No doubt about it Hitchins lashed out in every direction but as J J put it "however ably turned his phrases" is the key for me. His use of words and phrases was always a source of entertainment and interest for me. That is perhaps my reason for disliking the abbreviated texting mode. A pox on it !
DJ <>
, , , Sat Dec 17 15:51:26 2011

Ach, Bri'! Did it filter through?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Dec 17 11:59:40 2011

Apparently Fry does. You don't like him, do you?
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sat Dec 17 04:31:21 2011

The incident was instantly around the globe and blown out of all proportion - because of Fry's tweet; anyone else's wouldn't have mattered but Fry's would and did. Nice of him to 'express gratitude' when a soberer head prevailed after the fact. But who in God's name says "..an engine wouldn't 'play'" anyway?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 16 23:09:35 2011

Dear JJ, I didn't find Fry's tweets so very outlandish, and he did express gratitude to the airline when everything was resolved.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Dec 16 22:13:57 2011

Poor Hitchins to have died so young and so on BUT, despite his undeniable facility with words and so on, this last TCC post shows much: the only thing he's got something positive to say about is the benefits of hatred; personally, I never heard him say anything -- however ably turned his phrases -- other than supercilious. The other English man in tha same mould is Stephen Fry whose "The-world-must-instantaneously-be-made-aware: I-Stephen Fry-am-actally-being-INCONVENIENCED!! tweet of late in Dubai on the requirement of an engine shut-down in the aeroplane he was in -- an engineering emergency, deftly handled by a professional [Qantas] pilot -- caused the unusual but not unheard of aviation emergency where nothing more than his being delayed occurred. Poor devil! The tweet was "B****r. Forced to land in Dubai. An engine has decided not to play." You don't get much more supercilous than that. The original report is at w+w+w.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/04/stephen-fry-qantas-flight-diverted jj <etc>
etc, etc, etc, Fri Dec 16 19:35:48 2011

BTW Dave, I just loved that Texas part about English being good enough for Jesus! Absolutely newcular!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Dec 16 17:08:41 2011

Kindergarten, or even pre-school. Sorry kids!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Dec 16 17:02:46 2011

After seeing what goes on in U.S. Politics I guess it is an insult to the Goon show, point well taken. What would your comparison be ?
DJ <>
, , keep the comments coming !, Fri Dec 16 16:49:03 2011

B E ,I agree with you re Michael Moore; he is popular north of the border also.
D J <>
, , , Fri Dec 16 16:46:03 2011

Also DJ, I resent your insult to the Goon Show, especially as I had a relative who participated!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Dec 16 16:44:42 2011

Dear DJ, I disagree with the characterization of Michael Moore, except for the obese part.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Dec 16 16:39:31 2011

Look in the mirror, Ernie (aka Roddy).
... <>
, , ..., Fri Dec 16 15:59:53 2011

The prolific Christopher Hitchens gloried in being quotable, particularly when he was at his most irascible and incendiary. His collected bon mots – in books, online essays and magazine articles – run into the hundreds, but here are a baker’s dozen of the best: 1. “It [Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.” 2. “Hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going. If you don’t let it get out of hand, it can be canalized into writing.” 3. “A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.” 4. “Cheap booze is a false economy.” 5. About Sarah Palin: “She’s got no charisma of any kind, [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.” 6. “If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.” 7. “The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.” 8. About Mother Teresa: “She was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” 9. “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.” 10. “[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” 11. About George W. Bush: “He is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.” 12. About Michael Moore: “Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.” — his description of American filmmaker Michael Moore. 13. “The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.”
DJ <>
, , Comments anyone ?, Fri Dec 16 15:45:00 2011

From this side of the border the U.S. politics takes on the appearance of the Goon show,
DJ <>
, , the frozen north, Fri Dec 16 14:45:59 2011

PS, but stragely, thier shoulders all heave up and down at the same time.
s <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 23:54:45 2011

Still do
s <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 22:09:23 2011

But Salty You had great Legs all painted white, all the ladies in the audience come over all funny at the sight of those gams
DJ <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 20:56:40 2011

Ooooooooo.....wudn't lyke to be in his catholick shoes when he goes to the perly gates and seeeez his old lady on the other side.
;O) <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 19:18:29 2011

Eagle - yep, the judge stuck £1200 costs on him for taking the p**s. Bankrupty hearing now scheduled for 7th Feb 2012. Then the house his mum left him will be taken off him. LOL... A warning to all idiots in this world...
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Thu Dec 15 18:54:22 2011

another experience I would rather forget DJ, not one of my better dressed moments!
Salty <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 17:02:19 2011

One thing for sure Salty ; You and I did NOT bomb during our show biz days at Alexander Hall Circa 1951/2.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 15:46:51 2011

PS., not sure, but maybe the MaYori can recount how the large houses disapeared from above the "Black Rocks". Might be wrong, but I don't think errosion was responsible for all of them
s <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 15:40:26 2011

I must have had some sort of magnetic presence (as I still have). In two of the locations I lived in within the boundaries of the Borough, had bomb damage inside a radius of 100 yards. In fact one, I travelled over the remains of property to school most days, (until my father saw the state of my VERY expensive shoes - everything was VERY expensive in his eyes). Years later I was reminded of the experience when watching that war filum "The Hope and the Glory" by John Boorman.
Salty <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 15:32:50 2011

J.J. Please excuse my unintended confusion in posting a hastily assembled post. I intended to say that I had found existing homes in Crosby that belonged to my ancestors while the many green spaces/parks in Liverpool were once densely populated areas that may have been victims of the blitz. This information was obtained from my copy of the "Edwardian A-Z & directory of Liverpool and Bootle Vol 3. The maps are drawn from the ordinance survey of 1908 and the directory is a marriage of the 1908 and 1908 Kelly's directory. The comparison to those 1908 maps and the present day Google satellite view is quite remarkable. D.J. <>
, , , Thu Dec 15 02:08:15 2011

Dear DJ, I did spot same but was unqualified to comment as i don't recollect any bomb sites in Crosby at all, inter alia, for having arrived only in '47, so unfamiliar with any pre-bomb landscapes. Still 'Corragio!' let us press on regardless! And 'gone down in flames'? Wow...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Dec 14 19:55:33 2011

Stealing my words, Jacob.
E. S. <>
, , ..., Wed Dec 14 19:44:08 2011

Baa Humbug
Mr Marley <>
, , , Wed Dec 14 19:33:47 2011

I suppose that Cratchit fellow will want another day off this year!
E. S. <>
, , ..., Wed Dec 14 19:15:15 2011

My attempt to start normal conversation has gone down in flames....
DJ <>
, , , Wed Dec 14 16:58:27 2011

Dr. Ernst: did Dom really fail to turn up at a hearing he himself had specifically requested? What a total, utter PLONKER!
Legal Eagle <>
Formby, , , Wed Dec 14 13:04:42 2011

I love using google to view addresses of my Liverpool ancestors. Its interesting to see how many are still standing from the 19 century including some in Crosby. One thing that strikes me is the large amount of green space/parks that now take the place of former streets and neighbourhoods, perhaps bombed out areas from WW2.
D J <>
, , , Tue Dec 13 15:21:25 2011

eye lyk 2. sew u & 1 uther person lyk this.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Dec 12 19:08:10 2011

Observer: thanks for the acclaim, but what did I do well? Or at all. Like.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Dec 12 18:45:03 2011

Well done B.E.
Observer <>
, , , Mon Dec 12 14:21:55 2011

Who needs viagara, obviously the birds don't care. .bbc.co.uk/nature/16112188
;O) <>
, , , Mon Dec 12 12:31:25 2011

Receiver it seems to be the case that your hate towards this individual and the schadenfreude. That you take such pleasure in says much about you than it does about smith, keep your bile and your destructive hate that you will most likely take to your death bed to yourself, no one cares do you get it,this board is bad enough as it is and needs new blood, or Claire may as well bring the curtain down now and put it out of it's misery.
Dirty sanchez <>
El paso, , , Mon Dec 12 11:03:39 2011

I note that Ken Smith has coughed up his Scottish Widows pension to me, after having his assets frozen. That's only a down-payment. Where's the rest? Don't be coy with me...
The Official Receiver <>
Liverpool...., , , Mon Dec 12 00:40:06 2011

Be careful now! If you tink again, you become a tinker, a profession whose main contribution to society has been a special sort of damn.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 11 21:51:30 2011

wots all this about a bacon butty? I don't mind if I do. I tink yuze guys shud be a bit more careful of wot u post.
<>
, , , Sun Dec 11 16:58:17 2011

Good Lord!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 11 15:12:08 2011

Uncle D.icky was a little different. He was a rum butt baccy type with some young tars thrown in
Jellico <>
, , Davey jones locker, Sun Dec 11 14:22:10 2011

None of which would speak well of the Windsor family birds...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 11 13:17:24 2011

butt Jellyco, if the said gentleman was of the "Rum, B*M and Baccy" brigade, he would fit right in as her father did. Unless of course a page of the bible came along with the dreaded "Black Spot".
Admiral. Benbow <>
, , , Sun Dec 11 04:16:05 2011

Dear Jellico, Politesse obliges you to give some minimal credence to rumours of claims of many on the distaff side that some women - that would include Princesses - have a mind of their own. Even here in far-off Venezuela, that persuasion is catching on. So, notwithstanding sea-leg challenged charlies of no fixed ability, Anne must have had some say in the matter: in a word (well, a couple) she wed him as much as he wed her, and furthermorethereto, with all that equine tilt of hers, is she really worthy of the "our" qualifier?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 11 02:35:34 2011

That blighter who has no sea legs and wed our Princess Annie
Admiral Jellico <>
, , , Sat Dec 10 23:37:06 2011

Is it true that our Middle East correspondent will have to sit at the back of the bus when visiting Jeruselem? The power of those fellas with the funny hats would appear to be getting stronger every day.
Mary Milliner <>
, , , Sat Dec 10 19:07:40 2011

Dear Jellico, Lovely to see you back in form: please advise which particular blackguard were you referring to, given that, at the moment, there would appear to be a selection.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Dec 10 17:33:30 2011

I believe that blaggard should be keelhauled, flogged and made to walk the plank, given a reprimand and have his rum tot changed to fizzy pop.
Admiral Jellico <>
, , , Sat Dec 10 16:52:58 2011

I'm not up to snuff on naval promotions so I Wiki'ed him: Wiki gives him a fair amount of ship time - and commands - before his marriage to that horsey lady whose name escapes me. Maybe he's a hoity toity twit but, at first blush, I didn't stumble on evidence so to conclude. Please enlighten me.
jj <etc>
etc, et, & God Bless, Sat Dec 10 16:05:06 2011

Watson suggests that there is an oblique reference to her royal highness the princess royal aka princess Anne, abroad here, her husband in name only proceeded from junior officer to admiral without actually setting foot on a ship of the line, far be it from me to criticize the house of Hanover or the British establishment as it was most likely an oversight on the pard of the admiralty, god save the queen.
Stan waters <>
, , , Sat Dec 10 11:59:27 2011

I tried the same thing with similar result, I suppose 'he' might be somebody out of Gilbert and Sullivan, maybe off the good ship HMS Pinny?
Salty <>
, , , Sat Dec 10 00:29:30 2011

Google: Enter, "Process royal". It says "close to 713,000,000 results in 0.21 secs" but leaves one actually no wiser as to what a process royal might be. Thus fortified, I venture to query who is being spoken of and how he became to be a 'leader' of the Navy (I have never actually heard of a Navy Leader either, in our navy or anyone else's). True enough, there are indeed glaring incongruities in all this but, it being the Christmas Season, I'll just try to look 'on the bright side' when it comes to characterising Britain; I have a better backdrop against which to do this, bearing in mind my geographical advantage, allowing me a close-up of how another country is shaping up.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 9 23:23:32 2011

If I only knew who thre blighter is I would come round and give hime a jolly good thrashing. Gone to the dogs, gone to the dogs., don't know their place anymore that's what the trouble is.
Col. Chinstrap <>
, , , Fri Dec 9 21:10:52 2011

The British royal navy has many admirals and very few ships, one of the leaders of the queens navy is the estranged husband of the process royal, a chap who has no sea time to talk of, what a farce Britain has become.
Carlos dirty sanchez <>
El paso, , , Fri Dec 9 20:54:44 2011

refering back to the "Mighty O" and the crews artistic renditions, it might fit in nicely with the vessels motto : "Boldly Faithfully Happily" - oh, how the werld has changed.
Jimmie da Bosuns/Bosunesses mate. <>
, , , Fri Dec 9 15:18:24 2011

Dear Salty, yes, indeed; Winnie got quite well known for his way with words, as I recollect.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, etc, Fri Dec 9 03:08:46 2011

Dear s , You might just be missing a detail there.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 9 03:05:20 2011

- boyys.
s <>
, , , Fri Dec 9 01:56:50 2011

JJ, as Winny might have remarked KBO.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Dec 9 01:55:43 2011

Crew aboard British Battle unit HMS Ocean get it right: go our Lads! [thinks: the Royal Navy must be OK with that....]w=w=w.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZcGz4vmJc
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 9 00:12:25 2011

Dear Gus, A search for "all my eye and Betty Martin" turns up no end of info and speculation about the lady; all say it is unadulterated nonsense but some wonder about the bird herself. Apparently, it's been around since 1781. Or so.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Dec 7 22:24:58 2011

Is it false memory syndrome, or does the phrase 'All me eye and Betty Martin' kindle any memories? And who, might I ask, was said Betty (when she was out walkin')?
gus <>
london n11, , , Wed Dec 7 22:02:28 2011

Yes, There¡s Titch Phillips! Who'd've know it? I just didn't know it was but the others mentioned are beyond my ken though. For those who knew ray O'Brien (circa '54), see w¡w¡w.friendsofstmarys.com/news/announcements/271-mr-ray-obrien.html
jj <etc>
etc, etc, , Wed Dec 7 17:01:24 2011

Observet, there is a lot of "waffle" but also some interesting items. I have learned ,like life, to except the good and the bad. Notwithstanding this theres always the delete button. BTW - what is your real name ?
DJ <>
, , , Wed Dec 7 14:11:08 2011

is that the French spelling for 'Observet' ? Only asking.
the Real Observer <>
, , , Wed Dec 7 13:33:55 2011

At last someone with something worthwhile to say on this board,it as been a long time between drinks, but waffle and egocentric drivel will be the mainstay and diet of this board by gutless persons who use multiple names to disguise their rubbish.
Observet <>
, , , Wed Dec 7 12:30:20 2011

Not even "Titch" Phillips? I can spot Joe Kilbride, who survived the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales in 1941. And Doug Kearon, Gerry Almond, Eric McLoughlin, who were stalwarts of St. Mary's Old Boys Assoc. And as for infamous... Frank McLardy, district secretary of the British Union of Fascists. He later excelled himself as an SS-Unterscharfuhrer in the Waffen-SS "British Free Corps" and received a sentence of life imprisonment (reduced to 15 years) for his pains...
An Old Boy <>
Blundellsands, , , Wed Dec 7 11:52:26 2011

I wasn't able to spot anyone either famous or infamous.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Dec 7 02:05:12 2011

Yearbook of St. Mary's College 1934. How many faces can you spot? There's one very infamous alumnus in there... w#w#w#.friendsofstmarys.com/images/stories/files/Decades/30s/SMC_Yearbook_1934.pdf
An Old Boy <>
Blundellsands, , , Wed Dec 7 01:26:03 2011

bow wow
lassie <>
, , , Tue Dec 6 23:23:44 2011

mor lyk "Coff, Coff"
Rin Tin Tin <>
, , , Tue Dec 6 22:10:34 2011

woof woof
fido <>
, , , Tue Dec 6 20:19:04 2011

and for all you dog lovers out there...... youtube.com/watch?v=mcncoGh-etI
. <>
, , , Mon Dec 5 21:00:27 2011

In any case, quite an experience, Jimmie; one doesn't screw around with a million volts!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Dec 5 20:43:45 2011

BE, do you know, I just can't remember what it was for, must be loosing my marbles.(in fact looking back there were many electrical jobs I witnessed not fully understanding their backgrounds, but not a high pot), It could have been insulators for high tension power cables, after the tests I think the managers liked to show off what a 1,000,000 v spark looked like - just like lightening, complete with science fiction crackling noise, still discernible from within the protective control area.
jimmie <>
, , , Mon Dec 5 18:09:56 2011

That must have been a hipot test, Jimmie.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Dec 5 02:37:25 2011

once witnessed connectors tested at 1,000,000v. quite spectacular, bit frightening though.
jimmie <>
, , , Mon Dec 5 00:49:53 2011

Mistake: prospective current was 100,000 amps.
BE <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 23:59:05 2011

Love to see our lads out front in eco-useful tech stuff and this classical engineering example this certainly fills the bill!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 4 21:59:38 2011

Very Interesting Brian. I remember seeing a demo of fuses v. breakers. Fuses won every time. (120 V. 15 to 30 amp). I once put my amprobe on a conductor carrying 30 amps on a 15 amp breaker. Nothing compared to what you witnessed however. I have seen what can happen when H.V. switchgear lets go = lots of overtime
DJ <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 21:35:05 2011

ps. maybe not a whole day, but a helluva long time, certainly many hours.
BE <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 20:18:34 2011

Great stuff there, JJ. I remember going to EE Company in Stafford to witness tests on high rupturing capacity fuses. They had this huge generator,with a humongous flywheel, and set the prospective current to 100,00 amps at a power factor of 0.1 Good fuses would just open without a fuss. Bad fuses (like Fusetron) would explode the test box, and send it flaming across the lab area, so we observed from behind very thick (or hardened glass!) Anyhow the point of all this rambling is to say that it took about a day to bring the generator to a stop, using a carefully applied dummy load
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Dec 4 20:02:32 2011

Dear Jimmie, We're from Crosby, Liverpool; we eat 'considerable stress' for breakfast, with a Monday 'very considerable stress' special. See too w=w=w.ricardo.com/en-GB/Who-we-are/ AND specially, just down the road in Leyland w=w=w.torotrak.com/
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 4 15:48:37 2011

at those revs, must be considerable stresss when turning corners or jumping curbs
Jimmie the mechanics mate <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 15:10:35 2011

Great to see British engineers at the cutting edge of this exciting old technology; I kid you not: see w=w=w.economist.com/node/21540386?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/reinventingthewheel
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Dec 4 13:54:13 2011

wots a qum?
? <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 13:40:50 2011

qum now dj. not like u at orl. i am not sew pikky. i wud settle 4 bottomless commoner barbers. no downton abbey shenanigins 4 me. thank u very much.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Dec 4 13:15:52 2011

I prefer bottomless Lady Barbers. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ( Oscar Wilde)
DJ <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 00:34:35 2011

dat bird's not alone, ders loads of broads round dat area
:o) <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 00:30:58 2011

Well Santa you did blow me a kiss as well, whats a chap to think.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Dec 4 00:15:52 2011

That bird Rebecca has the Prince of Wales crowd all of a t*itter down at the cube bar. I think it's a disgrace! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16016953 ...it was never like that down in the village by the old cop shop.
Mary Whitehouse <>
, , , Sat Dec 3 21:51:00 2011

Dear DJ, You too!! Merry Christmas!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Dec 3 20:51:48 2011

It wasn't you, it was your wife, d'you think i'm queer or somat?
Santa Claus <>
, , , Sat Dec 3 20:14:05 2011

Just returned from the annual Mount Albert, Ontario ( my daughters home) Santa Claus parade, brass bands, fire trucks etc. My two oldest grandsons had a ball while my newest g/son slept through it. We adults stood shivering in a chilly north wind. Oh and Santa waved at me !
DJ <>
, , , Sat Dec 3 18:40:26 2011

Can we take it that'd be the opposite of short-loss or in-date (current) words? As for words and their in-vogue-ness, how about one that's always taken my fancy, though the meaning's not specially lovely, "contumely" (hoity toity superciliousness or an instance of same). Re the water-freeze, the net's got lotsa info on supercooling in general and water in particular. they even work on it at the Weizmann in your neck of the woods, Di'.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Dec 3 15:45:47 2011

These are long loss or out of date words
? <>
, , , Sat Dec 3 14:37:45 2011

growth of dendrites depend on seeding. just like children, no seeds, no growth
<>
, , , Sat Dec 3 14:06:39 2011

Don't fret about the changes in messages. Its all because of the strange things that are happening in Canada...youtube.com/watch?v=O47-QOWRTrk..........Can anyone explain this strange happening.
Diana <>
, , , Sat Dec 3 10:52:09 2011

You mean that you've got a plan in the middle of that lot? Pray tell!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Dec 3 02:09:18 2011

hear
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, , , Sat Dec 3 01:12:57 2011

hear
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, , , Sat Dec 3 01:12:34 2011

There appears to be some galimaufry among the messages. I need a form of gardyloo to alert me when sudden change of thread takes on the look of a cozen I am forced to excogigate and execute my plan without any trace of contumelious.
? <>
, , , Sat Dec 3 00:07:20 2011

Of the three, I thought the little tubby one was best. Stylewise, thre's room for improvement but, with their low mileage, plenty of time too: power to 'em!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Dec 2 14:51:32 2011

Has anyone youtubed the three young Italian boys singing as Il Volo, they have fantastic singing voices.
Doug <>
, , Oz, Fri Dec 2 12:58:44 2011

Well, BE, the "sistema" has been Big Success and I'm delighted that it's caught on so widely, from LA to Stirling as it were. I believe that what Maestro Abreu had was an essential insight about life where music forms such a part: think of rhythm (from the outset, breathing, pulse) as integral us so, music has a unique chance, so to say, to penetrate much deemed impenetrable (some preconceptions, social mindsets etc) heretofore. Maestro Abreu was onto it and able to translate it into this great scheme. The most illustrious son of it all, though, is Gustavo Dudamel, whom I've seen here and, yes, is electric. That said, I have to mention that, here, the very first thing you need to know about anyone is where he is regime-wise and our man doesn't measure up 100% on that score (ahem) according to what I hear but it's hard to say. That the Scots have pressed ahead can only result in good results for all involved, I think and power to their arms, matey! Whilst the regime has seen it can get international mileage from the Dudamel + Youth Orchestra formula shouldn't be confused with their ever having been involved in its inception which was long before they came to power.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 1 23:59:26 2011

Dear JJ, (on a different note), how about sistema Scotland?
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Dec 1 21:54:52 2011

Dear DJ, My situatio is a little different; where I live, there's a juggernaut sweeping us all toward a cliff-edge so, though the country is beautiful, the people are largely great folk and so on, the absolute authority, personality cult and inexoably advancing restrictions on all manner of personal liberty make our situation here rather one of leaving to escape from rather than going to. Whatever I would say would be less than balanced really.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Dec 1 14:37:27 2011

ps. besides which most of yer 'Auld Matesare no longer living in the area
;O) <>
, , , Thu Dec 1 13:31:08 2011

Snow, SNOW, Madam, is a four letter werd, I would ask you to be more careful with your vocabulary.
:o) <>
, , , Thu Dec 1 13:28:27 2011

I would love to spend my last years in Crosby with some of my auld mates, but it would be impossible at this stage in my life, so I have to do with the occasional holidays and possible future GTG-ers to meet up with fellow CC posters. Medical treatment here in Israel is second to none and I would be afraid to have to rely on the NHS after all the recent media publications of shocking practices with the elderly and infirm. Here I have been contributing to private medical insurance for years and I would loose all my privileges........ I still have children/Grandchildren here, although I also have some kids settled in London.I love the warmer winters here, and I don't think that I could go back to trudging through the snow again...
Diana <>
, , , Thu Dec 1 11:51:02 2011

I'm the same as Salty in that regard. My 4 children are 100% Canadian as is my 4 grandchildren. On a personal level I could never live in Crosby, it would be too confining and I would miss the broad expanse of Canada. I have very few rellies left in England. But I love to visit Crosby/Liverpool as I still have a strong sense of connection. I am surprised that J.J. does not give us his thoughts on this subject, How about it John ?
DJ <>
, , , Wed Nov 30 16:29:26 2011

I have children who grew up in a foriegn country (pleasant enough, but foriegn all-the-same), they have children of their own - how could I?
Salty <>
, , , Wed Nov 30 14:40:08 2011

For the benefit of them that likes history,, there now follows a recitation from sheriff Grayson them man that hunted down, and was instrumental in the hanging of Tom dooley and his singing sisters..well look at the muck in here, what a common lot,what a gay day, the place is alive,..so there you have it, men like that are hard to find these days, and remember lever leave your mates behind.
Nev goldrien <>
, , , Wed Nov 30 12:40:35 2011

Who gives a flying f..ck
Jimmy Mack Jimmy oh jimmy <>
, , , Wed Nov 30 11:05:05 2011

It's like taking candy away from a couple of babies... but the Smiths are getting no more than they deserve. They really believed they could hijack the club, abuse it for their own ends, run it into the ground, and when the SHTF, just slither away with no consequences, leaving some other mug to pick up the tab for their mess... Now REALITY bites, and HARD!
The Evil Eye <>
Crosby, , , Tue Nov 29 22:22:07 2011

High Jinks at the Liverpool County Court this morning. Oh, how everyone, including the judge, laughed at Dom Smith's attempt to dodge a Statutory Demand for £60,000 relating to the murky debts of St. Mary's Old Boys Club. The boy never turned up, but instead phoned in sick! The judge was full of sympathy. In dismissing his application, she kindly added another £1200 to his debts, in wasted legal costs...
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Tue Nov 29 14:16:55 2011

For many reasons. For a visit yes. To stay no.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Nov 29 13:56:06 2011

an awful silence
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, , , Tue Nov 29 11:27:39 2011

Raises an interesting question to all you wanderers and expats - would you ever go back? Other than for practical reasons (business/property to attend to) or people - close family, or old pals? Higsons ale is alas no more, and South Road - well remember Jimmy Stewart in 'Its a Wonderful Life?' when he walks through the Bedford Falls that would have been had he not been...
gus <>
london n11, , , Mon Nov 28 16:53:31 2011

Dear Mike, How cool can you get? "'Crosby' = Crosby and All That's Right With the World: 'Not-Crosby' = Wilderness and Just Possibly, Voices Crying In It", really quite smoothly put, leaving little inference demands on your readers!! But even so, when are you scheduled to take the "Last Flight From Nieder Puddlington auf Der Marsh"? [thinks. I wonder where he's got Caracas located: 'Wilderness: Outer Fringe', maybe?] You must let us know what impression today's Crosby makes at first blush.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 28 14:16:20 2011

Don't go back mike there be dragons
() <>
, , , Mon Nov 28 14:11:06 2011

Sorry, best wishes on your upcoming retirement, I hope Crosby is still everything you have been looking foreward to over the years.
s <>
, , , Mon Nov 28 13:55:49 2011

Mike, what a trip back memory lane you started. (Must admit I had to look up what one ignoramus might have thought to be trice funny - Schmaltz) After the Christmas goose had been cooked, on the rare occasions we had one, my mother would keep that bl*ddy stinking, thick, white, glob like grease, and plaster it all over my xylophone like chest - to stave off the cold she said. How come I can still almost 70 years later fill my imaginary nostrils with its stench and remember the vest sticking qualities the stuff attained after a couple of hours. Still got colds too. thanks Mike
Salty <>
, , , Mon Nov 28 13:45:56 2011

Schmalz..urmm.
Observer <>
, , , Mon Nov 28 11:57:43 2011

Schmalz..urmm.
Observer <>
, , , Mon Nov 28 11:57:31 2011

Yesterday was the 1st Sunday of Advent and after the 10 o'clock our small 'ChristmasMarket' was blessed and offically opened. The stalls provided plently of choice of baubles and trinkets to decorate my apartment for the festivities. This by all accounts is to be my last Christmas and New Year in Germany as next year I will be retiring and hoping to return to Crosby after some 30 odd years in the the wilderness. One stall which was doing great trade was the one selling 'gluwien' and 'schmalzbrot' very 'moorish'. Luckily I only live 200 metres from the church so getting home proved not too dificult. Cold but no snow!! Now the problem is putting up the decorations.
Mike <>
, Schifferstadt, , Mon Nov 28 10:45:11 2011

Oh the English language, homeward bound is not the same as house bound, or if you were egg bound you would bound to be on yer way to the chemist for an un-bounding fluid (or pills), until yer big black hound bounded up to yer and knocked the fertilizer right out of yer , and yer think scouse is bad?
;O) <>
, , , Sun Nov 27 21:25:41 2011

Diana, I often take a trip to my former neighbour and Liverpool using Google maps. What annoys me is that Rosebery ave what not scanned I suppose because it is a dead end street.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Nov 27 21:19:24 2011

Shouldn't that be "the L oink duo or L oink octo"?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 27 18:44:33 2011

t/h/t/p://history.knowsley.gov.uk/guestbook/.............................................I was a little house bound today so I took a walk down Bridge Road, Heathfield Road to the beach, along River View and near the old Irwins building on the corner of Brooke Road. I was surprised to see a row of flats opposite the Dempsey Sweet shop, I think it used to Camerons Garage..Oh and I remember old Ben Lloyds shop, with his Motor bikes and regular pedal bike..What an afternoon of memories...Mr Famligetti isn't there any longer. OH Salty I was down Riverslea Road, but at the bottom end near the beach there is no exit to Warrenhouse Road like in the auld days. My everything looks so small today...
Diana <Please don't ask how I came accross this site, but I thought it may be useful for those seeking lost friends or family..>
, , , Sun Nov 27 18:35:28 2011

.........this was on a bus, L2 or L8.......
BE <>
, , , Sun Nov 27 18:12:28 2011

I remember two kids saying "ooscray the opskay", meaning "screw the cop" in pig Latin, referring to the uniformed policeman who was sitting next to them. Unfortunately for them, he also knew pig Latin!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Nov 27 18:10:36 2011

well. even in crosbie. i remember family references to. chis and fips & beggs an eykon. sew something backslangy must be in us orl. in the army cadetz 2. the sergeantz sed . open order march. or . soap and water starch. you had to jump 2 it 4 both. may eye say.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Nov 27 16:33:06 2011

Backslang was used in Canada when I first arrived here, it was known as Pig Latin. I worked with a chap for many years and he still uses it. Much to the confusion of those under 50.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Nov 27 15:32:47 2011

Salty, the 'secret scouse was/is called backslang: bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/scouse/talk/backslang.shtml
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sun Nov 27 07:25:50 2011

No wonder there are wars. Time to move on folks and keep it friendly.
D J <>
, , , Sat Nov 26 15:26:40 2011

they turn up just like clockwork
. <>
, , , Sat Nov 26 14:01:47 2011

Honesty is the best policy, but who can afford the premiums on this board I ask myself, but as SItting Bull said to his grandson Hole in Rubber the world abounds in phonies, and just like the worst kind of insect and vermin we shall never be rid of them.
Jimmy the saville orange <>
, , , Sat Nov 26 10:47:35 2011

Observer Contra, Still moaning about how bad it all is instead of making a direct contribution: "'Tis better to light a candle than to curse the darkness", so to, better to banter, narrate or chat away on topics of the day instead of getting stuck in a moan&groan rut./////As for bayving suit, whatever else it may be, it's not scouse: in the early fifties, it was a 'cozzie' in Wavertree; since we were on about scouse and Salts made a pertinent observation, I popped in my two cents worth too. There were other terms: old-fashioned trams were boneshakers and the newer ones were Green Princesses or something: not too sure about that last. Anyway, has anyone got scouse terminology on the tip of his tongue, to share like?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Nov 25 22:01:22 2011

D j , observer, one and the same, no wonder the great and the good no longer visit this board, and read the insipid comments, it is a joke
Observer contra <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 21:37:51 2011

wot abarhht bayving suit den?
? <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 20:35:22 2011

swimming trunks= cozzie
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Nov 25 19:09:06 2011

Mr. MaYor, with regards to the problem of scouse, wasn't there a scouse language at one time spoken around Scotty Road? I think the beginning and ends of sum werds were somehow interchanged, and an 'o' put onto the end of others.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 18:32:07 2011

When I was a little girl at school I remember how one little boy in our class unscrewed his belly button and his botty fell off, dear observer you could try that and then kindly give us all a bit of rest!
Jenifer <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 16:03:47 2011

SSSO, don't hold your hopes too high. I did hear that the Right Hon Harold Wilson had a somewhat similar condition, he finally resorted to a b*m transplant, unfortunately it rejected him.
Eddy Heath <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 15:33:13 2011

cure for blossoms on the bottom : take one stick of dynamite ignite it and stick it where the sun dont shine. end of problem and potty comments
Superior Senior Serious Serial Observer <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 15:32:56 2011

Gentleman with postule problems, might like to try one of my more readily available creams - vanishing lotion.
Theron T. Pond <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 15:02:54 2011

While eating my porridge and fruit this morning and perusing my ipad and alarmed by the observer dust up,I checked the TCC back to 2005. And I must say that things back then were quite a bit more chatty and less news story oriented. This might be due to many familiar names are now gone or are very infrequent visitors. However it must be considered that nothing is really static and most things tend to reinvent themselves over time. Perhaps the multi observers have failed to be cognizant of this.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 15:01:01 2011

Hey guys, I woke uo to find pimples on my b*m this morning, will this do for a bit of banter and person to person reposte?
Senior Serious Serial Observer <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 14:44:56 2011

Dear Kenny & Observers (all), get on with the B & R! Otherwise, some sectors of society may feel maliciously tempted to compare you to two runners at the start line, arguing who's faster while the rest of the field has already departed.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Nov 25 10:26:00 2011

I occasionally attend a Spanish/English Intercambio group in the 'Pool. Some of the Spaniards speak excellent English but have problems understanding 'Scouse'. When I tell them that I do too, they seem somewhat relieved. Know worra mean like?
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Nov 25 08:15:11 2011

T*OSSER
SSO <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 02:21:42 2011

Obs & Serial Obs methinks thou t****r around too much, bad for the eyesite mate.
Serious Serial Observer <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 02:12:27 2011

What did I say, never mind tossing it back to me. never spotted your moniker here before Kenny whos the hypocrite now.
Serial Observer <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 01:37:11 2011

Observer, what was Ever your contribution , hypocrite.
Kenny <>
, , , Fri Nov 25 01:06:58 2011

Dear Mate, If you want banter & riposte, curse not the darkness but light up some banter & riposte; if banter be the food of (fill in fave) then banter, canter, ranter on! and since it's (still here in Caracas) Thanksgiving, I propose a prayer competition, "Oh dear God, I beseech Thee, make me the man that my dog thinks that I am!" would be my 'shot across the bows', as it were & Dominus Vobiscum to you too, old fellow!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Nov 25 00:42:13 2011

Where has all the banter and person to person chatter gone to.Have we lost the ability to communicate ? Is that all we have to say, a code to a secondhand news story. shame ! Never mind tossing it back to me.
Observer <>
, , , Thu Nov 24 23:39:10 2011

This news serves to remember that the Harrier jump Jet was the first foreign battle aeroplane bought by the USA since the first war. So, even then, when it first became the AV-8, it made history. The Canberra was made under licence mind you; it became the Martin B-57.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Nov 24 22:57:37 2011

a more serious note .... /news/technology-15869683
James Riddle Esq <>
Great Crosby, Merseyside, , Thu Nov 24 22:00:19 2011

u r rite Peppa
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, , , Thu Nov 24 20:05:59 2011

cud be werse, unless u is 'Liberty or Peace'
Cows de Belly <>
, , Kingdom of Tripe, Thu Nov 24 16:29:03 2011

So we are still Lancastrians? see CH ....crosbyherald.co.uk/news/crosby-news/2011/11/24/crosby-man-chris-dawson-calls-on-people-to-support-lancashire-day-68459-29828325/
Salty <>
Brighton-le-Sands, , Lancashire, Thu Nov 24 16:21:50 2011

er, forgot, for our mid-east readers : haaretz.com/print-edition/sports/soccer-finally-american-samoa-ends-int-l-drought-1.397397
:-) <>
, , , Thu Nov 24 15:13:14 2011

or for a more detailed account of their recent momentous win over a far better team see, , denverpost.com/rapids/ci_19397035
;o( <>
, Tonga, , Thu Nov 24 15:09:05 2011

now 'ere's a team to follow....bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15867180
;O) <>
, , , Thu Nov 24 14:20:37 2011

For those who've not seen it yet, "A Train to Anfield": h¿t¿t¿p://thekop.liverpoolfc.tv/_A-Train-To-Anfield/video/1551602/173471.html?as=173471
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Nov 24 13:58:45 2011

Tripe, mmm delicious: better than turkey!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Nov 24 13:34:55 2011

Its all a load of tripe.
Peppa Pig <>
, , , Thu Nov 24 09:52:08 2011

Its all in the breeding
The scarlet Pimple <>
, , , Wed Nov 23 23:42:44 2011

A Mullet hair-do suddenly takes on a new and ominous meaning : bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15862064 , never mind bacon butties - are nobodys (parts) safe from these religious Knutters. (BE thoughts of the earlier Squire's tale)
;O) <>
, , , Wed Nov 23 20:55:12 2011

food scientists are pretty good, and they can manufacture relatively satisfactory "Veggi Burgers", but how the 'ell can they realistically turn a duck into a decent pig's trotter, no matter how kosher
Jimmie da Porc puller <>
, , , Wed Nov 23 20:44:36 2011

I hope thats true .
Porky the pig <>
, , , Wed Nov 23 20:27:57 2011

Dear Di', I read the article and there waren't an Oinker in sight, it was all about porcine-tasting goose! So long bacon butties, seemingly. still, the absolute best excuse for having a trip home remains valid, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Nov 23 19:02:16 2011

h/t/t/p://w/w/w.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israel-s-chief-rabbi-set-to-import-kosher-pork-1.397320
Diana <At last , bacon butties....!!!!!>
, , , Wed Nov 23 16:27:36 2011

Liverpool inspirées nationally acknowledged: see w+w=w.blogdeaino.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/The-Singh-Twins5.jpg and the article at w+w+w.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/11/singh-twins?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fgrandclashesinminiature
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 22 11:19:01 2011

Now, how tight is a panda's posterier? For details follow 'Sweetie' and 'Sunlight' to Scotland's capital. Bit pricey for me.
Jimmie da tightwad <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 23:33:08 2011

youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM..........
Diana <I absolutely adore this man.>
, , , Mon Nov 21 22:47:06 2011

Dear BE, I am still very naughty...wink wink..Don't get me wrong, I don't swear like a trooper., I don't like to be shoved around and can give a good verbal argument. I am after all, a Scouser, born and bred. . I like fair play and definitely peeps with a sense of humour/humor...
Diana <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 22:39:14 2011

The newspaper reference reminds me of the expression "Wot you? You couldn't even punch an 'ole in a wet Echo!"
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Nov 21 22:00:20 2011

Too bad I never knew you in Crosby, Di. You seem to be quite naughty!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Nov 21 21:51:52 2011

Di, although the expression used is an example of a somewhat mean, scrooge like , or misanthropic character, it may be better at indicating properties of water-proofness. You particularly, should be aware that the hull of a seagoing vessel needs an integrety greater than may examples in the crustacean (and Bird) kingdom - try to be more precise in future.
Duchie Davie <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 21:05:37 2011

Dear Gus, If pressed, I'd vote for the 'ew' option; sounds more like what I woudl say myself but a case can be made for 'buk':"gorra new buk for me berthday" goes down OK. But who am I at my remove both timewise (I left in '63) and in faroffness? //DEar BE, Maybe I wrote it ill. I meant that one deemed 'tighfisted' would be referred to using that 'wet Echo' expression. Knowing your Spanish tendancy, I can say that here, we'd say 'pichirre' which is in the BOOK ( to be found at rae.es) as meaning 'tacaño' which, if asked I'd translate as referring to one who'd not give you last week's wet Echo. Which is where we came in. ///One of my favourites was Peter Maloney's rendering of scouse for the world at large; it included "Gerrout yer lyin' pig!" being "Betake thyself, recumbent swine". Not an Ahem in sight either!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 21 20:04:26 2011

youtube.com/watch?v=UfrpKHl5nR8.......St Knickers was a very prim and proper schoooooooooool, indeedo indeedo.
Diana <Gobsmacked at the usage of Gobsmacked.>
, , , Mon Nov 21 19:13:50 2011

.....oR.....
) <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 18:21:10 2011

in fact, I doubt very much if Douchie of Miss Baine would recognize a crab's "a*se"
) <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 18:20:09 2011

it was not, young lady, a common expression in St. Nickers!
;O) <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 18:16:45 2011

Gobsmacked is another expression which has worked its way out of Liverpudlian Lexicon, now used frequently by whole of the UK.. I was surprised to hear it being used recently by rather well heeled people on the BBC..."Shuuut yer GOB". I was never allowed to use that word, even though GOB was used all the time when I was young.
Diana <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 17:27:26 2011

BE, a common Scouse expression for tight fisted was/is..."tight as a crab's a*se"...
Diana <Once a Scouser, always a Scouser. My humblest for being so frank..>
, , , Mon Nov 21 17:06:04 2011

Dear jj, I always thought that tightfisted was a common English expression. xxxxxxx Gus, the use of "buk" and "bouk" is very interesting. Over here the Midwesterners say "ruff" for roof. They also make many grammatical mistakes, but since they have pleasant voices, they often work as radio and TV announcers. xxxxxxxxxxxxx An interesting trend in speech usage is to pronounce "the" as "thuh", before a vowel, e.g. "thuh only", rather than "thee only" Used to be fairly rare, but now it's common, even on network TV.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Nov 21 16:53:46 2011

Gus, farther north there may have been a further 'O" as in boook.... or is that further north? <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 16:32:46 2011

Moving laterally from that jj, one thing I always wondered about was the 'correct' scouse pronunciation of the word 'book'. I used to hear both a guttural Dublinesque 'buk' and something which sounded more like 'bewk' or 'beuk' - the latter I think more authentic? Wonderfully combined once with another exceedingly rare dipthongisation of the word 'work' by a character on 'Brookside' (a tv soap opera, m'lud, now no longer with us) - 'She used to wairk in a bewkies'
gus <>
london n11, , , Mon Nov 21 16:13:34 2011

For me, scouse is nostalgic, largely I suppose because I get to hear so little; once every six months when a BBC reporter is there for one thing or another and interviews a local. But it's not just the accent; there are expressions, such as a 'tightfisted person', being one who "wouldn't give you last week's wet 'Echo'", for instance and the famous once-boiled cabbages. I don't realise I miss it until I get a whiff in some report or other and odds&ends come dribbling back into recollection.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 21 14:51:43 2011

Alright, maybe not so much the 60s, by then, even Southport had taken on more of a Merseyside flavour.
salty <>
, , , Mon Nov 21 13:32:23 2011

I find it quite funny that scouse is now 'in'. Of course I can only go by my own experience, but in the 40/50/60s "Lancashire' was considered ok but scouse.....well this was Crosby. Salty <>
, , , Sun Nov 20 15:58:58 2011

Well, If you'd care to 'sign in', I'd know to whom the ear that I seem to have got, belongs. Give it a whirl; it doesn't hurt a bit.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 20 15:26:26 2011

ear ear
<>
, , , Sun Nov 20 15:06:49 2011

Why the obsession not so much with studied illiteracy, á la SB, but with a perception of the least noble denominator of our proud scouse-speech heritage. What does it add? In my, possibly blinkered view, nowt; it does detract though. There's perfectly good scouse speech; reproducing it in idiomatic spelling would be something of a challenge; takers?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 20 15:02:11 2011

dis is de pool.... shud reed " culla" - sorrie
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, , , Sun Nov 20 14:06:53 2011

it wud orl depend on wot culor the boot polish is
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, , , Sun Nov 20 14:02:19 2011

Great mysteries of Crosby:- I saw famous-bankrupt Kentigern Smith at a funeral last week. Does anyone happen to know - does he put boot polish on his hair? I've known him for 50 years, and his hair colour has never changed. Is this normal?
The Terminator <cyberdyne@crosby.com>
Crosby..., , , Sun Nov 20 03:42:02 2011

Your G. Grand uncle's view of the world seems to live on in my savings account...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Nov 19 18:46:37 2011

oops
DJ <>
, , , Sat Nov 19 15:12:58 2011

For good or bad if this site would allow attachments I would love to show some pics of progress on my latest J.D. restoration. I have finished spray painting all components and assembled them. Just Like brand new. ////////// Just received the service record from the National Archives of my g.granduncle, James Standish. He served 12 years in the royal marines between 1859 and 1871. He was afloat for 7 years and ashore for 4 years with a year in the lockup for being "disinterested." Blimey !
DJ <>
, , , Sat Nov 19 15:12:09 2011

For good or bad if this site would allow attachments I would love to show some pics of progress on my latest J.D. restoration. I have finished spray painting all components and assembled them. Just Like brand. ////////// Just received the service record from the National Archives of my g.granduncle, James Standish. He served 12 years in the royal marines between 1859 and 1871. He was afloat for 7 years and ashore for 4 years with a year in the lockup for being "disinterested." Blimey !
DJ <>
, , , Sat Nov 19 15:11:40 2011

Swimming as well
DJ <>
, , , Fri Nov 18 22:56:16 2011

Actually, those Chinese carp would be a major problem if they ever get into the Great lakes. Apparenly, due to their feeding habits, they leave any stretch of River or Lake bare of food thus killing all native species. The Great lakes are a multi-million dollar business in both commercial and sport fishing and are continuously threatened by invasive foriegn species of fish, mussels, insects and vegatation brought in in & on visiting shipping. It is no joke!
Salty <>
, , , Fri Nov 18 21:51:50 2011

And they say there's no free lunch! See youtube.com/watch_popup?v=x3Bf0WhvsNk&vq=medium
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Nov 18 18:06:42 2011

Di, I will not settle for second best although the stern section does pass muster.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Nov 18 14:47:13 2011

youtube.com/watch?v=Yqvoka4CHVg&NR=1...........DJ, they say everyone has a double.Pippa M has found hers, (not Granny)Amazing clip from Utube.................BE, thanks for that link per google about Blundell Family. Very interesting indeedo.h/t/t/p://w/w/w.allertonoak.com/merseyWalks/LittleCrosbyThornton.html...............................I always knew there was something mystic about Sniggery Woods..h/t/t/p://w/w/w.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northwest/series4/index_ufos_liverpool_aliens_extra_terrestrial_space_main_page.shtml.........................................youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5MBzQKt4U...I remember Sniggery as much smaller place.
Diana <>
, , , Fri Nov 18 07:07:57 2011

and any of you fine fellows, who having finally taken a flight by Comtel air, and having inadvertantly landed in Afganistan, are advised not to having to wear your favourite 'Number 39' tee-shert, otherwise you might just be having your nuts cut off, ending up having none.
. <>
, , , Thu Nov 17 20:15:17 2011

BE, What an interesting tale, good stuff.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Nov 17 20:12:10 2011

BE, thanks for the 'tale', only watched part 1 so far. It would appear that nothing changes, 'the rich families and of course Parson Nutter' are still here today. It was interesting to note that in 1599, the Bishop of Chester (the local religeous head honcho of those times) was quoted of saying that there was "no hope of reformation or obedience in those parts" (refering to Little Crosby which today might include Liverpool - again no change).
Salty <>
, , , Thu Nov 17 17:24:12 2011

Now yer know, "Don't leave home without it"...
jj <ETC>
ETC, ETC, & God Bless, Thu Nov 17 15:17:38 2011

anyone flown Comtel Air recently? I'm still there (wherever there is), couldn't come up with the cash for the trip home.
;O) <>
, , , Thu Nov 17 13:28:55 2011

It's funny how some things prompt odd memories of times long past. St.Mary's cross-country was great in the fifties; once, we went on a big inter-school two-mile relay, I remember going out at No. 2, after Pete McManus, who had given me a 50-yard lead; it was along the Otterspool Prom and through the woods. I was at my wits end: I couldn't shake off a constant pat-pat-pat-pat-pat virtually over my shoulder, however much I lengthened the stride: Dammit, he's still there and I'm all out of oomph, just be able to make it ahead of the b--er. Which I did. Then and then only did I look round to see who and how: there was no charlie in sight!! What the? What did pass me just as I slowed to a halt was a Vauxhall used by race monitors and it had a piece of cardboard stuck to a tyre. ACH and re-ACH!! By then, and I kept Mum as fellas told me "Yer did guid", the next chap was a way with the "lead" I had built, entirely thanks to the improbable duplicity of monitors aboard a motor car that they accelerated ever more to keep up with the unlikeliest of leaders; St, Mary's won that race handsomely. A good bunch of lads, they were. And nobody smoked either.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Nov 16 22:53:24 2011

Dear Di: if you do a Googleon: A Squire's Tale Crosby, you will find all kinds of gen.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Wed Nov 16 22:23:59 2011

Oh Rodney baby, you have such a way wid werds
take your pick <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 21:38:30 2011

Shut yer clanging manholes you two
Rod <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 20:46:27 2011

B*gger off Jewemmy
Winston Ch ex MTS <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 19:46:29 2011

which would indicate one reason why their cross country team never beat the Rev. Kidde's lot.
Jewemmy Ramsbothame III <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 14:48:05 2011

ps, never knew St. Mary's had a smoking room up until 1987 for six formers....lots of interesting trivia.
s <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 14:43:08 2011

Di, your site led me to another, probably seen by most already : *w*w.wix.com/localhistory/crosbypast&present ...thanks
Salty <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 14:41:15 2011

I think that the reason you don't remember Diana is because you never saw it, it's on Blundell's estate, not public land, I suspect in the woodland just to the right of the road to Formby that goes through Ince Woods, just beyond Thornton. That would be (more or less) opposite Jospice's main entrance, on the left-hand side of the same road, if memory serves.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Nov 16 14:23:52 2011

h/t/t/p://w/w/w.stmaryslittlecrosby.org.uk/Historical_Pages/Harkirk.htm.......................I picked this link up from another local forum. I have wracked my brains and I don't remember this place..? Do you guys remember?
Diana <>
, , , Wed Nov 16 09:12:54 2011

case of Mal de Mar...others that I have met who complain of the same disorder found Yarsagumba very helpful. A bit expensive though.
;o) <>
, , , Tue Nov 15 22:03:25 2011

But I'm still wondering how on earth they get the footage: some looks as though it had ben taken from a sub's periscope!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 15 21:13:06 2011

Diana, ahhhh, take me back lad to when I wuz in the sea scouts , that time at the Norfolk Broads, nearly turned me kayak a over t.
Salty <>
, , , Tue Nov 15 18:52:03 2011

Very dramatic footage Di, watching it gave me a case of Mal de Mer…….. Speaking of things that float, most of the time, I just finished reading about the history of the British shipbuilding industry. The closing chapter about the decline of the industry paints a sad picture of the decline brought on by a multi combination of events and circumstances, poor management, the unions, outdated equipment and methods and fierce competition among a few. Several examples: British tankers were taking too long during construction because work always started on the bows first because it was always done like that ! The answer was to start at the stern where engines and most equipment was housed, this could be fitted out while the rest of the vessel was being built saving time and money. Another shipbuilder was questioned why stocktaking took so long in being done.. A good example showed that one man was counting each size washer that was in stock one washer at a time instead of weighing the weight of each single type of washer and then weighing in bulk. How bluddy sad for a country that once ruled the waves.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Nov 15 18:21:04 2011

Dear Diana, Blimey Days!! Indeed but, one query: how in od's name tdo they get that footage? As a PS, too, do you knw whose warship that was?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 15 14:43:35 2011

youtube.com/watch_popup?v=T4FIS1FnOQg..................If anyone believes a seaman's life is easy, then take a butchers at this clip..
Diana <Look for el mar>
, , , Tue Nov 15 12:23:19 2011

Liverpool's Liverpool people taking the Liverpool YNWA message to the depths of Mumbai: we Talk the Talk well enough; here's how our lads are Walking the Walk. A delight to read: w=w=w.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/slum-dreams-mumbai-to-lfc
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 15 00:30:39 2011

Dear Salty, Is that great stuff...or WHAT? It's got to be a ball to fly those little things and what a fabulous way to spend a Saturday afternoon! Has anyone got any idea where exactly those chaps/lasses fly from?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 14 21:59:55 2011

and, meanwhile, back at the ranch, while Mr. Formby was aloft, many in Crosby were listening to a song from a foreign country whose name escapes me; but not the song: .youtube.com/watch?v=OK28MpUepa4
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 14 21:53:10 2011

Not exactly a spitfire, but you might find this a little more affordable and local: youtube.com/watch?v=C1nlvyjV-MM ...and not too many Goons either.
Salty <>
, , , Mon Nov 14 21:14:40 2011

By jove Eccles, at that speed, the man must have been flying by th seat of his britches.
Grytpype-Thyme <>
, , , Mon Nov 14 14:40:13 2011

at that frequency, their wood have to bee sum reciprical of the testical.
Mini Bannister <>
, , , Mon Nov 14 14:36:35 2011

but Neddy, where's the angle of dangle?
Col. Bloodnock <>
, , , Mon Nov 14 14:23:28 2011

frequency of reading @ 350 mph x 5280ft/mile ÷ every 500ft ÷ 3600 sec/hr = every 1.0267 secs. - yes a bit distracting in level flight (or any other flight), no time to even take a quick butchers out of the winders to see where he was going.
;O) <>
, , , Mon Nov 14 13:26:21 2011

Up and down feet. The aeroplane flown by Mr. Formby was so fast that horizontal 500-foot readings proved distracting. Interestingly, aeroplanes only fly in 'feet' of altitude near aerodromes; during the most part of the flight, they fly on flight levels, so called; it is a safety measure that allows everybody up there, regardless of atmospheric pressure where they left the ground, to be showing the same comparative height, so if US Air into Manchester, who left Newark at 998Milbars, reports he's at FL 130 (roughly 13,000ft), then Air Canada, who left Toronto at 1023Mb, knows he's below him because his altimeter reported FL as 120. Basically, shortly after departure, everyone sets his altimeter at 1013.25Mb regardless of actual atmospheric pressure, so everyone's altimeter is actually wrong, but by exactly the same amount. They call themthere values 'flight levels', 'cos they's not actual heights.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 13 21:45:42 2011

horizontally of course
Flying Officer Kite <>
, , , Sun Nov 13 20:54:25 2011

Now, tell me once more Biggles, are those readings to be taken at every 500 feet up & down or forwards and backwards?
Ginger <>
, , , Sun Nov 13 19:40:43 2011

Suck it up, Loser...
Rodney's mate <>
Thornton, Crosby, , Sun Nov 13 02:19:14 2011

Dear Salty, It flew every day down to Bristol, taking met readings each 500ft. The pilot was one John Formby; it only stopped after a wheels-up that brought it to an operational end. It was then replaced by a Mossie (2 Merlins instead of 1!) that went on until it too had a heeels up. I sat in that Spitfire and that mossie as a CCF cadet: at first blush, I had expected a regular 'joystick' but was surprised to find the control column had a sort of circular grip at the top with the (for a 14-year old cadet) adventure steeped firing button -- a red press-button, under a rotating protective cover -- at the top left-hand side. Heigh Ho!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 13 00:00:30 2011

most on this board must still remember the spitfire that flew almost every day out of Woodvale, I think it took weather readings out over the Atlantic?
Salty <>
, , , Sat Nov 12 16:50:54 2011

An amazing story J.J. , I read that the weapon was made by BSA. Incredible fire power with all guns firing at once. The vibration and shock on the fuselage must have been enormous.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Nov 12 15:32:08 2011

Lay off it, Rod
... <>
, , ..., Sat Nov 12 15:26:33 2011

Lay off it, Rod
... <>
, , .., Sat Nov 12 15:23:43 2011

I see prize buffoon Ken Smith is now truly in a well-deserved World Of Hurt. After being made bankrupt over the murky debts of St. Mary's Old Boys' Club, his bank accounts have been frozen, and his car insurance has been terminated... So Ken is off the the road. Soon he will be out on his ear from his house too... Meanwhile, his son, Dom "five-bellies" Smith awaits his own fate, and patrols the bars of Crosby, making the usual twunt of himself - as if that's going to change anything at all... LOL These knuckleheads were warned they were "digging their own graves" by a wise man many years ago, but they carried on regardless. Not only did they dig their own graves, but they obligingly leaped head-first into them, and scrabbled to cover themselves with earth... What a laugh to see such clowns get their comeuppance!
The Evil Eye <>
Crosby, Liverpool, , Sat Nov 12 01:21:50 2011

Go British engineering! Browning .303 machine gun fires perfectly after 70 years in an Irish bog. Lads will note high rate of fire and the rounds' being notably larger than what you're 'used to' if you fired any Lee Enfield .303. The Spitfire had eight of them, often angled to focus 250 yards ahead. Both the rate of fire and the eight units, firing together, were measures to hopefully get a few into the foe during the split seconds he was in the sights. The lads got quiet good at that, thank Heavens! Still 'n all, it will not go unnoticed that most filmed gun-camera shots are line-astern, where you had a bit more time and no aim-off angle. goto: w+w+w.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Nov 12 00:14:49 2011

Aw Shucks, Di', Don't mentch, ahem. Fact is, I happened upon the link in FB's 'Crosby Past & Present' where there are photos of Crosby, associated sites (Waterloo etc) for all tastes --- and decades.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Nov 11 20:22:41 2011

h/t/t/p://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/Scroll down to the bottom of each page and click "older entries". There are pages of amazing pics of Liverpool and its people..jj, your link was posted by me on another site I post sometimes and they were thrilled with the pictures. Thanks Mate..............................................................................................DJ, behave yerself, SWMBO may be spying you..
Diana <>
, , , Fri Nov 11 19:05:45 2011

DJ, whose photo did you send her?
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Fri Nov 11 17:53:09 2011

12:45 pm. Just got back from the Cenotaph in Uxbridge. As always well attended and moving.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Nov 11 17:45:30 2011

On this day we should all remember those fallen to maintain OUR freedoms. For a very interesting article on those that didn't...see... /news/magazine-15671943 I had no idea such places existed, certainly not the Liverpool in JJs site.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Nov 11 16:09:25 2011

pox on you pollocks
<>
, , , Fri Nov 11 16:02:11 2011

Pollox
<>
, , , Fri Nov 11 15:46:24 2011

According to late breaking news in the press Pippa has packed in her pesky boy pal permanently much to my pleasure. Persuading her to peek at my photo did the trick. Phew
DJ <>
, , , Fri Nov 11 15:08:10 2011

this episoad openz a new nich market 4 fals 1s. so that. if endangered. deploy false set az a delaying tactic. maybe a bit of deployment training needed. and warning on box. only try this at hoam.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Nov 11 14:46:04 2011

in these days of hardship, a bit of advice for those wishing to keep the family jewels intact: don't ava drink with 'Maria' : /news/uk-england-tyne-15689943
. <>
, , , Fri Nov 11 14:27:40 2011

Thanks very mooch jj. I couldn't believe that I knew Liverpool and its areas so well. There wasn't hardly one building I didn't remember..Don't build like them days eh?
Diana <>
, , , Fri Nov 11 09:33:37 2011

Dear JJ, thanks. That's a helluva website, although it didn't have ALL the places I wanted to see (LOL).
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Nov 10 21:42:11 2011

Dear Çur or Madam, According to an irrefutable SB post of earlier today, the know-it-all isn't I but thee, wherefore, your hazzrded guess would probably be closer than mine but I think that maybe the overall concnetration doesn't take in the St. Nicholas School area. Nor either the St. Mary's one, which would've been one of my first stops -- after Seafield, I hasten to add! Still 'n all, why don't you tell us what enjoyment you got from browsing what is there instead of what ain't. I have always found that generic approach better for a good night's sleep, frankly.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Nov 10 20:17:53 2011

JJ, wid aal dem-der anciet structures, ow c*m St.Nickers scooil isn't amongst dem.
;O) <>
, , , Thu Nov 10 19:37:56 2011

SB, perhaps the guy with the sock does - I don't even own a sock, me shert went years ago!
;O( <>
, , , Thu Nov 10 19:32:28 2011

For Liverpudlians & Liverpolitans alike, oodles of snapshots, both current and historic at this site: relive yer skewl dayz. An' stuff. goto: h¿t¿t¿p://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=42204765&cr=7
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Nov 10 15:49:54 2011

orl very well 4 u. u kan afford a mattress. hoity toity know it orl. do u hang owt with the nobz 2. that wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Nov 10 15:06:44 2011

BE, refering to your earlier comment about scary fertilizer, I think most of us feel like critters in the headlights - we just don't know what to do for the best. One thing you can be sure of is that rich (very rich) investors always seem to come off better than before any crisis. Bit disconcerting to think that you have spent a lot of time and money in an attempt to put something aside for a rainy day, well it's poring, and me brolly has holes in it. Funny, but there was always the joke about the fellow with a sock full of money under the mattress - he's the one laughing now.
;O( <>
, , , Thu Nov 10 13:56:20 2011

Gratters Uncle Frank!
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Thu Nov 10 08:09:29 2011

All the very best Frank from a fellow Scorpio ( Nov 13)
DJ <>
, , , Wed Nov 9 23:56:41 2011

Uncle Frank, I was one that didn't, but, many returns anyway.
Salty <>
, , , Wed Nov 9 20:17:38 2011

Many thanks to those kind souls who remembered my 86th birthday.
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Wed Nov 9 19:56:12 2011

Brian, to put it crudely; I am dropping brownies in my bloomers. However wots gonna happen will happen good or nasty.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Nov 9 18:13:57 2011

And another thing: does anybody here use the Firefox browser? Here's a recommendation: don't upgrade to the latest version!!
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Wed Nov 9 16:55:43 2011

Dear TCCers: Am I the only panic-monger, or is anyone else scared dungless over the world economic situation?
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Wed Nov 9 16:51:48 2011

Many thanks sb for your link, also to you DJ for yours. The problem is that I found Vera Lynn on the same page, and blub, blub, I can't take it any more! Anyhoo, here's one for JJ:.youtube.com/watch?v=FNB8VbFmlOY&NR=1
BE <>
, , Sameold, Wed Nov 9 16:40:47 2011

While working on my J/D restoration on Sunday afternoon a radio station was playing WW1 and 2 songs. For one particular song the D.J. mentioned that its lyrics were worth listening to. The 6 minute cut was called " And they played watzing matilda" It related to the slaughter that the Aussies suffered at Gallopoli during WW!. A chilling line from the song relates as the solder returns to Aussie he "looks down to where his legs used to be." Nov 11 is a special day that I hope we all will honour.
D J <>
, , , Wed Nov 9 16:15:22 2011

I recently saw this lovely lady singing "Danny Boy" on utube. Now that does bring a lump to my 1 quarter Irish blood nothing will.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Nov 9 16:06:43 2011

did saym. & saw it all. plus kiri te kenawa @ w.w.w.youtube.com/watch?v=_S6Xqia-1RY&feature=related eye kan say. not a drye eye in the howse. thatz very wow material.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed Nov 9 14:54:15 2011

Dear sb, do what arrers sez.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Wed Nov 9 14:12:05 2011

leev da kissis owt
. <>
, , , Wed Nov 9 11:51:53 2011

be. u lost me. the link didnt. did do it rong. thatz what i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue Nov 8 21:04:39 2011

Welcome home lads and lasses! And now here's all you ever wanted to know about: /folksong.org.nz/poatarau/index.html xxxxxxx They sang it at the NZ rugby final.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Nov 8 18:15:05 2011

Thanks arrers: our sailors' safe return, with snaps, at w¿w¿w.crosbyherald.co.uk/news/crosby-news/2011/11/08/hms-liverpool-returns-home-100252-29737886/2/ Back in the Saturday Odeon fillums, we all sang "Now is the hour" so, (nearly) á la Will Wordyswerth, 'when upon my couch I lie, in vacant or nostalgic mood, "When you return You'll find me waiting here."
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 8 15:34:54 2011

HMS Liverpool returns home (CH - hear all about it)
. <>
, , , Tue Nov 8 14:14:10 2011

there has been considerable discussion about UK vessels not being alowed to fly the 'Red Ensign', but have to fly that rather silly little piece of cloth the Europeans demand.
? <>
, , , Tue Nov 8 13:50:45 2011

//Cunard recently decided that after 170 years flying the British flag, its cruise ships - the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria - will stop flying the Union Jack. The shipping line originally decided to fly the Bermuda flag, but after fielding protests, decided instead to fly the Red Ensign, which includes the United Kingdom and Bermuda, (according to the website Cruise Law News). Critics say the change was intended to allow Cunard to follow the labour laws of Bermuda rather than the stricter British laws.// ........In other words, getting round the ITFs wage agreements for Officers and crew.It ain't like it used to be. Poor souls who want to make the sea a career.
Diana <>
, , , Tue Nov 8 07:06:35 2011

AARRGGHH! But good, nonetheless, what? Quirky at qwerty, and it's only Monday! Queer-query quack gets home at last!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 7 19:44:29 2011

no doubt, only on the 'qwerty' system
:o) <>
, , , Mon Nov 7 17:00:47 2011

Google's Barrel Roll is still live: I have to wonder who comes up with this stuff? Just type in 'z or r twice' and the whole pages does a horizontal 360º. One advantage, I suppose, would be that it offers an explanantion to non-English speakers of the term 'quirky'.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Nov 7 16:15:36 2011

Where does that chap Jimmie get the nerve to talk to me in that manner on Nov 5. Outright impertinence I say, if he was on my estate I would have the blighter horse whipped by gad
Lord Toxteth of Bootle <>
, , , Mon Nov 7 01:43:48 2011

Martina, what was their religion and was Catherine ever referred to as Kate ?
DJ <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 23:47:00 2011

Hi, thanks 4 replying. I found a Matthew Hurley wed 2 Catherine Hogan also. Not sure which is right. I was hoping 2 find the Catherine as a Catherine Madden as this fits my search but the Matthew & Catherine I found may just be friends and not relatives. I'll keep on searching.
Martina <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 23:40:23 2011

I have found a marriage citation for a Matthew Hurley and Catherine Merrigan. Dec Q. 1883 reg. at West Derby. .... Reference: West Derby 8b 935. Does this fit ?
DJ <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 20:43:45 2011

keeps the lawyer's kids at good scooills
<>
, , , Sun Nov 6 20:29:20 2011

How I remember Bommie or Guy Fawkes night. I do recall that we also had a mischief night also. We would ring door bells and run away, tie ropes between front door knobs and the garden gate etc ... great fun. The man down the street from me caught me doing something and boxed my ears. Those days you took your lumps and went home... These days there would a big bluddy todo with criminal charges, law suits pending and mamby pamby kids with boxed earlugs. True.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 20:25:37 2011

Martina, have you got a marriage citation for Matthew & Catherine this would lead to getting a cert. which would name parents who then could be backtracked. Reply to me off site please.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 20:17:02 2011

Quite right SB, retyred, bit of a mistake there too, it was also in the late 40s.....Oh my Gawd, Oh me Gawd....well, not that long ago really.
s <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 17:03:53 2011

go brocks. lyt blu tutch paper. and retire. well. now. we r retired ollrite.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, C, c, Sun Nov 6 16:19:41 2011

Is 'bommie night' still the one kids look foreward to for what felt like ages? For most of us during the 50s it certainly was. No doubt the cost is also more than the 2/6d spent on what seemed an endless supply of pin-wheels, rip-raps, various pathetic 'Volcanoes' and rockets. There was always some kids who were badly burned when a pocket full of bangers was set alight by flying sparks. Silly b*ggers. Hopefully a good safe time was had by all - till next year!
Salty <>
, , , Sun Nov 6 14:14:47 2011

You have to try the Google Barrel Roll: just type in "Z or R Twice" and the page does.... a barrel roll. How about that?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 6 12:18:45 2011

If there was a coin worth about thirty bob, twenty less than the famous Tailors downtown (then), why not just say so and enlighten us -- at least me -- as to which it was, what it was called etc, instead of wallowing in the vulgate, enlightening no-one and possibly getting your clean shirt dirty, wha' yer Ma' ain't gonna like.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Nov 6 00:33:35 2011

Lord Foxy B*llox of Bootle, if by now, you have attained the basics of reading, you might find it very interesting to 'google' what was at one time, a coin worth about Thirty Bob, and cost to the Government of the day a pretty penny in paying the Duke of Wellies troops.
jimie da numismatist <>
, , , Sat Nov 5 20:47:11 2011

did'nt yuze Bleu Bloods ever learn yer self to rede?
<>
, , , Sat Nov 5 16:10:05 2011

I say old boy you omitted the Guinea, of course not many from the lower classes ever saw one
Lord Toxteth of Bootle <>
, , , Sat Nov 5 14:16:29 2011

Sorry sb and arrers; how could I have missed the tanner and the siver thrupenny bit? not many of the latter in circulation when I was a nipper.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sat Nov 5 06:46:04 2011

Hi, I am looking 4 info on Matthew & Catherine Hurley of Denamrk St, 1891 & 1901 & Norway St, 1911. Can anyone help?
Martina <>
, , , Sat Nov 5 00:04:25 2011

and of course the snooty Moss Bross clerk wanting Guineas instead of regular quids skiving b*ggers.
<>
, , , Sat Nov 5 00:00:39 2011

& the 3d bit had two versions, one for general usage and one for plum puddin's
<>
, , , Fri Nov 4 23:55:51 2011

u 4 got the venerabul tanner.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Nov 4 22:42:29 2011

how nice to see reel riting and coment insted of refreces to other loctions
.|. <>
, , , Fri Nov 4 22:37:53 2011

Ay, Smiley, mi amigo, the nostalgia that you inculcate. Farthing, ha'penny, thrupenny bit, penny, shilling (bob), florin, half-crown, crown (five bob) ten-bob note, pound (nicker, or quid), ah, those were the days!!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Nov 4 20:58:16 2011

hear, hear....
:o) <>
, , , Fri Nov 4 19:52:15 2011

Brian, please don't get me started into those old flying videos, could be stuck in front of the d*mn computer for hours. In that same group, I like the fellow who flew across the English channel for "Two Bob" - you'll never here that again!
:o) <>
, , , Fri Nov 4 19:48:58 2011

Here's one for you, JJ and also Smiley: youtube.com/watch?v=PbalOh4smnM Some of the associated ones are also pretty good.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Nov 4 18:34:20 2011

OK, OK, yuze is rite. Try: youtube.com/watch?v=dAfERVvGqco this will certainly interst JJ, if nothing' else.
:o) <>
, , , Fri Nov 4 16:01:04 2011

Very nice smiley, but it was recorded in Southall, London in the 1970s.
BE <>
, , , Fri Nov 4 15:18:09 2011

like the guy in the white titfa
<>
, , , Fri Nov 4 13:03:04 2011

"But no video goes back....." found one: youtube.com/watch?v=CRoeNt3WQPI
;O) <>
, , , Fri Nov 4 12:09:26 2011

Dear Salty: now I got it figgered out. Ya gotta select the event first. But no video goes back to the year of my birth. Maybe that was when CBC radio started! As I recall, both CBC and CBF were great networks.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Thu Nov 3 21:39:40 2011

Dear Salty: strange indeed. I went to the CBC website, but the play arrow wouldn't work.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Nov 3 21:23:48 2011

I was looking to make a few extra bucks,and now I may have hit on something. I wonder if they have a benefits package! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7654267.stm
b <>
, , Sameold, Thu Nov 3 21:12:09 2011

BE, now isn't that a strange one : cbc.ca/news/interactives/cbc-75th/
Salty <>
, , , Thu Nov 3 19:43:54 2011

and if he was he would not have put up with any funny business or cheek
<>
, , , Thu Nov 3 15:46:58 2011

Happy Birthday: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15548879
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Thu Nov 3 15:46:20 2011

....even Uncle Frank wasn't there....
<>
, , , Thu Nov 3 14:27:49 2011

Dear DJ, Just a note to say that you're in very good company: I waren't there then either. As it were.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Nov 3 14:16:03 2011

Oops...not meaning that I was there in 1891, a little after that.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Nov 2 20:53:09 2011

My great granny lived at no 10 Denmark St in 1891. That whole area has changed since I trod those streets.
Dave J. <>
, , , Wed Nov 2 20:51:43 2011

Dear Martina, Yes, indeed; for Crosby photos by the oodle and covering over 100 years (just saw 'Brooke Road Crossing, circa 1900) there's nowt better.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Nov 2 20:47:48 2011

Just spent the last 2 hours checking out Crosby on FaceBook. I have now got pictures of Denmark, Norway & Sweden Street - my great great & great grandparents lived in these streets from 1872 - early 1900s. Thanks 4 ur help!!!
Martina <>
, , , Wed Nov 2 18:37:01 2011

Thanks 4 responses. I will continue searching!!!
Martina <>
, , , Wed Nov 2 16:14:43 2011

Smiley, tha damage is already done: don't get yours in a twist about it. Though one is tempted to wonder what in Heavens' Name is the attraction of 120-year old undies whomsoever may have been the original slipper-onner thereof; after all, a person is a Queen from the neck up; nether regions are common to all and the undie bit the commonest of the lot. On the other hand, one supposes that the owner could rent them out to realistic-movie makers scheduling a Victorian docudrama of the 'highest authenticity'.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Nov 2 14:46:49 2011

we are definitely NOT amused: /news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-15525849
:o) <>
, , , Wed Nov 2 13:01:26 2011

Dear Martina, If you get into 'Crosby past and present' on FaceBook, you'll find one or two folk there with genealogical leanings but also, oodles of old snaps of all parts of Crosby and, very notably, Little Scandinavia, some older than others mind you but still. It may be worth a shot.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 1 23:18:31 2011

Martina, try "Googling-up' "Genealogy", all sorts of sites that may help. Be careful, some actually charge Munny. ;O) <>
, , , Tue Nov 1 20:57:46 2011

Hello again, I first posted on this channel on Thur 4th November 2010 looking 4 info 2 help with my Madden family tree. I got a few replies with useful info. This is my original msg: Hi, my name is Martina and I have just discovered that my Granda Madden was born and lived in Norway Street in 1901 and it was part of Little Scandanavia. I am interested in finding out more about this area and the Madden family as they have lived between Waterloo and Ireland from as far back as the early 1800s. The names I have are Edward Madden (1820s), William Madden (1847) Bernard Madden (1865). If any one can help please let me know the best places to search for this info or if you have any personal info that would be great. Since then I have some new info & am hoping that someone can help me further my search. My new info is:(1) Annie Madden b.1876 married William Jones approx. 1900 lived Marsh St. Kirkdale 1901 & Olivia St. Bootle 1911. They had a son called George age11/12/13 in 1911 census. (2) James Madden b.1875 married Annie Bird 1st 1/4 of 1900 - lived Marsh St, Kirkdale 1901. Daughter Elizabeth b.1900. (3) Mary Madden b.1891 married John McQueen in Belfast 1910 & was living in Olivia St. Bootle in 1958. I would really like 2 learn more about these families!!!
Martina Toner <beano91@hotmail.com>
Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, Tue Nov 1 19:33:49 2011

Oops, Oops.
s <>
, , , Tue Nov 1 19:26:24 2011

p.s. and removing the said boat from that same said water at the end of a very short season.
s <>
, , , Tue Nov 1 19:25:09 2011

p.s. and removing the said boat from that same said water at the end of a very short season.
s <>
, , , Tue Nov 1 19:24:41 2011

jj, at the local marina there is a charge for storage and dockage that includes "putting a boat in the water" - which is really where they belong.
s <>
, , , Tue Nov 1 19:22:47 2011

You mean they levy a tariff for putting a boat in the water?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 1 15:55:44 2011

BE/JJ, not too sure, it could be: ships, sea or women, a sort of Love /Hate relationship. Still have a small boat, so it can't be too bad, although the cost of just putting the damn thing in the water these days is becoming a one of those little marital concerns.
Salty <>
, , , Tue Nov 1 14:06:55 2011

Dear BE, in your perception od Salts & Ships there, I think there may be a bit of the 50's radio patter, "But Albert! Monday, you like beans; Tuesday, you like beans; Wednesday, you like beans; Thursday, you like beans; now, SUDDENLY, you don't like beans!! What's wrong with yer?"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Nov 1 13:37:33 2011

Dear Salty, you and your shipmates must have spent a fortune in the ports of call you mentioned, because they're now extremely prosperous, except for Klang, which is only very prosperous. Pardon me for asking, but I get the impression that you dislike ships. Is this true?
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Nov 1 02:05:53 2011

Salty me auld salt. Firstly I will not compare your a*se to a ship's bottom. ;-) Secondly I totally agree with you regarding time on shore leave. Yes I too remember the days of 50 or so crew members. I remember when twice nightly a film show was held for the crew and Officers. After everyone would hang around the day room chatting and have a beer...Today everyone has a tv in their cabin and watch the centrally operated CD films in their cabin.(Many crew members brought their own from home and of course, everyone would purchase the latest Hollywood movies from China, at the ridiculous price of one US dollar). I wrote about this isolation many times to the company's social welfare department, but nought was ever changed...Those nightly films in the dayroom kept the crew sane and stopped their loneliness.
Diana <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 22:28:44 2011

JJ, you might find considerably more about the vessel by 'Googling-her-up' - also how slow she is...at those speeds she could not possibly return to Europe in two weeks.(unless of course, as the crow flies)
s <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 20:58:50 2011

what is the horse power of a modern car? a lot depends upon where you are counting. India:3/15; N.America: 3/400 !
jimmie the Penny farting rider. <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 20:46:37 2011

very solly...Tsing Tao
s <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 20:41:49 2011

Nice article; what annoys me about those writers though is that they insist on telling us useful information in inaccessible claptrap: the ship's engine (just the one; no reference to what happens in case of failure in heavy weather, or its liklihood) has the 'power of a 1000 family size cars'. Can he not say XYZ thousand horsepower, equivalent to 1000 mid-size family cars if he feels he has to. I find these 'simplifications' opaque at best.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 31 20:41:47 2011

Luverly vessel my a**e. Besides there not being such a creature, the lads/lasses who may be stuck on such behemoths without decent time ashore (causing a little trouble and mayhem) are likely to end up rich, but in a lunatic asylum. Just thinking back to when I sailed out to the far east, we had a crew totaling 52, mostly good bread-winners to their respective families, in both Britain and China/Hong Kong. We spent good money ashore in Penang/Klang/Singapore/Hong Kong/Shanhai and Tsing Tou before calling at these ports on the way home thus helping with these impoverished economies....and after three/four months away arrived back in blighty, not totally physically and mentally sh*gged out like these modern sailors, but happy, fit young rapscallions, still with money in our pockets looking for a bit of fun.
Salty <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 20:29:49 2011

Dear Diana: Thanks for the Economist shipping link; well worth a read, especially the comments. I didn't know that the the most important trade route was from Asia to Europe. Is it too soon to convert our dollars/shekels/pounds to renminbi? There is a Chinese proposal to prop up European dept with bonds in this denomination!
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Mon Oct 31 19:11:52 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/10/globalisation.....................My what a ship, quite a size. I was amazed about the"citadel room", who will man the vessel if everyone disappears? Still, lovely vessel, but I am now glad to be on Terra Firma..
Diana <Posted this article for our seafarering peepers..>
, , , Mon Oct 31 16:24:24 2011

there will always b 1.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Oct 31 16:03:10 2011

Next round is in four years. In England.
BE <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 16:01:24 2011

Dear DJ, Re all that beauty: I used to have an "eye of the beholder" in a drawer for cases like this but I am damned if I can find just now; using my own, in this particular case, less gifted peepers has proven ineffective, as yet.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 31 15:51:40 2011

PS: This last lifted from Dee's FB page, by the way.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 31 15:39:47 2011

Deere DJ, Absolutely, That Man Deere has much to answer for!! Halloween Joke: What did Papa ghost say before driving off with the family? FASTEN YOUR SHEET BELTS GUYS... [AARRGGHH's to private address only please]
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 31 15:35:47 2011

I'm offended by the scurrilous references to my wrinkly face and Pippa's gluteus. They are both things of beauty and neither, as far as I know, have any wrinkles/////// Monday joke : A farmers wife left him... she sent him a John Deere letter.
DJ <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 15:05:13 2011

Does that mean you're up for the next round?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 31 14:55:33 2011

I'm so ashamed.
BE <>
, , , Mon Oct 31 14:51:38 2011

Dear Bri', All that Pippa-Butt chat established your naughty side beyond reaosnable doubt, old chap. Your surreptitious use of it for personal ends was a personal choice with which you'll have to live for the rest of your natural.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 31 13:53:14 2011

Dear JJ, by being naughty, (as Bill would put it), I downloaded Oz vs. Wales, and the final, NZ vs. France. The standard of play was much, much better than back in the day. Very exciting, spurred on by the NZ crowd. The final was a real cliff-hanger.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Sun Oct 30 23:32:00 2011

Dear Bri', I saw odd&ends of a few games but not enough to able to comment qualifiedly, hence my diplomatic silence as opposed to "scrol-on-byance", as it were.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Oct 30 22:47:15 2011

Evidently my World Cup question was a "scroll on byer."
BE <>
, , ..., Sun Oct 30 19:04:58 2011

Now, lads; one butt at a time! Longtime Brits can "bags...."(fill in fave butt) and longtime US residents are allowed their "druthers"....but, British-buttwise, higher mileage members, ahem, may start with the 'retro' swatch of snaps beginning with Diana Dors...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Oct 30 15:44:30 2011

are yuze guze trying to tell us all that Pipas beaut butt is attached to Dianas fharting Hippo rear end butt?
? <>
, , , Sun Oct 30 14:27:58 2011

It's a wrinkly faced old man crush!
BE <>
, , ...., Sun Oct 30 14:11:42 2011

I hate to butt in butt this is serious, its more than just a pimply faced school boy crush.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 30 13:48:13 2011

close to regent sir
. <>
, , , Sun Oct 30 12:47:06 2011

And, Since there's no more of her after it, we can categorically declare that it's the.... Endbutt.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Oct 30 11:00:08 2011

She's attached to that gorgeous butt!
BE <>
, , ,,,,, Sun Oct 30 08:50:02 2011

Rugby, Cockles, Mussels Balderdash Where is Pippa ?
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 30 01:03:48 2011

Diana, yes very musical, incidently, i always thought cocles were a vegetable
<>
, , , Sat Oct 29 22:53:18 2011

h/t/t/p://w/w/w.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81939659/?lt=ep
Diana <never stand behind a hippo>
, , , Sat Oct 29 21:11:21 2011

Did any of you see any of the rugby world cup games?
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Sat Oct 29 20:59:49 2011

If more people would volunteer to be vegetarians, it would take the pressure off the cockle markets, relieving everyone -- except putatively, our Molly -- and probably saving a few lives into the bargain: it's a no-brainer!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Oct 29 20:42:14 2011

We've got to get rid of these murderers, only the other day me aunty Mildred and uncle Stan were taken. This morning me, me Mam and Dad only escaped after the boat we wuz in capsized. see news/uk-england-lancashire-15505338
Collin du Cockle <>
, Ribble Estuary, , Sat Oct 29 14:38:46 2011

I don't remember and am against the clock just now: data, Wavertree, 31st March, '41. There you have it.
jj <ec>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Oct 28 17:19:25 2011

and wot wuz yer number JJ ?
:o) <>
, , , Thu Oct 27 22:19:56 2011

Well, That was a curiosity-piqueing little factoid to dwell on, altogether! Thanks.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Oct 27 22:06:26 2011

never knew that, I'm the 2,294,235,146th, person born on this werld see : /news/world-15391515
:o) <>
, , , Thu Oct 27 13:49:35 2011

once knew a girl called caroline who buns of steel/cast iron.
Living in the past <>
, , , Tue Oct 25 23:50:21 2011

"...will result in a letter from Ken Smith's lawyers" That'd be a blank piece of paper then... He has no lawyers. "Keep on runnin', keep on hidin'..."
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Tue Oct 25 22:33:46 2011

No more Crosby/Formby either, the very thought is frightening even all these years after the cold war.
Salty <>
, , , Tue Oct 25 22:28:37 2011

"alive" "alive oh".....arn't yer glad jerry didn't have any of these little fellows during May of '41? : /news/world-us-canada-15453872 no more Lewis' for sure.
Dickie Plum with the cast iron bum <>
, , , Tue Oct 25 21:43:31 2011

i'm gettable 4 any helth inspexion. as necess ary. alive. alive. oh.
sb <att@ease.edu>
cc, c, c, Tue Oct 25 17:14:54 2011

If molly was peddling her wares (?) today she would need a venders licence, health inspection, pay VAT and income tax, put lolly into parking meters and get a street occupancy permit. She was better off getting feverish.
observer <>
, , , Tue Oct 25 16:35:24 2011

Truth be told, I've never fancied cockles. Molly Malone used to make living out of them & mussels though; 'til she got feverish.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Oct 25 16:25:12 2011

Not my joke but a classic: Mrs Fergie; "wake up Alex its 7" ' "oh no have they scored again!!"
potter <>
, , , Tue Oct 25 14:49:19 2011

cobbers, coblers, cocklers.....we're all at sea on this channel ; /news/uk-england-lancashire-15442778 ....and where was the Crosby Coastguard station in all this ?
:o( <>
, , , Tue Oct 25 13:41:05 2011

Dear Bruce, Thanks and all! What an absolutley Liverpool-worthy bird!! We should vote her in as an honourary member!! Who'll second that? And her name is Paddy, redolent of a cultural stream whose identity escapes me momentarily. Being a grandmother though, means that she's got plenty to talk about at parties now, as also her undoubtedly oozingly proud grandchildren who can't be very old so must be in school still, "Keep yer distance, cobber, or I'll set me GrandMa on yer!"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 24 21:47:04 2011

Yer know what they say about Sheilers down 'ere where "Men are men and so are the women" wel yer pommie bar-steds read this:/2/hi/uk-news/8515290.stm
Bruce <dontmesswith@grannies.con>
Out-Past, Wongalooa Station, Oz, Mon Oct 24 21:12:38 2011

arrerz. u must hav been out of town of layt. on marz maybe.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Oct 24 17:34:53 2011

wots facebook ?
<>
, , , Mon Oct 24 16:44:54 2011

Lookit 'ere Zuckerbugger, with your track record, I'll be happy to watch the Mayor's back for 'im on this one; and don't make me 'ave ter tell yer twice either: woe betide yer if yiz lays a filthy finger on ' im!
jj <etc>
tc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 24 16:33:13 2011

i'm warning you mr.mayor, watch yer back mate.
MR.Zuckerbuggerlugs <>
, , , Mon Oct 24 15:22:15 2011

Just seen Claire's post - great to hear from her again. In a way she created "Crosby Facebook" way before Zuckerbuggerlugs (or whatever his name is) lorded it over the planet. Pip Pip!
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Mon Oct 24 14:56:30 2011

Dear BE, That just brings to mind the utterly unconnected old song, "The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies".
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 24 11:56:06 2011

BE, that was the original "Tangle-a-matic"
Salty <>
, , , Mon Oct 24 00:47:37 2011

J.J. Highlights from the 18th century clothing article : Clothing was a public expression of economic and cultural life in the 1700s. Men wore a shirt for underwear and a three piece suit comprising of coat,knee breeches and a waistcoat with stockings shoes a handkerchief ( neckcloth ) and sometimes a wig. Women wore a shift as underwear then body forming stays, a petticoat and and gown. People often ended up in rags when their clothing had fell to pieces. Avoiding this humiliation required repairing, replacing and cleaning garments. Clean linen( visible at the neck and arms) was considered essential and was seen as a more effective way of keeping the body clean other than regular bathing. Red woollen cloaks associated with country wear probably underlie the title of the story" Little red riding hood" first written down in the late 1600s. And the article goes on and on , very interesting. So J.J. you can see what a fast paced hedonic life I lead on Sat evenings
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 23:59:08 2011

Often in the census records of 19th century Liverpool I have run into womens occupations as "owns a mangle" which I assume provided a living on a pay per squeeze basis.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 23:39:30 2011

BTW, I never saw a washing machine in England, except for those we built at English Electric, and the one they used at Waterloo RFC. I am familiar with mangles. Oh, how we laughéd. Never have laughéd so much before since granny....................mangle.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Oct 23 22:44:37 2011

DJ, My Gran in Formby also had an outside wash-house, with fire etc. and no lighting because electricity had not reached that area, although they had gas in the main house. Since I was just a nipper, I didn't pay much attention to laundry, but it must have been quite a chore to do laundry for 11 people! She did have some help.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Oct 23 22:32:53 2011

my Muver 'ad a mangle, very careful lady my Muver. But no kiddin, we also had a large copper wash boiler under which could be be placed a fire, all kept in a separate small 'wash-house' out in the back yard next to an outside toilet (we were rich( - there was one inside the house as well). The wash-boiler was never used as far as I can remember.
:O) <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 21:58:47 2011

Great stuff! There can't be many high-mileage chappies on a lovely evening when background radio chat includes "gale-force winds in sea-area Rockall are expected to veer before 1800 hours" and suchlike no longer worry the wiser silver hairs in Ontario who, wondering what to settle into, opt for an article on 18ThC clothing. What details did they give; I have often wondered how long people actually wore a set of clothes when baths weren't as warm and welcoming as today and 'deodorant' was a word that no charlie had seen? To start with.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Oct 23 20:03:03 2011

Last evening I was reading an article about 18th century clothing. This brought to mind how me mudder would wash clothes in blighty. Every monday she would fill up a big tub with water and put on the stove, throw in the clothes and boil the living hell out of them. After enough boiling she had a big stick that was used to snag the clothes out of the water. How she wrung them out is a mystery then they went to the clothes line and then to the ironing board. The first thing my parents brought in the colonies, after a house ,was a washing machine.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 17:37:16 2011

keepon taking my name in vain will result in a letter from Ken Smiths lawyers
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 17:02:54 2011

What in God's name could that phrase "rich variety of emotional'movements'" possibly seek to convey?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Oct 23 16:45:35 2011

leev mi keepon owt of dis
Hideki Kozima <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 16:34:01 2011

that's our DJ
. <>
, , , Sun Oct 23 16:30:14 2011

Keepon is an interactive robotic toy for kids of all ages. In its touch mode, it responds to pokes, pats, and tickles with a rich variety of emotional movements
<>
, , , Sun Oct 23 16:11:01 2011

is SB stalking DJ or visie-versa - must keepan eye on these two.
<>
, , , Sat Oct 22 21:14:39 2011

S.B. Be careful, there is very thin line between lurking and stalking.////Spent the afternoon working on my J/D restoration with Sinatra playing in the background, sheer geriatric bliss.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Oct 22 21:11:05 2011

deer dj. i had sed previous that i ahd been lerking. from the late latin. lerkare. an iregular verb what meenz 2 lerk. lookin in from out syd. but yor qwote waz rite. i googled it.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Oct 22 20:30:01 2011

S. B. What is lerkare, my latin is a bit rusty. I see that your spelling has not progressed to a civilized level but keep trying. A for effort (LOL)
DJ <>
, , , Sat Oct 22 17:13:10 2011

deer dj. u left out lerkare. and. following my religion. i lavare every monday. even of not ordered 2. in uther stuff. i think muammar is in 4 a very warm welcum. if u follow. he wud never hav got to play on r midden as a child. thatz 4 shur.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Oct 21 21:05:43 2011

S.B. Follow my advice and you will reap the benefits :Venari, ludere, lavari, bibere; Hoc est vivere!
DJ <>
, , , Fri Oct 21 19:15:03 2011

Hello Crosby. I lived in the fair suburb from 1941-45 and wondered how Tony Bird was faring. Or anyone who recalls me or my brothers/sister. Any brief info appreciated. Thanks. Mike M
michael morrissey <michael.morrisey@ntlworld.com>
Saltburn-by-Sea, Middlesbrough, North Yorks, Fri Oct 21 16:44:49 2011

mye dear chap. i hav been lerking. her majestie & i r not on such good terms of late. so no guesting involved. but it is luvly 2 kno 1 is missed. even a littl bit. sew thanx 4 that.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Oct 21 15:54:29 2011

S.B. I have missed you as of late, were you on holiday, ill or a guest of her majesty ?
DJ <>
, , , Thu Oct 20 17:05:46 2011

in my day. that woz hovis.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Oct 20 16:12:19 2011

yes, I know, brown bread.
o} <>
, , , Thu Oct 20 15:33:01 2011

Reading between the lines and the latest news reports, perhaps Momar should be elected as the St. Mary's next chairman of the "Old Boy's club".
;O) <>
, , , Thu Oct 20 14:44:26 2011

Hmmm.... reading between the lines, it appears to me that Smith & Co embarked on a game of "nuclear chess" with the wrong guy... and they've just lost...
The Thinker <>
Waterloo, , , Thu Oct 20 01:02:54 2011

Three quarters of an hour in the dentists chair for a cleaning of my pegs cost the equivalent of £97.00, thanks goodness for my union dental plan. My next life will be that of a dentist.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Oct 19 21:12:55 2011

and with him receiving his 'inheritance' at such an inconvenient time... LOL... Kiss bye bye to that, sucker... Poor Ken - in a World of Hurt, all of his own making... LOL..
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Wed Oct 19 21:10:52 2011

'spite and hate' Justice is blind, and Justice dealt with Ken Smith yesterday... The poor boob obviously doesn't know what is in store for him... Failure to respond to the personally-served Statutory Demand... failure to respond to the Bankruptcy petition... failure to turn up in court yesterday... And so now the Official Receiver has his claws into him. LOL... and from him, like the Grim Reaper, there really is no possible escape... LOL...
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Wed Oct 19 18:59:28 2011

Dear giro promise that you will cease and desist take your spite and hate somewhere else try Somalia
? <>
, , , Wed Oct 19 16:15:12 2011

and as most pensioners might say, another tax hike here and another tax hike there, and just about now, the modest pension he/she has worked for, has miraculously turned into a gold plated politicians pension !!!!!!!
a "p"ed off tax-payer <>
, , , Wed Oct 19 12:53:52 2011

Like Everett Dirksen used to say, a billion here and a billion there and, pretty soon, you're into serious money...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Oct 19 01:21:44 2011

Don't worry, this is definitely the Final Act...
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Wed Oct 19 00:18:52 2011

Here we go again!
Same Old <>
, , , Tue Oct 18 23:57:57 2011

I don't wish to see Ken Smith FLASH for whatever fee
? <>
, , , Tue Oct 18 19:28:16 2011

FLASH... Ken Smith declared bankrupt today by Registrar Fletcher for £67,000 of St. Mary's Old Boys debts...
J. Webster <cardschool@oldboys.com>
Crosby..., , , Tue Oct 18 16:02:31 2011

?????????????????????????
*&* <>
, , , Mon Oct 17 23:22:42 2011

it is to be hoped that after a good plunging John's dear system is now unclogged and he is feeling much better - personally I find harpic will clean right .....well you know the rest.
;O) <>
, , , Mon Oct 17 20:32:24 2011

My newest restoration gave me a lot of worry yesterday however at the risk of tooting my own horn a lot of brain power,multi physically impossible obscene expressions and some prayers the problem was traced to two tiny parallel plungers that had seized solid. I am most proud of myself but this what one gets after buying a tractor that has sat in a field for 4 years.
DJ <>
, , , Mon Oct 17 18:06:54 2011

Thanks Claire,
Salty <>
, , , Sun Oct 16 21:54:25 2011

ps. maybe the site will be running as long as Fauja?
o) <>
, , , Sun Oct 16 13:57:08 2011

yer a beaute Clair, where else cud I be such an idiot, waking up each day luckin for ways to give meself a smile (don't no about anyone else mind you) thanks.
;O) <>
, , , Sun Oct 16 13:45:37 2011

Dear Claire, Never met you and I most likely left Crosby before you were born but thank you for this wonderful site for all Crosby folks at home or around the Globe. Its a nice simple connection to my roots.
D J <>
, , Greatly Appreciated DJ, Sat Oct 15 21:59:07 2011

PS: I hope you've got yourselves a new car meanwhile!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Oct 15 20:20:45 2011

Hear, hear! Dear Claire, I echo BE's comment, altogether. unlike FaceBook, where folk post snapshots the while, here I and everyone else can barefacédly claim not to have changed one jot! No-one can see my bypass, stent and rotator cuff surgery! On TCC, folk have come and gone and come again, in some cases: you've done a great favour to a whole internet generation of farflung folk and I, for one, check my 'Crosby Channel' daily. It's a welcome relief from the tensions and pressures outside the window here in Caracas. I'm delighted to see you're roaming old pastures again: are you here to stay or is this just a quick Pop-In?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Oct 15 20:19:43 2011

Dear Claire: Thank you very much for this site; it has given lots of pleasure to many people, myself included. I think it's time to archive, and start a new page.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Sat Oct 15 18:17:30 2011

I cannot believe this is still as popular as ever. I am having a ramble down memory lane. I first set this site up in the very first days of the internet (I think around 1996ish) and remember driving around Crosby and Waterloo in our little clapped out fiesta with a camera stickng out the passenger window taking photos! Happy times!
The originator of all this! <claire@crosbychannel>
Waterloo, Liverpool, , Sat Oct 15 18:01:03 2011

Dear DJ, Interesting to see your 'traffic circle' instead of all our childhoods' 'roundabout'. Re Luddites: you got that one right!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Oct 14 21:26:32 2011

Please add Canada to the sentence " New flap in"//I just brought another John Deere for restoration this winter, a basket case now- a gleaming beauty in the coming spring hence my error in the previous message, the excitement is making me all funny like.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Oct 14 18:58:51 2011

The area that I live in has just installed a traffic circle. I have only seen two others in Canada. Local residents are calling it a death trap and others are complaining that it is very difficult to understand and are against it. It is a return of the Luddites or a dumbed down population./////////// /The Michael Jackson manslaughter trial is creating great news flap in and of bigger proportions in the U.S. I have little interest as I always thought that MJ was a freak and most likely contributed to his own demise.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Oct 14 18:53:39 2011

has anyone suggested "Viagara" - : /news/crosby-news/2011/10/13/faulty-crosby-traffic-bollard-
;o) <>
, , , Fri Oct 14 14:11:01 2011

On your knees fellow site posers, Pray, Pray, as fervently as you can that the Blue Bird of happiness does not come a calling on our birthday cake!
Rev. Jerimia Wuzzbender <>
, , , Thu Oct 13 13:58:51 2011

On reflexion, Mr. Mayor, I'd've opined that a prize is in order; on my next trip over, I¡ll be glad to invite you to a Ploughman's at the Marine Hotel. bring cel' for recording the event nd plcing on socialmedia outlets, thus ti ensure the due acknowledgement of your feat. and we can correct Arrers' figure to 13, over twice his prior estimate. Ach, Arrers, Gertcha, Mate!! Or Mate-esse, as the case may be.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Oct 13 12:58:54 2011

The oldest Crosby Channel page I have a link to is June 1998. Do I win a prize? merseyworld.com/crosby-channel/gestbookjune.htm
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Thu Oct 13 07:22:35 2011

Dear Arrers, Merely by going back to 'past messages', you can get to April, 2002 -- "So long '6'th birthday..." and there were oodles before (E'en I remember seeing dates in latest 1990's) so the citable number'd be closer to 11 or twelve; the mayor ought to be able to provide a finer-tuned figure though; he has in the past. As for the 'bored' mention there, why so? Pray tell.////Re Mary Callas, "La Divina", though she herself said Rosa Ponselle was top bird, it was a tragedy but Aristotle was dreadful in more than one way: doesn't anyone recall the poor daughter's fate? Our Mery's been the top one for me for donkey's now. Can't get enough and so on. Odd though, how in those days, the birds were the talk of the town and these days, pace Netrebko (and for me, Bartoli), the fellas seem to have been making the pace for a couple of decades: that "Three Tenors" thing was 21 years ago!!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Oct 13 00:49:30 2011

Happy 6th Birthday to this message bored
. <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 23:24:02 2011

yeah, bus-ted
. <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 22:07:25 2011

no way to win the rat race : /news/uk-england-tyne-15252687
<>
, , , Wed Oct 12 22:05:29 2011

and that was only for the children
o) <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 20:22:58 2011

he was reputed to have had some interesting bar stools - unless you were a minke
;O) <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 20:21:10 2011

You Know Brian you touched on a very disturbing theme. I have read several books about Maria and it appears that she did literally die of a broken heart. I curse Aristotle every time I listen to Maria. A proper basta*d he was.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 17:32:44 2011

Must be because Aristotle Onassis left her!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Wed Oct 12 16:20:25 2011

Having very eclectic tastes in music me computer gizmo is filled with all manner of music. At present I have Maria Callas warbling in the background, her poor heart broken.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 15:16:27 2011

having studied at the Liverpool poly, I wuz just glad to see that he had polyphonic choral tradition in 'is background, so to speek, as it wer.
salty <>
, , , Wed Oct 12 00:09:36 2011

Getting a Handel on it, as it were...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Oct 11 22:49:02 2011

J.J. Advice taken re ruski sleeper/mob doll, although it could be love for #3 son. /////// That Handel chappie could sure put a tune together. I will have to wait another year for our local choral group to put on the Messiah. In the mean time my computer is loaded with Handels works, puts me in the mood for my genealogical research..
DJ <>
, , , Tue Oct 11 19:51:33 2011

Re New Russian Bird: commie sleeper or mafia, she ought to be well financed regardless, so hang on anyhow; of course, it may be quite a ride if she's either. Just be sure you know how to run the cellphone camera in case any exciting chases materialise during trips to shopping malls, Hallelujah practise sessions (getting close to that date again!) and suchlike.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Oct 11 15:52:33 2011

Uncle F, i'm just an early septuagenerian
s <>
, , , Tue Oct 11 14:03:24 2011

Salty, I've just realised that you were talkin about the 'New' Playing Fields on Litle Crosby Road,emphasising the age gap.
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Tue Oct 11 12:38:56 2011

Thanksgiving dinner was partaken yesterday with desert on the sundeck, wonderful warm and sunny day. #3 Son brought his girl of the month with him a lovely shapely miss from Russia. #2 son feels she is a commie sleeper or a member of the Russian mafia.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Oct 11 00:59:56 2011

jj, or twice "Simmoes outstretched fingertips to his nose when looking straight ahead"
s <>
, , , Mon Oct 10 21:00:45 2011

should read "the King's outstretched armS" sorry.
s <>
, , , Mon Oct 10 20:57:48 2011

Uncle Frank, Obviously not the same location for the bombs. I lived on St. Michaels Road in the last of the older houses, nearly oposite the end of Ilford ave.. You may remember the road in ealier times petered out to a track joining up with the wealthier lot down towards Dibb Lane. Bit before my time though, I was probaably being hidden in an anderson shelter down by what is now the 'New' "New" baths (they did not exist in them there historical times. Down souff one is considered to be cockney if born within the sounds of Bow Bells - me, I consider myself to have scouse salt in me blood, having been brung up within the sound of the "Bell Buoys" and "Fog Horn" clearly heard during the earlier 'pea supers'. Any one remember one winter, must have been about 1956/7, when ones vision was limited to the length of the King's outstretched arm, about a fathom matey. But today the sun really is shining, the temperature around 26c and we are, like most Ontarians, enjoying the thanks-giving feast - with almost everything to be thankful for. The only ones around here not thankful for such plenty are the turkeys!
Salty <>
, , , Mon Oct 10 20:54:53 2011

Salty, The playing fields that I refer to are on Chesterfield Road and start from the end of the gardens of the even numbered houses in Cranfield Road. Apart from the (powerful) land mines which damaged houses in Rosemoor Drive, earlier mistakenly called Rosedale Avenue, I am confident that no bombs fell on the said playing fields. Bear in mind that insurers are very cautious in assessing potential risk. Where was you house?
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Mon Oct 10 17:01:19 2011

Uncle Frank, yes/no, deffinitely/maybe not the same St. Mary's playing field savagely attacked by the dreaded Hun during hostilities, rocking the very foundations of my first (and only) house after being married in 1965.
Salty <>
, , , Sun Oct 9 17:42:13 2011

Dear UnSmiley, It wasn't Davy Jones who was down there, just his locker. Fact is, I was wondering when a 'Davy Jones'Locker' comment would emerge in the thread, given its shoreline location. Has anyone got an idea of how the seabed go to be so called? ////Re. St. Mary's playing fields location originally: the field was right where Chesterfield School is and I, living on Brownmoor Lane, not far away, walked there past the 'brickfield' frequently and went back home to change, it being so nearby. That'd be 1950 or so.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Oct 9 17:14:22 2011

or dr.giro
Dr Freud <>
, , , Sun Oct 9 15:16:05 2011

ps. could she end up with Davy Jones?
;O( <>
, , , Sun Oct 9 14:03:53 2011

Rena's inacurate astolabe puts her in bay of plenty. Her old man once again at fault?
:o) <>
, , , Sun Oct 9 14:02:45 2011

Di, The Davey Jones that I knew lived on Brooke road almost across from Rosebery ave/Brooke hotel also He had a scar under his chin from a bad burn. Dave , Malcolm Crow and I chummed around together for a few years.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 9 00:14:07 2011

Salty, didn't Davy Jones live in a road off the bottom of Holden Road? If its the chap I remember, I think he was helicopter Pilot in the RAF..
Diana <>
, , , Sat Oct 8 21:38:02 2011

DJ, who could ever forget Davy Jones. He had a good mate who I think lived fairly close, the pair of them were always getting into some trouble. Went on many a camp with Davy, the last I heard he went into the Airforce. Probably joined the church as a vicar? /// Uncle Frank, Just where was the St. Mary's playing fields when you played cricket on them? /// BE, Mexico would almost seem to be going through the same crime wave as during Prohibition, only worse. What they need is Elliot Ness (or Sean Connery) - or more realistically, a better educated American youth on the dangers.
Salty <>
, , , Sat Oct 8 17:51:01 2011

Dear Salty: yes I did see the prohibition series. A good illustration of the law of unintended consequences. Prohibition created criminals, just like the Irak invasion created terrorists.xxxxxxxxxx Ken Burns does a really good job!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Fri Oct 7 20:04:25 2011

yer might have lucked good in one of them there Vicar dresses too
:o) <>
, , , Fri Oct 7 15:11:26 2011

Salty, do you recall David Jones from our Sea Scout days ? He finished up living in London and working for the BBC as a techi type. He spends his days now playing a lot of golf still living in London.Interesting where people end up.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Oct 7 14:53:51 2011

I remember wanting to become a vicar, Billy the kid and after reading a book about Clarence Darrow in my twelve teens a lawyer. The vicar phase passed very quickly.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Oct 7 14:47:24 2011

D*mn those insurance brokers, gottcha Salty.
:o) <>
, , , Fri Oct 7 12:21:08 2011

Salty, I don't think a stick of bombs ever fell on St Mary's playing fields. I do remember standing outside my house in Forefield Lane one moonlit night during an air raid, actually seing land mines with their parachutes, falling. One came very close to falling right by where I stood when a gust of wind carried it off to Rosedale Ave., off Chesterfield Road, where it exploded. Another fell in the passsage way behind the houses, but it didn't explode. Days after it could be seen, sticking upright, out of the ground, quite massive. The area was evacuated and the mine taken away for disposal.// We used to play cricket on the St. Mary's playing fields during the school holidays. Happy days.
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Fri Oct 7 08:41:27 2011

Now, there's a thing: you'd've been OK in the '20s; I went through the usual, wanted to be a Merrie Man, a Royal Canadian Mountie, First War Pilot, á la Biggles and to have been the overseas mercenary who fired the arrow that'd have stopped King Harold's eye getting hit seconds later, changing English History and giving some breathing space for the Irish to invade. Also would've liked to have been 1st cameraman at numerous venues, the Crucifixion, Lepanto, early Venice, Little Crosby in the 1700's, Rome at THAT particular Ides of March: does anyone else muse what a spot of IPhone-enabled time-travel footage may feel like?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Oct 7 03:00:13 2011

Salty, I watched the PBS documentary and came to the conclusion that I would have enjoyed living in New York in the roaring 20s. Anything that Ken Burns creates is bound to be interesting and entertaining.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Oct 7 00:40:28 2011

ps.....BE, did you see any of the PBS program on Prohibition the last couple of nights? It was a great history of modern America which should serve as a deterrent to all those do-gooders, who have easy solutions to complex problems. I suspect the weed/pot situation is very similar, and just think of all the luverly democratic tax that could be collected, if it was made legal.
s <>
, , , Thu Oct 6 21:38:14 2011

Thanks Di, you must remember the bombed sight on your way to school. It took out a couple of houses in Balliol Grove and opened Riverslee Road through to Warrenhouse. BE, your mension of Briant and Mays (the Match-works) and its photograph clearly shows Linacre Mission Hall in the back ground. As a kid I was taken there almost every Sunday (starting with babtism) and ended getting married there in 1965. Still remember the remains of Lucifer's place just across from 'is nibs' place. The house we later lived in had to have special insurance attached to to property, due to a stick of bombs which fell just behind, on what is now (was?) St. Mary's school playing fields.
Salty <>
, , , Thu Oct 6 19:47:49 2011

Thanks for the link Di. I missed all the bombing, thank goodness, because we moved from Penwortham to Crosby in 1948. I do know that bus passengers were still asking for the Rotunda and the "matchworks" after the war, because these were locations. The matchworks explosion must have been horrific. I did get to Liverpool with my parents once during the war, and saw a sunken ship in the docks. We also visited my grandparents in Formby, and some of the houses nearby, in Carr's Crescent West had been hit, but not destroyed, although many were unsafe. To my knowledge, Endbutt Lane was spared, but we all had cracked (plaster) ceilings. Under the circumstances, nothing to complain about. xxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear JJ, I am a silly 1936.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Oct 6 17:47:07 2011

Great Article Di. I am unable to recall the Rotunda blding but I was only 2 months old. I was not aware the Lewis's store was bombed, they must have opened at a new location because I remember being there many times after the war. A lot of people have no perception of what it was in those days, this would make good reading for todays iPod hippity hop dad will pay don't feel like going to school today teeny boppers ... Right Di !
DJ <>
, Curmudgeonville, , Thu Oct 6 02:41:12 2011

I was always fascinated with the old bombed out Rotunda building near town. I always remember sitting on the top deck of the L3 bus peering down onto that old building.... h*t*t*p://blogs.liverpoolecho.co.uk/bandofbloggers/2010/05/on-this-day-may-1st-1941-the-m.htm..........You guys will enjoy this article/link about Liverpool during the war.
Diana <>
, , , Thu Oct 6 01:11:50 2011

John, I can still see those bomb sites ,rubble removed and flattened. In some cases they built those little prefabs with concrete sheeting walls. I was jolly fortunate to be living in Waterloo were Hitler was not allowed to Bomb. (Waterloo treaty of 1939)
DJ <>
, , , Thu Oct 6 00:07:49 2011

"HOT off the PRESS" : Abdul Ali promotes"Ring Sting" event for Childrens Charity. American "Runner-up", Currie Kim, says "stomach felt like being chainsawed with hot sawce" : /news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-est-fife-15183070
:o(( <>
, , , Wed Oct 5 21:48:25 2011

Oh dear... the bills are dropping on the mats of those involved in the Old Boys fiasco... £5000... ker-ching! £7000... ker-ching! £41000... ker-ching! Anyone got a bill? Get it in to the bankruptcy court, asap, if you want to see your money...
Joe Public <vacuum@brainstem.org>
, , , Wed Oct 5 17:52:21 2011

a youngster eh?
;O) <>
, , , Wed Oct 5 14:50:39 2011

Dear DJ, Panto day was an annual occasion so you are allowed to have been two months old; I was too, once but only for about four weeks, when I moved on. As for the bomb sites, it's odd you mention it because, when I was in DC, '63-'65, I gave directions in Washington to a newcomer, within earshot of a room-mate, I was saying "... and you go across the bomb site on the corner..." when he asked "bomb site??": in my growing experience, ANY unbuilt ground was a bomb site and just said it; the I learned "vacant lot". For him, "bomb site" was heard as "bomb sight", a device for bomb-aiming activity. As for silly; I'm 1941 silly; which is your'ne?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Oct 5 03:34:03 2011

J.J. I remember Panto Day, mater & pater would take me in to Liverpool to watch the parade with bombed sites as a background in some places. Not wishing to give my age away...... I was 2 months old when watching the parade. Excuse me for being silly.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Oct 5 02:05:58 2011

So much for Lepanto, eh? But not 100% divorced from the other theme: in my varsity day, there was a 'Panto Day' for all sorts of charities and quality daft was the order of the day; some may claim that the 'daft' part was still alive and living in Crosby...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Oct 5 00:45:09 2011

And Ken was happy to go. Freedom at last.
dixie <>
, Woolton, , Wed Oct 5 00:14:51 2011

it sounds like her Will was a bit of a blabber-mouth what.
;O) <>
, , , Tue Oct 4 22:10:54 2011

Ken Smith... a blitherer... a blusterer... a bungler... a blunderer His missus thought so much of him, she gave him six months to get out of the house, according to her will... Ouch!
Pixie <stef@blueyonder.co.uk>
Wirral, , , Tue Oct 4 21:59:59 2011

Dear DJ, Absolutely, from old GK's poetic musings at w-w-w.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lepanto.htm where that line comes out. All heavy stuff actually but a great day for the Irish, oops; maybe not quite but that sort of thing, what?
jj <etc>
ertc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Oct 4 21:27:26 2011

Don John of Austria......True
DJ <>
, , , Tue Oct 4 20:33:42 2011

Dufus Is this word a result of higher education ? you have shown us all what a really nasty hate filled person you are.
Dr Freud <>
, , , Tue Oct 4 14:45:36 2011

I know who you are Dr., "Abu Hassen " of the fart. Your fowl wind is far more noticable than that other fowl wind coming out of your mouth or pen.
:o(( <>
, , , Tue Oct 4 14:16:08 2011

Dr. Ernst, After that laundry list, is there a counterpart one of things that you like? I thought the CH article was a bit circumspect, except for 'swoop'.
Angelika Dupont <and so on>
and so on, and so on, , Tue Oct 4 04:25:38 2011

Factoid: In said battle, the biggest contributor, the independent state of Venice, only later to become part of Italy, fought, as did others, with galleons: it was the last ghalleon-driven sea battle, the tip of a very long nautical shadow harking back to Roman times. Don Who of Austria did you say?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Oct 4 04:07:39 2011

Off topic comment...3 Oct 1182 Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, captures Jerusalem after a siege, ending 88 years of Christian rule......... Something else to look forward to : 7 Oct 1571 The 'Holy League' of the Papal States, Spain and Venice routs the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Oct 4 01:37:14 2011

Nice try, but this is the internet, dufus. If you want my real name, buy the Crosby Herald... ;)
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Tue Oct 4 01:37:05 2011

ernst do you hate hiding behind a false name stand up and be counted ernsty
observer the real one <>
, , , Tue Oct 4 01:08:07 2011

Dr. Freud, I agree I am a hateful person. I HATE hubris, humbug, prevarication, mendacity, malice, mala fides, evasion, nepotism, nihilism, narcissism, deception, dissimulation, and thuggism, etc., etc... All, (surprise, surprise) characteristics of the Club that fell in a heap... What say you, doc?
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Tue Oct 4 00:54:56 2011

I was at St. Mary's and, re teachers and teaching quality -- except for the head of classics -- it was just fine; I've no complaints at all at all. Truth be told, when odds&ends crop up today, I realise that my comments hark back to lessons from Miss Shehan or Dusty Coleman or Joe Rigby or Ray Boggiano (and I left in 1959 so they MUST have made an impression) mentioning this or that detail on the matter. Can't have been too bad if even I could learn, especially as my nickname was Neddie, for being thick, in a time when Neddie Seagoon was figure in national life. I can't speak for after '59 but, grosso modo, up to then, no problem.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Oct 3 22:12:54 2011

.....but 27 "Observer"s, 9 of them spelt with a "Z", which are yuze mate?
? <>
, , , Mon Oct 3 21:29:56 2011

dr giro either you have no telephone or you are a fake as there is no giro surname in england. what are u hiding ?
observer the real one <>
, , , Mon Oct 3 20:39:03 2011

BE: I loved every minute of it!
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Mon Oct 3 19:01:23 2011

Javoel Mien Herr ven de Brodders spanked our lttle rrses, vid der big ledder spanky straps it vos exciting. Uddervise, pretty booooring.
Dr. Ernst von Crappertrap <>
, , , Mon Oct 3 18:25:54 2011

Dear Dr. Ernst: What is your opinion of Saint Mary's College?
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Oct 3 16:40:29 2011

St Marys, there's a lot to be said for higher education and the end result. cannot think of any right now. Although arrested development or rabid pit bull might apply eh ernst
Observer <>
, , , Mon Oct 3 15:49:50 2011

Dr Ernst,you are a hateful person with anger eating you up. How unhappy you must be. Get a life and move on to a happy life
Dr. Freud <>
, Vienna, , Mon Oct 3 15:11:18 2011

Now, where did I leave that application for the Corro Old Boys Association?
Joe Pubic <>
, , , Mon Oct 3 13:18:35 2011

We trust that all but borderline morons can see the rather glaring flaw in the School's cunning plan....
Joe Public <vacuum@brainstem.org>
Eh?, , , Mon Oct 3 03:31:13 2011

But WHY, oh WHY didn't the beloved school, full of uprightness, probity, good faith, honesty and moral courage DO EXACTLY WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS SAID THEY MUST DO, IN THE CONSTITUTION, WRITTEN IN NINETEEN-HUNDRED-AND-FROZEN-TO-DEATH...??? "Take control of the club, and lead it back to the path of Righteousness, by the scruff of the neck, if necessary..." Answer, are you ready for it???? The Headmaster, no doubt acting on the considered advice of the Board of Governors, instead whispered secretly in Chairman Ken's ear:- "Ken, do us a favour. Take a scalpel to the constitution. Whatever powers the school has, whatever rights or responsibilities we have, just excise us from the constitution, tell the members any baloney you like to justify it, but just leave us out of it. OK? Good Luck and Sayonara."
Joe Public <vacuum@brainstem.org>
Eh?, , , Mon Oct 3 02:37:08 2011

BE, old bean... Of course not. However I am owed a pound of flesh, which I expect to see extracted in the most painful manner possible in the not too distant future. I've just noticed something most amusing. Both Brian Lawlor and Kentigern Smith attended St. Mary's College. In fact Smith was once Lawlor's teacher... Now Lawlor is going to give Smith a lesson that would make even Torquemada blanche...
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Mon Oct 3 01:26:50 2011

Dear Dr Ernst: Are you personally liable for any of the unpaid bills.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Oct 2 21:49:23 2011

dj, wots dat godda do wiv the front fell off?
✌ <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 20:18:31 2011

Just like I said "there lots of bitter revenge feelings". It may have been very real situation to some but from the outside it looks like a mountain being made out of a mole hill. I have learned over the years that a back alley confrontation is often far more successful than a room full of lawyers.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 15:14:06 2011

who?
) <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 14:01:30 2011

....and for those go down to the sea and see God's great wonders : youtube.com/watch?v=DQCwnoMMqtA
;O) <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 13:59:14 2011

youtube.com/watch?v=I5QwKEwo4Bc
Diana <Hilarious>
, , , Sun Oct 2 09:47:37 2011

like Titus Barley Junior III ?
? <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 03:35:54 2011

Is it "revenge" to shoot a rabid dog that has terrorized the neighbourhood? Is it "revenge" to dynamite a runaway train? The only question is why it wasn't done much, much sooner. All the intended checks that were supposed to prevent this fiasco failed. The School. The Police. The Council. The Magistrates. The Trustees. Even the Members themselves... No-one was prepared to grasp this nettle until individuals were brought to the brink of personal bankruptcy. They all either ran away, or looked the other way. But there are some eternal truths, such as "you can't fool all the people all of the time" and "the truth will always out." We can add some others, such as "there are some people whom you should never, ever mess with..."
Observer <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 02:39:24 2011

Thanks Father Flannigan, Now I get a better gist of what has been going on over the last 10 years or so. There appears to be some very bitter revenge filled feelings over this situation. Anyway it seems to be keeping the lawyers gainfully employed.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Oct 2 00:32:50 2011

Dear Mr. Lionheart, few are privileged to forsee the manner of their leaving this life to 'go home', so to say: if you are right about the die-laughing comment and the Dom, just stay clear of Köln for the duration, I'd've thought...
jj <erc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Oct 1 20:32:38 2011

Does this mean that that piggy-eyed twunt Dom Smith is going to lose his inheritance? If so, I think I'm going to die laughing...
Edward Lionheart <>
The Critics' Circle, , , Sat Oct 1 20:05:52 2011

The college had an alumni association, St Mary's Old Boys' Club, until 1999, when links were severed due to a scandal and resulting court case, Stringer v. Usher, Smith, Flanagan and Fleming. A member of the committee had been assaulted by fellow committee members while attempting to prevent illegal sales of liquor to non-members. An attempted witch-hunt against that member collapsed when the committee was forced into a humiliating climbdown at Liverpool County Court. A further court case, Stringer v. Smith and Shaw followed in 2000 when the committee attempted to change the club's constitution to allow illegal functions at the club premises. In 2000 and 2004 Merseyside Police raised objections to the continuance of the club on the grounds that it was 'improperly run' and for 'blatant disregard' of the licensing laws. In 2007, the school formed a new alumni association following a number of previous attempts to set up a similar organisation. The new alumni association recently held its first annual dinner but the event had poor ticket sales. In March 2010 St Mary's Old Boys' Club collapsed when the police revoked its licence on the grounds that it was not a bona fide club operated in good faith. Simultaneously, the club trustees found themselves being sued by their landlords for £72,000 of unpaid rent dating back to 2005. The Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise are also investigating the club for failure to pay Corporation Tax and VAT dating back to the 1990s.
Father Flannagan <>
, , , Sat Oct 1 15:45:56 2011

Thanks for the diverse explanations/comments. Am I completely cognizant of the situation......... No.......... Moving right along now !
DJ <>
, , , Sat Oct 1 15:30:06 2011

Titus are you a little b*gger too?
<>
, , , Sat Oct 1 13:20:53 2011

It was closed down 18 months ago. Now the bill needs to be paid... www flickr com/photos/68146764@N04/
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Sat Oct 1 12:56:01 2011

A third rate school run by an institution of child molesters, get real pal , that club should be closed down, to clean up moor lane
Titus oats junior <>
, , , Sat Oct 1 12:44:22 2011

Who is Ken Smith? a muppet with a Napoleon complex who found difficulty dealing with reality. Now Reality is about to deal with him! This guy thought it a great wheeze to simply stop paying the bills on his little "empire" - the scrofulous St. Mary's Old Boys club, when, due to his mismanagement, the place became insolvent. That was in 2004... Five or six years later, after being ignored by Smith, said bills started landing on the ex-trustees doormats, and they found themselves being sued by disgruntled creditors, including the club's landlords. One trustee is a local solicitor. The total debts are now in excess of £120,000. Said solicitor is now attempting to make Smith bankrupt. I can't wait to hear Ken Smith try to talk his way out of this one, using his customary dog-Latin. "De minimis not curat lex" I fear won't cut it this time...
Pixie <stef@blueyonder.co.uk>
Wirral, , , Sat Oct 1 01:46:26 2011

How nice it would be if some kind person took the time to explain what has been happening at St Marys skule , this has been hinted at, complained about but never explained to us overtheocean types.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Oct 1 01:11:29 2011

ditto
;O) <>
, , , Fri Sep 30 21:38:46 2011

Dear Theatre In The UnPloughed, Done, matey. You must tell us how you make out.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 30 20:33:09 2011

Hello... The Theatre in the Rough Festival, based in Crosby, is shortlisted to win £6,000 from Natwest's CommunityForce fund. Winners will be decided by public vote. We are Merseyside's only new writing theatre for young people, running creative writing workshops, developing and producing new plays for public audiences, and providing work experience and professional development opportunities in the arts. This is all provided completely free of charge. We'd love the good people of Crosby to vote for us, and so help continue our work. Information on how to vote can be found at www . theatreintherough . com. Thanks!
Theatre in the Rough <info@theatreintherough.com>
Crosby, , UK, Fri Sep 30 17:07:32 2011

"AUSTRALIA! IS NOTHING SACRED IN YOUR COUNTRY!!!!"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 30 16:38:34 2011

Darryl and David finally recognized after studying Buprested Beetles humping brown stubbies - only in Oz you say ... /news/science-environment-15117051
Salty <>
, , , Fri Sep 30 14:58:06 2011

Dear Pixie, with all respect and all, who's Ken smith?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 30 04:14:47 2011

there's a lot of people who'd like to see Ken "mutatis mutandis" Smith receive his comeuppance... Pillock!
Pixie <stef@blueyonder.co.uk>
Wirral, , , Fri Sep 30 02:21:49 2011

"Rascals"!! Methinks you are too polite Sir!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 30 00:02:11 2011

Sorry jj, but the rascals club's already full.
Salty <>
, , , Thu Sep 29 22:44:19 2011

Rest of their lives to reflect upon their imbecility? Come now, Dr., All they have to do is move into politics and, by skillfully blending in, no charlie will be able to see the difference..
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Sep 29 21:52:36 2011

Those who (rightly) may be about to lose their homes, to foot the legal bill, probably care... They will have the rest of their lives to reflect on their imbecility. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people!
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Thu Sep 29 21:24:14 2011

.., is that a botty?
<>
, , , Thu Sep 29 21:09:24 2011

Who gives a rat's ace
.. <>
, , dig it up again (twice), Thu Sep 29 20:20:34 2011

And so the final chapter of skulduggery and imbecility is about to be written... After being forced to swallow a debt of £60,000 - with a similar bill on the way - on behalf of St. Mary's Old Boys, local solicitor Brian Lawlor has finally grown a pair, and is taking Crosby-on-Sea's answer to Captain Mainwaring to task. To the insolvency court, to be precise... Hey, thanks. It was a great party at the Old Boys, over the past 6 years, guys! £120,000+ of bad debts now coming home to roost....
Dr. Ernst Giro <skulduggery@stmarys.com>
Crosby..., , , Thu Sep 29 02:16:29 2011

by way of slight topic shift, for historic shots of the 'ole home town, goto the link below and leaf through the pages presented. It advances automatically so you have to stop that protocol to have time to get a decent look; one is of 'The Brooke Hotel', in its infancy, to be sure. w=w=w.wix.com/localhistory/crosbypastandpresent/page-48#!__page-48
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 28 15:32:50 2011

or is it 'the shale gas cometh'?
<>
, , , Wed Sep 28 15:32:44 2011

It won't help but, perhaps this will put it all into perspective: /news/science-environment-15087539 ....beware the 'fried egg' cometh
;O) <>
, , , Wed Sep 28 14:33:46 2011

Haaretz this morning: quote:Potential construction in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem could possibly complicate U.S. efforts to bring Palestinians, Israel back to the negotiations table following a Palestinian statehood bid. .Oh Sh*t, lost too much on the markets this week, there goes my chance of movin'............Do you know what, I am totally convinced that peace will occur when the whole area here and over the borders will be blown to Kingdom Come. Never ever will there be peace in this region.Those who day dream are living in a non realistic world of their own. Look what's going on around this miserable little Country.Lebanon, Syria,Egypt, Jordan and of course Mr Turkey...........The a-rabs cannot get their own little patches in order so how the hell they think they will succeed here. Dickie Cheney reckons that Israel will set about Iran to stop the Nukes..... Oh Dear, am I glad I am not young anymore. To live another 50 years like the passed 50 is a curse in its self..h*t*t*p://w*w*w.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/cheney-israel-would-strike-iran-to-prevent-it-from-achieving-nuclear-weapons-1.383972 ......I am happy that I won't be around to see young people getting killed and maimed again.. (maybe I will be around, but if war breaks out here, it won't be for long anyone in this region will be around.)
Diana <>
, , , Wed Sep 28 12:40:57 2011

That Mr. Blair's some negotiator....1100 new homes to be built where, you say?
jimmie <>
, , , Tue Sep 27 21:40:32 2011

Well, you can appreciate that the bulletproof vest affair does work, though. And he said it just so matter-of-factly too!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 27 21:27:31 2011

that policeman only has 2 lives to go - time for retirement or a move is the recommendation.
;o( <>
, , , Tue Sep 27 16:46:38 2011

Goto: h+t+t+p://noticiascentro.com/noticias/detalle/6024 and run the video: it's in English. Truth be told, I live in a different section of town but the 'murder capital monicker is no exaggeration. Under the current adminsutration, in power now since 1999, there've been (at least: because they only count 'on the spot' deaths: if you're wounded and pop off later, it's not in the list) 150,000 murders (figs fit with Dimbleby's values for last year), of which very very few are investigated and fewer lead to convictions so it's no exaggeration to say that, assuming one per episode and each assassin kills but once, there are some 135-140,000 murderers walking about the place. Weather's lovely though.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 27 15:35:06 2011

Dear Salty, Don't worry: I do and, I am sure, do a pile of others. I should imagine that he had to shift quite some just to get out of the kitchen; none of which disqualifies his observations. Those poor EyeTies must be sick of the whole sorry spectacle by now. He'd've done better to remain silent but, who knows, they could be as out of touch as some would deem.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 27 04:41:56 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000685591
Diana <Bet our Cherrie isn't too pleased with the rumours of romance.>
, , , Tue Sep 27 04:30:59 2011

/news/world-europe-15065940 ...I like the colour of 'is 'at, but does anyone else think of kettles or pots? - only in Italy you say!
salty <>
, , , Tue Sep 27 01:34:34 2011

Heres your chance crosbyites the CH classifieds has a section titled Get a Dream Date. Dont be alone on Sat nights ever again .
Foreigner <>
, , , Tue Sep 27 01:12:38 2011

For all you foreigners: latest from CH ....Very intelligent H₂0 does more than wash the dishes; although Inspector Prosser (of the Sefton constabulary) says in relation to 'sticky fingers': "I think the 'clever' water has really helped".
;O) <>
, , , Mon Sep 26 21:43:33 2011

"I always thought 'he' was the most interesting man I have ever met"
Prince Charles de Ligne (Charlie leg-up) <>
, , , Mon Sep 26 21:28:17 2011

THE END.
....... <>
, , ....., Mon Sep 26 20:21:21 2011

Thank you
Mrs Casanova 10 <>
, , , Mon Sep 26 15:50:52 2011

Dear DumbF, Goto: h¿t¡t¿p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Sep 26 13:56:47 2011

who's first name ? ? ✌
Dumbfounded x10 <>
, , , Sat Sep 24 00:33:16 2011

oh, and by the way D & D, Giacomo was 'is first name.
) <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 21:13:27 2011

JJ's rite, mi mistook, deze Oirish names sound all de same to me. must of been some orrible site doe, lying der by de fire place, just minding 'is selfs own business.......and phooof.
;o) a.k.a Won Hung Velly Lo <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 21:10:15 2011

This sort of abstract opaque obtuse style of presenting a message must be stopped. They create an awful strain on the noggin trying to make sense of them and should one not make any sense of such messages then the natural flow of give and take reportee is interrupted requiring an explanation.
Dumb x2 <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 20:05:11 2011

Dear DD, I too was nonplussed but, by happenstance, stubled upon w¿w¿w.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15032614 mwhere the piece describes the first (recorded) Irish case of death by spontaneous combustion. Ther have to be so many comedic options there that I leave it to TCC' ers worldwide to proffer offers, thereby becoming offer-profferers. Of course, it didn't help that Smiley gave the name of another gent, not that of the actual victim.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 23 16:10:33 2011

Smiley,please explain your Micheal Flaherty comment and it's connection to ladies underthings.
Dumb and Dumber <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 15:57:42 2011

Micheal Flaharty certainly doesn't....first in Ireland eh?
;O) <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 15:25:58 2011

and the non-naughty ones don't know what they is missin
Giacomo <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 14:53:14 2011

What goes down will go up and vice versa just like a naughty girls bloomers
Pre Curmudgeon <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 01:04:29 2011

jj, without me keeping a lookout for changes in the market, and making certain and appropriate descisions, little black babies in darkest Africa would starve - quicker.
Scrooges <>
, , , Fri Sep 23 01:02:07 2011

Phew!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Sep 22 19:37:04 2011

No JJ, but it is a factor.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Sep 22 17:56:43 2011

Dear Ebeneezer, Exactly what sort of morning looks 'good' to you anyway? Yes, London, Paris and even the Dax are all down badly but e'en so, that's not the only factor determining how 'good' a day is, surely? Surely?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Sep 22 15:24:27 2011

Umm, not looking so good this morning.......
Scrooge <>
, , , Thu Sep 22 14:03:50 2011

Dear Victor, Can I be a pre-curmudgeon then?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 21 22:18:40 2011

Jimmie, I can't see how the war may have figured; its possibilities of 'changing our parents' would hardly have worked in that direction but rather, the opposite one. I think the distorted concept of freedom and of democracy, under which "I can do what I like" is iterated in different ways, "It's a free cuntree yer know" was a common phrase wayback, when people "didn't boil cabbages twice" either. That unfettered freedom is a freedom distorted: how many times have we heard in recent decades the phrases "Is nothing sacred?", prompted by yet another perceived outrage, or discourse on, inter alia, "moral imperatives". Beyond initial reactions - 'he's just an old fogey', and 'moral yerwha?' - the existence and familiarity of those phrases reflects an underlying persuasion that, in a healthy society, something has to be sacred: without some 'sacred region' a society is careening unsteered, and the 'moral imperative' case has the word 'imperative', reflecting an obligation to be shouldered. Are these alsmost semantic remains now the only relics of what used to be called "Christendom"?
jj <tc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 21 22:17:31 2011

JJ, as for being a curmugeon, back off you young bagger.
Victor Meldrew <>
, , , Wed Sep 21 21:47:38 2011

JJ, as for being a curmugeon, back off you young b*gger.
Victor Meldrew <>
, , , Wed Sep 21 21:47:13 2011

That last sentence indeed. Did the war have anything to do with it? Did that experience so change our own parents to to have an effect on us? Is there any answer? ....or is it the Gaia hypothosis at work eventualluy removing the biggest blight this earth has ever seen - us?
jimmie the naval geezer - sorry gazer <>
, , , Wed Sep 21 19:48:28 2011

Dear DJ, Not all curmudgeons are curmudgeonly; ÿou'll like my uncle", she intoned, "he's lovable old curmudgeon'. But, I find it a tad off the mark to call that action you mention 'becoming a curmudgeon': we can move with the times etc but we don't have to swallow it all as though it were 'progress' or any other faux-euphemistic 'get-me-off-this-hook'. I found the article most saddening a) because it was sad; and b) because of the very last sentence, namely, that it is a phenomenon of longstanding and won't go away just on reasonable explanations.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 21 18:17:09 2011

It's a changing world out there J. J., A lot different from the world that you and I grew up in. I have a strong urge to turn my back on changing values but resist it so I don't become a curmudgeon. I cannot get over the way that people will not accept responsibility over their actions. Instead of offering a lame and childish excuse it would be so simple and honest with ones self to say " Yes I was too lazy to renew my T.V. licence, I'm sorry "
DJ <>
, , , Wed Sep 21 16:38:03 2011

As for topical topics, try this 'is there a ringht&wrong or is this a (distorted) democracy' for size, and reflect momentarily on the sentence, "What is striking about the responses to a whole string of questions probing how these young people deal with moral issues is how few of them seem to grasp what is being asked." On reading the article, that translates to "They've no idea and no idea that they've no idea". Holy Moses! Goto: w¿w¿w.economist.com/node/21529000
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 21 15:38:15 2011

Who'd've thought it?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 20 22:16:00 2011

wot du i) a fling with the postman ii) ripping feathers out of me parakeet iii) the toaster ate me card, and iv) being allergic to the sun, all have in common? : /news/uk-14975564
;O) <>
, , , Tue Sep 20 21:26:58 2011

When I worked ashore in Liverpool during the early 70s, my wife and I would look forward to fridays, as the Fishermen from Fleetwood sent their buddies down to the dock road with trucks full of REALLY fresh fish. Plaice (one of my favorites) never tasted as good after that time. I don't suppose there's a fishboat working out of that area any more, unless it's flying the Spannish flag. What a bluddy mess that EU seems to be turning into - will bring the lot of us down one day. BUT, the sun is almost shinning, the berds is singin, so what more can yer ask for Eh?
Salty <>
, , , Tue Sep 20 13:59:26 2011

This does not affect me as I seldom eat meat,do not speak latin,have had a certain snip job done and am an Anglican how this will interest Mrs. D J who is a papist.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Sep 20 13:44:04 2011

On the topic of Friday fare, I remember a Scots, friend who told me his grandfather would not eat fish on Friday because "that's what Catholics do." How silly can you get!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Sep 20 13:08:08 2011

A leaner version of the same after Agincourt where, as we got lerned at skewl, "English arrows darkened the sky" at w=w=w.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GDRx-F1C0&feature=related
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 20 02:00:03 2011

I'm gratified to perceive the lively interest in Catholic tradition: fact is, I wouldn't have barney with the old Latin Mass; indeed, properly done it had a healthy solemnity about it that the street-chat version never had. So there are swings and roundabouts on that score. I think. If it's not on the cards 'in toto', then a partial Latinate regrouping may have something to be said for it. Ora pro nobis then and, if anyone happens to see Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, then swear to me that you didn't shed a tear after the Non Nobis Domine sung by the exhausted but victorious troops after vanquishing the foe: Holy Moses but that was something else. Versions on the Toob, but notably nat w=w=w.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXXuEel0fU&feature=related intoned while our troops gather their stuff after the battle: it's Latin like was the wont of the times, lyk but, after breakfast at Park House, they'd tell you the vulgate; "Not to us, O Lord, but to your Name give the Glory." "When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers."
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 20 01:49:22 2011

At least me and me mates will still be able to eat goanna every Friday
Jimmie the Oz Bushman <>
, , , Mon Sep 19 20:50:07 2011

in Latin of corse
. <>
, , , Mon Sep 19 19:00:47 2011

bring bak sercumscition dats wot mayks mor sense
<>
, , , Mon Sep 19 19:00:16 2011

Maravilloso, At last a return to the old ways. Next to come will be total latin mass.
Monseigneur Mendoza Sanchez <>
, , , Mon Sep 19 18:10:56 2011

Dear j, What a crappilly written BBC report; there may be mileage in re-introducing that tradition: traditions in a tradition-challenged community with a burgeoning identity crisis might well catch on but the adoption of daft rules, under which under-14's, sick, seafarers(!!), manual workers etc etc 'will be excused' (from a voluntary initiattive??) is an error and underlines the primary 'free will' teaching. The sooner we've got a new feet-on-the-ground Pope, the better, he mused...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Sep 19 16:03:12 2011

ref: /news/uk-14929199
<>
, , , Mon Sep 19 15:18:06 2011

j Whomsover: In the old(en) days, outposts were all abroad; now, some are in South West Lancashire of happy memory...and better off for it.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Sep 19 14:12:28 2011

ps. .....and I hear on the drums that the Pope is re-introducing the stopping all shipments of British Beef to the outposts - only on Fridays
j. <>
, , , Mon Sep 19 14:02:25 2011

(Scrambled line from Kathmandu to Whitehall: top hoity to base flunkey) "I've bluddy been telling you for years that, if we have an earthquake of 6.8 or more, the embassy wall will collapse and we'll be in the papers; bad for croquet, bad for draughts, bad for safe walks in the garden with dog in tow, and bad for the year's operating expenses: bad for everything! And now it's happened, it's put a hole in the end-year celebration timetables and I'll have to write a (----) REPORT!! All your fault; all your ruddy fault!"... "What was that you said?" ---- "Oh: five I think they said".
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Sep 18 23:25:29 2011

"Fall of the British Empire" - well the far flung embassy anyway: bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14965598
<>
, , , Sun Sep 18 17:30:34 2011

Dear Smiley, Contrary to to popular beliefs or styles I did wear my underwear beneath my kilt. How un-English of you to suggest such base behaviour.///// Yes J.J. the great empire that enriched a few and enslaved many has dwindled. In the days that we had Empire day we had a sense of great pride and power and I wonder now what the average U.K. resident feels now ?
DJ <>
, , , Sun Sep 18 15:31:28 2011

playing the Scotsman, might suggest an early leaning towards a later 'flasher'
;O) <>
, , , Sun Sep 18 13:24:31 2011

Dear DJ, It's fallen by the wayside because the empire - which, in its time covered over 20% of the globe - has too. But I remember the phrase and somehow or other, the day itself but couldn't go further. As for John Bull or 'a Scotsman', indeed, one would have to think twice about that lot altogether. I do remember the patriotic approach to everything; the contest, though it was no contest, had we known, for the breaking the sound barrier, and a film of that name in the mid-50's, Neville Duke and Hunters and Supermarine Swifts in, of all places, the Libyan desert and reported Mach numbers achieved etc. I was younger then of course...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Sep 18 04:06:20 2011

naughty john bull
<>
, , , Sat Sep 17 21:18:27 2011

Do any of the mature posters recall celebrating "Empire Day" at school ? I have a photo taken at Crosby rd. School ( now Waterloo Secondary) in the very late 1940s or very early 1950s of my class celebrating Empire Day. It's amazing how big the Empire was even in those days. Incidentally I was pegged to play John Bull but resisted in order to play a Scotsman. My pal Stew Thomson filled in the role. Sad to say this celebration has fallen by the wayside.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Sep 17 16:23:50 2011

Diré un rezo para usted y encenderé una vela.
Monseigneur Mendoza Sanchez <>
, , , Fri Sep 16 21:18:31 2011

Que bién! Que bién! Sabes, creo que me toca pagar la proxima ronda...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 16 00:51:01 2011

Sí Sr. J.J. que es lo que estoy diciendo
Monseigneur Mendoza Sanchez <>
, , , Fri Sep 16 00:25:44 2011

Estimado Monseñor, are you trying to tell me that the poor and downtrodden Mexicans have their very own patron? I think a Mexican would say their patron saint is "Our Lady of Guadalupe", hence the prevalence of Mexican girls called Lupe and Lupita. Still apart from the hagiographal "who's who", there's a lot more south of the Rio grande than just Mexico. Which was my original point. ¡Y muchos Saludos, vale!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 14 17:07:30 2011

Saint Catherine (May 2, 1806 December 31, 1876) (born Zoe) was a sister of the Daughters of Charity and a Marian visionary who relayed the request from the Blessed Virgin Mary to create the Miraculous Medal worn by millions of Catholics and even non-Catholics today. She settled in Mexico in her later life and became the patron Saint of the downtrodden and poor Mexicans
Monseigneur Mendoza Sanchez <>
, , , Tue Sep 13 23:41:56 2011

more like Crosby Pier at high tide, that's where!
<>
, , , Tue Sep 13 21:37:16 2011

The Alamo dats where
<>
, , , Tue Sep 13 21:10:48 2011

Dear Bill, I live south of the Rio Grande and can't say that Sta. Catarina is our patron at all at all: whence that declaration?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Sep 13 15:45:26 2011

Blundellsauuunds and Bootle ? Social climbing at its worst, wots next tenements on Burbank road. The class system is dead.
++- <>
, , , Tue Sep 13 15:19:49 2011

Bladdy disgraceful
Claude Bonkington-Smythe <c.b-s@bsarhnds.con>
, , , Tue Sep 13 15:05:19 2011

wots all this, soon it will be Blundellsarhnds where the bugs fly backwards to keep the sun out of their eyes. (see CH)
Jimmie the entomologist <>
, , , Tue Sep 13 13:59:27 2011

it is Billy my old son, classed as a city, not as a "loverly town" .... and yes we do have a McDonalds and I might add a 'Tim Hortons' (the equiv of a Kardoma, but with cardboard cups instaed of china with saucers)
S <>
, , , Tue Sep 13 01:05:08 2011

Dear Mr. Salty, I must hasten to offer my sincere apologies for the mis-spelling of your lovely town, I assumed it was named after St Catherine, patron saint of all who live south of the Rio Grande river. I must add that you are rather disrespectful to such a rich chap like myself.
Billy Gates <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 22:46:45 2011

ps. unless it is of the Lady Chatterly model, I will leave "Daisy chaining" to them there perverts that find that sort of thing pleasurable
s <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 22:40:52 2011

Thanks gentlemen, however, am not too sure if any the wiser. I think I will leave the dongle thingy to them that needs one. Mr. Billy Gates, I realise that you are an American (and being so filthy rich, probably get someone to wipe your b*m for you, as well as spell long werds), but St. Catharines, Ontario IS spelled with an "A"; should we have further correspondence ensure this silly mistake on your part is not repeated.
Salty <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 22:36:47 2011

if you buy your dongle in south liverpool. is it a dingle dongle. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Sep 12 21:55:51 2011

Just give us the addy you got from Google; no need to type out the complete result!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Sep 12 21:00:39 2011

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Steve Jobs <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 20:46:22 2011

1. A security key. This is a little hardware device that plugs into the serial or USB port of a computer. Its purpose is to ensure that only authorized users can use certain software applications. If you have never seen a dongle, don't be surprised. They are only used with expensive, high-end software programs that most people have never heard of, much less use. When a program that comes with a dongle runs, it checks the dongle for verification as it is loading. If it doesn't find the dongle, the computer explodes. Well, not really -- usually the program just quits. If more than one application requires a dongle, multiple dongles using the same port can be daisy-chained together. Basically, if you ever find yourself daisy-chaining multiple dongles together, you must be doing pretty well in life. 2. A laptop Ethernet card adapter. This is a little connector that attaches to a PC card in a laptop on one end, and to an Ethernet cable on the other end. Since most PC (or PCMCIA) network interface cards are too small to connect directly to a standard RJ-45 Ethernet cable, they need this little adapter that connects the card to the cable. (3Com cards that use an "X-Jack" connector do not need a dongle.) As far as why the name dongle is used, I have no idea.
Dingle Dongle <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 20:43:24 2011

salty. 4 dongle. see w-w-w .merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dongle wer it is dee fined.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Sep 12 20:38:13 2011

A dongle is a handle that fits on a dildo hence providing a firm grip on things. Source: the Bulgarian dictionary of odd things, page 34678
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, , , Mon Sep 12 20:25:00 2011

Dear Salty, Hope you understand my last message, cause I don't
Billy Gates <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 20:16:03 2011

Dear Salty in St Catherines Known as the garden city fairly close to the wonderful small town of Uxbridge Ontario home of the DJ A software protection dongle is a small piece of hardware that connects to a laptop, desktop or server computer. The term "dongle" was originally used to refer only to software-protection dongles; however, currently "dongle" is often used to refer to any small piece of hardware that plugs into a computer. This article is limited in scope to dongles used for the purpose of copy protection or authentication of software to be used on that system.[1] Electrically, dongles mostly appear as two-interface security tokens with transient data flow that does not interfere with other dongle functions and a pull communication that reads security data from the dongle. These are used by some proprietary vendors as a form of copy protection or digital rights management, because it is generally harder to replicate a dongle than to copy the software it authenticates. Without the dongle, the software may run only in a restricted mode, or not at all. As of July 26, 2010 it is legal in the United States to use programs protected by this method without a dongle, if the dongle is no longer working and a replacement not available.
Billy Gates <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 20:14:41 2011

p.s. Don't let your ding-d*o*n*g dangle in the dust!
BE <>
, .., .., Mon Sep 12 19:36:10 2011

p.s. Don't let your ding-d**g dangle in the dust!
BE <>
, .., .., Mon Sep 12 19:34:19 2011

Dear Salty: try Google.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Sep 12 19:04:49 2011

ps. I don't think we have those thingies in Canuckerland
s <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 18:37:55 2011

Can anyone in the UK tell ne what a DONGLE is ? My mate in Southport is having one fitted to his computer, and I don't want to appear tooo illiterate.
Salty <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 18:36:19 2011

if canuck is like english. u cud post ur number &. i'll be calling you ooh ooh ooh. ooh ooh ooh.
sb <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 15:05:56 2011

You are correct Di, I've only been here about 60 years and I'm starting to pick up the Canuck lingo already. BTW Di, thanks for the messages. Big cyber hug !
DJ <>
, , , Mon Sep 12 01:35:20 2011

then, then , yes then...
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, , , Sun Sep 11 21:00:14 2011

wot abarrhht cookies the eh?
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, , , Sun Sep 11 20:59:14 2011

DJ, us kids called them sweets, not candy...ner ner ner ner...;-)..........
Diana <>
, , , Sun Sep 11 17:57:59 2011

Frank, I left Waterloo ( the posh part of Liverpool) in 1952 so a lot of things were still scarce or not available. The effects of WW2 were still quite evident. I remember that the little shop that was beside the railroad crossing on Brooke road had some candy for sale, the first I had ever seen. I was so excited that as I started to run home I tripped on the curb and knocked myself out, the scar still remains on my noggin.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Sep 11 15:37:36 2011

DJ, no it was definetly Pepsi long necked bottles ice cold. Also I still think Schofields Dandelion and Burdock the best drink ever, never liked Tizer or the Yankee Cream Soda
Frank Finegan <frank.finegan@live.co.uk>
Bootle, Liverpool, U.K, Sun Sep 11 14:15:10 2011

Dandelion and Burdoch, maybe at the time that was 'our' Crosby coca cola? BTW jj, Ribena is still on the shelves of local supermarkets, along with Lucozade.
Diana <>
, , , Sun Sep 11 04:03:16 2011

Yes, I was in the Tizer waggon too: and wasn't there a "Rubina"?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Sep 10 21:09:14 2011

Frank, you must be from a newer generation that I. When I left Waterloo Pepsi was unheard of and Coke was something we saw in American magazine ads. What we had was Tizer. My first Coke was sampled on the Atlantic while traveling to the noo world.. I did not like it.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Sep 10 20:12:09 2011

and as for the wind !!!!!
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, , , Sat Sep 10 15:20:44 2011

yer, thats were the madnes cums in
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, , , Sat Sep 10 15:19:27 2011

ps, and wots mor - replaced by a cows stumack
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, , , Sat Sep 10 15:18:34 2011

Why would a pub be closed down by an iTV ?
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, , , Sat Sep 10 15:17:38 2011

Just discovered that " The Royal" has been closed down by iTV and is being replaced by reality tripe. The future demise of "Heartbeat' is also in the wind if not already. I'm mad and I'm not going to take this any more ! DJ <>
, , , Sat Sep 10 00:14:15 2011

J.J, Saltyand Jimmie, many thanks for your responses they are helpful. Re the "Chippie",it was an Oasis in a mass of Arid shops. I think it was called Makins but not sure,it was on St Johns Road between Birchdale Grove and Ashdale Grove, next door to Deakins the Dairy.Chips for four old pence and ice cold pepsi for a tanner, happy .I'll discuss the film rites with you Jimmie after I have spoken tp Spielburg.
Frank Finegan <frank.finegan@live.co.uk>
Bootle, Liverpool, U.K., Fri Sep 9 09:31:13 2011

Salty, What's that about 'close for foreign holidays' and that it has become obligatory? I don't get it: what 'foreign' holidays are British tradesmen obliged to close for -- or is it just chippies? Is it reciprocal: do Saudi Arabian chippies shut for VE Day?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 9 00:43:04 2011

Frank, just "Googled-up" that area to find such a change. Notice even the church (is/was that St.John's?) is up for sale. My father used to reckon that previously mentioned chippy (John's?) was a little gold mine when its owner would close for foreign holidays well before it became obligatory.
Salty <>
, , , Thu Sep 8 21:07:50 2011

I saw your appeal; there is a FaceBook page 'Crosby past and present' with oodles of posts and snaps from folk, wherteof plenty from all the Scandinavia streets. you will, I'm sure, be able to fish in those waters with a good chance of coming up with solid info. including, if memory serves, comments about and snaps of the Dockers' Umbrella. Best Regards & Good Hunting
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Sep 8 14:07:27 2011

Frank, I hope you include a couple of lines on the excellence of the fish and chippy, that used to be in that same area, around that time. Best of luck to you..... if only there were film rites to go along with the book?
jimmie <>
, , , Thu Sep 8 13:55:18 2011

I am looking for some long lost friends from Waterloo circa 1957-1960. Charlie Lee from Sweden Street, Barry hughes and Ann Stanley both from Norway Street. Ann had a friend Vera and went to St Bedes School. I believe she moved to a flat off St Johns road with her brother after her parents died. The reason I am asking is I am writing a novel about growing up in Waterloo in the late 1950's and would like to include them all in the novel, can any one help
Frank Finegan <frank.finegan@live .co.uk>
Bootle, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Thu Sep 8 10:17:08 2011

you probably live better than most Canadians, as well.
Doolittle of the arcy em pee <>
, , , Wed Sep 7 19:57:48 2011

Exhausting summer for Mr. & Mrs D. J. Two sets of house guests, one couple from Scotland and one couple from England back to back. One rather pleasing point - both couples admit that Canadians do live a lot better than "over ome". After the last visitors left We headed for northern Ontario for 2 weeks of whispering pines, sunlit lakes, Ma Nature and silence...Whizzo
DJ <>
, , , Wed Sep 7 17:28:23 2011

That was an outstanding job of Dutch translation too by Jove! And with the Japanese input, we could readily claim that globalisation has reached maturity. But yes, it's a 'must see' alright; and we have jimmie to thank for it. "Thanks Jimmie!" In other news, I see the Crosby Herald is being eclipsed by "champnews.com" which has options for the whole area, incl. us, as 'Crosby & Litherland' The 'eclipsing' was based on a comment by a cousin opf mine: can any TCC'er say whether they feel it's the case?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Sep 7 15:54:46 2011

It could be that Schiclegruber sent 3 of his best germans to check out just how ready England was - unfortunately, they took TOO MUCH soda with 'it', see: w*w*w*.youtube.com/watch?v=f309fSTWYo4 ....as they say, good to the last drop.
jimmie <>
, , , Wed Sep 7 13:28:14 2011

not nessasellerly the most obvious, fairies - little pink dresses, pink elephants and the most obvious is that it matches perfectly with the 'pinkers' that the gentleman is obviously imbibing. Yes indeedy welcome back BE, we need a bit mor sobriety on this 'ere channel (Queens, Burbo or Mersey)
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, , , Mon Sep 5 14:43:43 2011

Dear Mayor, Sarky sarky! My take, surely the most obvious, on the fairy-lights imagery is that it was probably inspired by a series of lighting elements strung between Battle-Cruiser riggings, trappings and masts by gentlemen of a diffusely defined gender preference.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Sep 4 18:22:21 2011

Dear JJ, Katia is scheduled to veer away from our coast; of course, there are no guarantees..........
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Sun Sep 4 16:33:39 2011

But the 'fairy lights' description does at least demonstrate a fertile creative imagination...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sun Sep 4 13:43:38 2011

Great to see you again, BE. Well, Woodruffe et al, with planty of 'al', natch. And is that latest threatening Atlantic hurricane scheduled to be in your area at all?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Sep 4 00:34:34 2011

Woodroffe/ Yes, that's the key.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sat Sep 3 22:51:54 2011

Woodroffe has much to answer for; I suspect that this footage was spirited out of the country to Berlin and, having seen it and listened to what he must have taken as typical Lt. Commander, Adolf figured there'd be no problem with the Royal Navy: what's not obvious here is that the narrator's oldest would later on write and direct several Peter Sellars films...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Sep 3 18:13:13 2011

It's people like the upstanding Lt. Cdr. Tommy Woodroffe who put the 'great' in Great Britain. Here he is conducting the Spithead Royal Naval review in 1937. youtube.com/watch?v=-WpiTa7azQs
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sat Sep 3 16:40:02 2011

As you say, certainly not a rib tickler of a yarn,
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, , , Sat Sep 3 14:24:56 2011

many twists to this story. intoxicated man bites female companion, she should be OK says surgeon after surgery to repair damaged ribs: /news/world-us-canada-14771361 ....only in Koliforrnia you say!
;O) <>
, , , Sat Sep 3 13:50:01 2011

es back incorrect as ever. Years ago it was suggested that an apple a day kept the doctor away.But since all the doctors are now Muslim, I've found that a bacon sandwich works best!/////////////// Japanese scientists have now created a camera with such an immense shutter speed that it is now possible to take a photograph of a woman with her mouth closed.
Paddy <>
, , , Fri Sep 2 23:03:23 2011

Come now Plus-Plus-Minus Arrers, Who are you to talk: beggars can't be choosers, as you must very well know. If yiz fancies dooble ontonderey stuff, do it good, not half good. And you can never tell with the weather and Niños and globalitical worming to themes of interest.////Meanwhile, back at the ranch, wharrver 'appened to our Paddy?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 2 21:31:03 2011

Snow in the forecast! The TV weather gal said she was expecting 8 inches tonight. I thought to myself, fat chance with a face like that!
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, , , Fri Sep 2 19:34:50 2011

And, in line with thread trends, from our right honourable Canadian TCC'ers, see h¿t¿t¿p://videos2view.net/irish-dance.htm for a cultural trickle-down experience graphically depicting the origin of an Irish cultural tradition.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 2 15:53:58 2011

Re-told, it's as good as it always was: "You know what happened when there was a power cut in Dublin?" "No; what?" "Well, there were a lot of people trapped: 374 in lifts and 1568 on escalators!"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Sep 2 03:22:47 2011

An Irish boy stands crying at the side of the road. A man asks what's wrong?? The boy says Me ma is dead. Oh bejaysus the man says, Do you want me to call Father O'Riley for you? The boy replies .... No tanks mister, sex is the last ting on my mind at the moment.
C of E <>
, , , Fri Sep 2 00:07:12 2011

I'd just come out of the shop with a meat and potato pie, large chips, mushy peas & a jumbo sausage. A poor homeless man sat there and said 'I've not eaten for two days.' I told him 'I wish I had your will power.'
Paddy <>
, , , Thu Sep 1 21:29:49 2011

An Irishman pushes his Bema into a garage. He tells the mechanic 'it died'. After it had been werked on for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly. He asks "What's the story then?". "Just cr*p in the carburetor" the reply...."Oh, how often do I have to do dat den?"
Mìchaél <>
, , , Thu Sep 1 20:40:49 2011

Two Blond Irish Colleens were going to Disneyland .... They were driving on the Interstate when they saw a sign that said Disneyland LEFT. The started crying, turned round, and went home.
FitzPatrick <>
, , , Thu Sep 1 20:29:19 2011

A fat girl served me in McDonald's at lunch time. She said 'sorry about the wait.' I said 'don't worry fatty, you're bound to lose it eventually. '
Paddy <>
, , , Thu Sep 1 17:14:36 2011

A) Irish precision triumphs once again! (i.e. not just any old basket but qualifier, "that feckin'" eliminates ALL other baskets) B) If baloonist has baggage, it would be in a basket case. C) Irish technical expertise world-class: 'basket' immediately recognised for what it was, despite unlikely location. .... Paddy, you ought to post some more Irish stuff, though bit by bit: I often find it hard to keep up.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Sep 1 16:09:39 2011

Man in a hot air balloon is lost over Ireland . He looks down and sees a farmer in the fields and shouts to him ... 'Where am I'? The Irish farmer looks back up and shouts back. 'You’re in that feckin’ basket.'
Paddy <>
, , , Thu Sep 1 02:16:00 2011

deer pound person. no racism pleez.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed Aug 31 16:42:16 2011

De had bigger spades
£ <>
, , , Wed Aug 31 15:17:04 2011

ore cuz day cudnt get the ee-bygums to do de job
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, , , Wed Aug 31 13:26:47 2011

Maybe the belgiums and the panama people speak the same lingo Pangium
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, , , Wed Aug 31 00:51:39 2011

no idiaz
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, , , Mon Aug 29 17:09:44 2011

arrerz. why so. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Aug 29 16:50:51 2011

it cud be asked y Belgium and not the U S of A are not involved with its (P canal) update?
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, , , Mon Aug 29 14:55:45 2011

Dear Smiley Arrers, An amazing historical tidbit altogether! But the Admiratly's rejection of 'flippancy' for Mimi and Touto sounds odd, being more flippant than the prior option, reminiscent of the "obscurum per obscurius" phenomenon. Still, German engineering hardly 'won' but rather excelled, truth be told, news to nobody and, in the context of the article, a welcome aspect, giving today's folk a rare view of 1913. Re old fashioned engineering though, Pace Gustav Eiffel, I've always felt that nineteenth C engineering found its most excellent -- ongoing -- expression in the Panama Canal, being 19C engineering that, in this day of computers obsolete minutes after sale, still attracts tourists from everywhere and is a real sight to see. I suppose that'd've been American engineering though.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Aug 29 14:34:56 2011

interesting little look into history when English Mimi and Touto went after naughty Jerry Liemba. Unfortunately, it would seem that German engineering still won. see: /news/world-africa-14677418
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, , , Mon Aug 29 13:42:51 2011

"So oft when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood", Willie's version, more comfy; less introverted ... alone none the less, exalting solitude over loneliness. I'll stick with Willie on this one. always fancied that phrasing actually and it's certainly helped me to get mileage from my couch...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Aug 29 00:58:03 2011

“In solitude, where we are least alone.” Lord Byron
Introvert <>
, , , Sun Aug 28 23:27:43 2011

Dear Diana, I watched the whole thing and he actually mentions our Man, seemingly, in sympathetic tone. That's where his overall expertise -- not to be referring to his on-the-spot comments in the vid. -- begins to show its cracks and, from my vantage point, largely emasculates much of his overall analysis. Shame really: it would have been good to have had a better underpinning to the interview. Where was the Economist link by the way? I'd like to see how they presented it.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Aug 26 16:01:26 2011

Some nice noozereel footage of Der Pool in the 60s here: peoples-stories.com/story.php?i=VN3OZ5BHG5&n=15&s=search&t=all&il=
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Aug 26 14:26:20 2011

youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DqPMdArruZjA...................Very interesting article..What do others think. Link lifted from this weeks The Economist.
Diana <>
, , , Fri Aug 26 13:08:37 2011

usually come in pairs old chap
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, , , Thu Aug 25 21:46:52 2011

I want one, I want one......NOW
o not that ball bag again <>
, , , Thu Aug 25 21:24:23 2011

All this can be avoided with a little foresight (no pun intended), most readily if you've got a lady cousin in the BundesPolizei: see h+t+t+p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7541675.stm
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Aug 25 17:48:38 2011

o not that ball bag again - obviously a Blundellsands lad, MTS?
Claude Bonkington-Smythe <>
, , , Thu Aug 25 16:16:40 2011

'O not that ball bag again ', we are all so much more enlightened about everything since your interesting post, thank you.
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, , , Thu Aug 25 16:03:45 2011

Fizwig writer,what does a t**t like you bring to any forum, answer f hall, get back in your box and close the lid you idiot.
O not that ball bag again <>
, , , Thu Aug 25 14:31:40 2011

jj, the lady must have been a "fizwig"
O( <>
, , , Thu Aug 25 14:04:45 2011

beware ladies........... during an aggressive game at an outdoor centre, participant had breast torn apart by opponents stray ball : bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14661701
;O( <>
, , , Thu Aug 25 13:55:32 2011

Wordy folk may like to access a wordy page: goto w0w0w.chambers.co.uk/downloads/miscellanysample.pdf [which isn't Chambers straightforward] for insults, odd collective nouns (A 'bask' of crocodiles?) and other worthy odds&ends.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Aug 25 13:34:58 2011

Dear Di', Among the type of person in Libya perceiving a need to flee to safety on political grounds, which is what asylum seekers are, which ones would opt for the UK, a co-artificer of their downfall?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 24 23:23:56 2011

Britain should now be preparing itself for the guaranteed huge influx of political asylum seekers after all this chaos in Libs.Wonder if the 10 mill Hamstead home of the 'Scarlet Pimpernel's' son will be on the market? Maybe Tony Blair will get first offer of purchase?
Diana <>
, , , Wed Aug 24 22:55:33 2011

Dear Plus/minus Arrers, I can't help suspecting that you're gliding over the, I thought fairly obvious, lingua-in-maxillam facet of my prior asseveration.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 24 15:38:50 2011

common sense exists in the eye of the beholder
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, , , Wed Aug 24 14:50:49 2011

In more serious vein, common sense prevails at least in one island of uncluttered thought: our PresMan has declared that this nation will acknowledge solely the government of Mohamm. the G'Daff as the legitimate government of Libya, leading thus the grass-roots resurgence of clock-back-turning to healthier epochs when everything was simpler and straightforwarder and generally easier to grasp. So There! Let us thank the lord that, in the long run, we can glimpse soberer heads prevailing. Phew!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 24 03:24:08 2011

Blimey do i have to explain every bluddy joke. read: news/world-us-canada-14619926. then read U.S. lorry driver.
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, , wats der matter wif youz lot, Wed Aug 24 02:04:57 2011

U.S. lorry driver accused of rape. charges dropped , lack of evidence.
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, , , Tue Aug 23 16:38:12 2011

cheap booz. now u kno. it duzznt only rot ur gut. it rotz sumthing else. single maltz only. from here on in.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue Aug 23 16:13:45 2011

Good gracious a proper c**k up
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, , , Tue Aug 23 16:06:44 2011

Good gracious a proper C*O*C*K up
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, , , Tue Aug 23 16:06:32 2011

Good gracious a proper C*O*C*K up
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, , , Tue Aug 23 15:56:59 2011

Good gracious a proper c**k up
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, , , Tue Aug 23 15:55:29 2011

a professional nightmare for all Rabbis? /news/world-us-canada-14619926
;O( <>
, , , Tue Aug 23 15:17:04 2011

sun. u say. hmmn.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue Aug 23 14:44:17 2011

....wer de Bugs fly backwards to keep the sun out of der eyes
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, , , Tue Aug 23 14:43:09 2011

and Booootle
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, , , Tue Aug 23 01:02:12 2011

Diana, yuze meen like wateroo - litherland-crosbee-brighton-le-sandands- Blundelsarrhhnds?
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, , , Tue Aug 23 00:23:39 2011

How true
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, , , Mon Aug 22 19:08:51 2011

jj, an unexpected guest from Libya is supposedly in your midst? Six months down the line we shall see another Iraq, with squabbling between the different tribes.
Diana <>
, , , Mon Aug 22 17:51:17 2011

wud that b hovis. thatz what i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Aug 21 23:04:14 2011

blairs childrens' father denies any wrong doing ! - only a bunch of rioting bass-tarts really.
Brown Bread <>
, , , Sun Aug 21 22:15:28 2011

For them as does, say a prayer for Flt. Lt Jon Egging, RAF, Red Arrows pilot tragically killed today in a display accident at Bournemouth. Thanks for everything, Jon; see you later down the line...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Aug 20 21:05:19 2011

bye the way Jummie, not funny; how did you know i wuz called Smiley of the ...... .....?
;o) <>
, , , Sat Aug 20 17:08:35 2011

'do with this product".....you really don't want to be told, do you? ;o) <>
, , , Sat Aug 20 13:17:06 2011

Diane]a, Whats all this fuss about the price of cottage cheese all about, it sounds to an outsider thats it's an every day staple, I don't like my cheese the cottage way as it tastes of nothing, make mine Swiss or Dutch..Apart from spreading it on a bagal what does the average person actually do with this product.
Hermes <>
, , , Sat Aug 20 04:13:19 2011

Dear MayorMan, For 841 smackers, according to the Air France site, you can come over here on the 14th of December, returning on the 30th to be home for the New Years. Shall I wait at the airport or are you an adventurer that likes making his own way to our 'ouse? we do observe, inter alia, the Turkey for Chrissie tradition, btw.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Aug 19 16:33:19 2011

very serprised, wood hav tort dat de mayori was about to splash the cash in the Regent : /news/crosby-news/2011/08/18/miss-liverpool .........
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, , , Fri Aug 19 16:24:33 2011

It's that wonerrfull time of year again! Actually, it's not - it's August, yet The Mayor is being bombarded by people inviting him to splash the Burbo cash and book now for Christmas. Do we have to suffer with all this garbage for the next 4 months?
Mare <>
Bah Humbug, Burbo, , Fri Aug 19 15:55:16 2011

Dear Diana, Wacko is as wacko does, I guess! But Nancy's not daft; like all of her dreadfull ilk, and I speak whereof I know from local experience, she has no regard for 'the folks' nor either for any longterm American objectives or its constitution. And that's without calculating the impact of the actual proposal: it more than doubles all credit-card fee charges (1% once when you use the card; once when you subsequently pay the card bill, plus the small increment that the trader has to include to cover his own fee increase to deposit your payment via his credit card agreements). Put that into your next 'calculated-to-the-penny' cheap-flight rate to Dublin for the weekend. The monthly cumulative amount -- 1% on everything you do (even within own accounts!) and the same factor, taken into account in prices at the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker with their own multiple manipulations of the same amounts -- adds to price-index figures in ways that, one suspects, Nancy knows well but assumes we are all too daft to work out. Dreadfull ilk indeed but then, this is the lady who declared earlier in the O'Bamagh-Care bill, "You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it". She obviously hasn't improved with age nor either become less duplicitous.
jj <>
, , , Fri Aug 19 15:16:30 2011

providing the bed bugs leave anything in the trusty sock
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, , , Fri Aug 19 13:16:30 2011

a mattress tax is in the werks
;o( <>
, , , Fri Aug 19 13:15:00 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp...................................I think that you guys over the pond will have to keep your few shekels in your mattress.. Wonder if the trait of 1% will catch on over here? Most likely.
Diana <>
, , , Fri Aug 19 10:43:42 2011

enormouse. hmnn
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Aug 19 00:15:12 2011

nothing sinister about "V of the Big Nest", just thought it was a funny name. (such as Jimmie of the Conker nose, smiley of the little willie or perchance, Kelly of the enormouse belly - for instance
Jimmie <>
, , , Thu Aug 18 16:11:23 2011

Dear Jimmie, My apologies: with that Ruskie fella, you lost me.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 17 23:53:08 2011

Alexander eh? surely had nothing to do with him having a Granddaddy called "Vsevolod the Big Nest"
Jimmie <>
, , , Wed Aug 17 19:08:11 2011

Dear Jimmie, a) There's ain't no charlie what's gotten owt sown up at all at all; b) there's them as have things sewn up tho', like. But I'm not persuaded that the Man's one of themtheres because i) he's not in good nick by any stretch: what he's got is a state secret but regardless, it cannot underpin a gruelling election campaign for 2012 election-day in December of that year; ii) the populairty may have spiked momentarily there -- not to speak of a hard-core group -- but one thing is that and another is deeming the bod - literally -- in question to be up to carrying on in the top job. The hard-core syndrome isn't onlt here: 60% of Russians still think of Stalin whose purges were such a mighty cost to the population, with nostalgia. A relatively recent 'greatest Russian' poll put Stalin (Holy Moses!) at the top until organizers were able to dig deeper and, going back 800 years to mid thirteenth C pulled out the iconic Alexander Nevsky: phew, eh?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 17 15:14:14 2011

hugo's got it sown up - lots of sympathy votes for the sick baldy one.
jimmie the political proctologist <>
, , , Wed Aug 17 13:55:10 2011

i've herd of snakes and ladders, but this is ridiculous : /news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14557204
;o) <>
, , , Wed Aug 17 13:48:57 2011

dats only 1½ of a duet, must be sum notes missing
:Ol <>
, , , Mon Aug 15 22:25:04 2011

hmmnn dj. 2 hedz. 3 arms. hmmnn. i hav 2 state that i wud lyk 2 hear you play the old joe anna then. hmmn.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Aug 14 17:28:28 2011

Its a small world and its getting smaller. Last night I got an email via Ancestry.com from a person in Lancs who was recently in Ledbury Hef. and was talking to someone who I met there a few years ago. It turns out that his family name " Treherne" is related to my "Fawke line" in two occasions in the early 1800's and he was able to contact me. These to connections are quite close which might explain why I have two heads and three arms.(LoL)
DJ <>
, , , Sun Aug 14 17:05:00 2011

Hermes, you will see, its all idle threats. No way this woman will be evicted...Place your bets.
Diana <>
, , , Sun Aug 14 14:38:16 2011

Toronto Star calls it Recreational Rioting
DJ <>
, , , Sat Aug 13 16:06:22 2011

don't worrrry mayori, the cavalry are almost here.,,,,,,, /news/uk-14514429
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, , , Sat Aug 13 13:35:39 2011

From what I hear on the Canadian equiv. of the BBC, most of those charged with some offence are mostly over 20,and the most common (and easily convicted on) are for handling stolen goods. I have to agree with Hermes, there are no simple answers to any problem like this.
Salty <>
, , , Sat Aug 13 13:31:07 2011

I see that the thin end of the political wedge has been reached, insofar that the first evictions have been enacted to make the family members of looters homeless, this may well be a precursor to demolishing the homes of anyone involved in aggravating the government they have leaned this trick from some other country That uses this tactic to as a revenge measure not a justice measure.. Watch out future strikers or political dissidents, and as the police proved to be useless this could be a reason to use the army to quell disturbances in future .
Hermes <>
, , , Sat Aug 13 12:15:31 2011

jj, a huge proportion of the kids appearing in court on various charges appeared alone. No mother, no father, no older brother nor sister. Alone. This suggests either that they are parentless or that their parents don't give a damn.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sat Aug 13 10:33:29 2011

Thinking on, there was probably a far more robust sense and reality of family way back in the 20's. Without touting solutions from afar on the UK's social ambiance - I can hardly claim any 'on the spot' experience, the family factor has to have played a prominent part if children of ten to fifteen were out on the streets at all hours. Or am I missing something?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Aug 13 05:50:34 2011

I am sure that in 1920, there were poor starving; no longer. The difference may well be symptomatic of social malaise but despite the "difference's" being similar to 90 years ago, the poor today are far better provided for than then. And none are starving. I think the emergence of greed data and dishonesty data and daft data (Duckpond fundings etc) has gotten more up peoples' noses than the raw difference: the assertion standing alone enlightens us by not much. Since there were no comparable riots then -- even Jarrow's fame derives not from riots -- there has to be more: is there? jj
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Aug 13 03:27:21 2011

You're so right Mayor and I see the gap widening so I can foresee greater acts of violence coming. I am not aware of your circumstances but I view myself as comfortable middle class and I even get fuming over government waste, out of touch civil servants,the frivolous spending of the wealthy and the rip offs by big corporations. This does not promote me to criminal acts. I don't have all the answers but there have to be measures taken in order to keep order and safeguard lives and property. The U.K. has a large problem on their hands with generations of yobs to deal with.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Aug 12 23:50:51 2011

yer Syria's the same, poor basstarts - literally.
. <>
, , , Fri Aug 12 22:41:44 2011

Don't know if it helps to explain the riots DJ, but the gap between rich and poor in the UK is the biggest since the 1920s.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Aug 12 16:31:04 2011

Dear faceless hooded nameless one... and we love it !
DJ <>
, , , Fri Aug 12 00:48:53 2011

Dear Faceless 1, Let me assure you that you've no inkling of an idea about "the rest pf the world". In today's ambiance, some may jump to the conclusion that not unlike some other hooded ones of late, gratuitous claptrap seems to be your natural forte: my query, how justified do you think they'd be in the circumstances? Mate.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Aug 11 18:22:16 2011

canada is about 15 years behind the rest of the werld - watch out 2026 - i.m watching you northern yank
"the faceless hooded one" <>
, , , Thu Aug 11 15:58:54 2011

Back to civilization after a quick fishing trip to Northern Ontario with no 2 son. Got some lovely bass........ The Riots, What happened to the "Stay Calm and Carry On" days of WW2 ?...... Looking at the unrest in the UK and perusing the Crosby Herald, the UK is not the country that I left. I have always entertained the thought that the Brits were more civilized, better mannered than most. Bit by bit this image has been slowly eroded and I know that I could never go back to stay. All countries have their social/economic woes but the unrest in Britain appears overwhelming. Bring back military service for both genders for those unwilling to advance their lives. Corporal punishment for the tough nuts would go a long way towards a deterrent.
DJ <>
, , From North Bay Ontario on my iPad, Thu Aug 11 15:22:56 2011

must admit, Hitler and his thugs certainly knew a thing or three about human psychology.
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, , , Thu Aug 11 13:21:09 2011

Dear Diana, I'm afraid I can't accompany you in this one; I think the writer (for some reason, only the latter opinion part came out) had a personal axe to grind and missed the point, or several. As for the media moguls, we've got one of our own: shut down 34 radio stations that you don't like and finance loss-making ones that you do, rendering them your lackeys until you own or direct activities at over 84% of the entire radio-electric psectrum; then shut down and/or pressure others to toe the line, rant and rave against any still standing pat and forbid their transmissions except to restricted parts of the nation. That said, intimidate the rest of any remaining opposers by illegally tapping their 'phones. "How can you know that?", I hear you cry, and reasonably so because it is illegal and perpetrators go to some lengths to keep it under wraps, using information so gathered only surreptitiously. Except in one country where they broadcast taped calls to show folk they're monitored from dawn to dusk (and therafter) and with full impunity. That's feasible in a place where the high court chief justice has declared the court, ostensibly a separate power in a democracy, to be "at the service of the revolution". Media moguls? The one whomof you speak is in nappies next to the one whomof I speak in more than one way, too: when finally caught with pants down, yours had to close his paper and has retreated elsewhere under a cloud of odium; mine is fullsteaming it ahead and nothing happens at all at all despite the open flagrancy of it all. "I thought my mogul was dreadful until I saw JJ's"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Aug 11 04:23:42 2011

soundz familar all rite.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Aug 11 04:03:34 2011

Sound familiar/ from the Philadelphia Inquirer/ Once again, Michael Nutter is not messin' around. You know he's not playing when he pulls out the black vernacular. And there was a whole lot of it during his 30-minute rant - I mean, sermon - from behind the pulpit to a packed congregation Sunday at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. Disgusted by the mobs of African American youths who have been terrorizing folks in City Center lately, he gave the black community a good old-fashioned whipping. I could almost hear my grandmother say, "Get me a switch!" He chastised black fathers for being nothing more than "sperm donors." He called out "doggone" hoodie-wearing teens who'd never get jobs with their underwear or the "crack of your butt" showing. And he came down on neglectful parents who "need to get a hold of your kids before we have to." And the mayor wasn't finished. At a City Hall news conference Monday, he told a small group of reporters, "I don't care what your economic status is in life, you do not have a right to beat someone's a*s on the street."
way I see it <>
, , , Thu Aug 11 01:32:00 2011

feral people = bankers =media barons= politicians. I dont perceive a connection. we read alot of people calling the coppers all manner of names but if your home or buss was attacked who would be out there risking life and limb to protect you.
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, , , Thu Aug 11 00:55:14 2011

i'm wiv SJS
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, , , Wed Aug 10 20:34:25 2011

h*t*t*p://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html?spref=tw
DIANA <Very interesting reading indeed...>
, , , Wed Aug 10 18:46:09 2011

Anyone old enough to remember Mr. Enock Powell ? - substitute "Gushers of crackling Flames and Looting Mobs" for "Rivers of Blood " nobody took any notice of that 'silly old fart'. Very intelligent fellow, BUT A RACIST OF COURSE. It would seem today that the worst thing a person of any race can be, is a RACIST, or maybe a BIGGOT, or maybe any number of FRIGHTENING names that people fling around at the drop of a hat.
Salty <>
, , , Wed Aug 10 17:29:06 2011

It's scandalous. These people are feral and all that matters to them is the instant gratification of their own greed. They don't care about the ordinary Joe and treat the law-abiding public with utter contempt. As has been shown, they can cause chaos and know they'll get away with it. They need locking up and the key throwing away NOW! So let's start with the bankers, followed by the media barons and finally the politicians.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Wed Aug 10 15:41:51 2011

Well, what you sow -- children all little darlings, cannot be disciplined, all rights and no duties -- has, as you say Mr.Mayor, cost them all Dear. And will continue to do so unless common sense, repatriated to wherever years ago, is allowed back into the country.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 10 11:49:31 2011

stop making love to your wife on the internet you randy sod you.
. <>
, , , Wed Aug 10 11:45:35 2011

Dear oh dear, oh dear oh dear...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Wed Aug 10 07:41:56 2011

(), if your blooming socks had a hole in it, it was either a pair, in which case there would be more than one hole; or it was a sock that had a hole in it - in which case most of the money should still be in there.
;Ol <>
, , , Tue Aug 9 21:41:39 2011

dear oh dear. this from the elite area of burbo. wots wrong wif this
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, , , Tue Aug 9 19:29:03 2011

My blooming socks got an ole in it
() <>
, , , Tue Aug 9 15:33:15 2011

release the strings on that old sock under the bed - buy - buy - buy! But, to become one of those greedbags one also need to risk your little nest egg.
jimmie da broka <>
, , , Tue Aug 9 13:28:22 2011

It's hard to see how "Dear Oh Dear" is going to get us very far; there's got to be something beyond that surely. Besides, the one doesn't seem to be linked to the other, according to the interviews on the TV this morning. The BBC did have one youth worker chap, a Sean Bailey, who analysed things down to the phenomenon of 'nationalised parenting' where children have been told all about rights and nothing bout duties and how they do these things 'to show the police they can get away with it'. Any advance on that anyone?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Aug 9 12:21:58 2011

Feral yoofs trashing the cities. Feral elite greedbags causing global financial chaos. Dear oh dear...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Tue Aug 9 07:22:36 2011

I see now that south Liverpool is in the firing line; I hope our lads were on the qui vive already and set up for a response. I would ask too, those closer to it all, why, in the face of what are very potentially deadly attacks on housing and livelihoods, beyond the police's best regular efforts, are there no water cannon, rubber bullets or tear gas in evidence? In the extremes being seen round the globe, I can't see any likelihood of exposure to accusations of excessive response levels.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Aug 9 01:57:56 2011

We are watching aghast as the social fabric of the country buckles under the strain of all this utterly gratuitous violent juggernaut. Whatsoever may be the status of individuals, to get whole swarms of people to concentrate attacks on the livelihoods of local shopkeepers takes a degree of organisation and vituperative vengeance that leaves one, as one restaurant owner (who grew up in Bootle and Kirby!) put it, in tears. what is foing on over there lads: can someone closer give us a sense of the senselessness?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Aug 9 00:41:11 2011

bring back two years in the army for these hoodlums male and female and safeguard Britain's future
O2 <>
, , , Tue Aug 9 00:06:45 2011

London's burning. Joke politicians desperately trying to fly back from their holidays...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Mon Aug 8 21:20:39 2011

For anyone who didn't look it up, that last last of mine -- standing alone, it looked weird -- referred to the prior from Fabio.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Aug 8 19:10:52 2011

The Duchess of Alba, famously socially active, and a spanish Grandee, does have Celtic threads in her background, witness her full name, "Most Excellent Doña María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 18th Duchess of Alba de Tormes"; the word "Alba" in Spanish means "Dawn", a spectacularly ironic twist for one who is manifestly more crepuscular than anything else, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Aug 8 13:49:28 2011

never let it be said Hermes is being targeted, so one for for the discerning DJ : /news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9538059.stm
:Ol <>
, , , Mon Aug 8 13:44:52 2011

1st thing in the morning is not (in this case) in the eye of the Bank Manager.: /news/world-europe-14441498
Fabio <>
, , , Mon Aug 8 13:26:44 2011

the Merseyside link took me to the Liverpool gay pride day. I hope that this is not more dumping on hermes, lets keep it friendly,on line battles are never won.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Aug 7 17:34:30 2011

woz that the transmorgrified Hermes i saw in the following foties? rite on the front row too!: /news/uk-england-merseyside-14432939
:Ol <>
, , , Sun Aug 7 13:59:06 2011

just call me perry como at the barberz.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Aug 7 01:50:24 2011

transmogrify............To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre. or to change or transform into a different shape, esp. a grotesque or bizarre one...... If your talking about modern boy/girl bands the term fits. However I was talking about pre transmogrify male quartets that appeared over 50 years ago over . The bright spot is that I learned a brand new word.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Aug 7 00:05:56 2011

The term band in modern parlance has transmogrified into meaning vocalists of more than two persons ie boy bands or girl bands who by definition can't sing or play instruments.
Hermes <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 23:36:36 2011

Mr ?, you sure have a way with words. My name is David John what is yours ? ? ?
DJ <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 18:45:14 2011

if yuze is Mr.Bozo, y don't u sine off to dat naim????
Mr.? <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 16:10:33 2011

hermes Looking back at earlier posts I see that Mr ? did have it correct. The Diamonds were a singing quartet from the same school of song as the Crew Cuts and The Four Lads, all from Toronto area. They all included white versions of black R.&B. hits that were not played on "White Radio" in their repertoire. A good example of this was " Why do fools fall in love" a white sanitized version of Frankie Lymons R. & B. hit. ( incidently as far as I know this was Lymons only big hit and he was found a few years after dead in an alley with a needle in his arm, I guess one could say this was also a big hit)..... In my teen years black R.& B. was the music of choice in my crowd and so called white rock was viewed with distain as being second best, rather akin to listening to Barry Manilow in later years. We would listen to low wattage all black radio stations from the deep south in the wee hours of the morning when reception was good.. ...I must add that a Toronto radio station that caters to old folks plays a lot of 50' and 60's music and hearing such plays of cuts like Little darling really does bring back a brief ambience of those carefree times.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 15:29:56 2011

How nice to see that someone is using one of my lines post July 29 "Excuse me, Thats Mr Bozo to you." I am flattered that my words of wisdom have become etched in some ones mind.................. As you say J.J. the U.S. crisis is far more interesting as I feel a hand in my pocket.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 15:10:07 2011

Italia has the perfect antidote to financial collapse, the secret is rumba z umba z umba the waps never had this strategy during world war two and I believe that co STD tine would not have lost the roman empire had Zumba been avaiable and all those brave Italian soldiers in ww2 would not have given up when the first shot was fired and thierbtanks would have had more forward gears than reverse. Here's to you señor be us ONI.
Hermes <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 11:48:26 2011

Arrers, Glass houses, old mate; you don't even waste a word or two on a form of address at all. Stll, it's chill-out time. Let us look at bond and share markets and be merry! Oops! Can't always get it right, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Aug 6 03:20:36 2011

that's Mr. to you and by the way, it was Mr.?
? <>
, , , Sat Aug 6 01:15:51 2011

Arrers, chill out mate: it's the end of the week; is there anything you don't understand about cheerful Friday posting...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Aug 5 23:42:41 2011

a lot of old Doo whap, if you ask me
;o) <>
, , , Fri Aug 5 20:57:38 2011

Der diamonds was a singing group not a band. Is der something youz don,t understand bout music ?
? <>
, , , Fri Aug 5 16:16:38 2011

Doing some research after looking into the attic of my childhood home which I still own, I found a link the best band ever to come out of Canada, this was the result of me me trawling through some 45s, and the name of this band is the diamonds, you can find them on YouTube singing little darlin, and if perchance you perchance don't like the diamonds then you are tired of life and should bring the curtain down...
Hermes <>
, , , Fri Aug 5 12:43:19 2011

i wud hope so
? <>
, , , Fri Aug 5 02:49:24 2011

Good Lord!!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Aug 5 00:52:04 2011

my meat dont glow in the dark it knows its way around
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, , , Thu Aug 4 15:37:21 2011

if yer meat glows in the dark, it must have c*m from China - take it back : news/world-asia-pacific-14399362
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, , , Thu Aug 4 14:25:20 2011

Dear salty I can remember seeing bill Haley at Ali sons theatre club in Litherland it was near the end for him and he and his band ere so disinterested as they had done the same set so many times and it was boring for them and also for we the audience we were used to great acts at ali sons I remember when Frankie Lainey was appearing there I got to see his act which was great but he visited sea forth yo visit the home of some disabled kid for a charity thingy and I got to see him again, and to see Frankie walking around sea forth was something I can tell you.. Blame the iPad for the bad script ps going back to oz soon taking in the Clare and barosa valley.and over to the west to visit Margaret river.
Hermes <>
, , , Thu Aug 4 14:05:11 2011

salts yer a 'lonely man' and 'all shook up' butt i'll take you 'anyway you want me' ha ha ha
mary lou brown <'just call me lonesome'>
, , , Wed Aug 3 16:02:02 2011

By the looks of it BE, the 'big wet' will also arrive in the next day or two; the farmers around this neck of the woods would give their eye-teeth for a good downpour. Hermes might be interested to know that both the locally grown red and white grapes will probably be a bumper crop. Peaches aren't bad either. Hopefully that's the end of 'the Elvis'' rant, never could get worked up over any of those entertainers, even when I went to the "Wints" to see Bill Haley's "Rock around the clock". The young crowd of rowdies almost wrecked the poor old place with their feet stomping.
Salty <>
, , , Wed Aug 3 15:10:44 2011

Dear BE, I see a tornado touched ground round your way; can we take it that all's well?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Aug 3 13:15:46 2011

U.S. debt situation defines dysfunctional government............ who or what is petunia, this must be Crosby humour that I am not familiar with.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Aug 3 01:29:58 2011

don't be getting any ideas Mr.MaYoR, Vilnius is not Formby.... : /news/world-europe-14380367
:o( <>
, , , Wed Aug 3 01:17:41 2011

Daphne knocks Marbles for six
Jimmie <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 19:45:17 2011

DJ, and who are you Petunia?
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, , , Tue Aug 2 19:28:19 2011

Having witnessed this location sinking to a new low in frivolity, I would like to enter a brief message of importance to me. The U.S. budget stalemate appears to be over although the markets have not shown any signs of recovery yet. The U.S. is in deep trouble in the coming years with such a massive debt load. ...I return this site to the frivolity
DJ <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 17:09:15 2011

no yer not, yer Petunia, the Gardener's Daughter - a phuffter!
:o( <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 15:43:19 2011

no, I'm a politically correct..... brown-eyed handsome Man/woman.
:Ol <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 15:40:03 2011

Your nothing but a hound dawg
Tee hee <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 15:02:24 2011

When the swallows come back to Wiggino, I'm going to sit right down and cry over you'. I think I'm gonna like it here.
. <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 13:41:58 2011

Don't be cruel
Tee Hee <>
, , , Tue Aug 2 01:12:33 2011

hes stayin at the heartbreak otel nr wigan
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, , , Tue Aug 2 00:03:01 2011

bit smelly too
.. <>
, , , Mon Aug 1 16:27:32 2011

poor and old Elvis
. <>
, , , Mon Aug 1 16:27:00 2011

no dowt on de end of de peer, fishing?.......Mustav been ungree.
;O) <>
, , , Mon Aug 1 14:26:04 2011

I saw Elvis last night in Wigan
? <>
, , , Mon Aug 1 14:17:23 2011

Count me out. news/world-14309641
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jul 31 15:12:50 2011

and for a NICE Hobo story see : /news/uk-14358126
;O) <>
, , , Sun Jul 31 13:41:34 2011

Fir Facebookers, there's more a vid & snaps of the overhead railway from 'Crosbypastandpresent' a site with those oodles of snaps spoken of of late.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jul 30 02:42:42 2011

Rubbish Smiley: here, I go under the name of Beatríz Gonzalez de Monticulo de Oca, fully incognito, as you'll appreciate so, if he's onto me, he's obviously onto the wrong person because Beatriz Gonzalez Monticulo de Oca is an alias for the real me, working incognito. Neither, I may add, have I actually told...Beatríz Gonzalez Monticulo de Oca; I didn't feel incumbented to do so. Besides, she may get upset.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jul 30 02:27:36 2011

de Chav is ontu yu, retire, retire.
;o) <>
, , , Fri Jul 29 19:41:29 2011

Dear DJ, True enough; American political pharting is whiffing round the world, in the final analysis O'Bamagh's fault. what a monumental rooster-high! ////In a different mode, my home computer get TCC without a problem every time but my work unit, using the same ISP, always says 'page unavailable'. Has anyone else had that phenomenon wrinkling up his day?
jj <etc>
etc, et, & God Bless, Fri Jul 29 17:39:36 2011

Excuse me, Thats Mr Bozo to you.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 29 16:21:13 2011

yuze seen notin' yet bozo
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, , , Fri Jul 29 13:54:06 2011

The political wrangling going on in the U.S. has me worried as it has affected the Canadian stock market already. From my view across the border there appears to be a breakdown between the two major political parties. They appear to be playing poker with the countries future. Should the U.S. default on their loans some of my investments would be in deep doo doo also ( my concerns are motivated by greed )
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jul 28 15:51:07 2011

Who,s American ????
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jul 28 14:55:08 2011

P*o pong stops shoppers in South Road, it's 'orrible sez pedestrians. (See CH)
:O( <>
, , , Thu Jul 28 14:07:54 2011

Werds?.....just glad I'm not American, 250 indeed
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jul 28 13:51:02 2011

Well! After a time-out there, when I thought that our enviable run had been truncated in its prime, like, here it is again; nice ter see yiz agenn mate. Re that test, I found it enlightening and the ancillary parts, 'hard' words, average vocab, age related and the whole caboodle frankly. Well worth a shot!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 28 03:35:49 2011

I think S.B. should take this test, he appears to have many new and strange werds.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jul 27 23:16:01 2011

Short and to the point: a test* of vocab in English with graph of age and number of words -- reveals how vocab grows -- an entriely new version of 'learning curve' -- and so on. Give it a whirl; it only takes a few minutes and is grounded in serious, albeit recent and ongoing, research.////The CrosbyPast&Present facebook page has just posted some school snaps, for them as fancies, mainly MTB but utherz 2. Enjoy! And be surprised at the breadth and depth of what you didn't know that you knew. *Goto:testyourvocab.com/
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jul 26 21:59:20 2011

Remarkable group J.J.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jul 26 01:31:13 2011

see also: vimeo.com/8266053 about slightly recenter times, going only 42 years back.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 25 01:56:53 2011

Dear DJ, that was my understanding and I went ahead and certainly got the snaps. In my cyber ignorance, I couldn't say whether there's an easier way in. Maybe the Mayor would know?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 25 01:31:59 2011

Help All, I was unable to get on to the Crosby photographic location. Does one have to be a member of facebook in order to view the pics ? ?
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jul 25 00:13:30 2011

Dear MayorMan, I delved the site you recommended: holy Lord, does she have an oodle of old piccies! I was quite taken aback and would recommend any TCC'ers so inclined to have a dekko: I joined and there are lots of other very Crosbologically be-gened folk so there so there's no knowing if your sweetheart from the days of "I'll be your sweetheart, if you'll be mine" [or "I'll see you at the 411 bus stop"] isn't there or about to show!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jul 24 21:57:03 2011

and one spesheeally for the MaYor ; /news/world-14220332
;o) <>
, , , Sat Jul 23 13:40:53 2011

If any of youze want a nostalgia fix, there are some rather fine piccies on the Crosby Past and Present Facebook site: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001746615417&sk=photos
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sat Jul 23 07:38:54 2011

Heres hoping this breaks the extended silence........................... There was a knock on the door this past Sunday morning. I opened it to find a young, well-dressed man standing there who said: "Hello sir, I'm a Jehovah's Witness." So I said "Come in and sit down." I offered him a fresh cup of coffee and asked "What do you want to talk about?" He said, "Beats the sh*t out of me, I've never gotten this far before."
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 22 23:57:46 2011

& the venezuelianz hit the post. twyss.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Jul 21 16:10:09 2011

Dear Smiley, Venezuela, being more baseball oriented, has the slimmest of fottball traditions. Our team, "La Vinotinto" have never gotten this far heretofore; unlike priors, when the team spent mauch time in their own half, the lads did a great job throughout, consistently carrying the fight downpitch to the foe: we're happy with their performance. They got closer than ever before and showed that an assumption by the rest of LatAm Teams is no longer applicable, namely, Venezuela is not a pushover anymore but someone to be reckoned with. I, for one, think their achievement this year, after a few seasons building to it, has been memorable. So There. Like. As for the 'left foot' gibe, is that a Celtic/Rangers reference and, if so, what application would it have to the matter at hand?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 21 14:21:13 2011

jj, are they all 'left footers' in Ven? No cup this year mate.
;O) <>
, , , Thu Jul 21 13:50:57 2011

I dig you
hepcat <>
, , , Thu Jul 21 00:01:06 2011

Being naturally cool to begin with helps though...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 20 19:47:43 2011

Its too hot in Canada to even think beyond staying cool
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jul 20 17:32:20 2011

In turbulent times we are but seemingly, "All Quiet on the Crosbegian Front"? Our PresMan is being treated for the Big C abroad: street chat has it that he's being attacked by a virus and that the country is praying...for the virus.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 20 16:58:01 2011

Did Murdock lose his 'marbles' as 'Johny's' foaming missed?
;O) <>
, , , Tue Jul 19 21:45:36 2011

Dear Di', Re yours of Saturday, the whole situation is weird; he was going to do it here, then the Brazilians, who have been beneficially treating the Paraguayan President who has got the lymphatic variety. At the last minute, it was switched to Cuba, provoking all manner os speculation. He'll be 'governing' -- which he can't because the constitutional seat of power is the government palace here -- by 'eletcronic signature': we've already had legislation signed 'in Caracas, on the Xth day of the month of Y....' etc when he was manifestly not here, strictly meaning that the stuff itself is lillega, never an obstacle heretofore. There has neve rbeen a clearer indictaion that those running th eplace are no longer Venezuelan -- long since too -- and the puppeteers will be working hard, on their own midden (read, in complete secrecy, available nowhere else, to ensure the revolution and their own financial bonanza. The Partial Vice-P gave his first public speech on Saturday and exhibited an embarassingly egregious proximity to his Scottish culinary cronies. Now, all ID card info (surely, a 'sovereignty-associated' matter) for ID card issue, and passport issue, is in the hands of Cuban adminstrations, in the Armed Forces, Venezuelan colonels take orders from lower-ranked Cubans. With a pile of etceteras thereafter. Street chat has it that he's not on his last legs yet so we are undoubtedly good targets for the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jul 19 15:54:18 2011

Brian, is there anybody called Anthony staying at your house ?
dj <>
, , , Mon Jul 18 20:48:39 2011

By the waym Bri' (or any TCC'er so minded), Are you on skype? We are; you can find me via the e-mail address, if you're so inclined, and we could speak ill of others without their becoming apprised....politicians, I mean, of course.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 18 15:09:28 2011

Dear Bri', For further comment, have dekko at noticiascentro.com/noticias/detalle/5726 where the heading is "El Arquitecto del Milagro" which may, very partially, redeem any remaining, albeit evanescent, substance of your comment. He opined.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 18 14:26:15 2011

Dear BE, I must mention that the goalie is as much a part of the team as any other player and, unlike in prior seasons when Baseball-Nation Venezuela's footballers spent most of the time in their own half, staving off attacks by opposition teams all the way through the first rounds only to fail to advance, this time our lads took the game to the foe ongoingly and were duly rewarded for their efforts. We already drew against Paraguay [who eliminated Brazil in penalties where the Cariocas failed to put in a single one!!] so we didna oughta be jumpy from the outset. It¡s good for the game here and good for the nation where 'good news' is something that you have to look up in a dictionary.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 18 14:19:30 2011

Vendles wuz lucky. The word "jammy" comes to mind. Fortunately for them, their goalie was superb!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Mon Jul 18 12:08:32 2011

....never been there before....just like those luverly Japanese Ladies.
;o) <>
, , , Mon Jul 18 10:24:50 2011

Copa 2011, in Argentina: Venezuela: 2; Chile: 1. Venezuela to the semi's with Argentina and Brazil both eliminated. At the final whistle, the place dissolved: we've never been here before and, to date, we've not lost a match in this latest. A needed bright shining star in our usually dark firmament. God Bless the Lads.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 18 01:57:09 2011

Big Red Rebecca arrested... Playboy calling re big spread.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jul 17 16:26:16 2011

but when will Pandora be the centrefold?
? <>
, , , Sun Jul 17 13:58:10 2011

very droll
. <>
, , , Sat Jul 16 15:16:48 2011

Murdochgate is just the opening of Pandora's box...Maybe the Playboy mag will be next for exposure..
Diana <>
, , , Sat Jul 16 06:43:08 2011

jj, see that Mr C is doing a return trip to Cuba for Chemo treatment..Why is that? Are there no facilities in Ven to accommodate him, or is he afraid of a deliberate overdose? Well, if he had been on better terms with the US he could have used Sloan Kettering in NY.
Diana <>
, , , Sat Jul 16 06:32:19 2011

I believe that I could show Mr. Murdock the error of his ways.....................And have him begging for mercy Yes
Marquis de Sade <>
, , , Sat Jul 16 00:45:24 2011

Dear Andy, Do you not sense an incongruity when a gent accused of playing dirty, lying, cheating, blackmailing and the rst, via newspapers, opts to apologise ------- via newspaper spots bought for that purpose? How is he going to enhance his chance by using that approach: that device is just too sardonic to be a dog that'll hunt, "I've been lying all the while in the papers and subverting democracy in fashions most repugnant so, here I am, in the papers, with my mea culpa". In my book, he does himself no favours with that lot at all at all. His purposes would be better served by a more cynicism-challenged approach altogether. Daft Charlie. Surely the irony will come across strongly enough for the tactic to backfire?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 15 21:21:59 2011

Mayor, I am sure you have heard of the Canadian Rupert, Conrad Black, who was given a title for sucking up. He became Lord Blackballs ( or something similar) and sat in the house of Lords. Guess where he is now ? ....doing a stretch in the ironbar hotel in Florida. These types can't resist pooping in their own nests !
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 15 19:39:12 2011

ps, nottin' stoopid about Murdy
j <>
, , , Fri Jul 15 19:37:22 2011

good time to BUY
jimmie da broka <>
, , , Fri Jul 15 19:35:45 2011

Oh, look out - Stoopid Murdoch's on a (splutter!!) "charm offensive". Obviously his PR company have advised him to eat humble pie and go about apologising. He's taken out adverts in the Sunday snoozepapers "I'm REALLY sorry". He's had a well orchestrated meeting with Millle Dowler's family. "I'm SO sorry" . And when he's summoned to answer questions in Parliament next week, I'm sure his PR script will be well prepared. Share price falling: pass the sick bag...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Jul 15 17:59:22 2011

Well, that looks a bit rich; maybe Satan's 'phone was hacked too, thus opening the probability of his editorial position at the SUN emerging into blinding SUNlight, as it were. Still, this denotes a denotable departure from Satan's policy heretofore, namely that of "All Souls Welcome; No Returns" and Soul-Sellers Anonymous, under longtime UK Resident and German citizen, Dr. Heinrich Faust are reported to be energetically supporting the new initiative. Will wonders never cease?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 15 15:32:59 2011

special 4 the mare. with kyndest ree guards. c. w=w=w.borowitzreport.com/2011/07/14/disgusted-satan-returns-murdochs-soul/
s <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Jul 15 00:44:05 2011

Come now, Jimmie! I did say it was their midden.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 14 19:40:08 2011

No BOMBAS,, no TEARGAS, no Police charges with CATTLE PRODS...... oh how very boring JJ
jimmie <>
, , , Thu Jul 14 19:12:11 2011

Last Night: Venezuela-Paraguay. Copa America, minute 86, Venezuela is 3-1 down; after a good start, up 1-0 by minute 5 but nowt further, the Paraguayans -- it was on their midden -- are getting ready to break open the booze: minute 89, Venezuela scores: still 2-3 down and things are winding down, just 2 minutes of extra and we can go home....final corner....and WE SCORE!! In minute 92! Venezuela 3, Paraguay 3, momentarily putting us top of group: Go Our Guys! Our Team has wine red shirts and, for years have been known as "La Vinitinto"[Purists: Nobody has been able to tell why the team ("el equipo", masc.) has a feminine "La" definite article]. One qualifier though: the Venezuelan Cardiac Health Council has requested the lads to save the day a BIT EARLIER IN THE RUDDY MATCH in future: Please! Go Vinotinto!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 14 14:49:08 2011

Dear andy, "Ach so!!" All is clear. Thanks.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 14 14:24:53 2011

as long as you weren't 'vindicated' in Garden Grove, in which case you might be 'Bob me Aunt'.
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jul 14 12:50:02 2011

as long as you weren't 'vindicated' in Garden Grove, in which case you might be 'Bob me Aunt'.
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jul 14 12:49:30 2011

jj, the 'he' I was referring to was 'me' i.e. The Mayor!
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Thu Jul 14 11:44:18 2011

I can't see what all the hullabaloo's about: just steer clear of Garden Grove California and Bob's yer uncle!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 14 03:27:21 2011

result minced meat
<>
, , , Thu Jul 14 01:54:28 2011

and so yer should be, the way yer scoff yer food down, yer might be next La
<>
, , , Wed Jul 13 21:53:41 2011

GARDEN GROVE, CALIF.—A woman was in custody Tuesday after authorities said she drugged her estranged husband, tied him to a bed, cut off his penis and put it through a garbage disposal. Lt. Jeff Nightengale said Catherine Kieu Becker drugged a meal and served it to the victim, whose name was not released, shortly before the attack Monday night.
I'm worried <>
, , , Wed Jul 13 21:07:42 2011

Mayor please, Your never boring, I don't always see things your way but boring -never. It would be great to hear more from you.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jul 13 20:48:02 2011

Dear Andy, You lost me there: has he been vindicated? How come? Was all this skullduggery confined to Rupert's lot, leaving the Press in general smelling of roses? I carry no brief for skullduggers whomesoever they may be and hope to see aggressive justice done ["Rebekah to Hamg: Pierrepoint Called but Refuses on Repugnancy Grounds"] of but did all this happen only at the Murdy House or were others as bad. I've read Guardian reports on where I am and they look as though they have been vetted for idealogical purity right here.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 13 20:45:46 2011

The Mare has boring you all for years and years about how corrupt UK plc really is. Now, after Stoopid Murdoch has finally been exposed (thank you The Guardian et al) he has been vindicated. UK politicians? Corrupt! UK police? Corrupt!! Stoopid Murdoch's criminal meeja? Corrupt!!! UK sorted (temporalily) ....now for the US...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Wed Jul 13 19:49:30 2011

Dear Jimmie, a) what's your problem with the iconic 'scouse'? b) What's your problem with the Pierrepointe family? If not they, then someone else would have been doing what was a regular profession in the colour of the times that ran then (I remember very early on, news items of "X was hanged this morning at Strangeways Gaol.." and thinking nowt about it). And, according to one review, they sought to minimise the 'gruesome' and optimise the procedures; it's also reported that Albert finished up campaigning against capital punishment; c) when I was more of a whippersnapper than currently, the Echo was daily fare in our house and, along with the 1 o'clock 'pips & BBC News' the main info input. What it may have become meanwhile, I don't know but none of your examples, though eminently unmissable, is something whose presence was as damaging as the NoW nor either whose absence will be (surely?) as welcome as that of Rupert's flagship Sunday GutterSheet. Or am I missing summat?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 13 16:52:57 2011

that same logic could be applied to "Scouse", the "Pierepointe family" or "The Liverpool Echo", all of which are or have been English institutions - the one difference some would say is that the "Screws of the Werld" is/was more interesting.
j <>
, , , Wed Jul 13 13:58:57 2011

Dear Jimmie, It may well have been an institution but hardly the first one you'd be introducing to foreign visitors as emblematic of anything you might claim to be proud of our Island. Now, was it?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 13 03:52:42 2011

Dear DJ, After reading the Millennium Trilogy last year, I'd have gone for the old Viking option, in the original Swedish: Phar Tingar Soles! But yes, I guess skulduggery is just fine: and it really is a nice word, conveying exactly what it 'wants to', what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 13 03:47:31 2011

'the MAN' thinks nothing of obliterating what was an British institution going back father than his relatives probable landing at Botany Bay, all for the sake of further profit or a cover-up of his disgusting behaviour. Send the B*ASTERD back where he came from
Jimmie <>
, , , Wed Jul 13 01:22:12 2011

John, Would the expression " skullduggery in high places" also have a place in your definition ?
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jul 12 23:57:59 2011

If you've ever lost sleep over just how to illustrate the word 'murky' as some do in order to clarify a bare definition, you might take a butcher's at w¡w¡w.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14116786 where I bet the literary you will be provoked to an Alician "murkier and murkier" reflex response. Yes, I realise it's not on to bet on a sure thing but I'm deciding to live on the wild side in my higher mileage days.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jul 12 16:42:23 2011

der probabbly more dedly, everyting else is bigger over der!
;o( <>
, , , Tue Jul 12 16:41:32 2011

over the pond u sey. lookz lyk them 7 deadlies r as deadly as ever.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue Jul 12 15:55:37 2011

The newspaper scandal has now reached over the pond and there is a suspicion that American newspapers may have also stooped to new lows.................... At the risk of sending hermes into another tantrum I must add that Will and Kate have been warmly received here and in the U.S. This is a warm and friendly couple without a hint of stuffiness and have caused many pundits to say that they have opened a new look to the Monarchy. I have said before I am not a fan of the monarchy but do view this couple with regard regardless of their status. By the way Mayor ....Canada paid for their flights and provided bed and breaky
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jul 12 00:00:47 2011

our gerlz r topz. again. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14097796 . them bbc peepl shud tell us sumfing wot we dont kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Jul 11 22:19:07 2011

Well, Mr. Mayor, How heavily damaged will Rupert be after the latest episode in this ongoing saga? Will Rebecca be looking for a low cay job in the Caribbean?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 11 21:24:55 2011

mrs. s. lookz lyk we r going off at a tengent. plz stay on topic. focussd. stuff lyk that.
sb <att@ease.edu>
cc, c, c, Mon Jul 11 16:55:32 2011

And my p*ssey also agrees
Mrs Slocum <>
, , , Mon Jul 11 14:43:36 2011

mrs. s.as in many other thingz. no dowt.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Jul 10 22:59:02 2011

and I'm unanimouse in that
Mrs. Slocum <>
, , , Sun Jul 10 21:43:23 2011

I was reading in todays paper about the N. of the W. shutdown, talk about a draconian and abrupt move. This must be a first for a viable newspaper. I'm rather incredulous by the whole thing.
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jul 10 15:06:58 2011

I know where my bread's buttered...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jul 10 00:04:54 2011

Correction from a news of the World proofreader... I don't think that Mrs Kelly could have been there in 1954 as her picture indicates a 1980's era birth.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 23:55:33 2011

Antimony ; I assume that the reference is black eye shadow,Est-ce que je suis correct ?... J.J. The Armour Heights area still exists as an upperclass enclave is the location I mentioned. I don't that Mrs Kelly could have been there in 1954 as her picture indicates a 1980's era birth.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 21:09:03 2011

right there Salty, at the end those young English maidens all looked sh*gged out.
. <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 20:26:15 2011

Pity, but those French girls deserved it.
Salty <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 19:46:47 2011

Dear DJ, Re Crosby content: you are it so the post lacks not but rather includes all the Crosby content necessary. PS: between us: did you get that antimony reference?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jul 9 19:07:13 2011

location is also a factor in the sampling mode, the back row in the theatre, the back seat in a car ,the sand dunes?
. <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 16:31:22 2011

J.J. Armor Heights, amazing. That is one of those neighbourhoods that has been lost in the vastness of Toronto. If I am not mistaken it was located adjacent to my neighbourhood in the Township of North York, all absorbed by Metro Toronto. I assume that Sainte Adéle was in the province of Quebec ? Your lovely wife must be aware of what great people canucks are. What................ I offer my apologies that this posting does lack a Crosby content.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 15:56:19 2011

Obs.......a certain sampling, .....perhaps?
? <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 15:54:20 2011

you are getting VERY personal Observer!
<>
, , , Sat Jul 9 14:10:15 2011

At what point/ moment does going out with become courting? //I see antimony is back, daft as ever!
observer <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 10:17:04 2011

was she a trainer too?
? <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 03:34:47 2011

I should have mentioned Jeanette McDonald too, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jul 9 00:49:11 2011

Dear DJ, 59 years later? Is that great or what? Wonderful; What Canada must have been like 59 years ago, I personally don't know but my wife was in school in Armor Heights in Toronto in '54 so I've seen some old Bell&Howells of then, and a place called Sainte Adéle which was pretty rudimentary. and not forgetting that that Canada was the home of Woodvale's Chipmunk aeroplanes of happy recollection.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jul 9 00:45:53 2011

I concur, Courting was a trifle more serious than dating/going out with/going steady or in a more modern usage :hanging out with................. Yes Di, my perceptive friend, once I got grounded I did set out to enjoy the company of the colonists daughters and 59 years later some of them are still good friends.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jul 9 00:26:48 2011

sb, as we are talkin' about the fruits of life..lets not forget our syrup of figs, or the prune juice...Oh BTW, 'Why did the lady take the prune to the dance? Because she didn't have a date.
Diana <Confucius say ... He who eats too many prunes, sits on toilet many moons. ...>
, , , Fri Jul 8 22:44:17 2011

.......and crackers mate.
:O) <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 21:58:50 2011

with dates on the agenda. plz clariphy. iz that. as in. i dont kare a fig. or sumthing elz. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Jul 8 21:55:28 2011

ps......figs too.
;o) <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 21:51:10 2011

Errata: spelling all over the backyard; sorry, oversight: went out unchecked.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 8 21:14:59 2011

Dear Di', I think of courting as a bit seriouser than 'dating' but the term does bring back the phrase, "How much is on the table, Mabel?", being Wilfred Pickles and we were all jealous of the contestants who won a whole "Twenty one pounds foruteen and sixpence" (WOW!!) Wilfred's first question was invariably, "And are you courting?", equally invaribaly followed by a shy giggle, regardless of whether courting or not. To this day, the Spanish term is 'cortejar' associated with our word, 'cortége' being a ten-dollar term for 'hangers-on. When Bill and Kate were shacking up, theyu could have been referred to as 'courting', one supposes; now of course, they're on to turbo-courting, having their own court and all.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 8 21:12:30 2011

Mayori, for me those types of dates would be like bringing coals to Newcastle...I often make marzipan stuffed dates....Not for calorie counters...The unripened dates are a bright yellow, if left for 24 hours in the freezer they have a fantastic taste...
Diana <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 17:40:39 2011

jj, in those days I would call dating 'courtin'...The break up was called 'chucked' as in "I chucked him"..My Mam's generation would have called it 'stepping out'....................DJ, I'm sure you made up for lost time..;-( or was it ;-)
Diana <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 17:32:20 2011

jj, those packages of dates you refer to are on sale on special offer in the fruit shop next to Satties - 99 pence for two. I've just had one Mmmmm....
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Jul 8 17:28:27 2011

Smiley, But you didn't call it 'dating' though. In that vein, I recollect that Chrismas dates were a tradition and they always came in an elongated, rounded-end box with a camel and palm-tree label and had a date-branch with the dates attached, some with stones, some not. Great tradition and among the things I've not laid eyes on in decades, as also MarMite, Vimto, Wall's 1/6 ice-cream block, Stork Marge (Can't tell it from butter, acc. Benny Hill) and the Lift-bridge sausage factory. But back to dates, how come they became a Christmas tradition, "that's whatI want to know", to coin a phrase.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 8 16:37:11 2011

we always had dates at Christmas time
;o) <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 15:59:54 2011

Dear DJ, (In 1950's tone) Would that "dating" mean "goin' out with", perchance?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 8 15:28:24 2011

J.J. When I think back it's amazing how mature the kids were in Canada when I arrived here. The girls my age were quite developed and were dating and the lads knew all about the birds and the bees which I did not fully know. I suspect that a healthier diet was one reason for the fast growth rate. But on the other hand Toronto in the early fifties was very prim and proper and very British. I look back at my Crosby/Waterloo days with some nostalgia but my early days in Canada were exciting leaving no time for homesickness.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 15:15:02 2011

deer sey nomor & canadian ree port. i always wanted 1 of them ats. the rain runs off in front of yer nows. and behind yer collar. luvely.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri Jul 8 14:42:27 2011

Dear DJ, That may well be the case but I see that as more of an advantage than otherwise. Children can easily be overexposed to an unfilitered multiplicity of influences that tend to rob them of all that children have, namely, their childhood. I think it was you or Salty some time ago who commented on vids of children playing games and ring-a-ring-a-roses 1950's Liverpool, vids that were recommended, if memory serves, by Diana with the observation, "There are no fat kids there". And there weren't, on top of which, the general ambiance was 'happy & unconcerned', just what youngsters need. I suppose that, were I to be incongruous -- hardly my style but still -- I would say that "They don't build 1940's like they used to anymore!"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 8 14:26:36 2011

B.E., Looks like your state is a little upset over the Casey A. trial, rather an unexpected result !
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 13:57:33 2011

JJ At that age the only screw I was aware of was the twisty thing that goes in to wood. In the forties kids were not aware of many things, not like today.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 13:52:29 2011

/news/uk-14073887
say no more, say no more. <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 13:34:22 2011

my Granddad bought it every week - he said for the sports section.
;o) <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 13:18:15 2011

jj, I remember it being called "The Nudes of the world"...Seems everyone in those days liked to read about the 'slap and tickle' that was going on around the werld....
Diana <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 12:25:55 2011

Unfortunately, I can imagine that that MaYor is the ONLY one upset by the closure of another Old British Institution. Shame.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Jul 8 00:11:38 2011

Come now, DJ; even then it was known as "The Screwsof The World" and, if feeling particularly bold, youngsters would say so in an audible whisper so that their less valiant mates could wonder at their venturesome courage. Feelings of guilt could be (barely) assuaged by running off down the street inviting the lads to move onto something else, "Last one there's a dope...."
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 7 21:41:43 2011

Another icon from my Crosby days seems to have bitten the dust. As a sprout I used to read the News of the World every Sunday at my grandfathers house. When I got to a word that I did not understand, Usually what the naughty Vicar did etc, I would ask what it meant and Grandfather would always refer me to my Mother.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jul 7 21:22:38 2011

Dear BE, Good to see you back in harness, old mate!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 7 16:12:20 2011

Dear JJ, I believe that song was written and recorded by Harry Lauder.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Thu Jul 7 16:04:47 2011

Brillaint Uncle Frank!! Love that stuff, surely taken from your original research on "Bodicea's Breakfast Quotes" painting, ahem, a colourfull backdrop to our appreciation of our ancestors (who's you to talk, mick?) and their 'fight naked in woad to frighten the foe' policy. It prompted me to look again for the old scout song, one version of which is now available on the YTube at w+w+w.youtube.com/watch?v=KK5-F9mLp4Y along with -- as usual these days -- oodles of curiously interesting woady bumpff.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 7 15:02:21 2011

'some' on this site may be surprised on how "attractive" the Crosby area is to many besides those on this board. 'some' might be surprised to find out that Crosby has chased away visitors to the Borough of the Crosses. 'some' on this site might very well be shocked to learn that many of these visitors had Froggy registration plates on their cars and reportedly left human excrement around after their departure. surely 'some' on this site should be directing their comments at these people, not the residents/past residents of this fine community. (see CH)
<>
, , , Thu Jul 7 14:33:00 2011

....or as our ancients used to sing... "keep woad on till the end of the rite"
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Thu Jul 7 14:23:13 2011

Dear Mayor, Absolute TOP AARRGGHH's for that one! Gratters all round. Loved it. You should allow your skills to overflow in our direction more frequently. Great Stuff! dear Herm', Stick with it old sock; bitterness has to wear off over time, being just too exhausting to maintain...As Ireland's great tenor, John McCormack used to sing, "....though the way be long, may your heart be strong". Dear Uncle Frank, Very nice to see you back in such form, by the way.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 7 11:45:06 2011

As Stoopid Murdoch's share value finally crashes through the floor, is it a case of As You Sow, So Shall You Rupe?
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Thu Jul 7 11:06:21 2011

uncle frank you are such a perseptive man and i totaly agree with you . it has been ever thus that this site descends into outright stupidity and even mediocrity is rare i often wonder why i feel amongst alians when on this board and the crosby connection does not exist, some of them don't have that recognisable ingredient that would tell you that they are from merseyside or even great britain, the are all ego centric with some exceptions it's unquantifiable how many visitors to the board are put off by this rubbish when they look into a priv ate thiefdom of bitternes and recriminations angled to anyone who disagrees and puts their head above the parapet and say something controversial, that is censorship by any other name, or whats now termed at bullying, thats why I know that these people are imposters they have no semberlance of mersyside in them.... if they tuned in to the roger phillips talk back show they would see at first hand what real liverpool people are like straight and true and very savvy and i aspire to be one of them so the disposition of some on this board would get a rel awakening, and you never know maybe a life aswell any way uncle frank it was very refreshing to read your comments and i exclude jj, mayor and a few others from my misif
hermes <>
fishing, in co mayo, , Thu Jul 7 05:31:14 2011

If they're doing a good job in Canada, all power to them. But they are royals, poor sods, whose life will be and endless string of this stuff which, at some point, must become tiresome. There is much of the gilded cage in that career option and who knows whether Kate'll keep holding up as well she has? The helicopter taunt was out of line: who wants to emulate a helicopter pilot who chackachackered off one day in OUR helicopter to impress his judy, because he could get away with it? Real point at issue: are 'we' getting our money's worth? Seems so: the royals are, in the final analysis, an investment and, to date, have always earned more than they cost (I'm told) and the Wedding itself would have been high point: were any cost-effectiveness figures ever published for it at all?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jul 7 01:45:12 2011

Nicely put Uncle Frank. From what we see in the news reports here in Canada, one of the attractions of the couple, is their attraction to one another, and a willingness to interact with the local (silly and backward looking"- Hermes words, not yours) crowds. Salty <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 21:46:24 2011

herpes is quite put out as he cannot fly a helicopter and does not have a young wife
observer <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 19:53:03 2011

Ah had a dream! Well, a nightmare actually. I dreamt that sometime in the future of UK plc Stoopid Murdoch's racist comics paid criminals to hack into phone messages from murdered teenage girls. Ah dreamt that they also were paid to hack into phone messages left on the mobile phones of those blown to pieces in the London 7/7 bombings. Ah dreamt that the British Prime Minister hired the instigator of many of these crimes as his head of communications. Ah dreamt that Stoopid Murdoch's flunkeys paid the Metropolitan Police for secret details of criminal investigations and the police were more than happy to cash in. Ah had a dream. Thank God it was only a dream... bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14036673
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Wed Jul 6 19:27:33 2011

I keep having difficulty in getting on to TCC and so I'm late in responding. Regarding Spitoons, I can remember seeing pubs having them, along with the sawdust. When someone said he missed the spitoons, the reply was you always did that's why we had the saw dust. Now, Ca ne fait rien was what French girls would say to Tommys who had a go at speaking French. When anglicised it became 'san fairy ann' which is close. There were many songs which incorporated that type of expression sung in the Music Halls ca 1914-18, and later. And finally, and notwithstanding all the controversy surrounding Royals and their worth or otherwise, I have to confess that I was able to put all of that aside to see two genuine, happy, intelligent youngsters getting married in a very open and unselfconcious manner. I was impressed by their sincerity as they spoke to the people they were meeting, in Canada. They were in no hurry which made the security guys look a bit edgy. The press spoiled it when later they reported Wills having addressed an audience 'in French' would you believe... well I never, what next. In these times when we seemed to be suffering at the hands of the huge bunch of incompetents, I think it's nice to be able to enjoy a touch of simple honesty. And finally, to those who would pillory Hermes; live and let live. He may not put his point too clearly at times. You might ask yourselves if much of the rubbish which is scribbled on The Crosby Site could have anything to do with Crosby. Put another way would you want an outsider to read some of the silly utterences and have them think this was representative of educated people from Crosby? If anyone responds to this, be patient as it might be a long time before TCC lets me use it and not cause my computer to freeze.
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Wed Jul 6 17:20:46 2011

Herpes, I love the moneyky, am addicted to watching them all. In fact herpes, I was just one of the hundreds of thousands of BRITS who left flowers outside Bucky palace when Prince Charlies ex died. The results of your diatribe have worked wonders for your following, keep it up, you certainly need somebody.
Aunt Agatha <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 16:21:16 2011

Dear Herpes, I hope you have got over your nasty little tantrum. Now lets see if I get this straight.... Because many many thousands of Canadians chose to catch a glimpse of Kate and Will,they are in your opinion lacking in insight and shallow. They are branded with these labels ,by you, because they do not share your views. I suppose this also applies to the millions around the world who watched the Wedding of these two on T.V. including the many Brits who flooded London for this occasion . Now I ask you :who is really lacking in insight and has a shallow view of life......... I have stated many times in the past my views on the royalty but do not choose to insult those who do not agree with me.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 14:47:18 2011

Oh, like the Chav, maybe?
) <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 13:48:46 2011

Smiley, Fie for shame! Cheap shot, old sock! I am sure Hermes would prefer leadership, full stop!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jul 6 13:42:20 2011

Obviously Heermes wud prefer the leadership (and homage) given to the likes of Blair and Brown.....nice ring to that somewhat like Khrushchev and Brezhnez.
;O) <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 13:35:44 2011

I really believe that you Canadians can keep that pair of over hyped useless parasites if you think that much of them and we can send you a few more I'd you like..admitted they were big crowds to see them but that is due to the Canadians lack of real insight it looks bad seeing the news footage of people who's lives are so shallow that they have to come and pay homage to two individuals who have never achieved anything, one has never had a job and the other pretends to have one,you would never see this adulation in Britain or Australia or new Zealand or any other commonwealth country for that mater in those nations they give the kids a day off school to make up the numbers, indeed I was very disappointed with the canuks it makes then look very silly and backward looking, don't they realize that the world has moved on.
Hermes <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 12:37:19 2011

Delighted for my tax money to pay towards your regal entertainment DJ...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Wed Jul 6 07:19:44 2011

maiden?
;o) <>
, , , Wed Jul 6 00:22:42 2011

I say; that royal couple Katie & Will seem to have made a good whiz bang impression among the monarchists here in British North America, jolly good sports also. The only way this couple could have improved their vist as far as this mere mortal is concerned is to have brought maiden Pippa with them.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 23:30:46 2011

jj, so you are having a good day.
s <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 22:08:40 2011

Dear Salty, The whole thing is still mysterious. A significant fraction of folk believe that the Cuban episode was all a put-on, aimed at a victorious return and so on, a tactic used by Castro himself over the years but smart money is on his indeed having been operated on -- twice -- on the island and for what Diana calls the big C. Why he came back is unknown but, in his absence, infighting among his cronies has grown and the place has a number of irreducible crises underway, from prison revolts to electric power -- all serious stuff, and with no charlie willing to take the bull by the horns. So now he's here and but in a state of secrecy: he delivered a message by TV but wwas seen only from the waist up(ostensibly, he reduced to using an intestinal collection device). All this fuels speculation: you'll have noted over time that speculation is never ever positive, for the speculator or the speculatee. so, that's how things stand and they will until developments develop: heretofore, such things were in the hands of one person; with the cellular factor, it looks as though there may now be a new player involved.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jul 5 20:14:55 2011

h*t*t*p://uk.news.yahoo.com/wild-flamingo-chase-shuts-airport-runway.html
Diana <Poor little blighter, didn't have two legs to stand on..>
, , , Tue Jul 5 17:08:47 2011

JJ, you must be having a great time today. 200th. Independence day AND the great(or is it supreme yet) leader returns.
Salty <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 15:23:22 2011

both of them !
. <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 13:31:28 2011

but I like my dognuts cooked to a f*****ed state.
? <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 13:30:43 2011

I like my Dognuts cooked to a f*****ed state.
? <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 13:29:06 2011

I do hope that your doughnuts turn out like f*****s...ensure that the oil is the right temperature.
Hermes <>
, , , Tue Jul 5 12:03:56 2011

She's too cosmopolitan; don't forget that ça ne fait rien translates - in my Dad's day and way - to Sweet Phanny Ann who, in the plenitude of time can only become an auntie, oozing Aunt Phanny fame. Or did I miss owt?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 4 23:58:48 2011

nottin rude just Aunt F*anny
) <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 22:48:16 2011

wot abouht Aunt F***y then ?
;O) <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 22:47:20 2011

No problem Mr. Mayor, Just activate Aunty Spam and Bob's your Uncle.
jj <etc>
ertc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 4 17:56:05 2011

And proof if needed that "we're all doomed!" I have noticed recently, after the absence for a decade, of desperate emails from...Uncle Spam!
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Mon Jul 4 17:33:54 2011

and so you should
. <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 17:32:20 2011

and so you should DJ
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 17:30:39 2011

Dear Di', Absolutely; I no longer use the regular search engine straightforwardly but go direct to dogpile.com or private browsing right off. No more baring my soul or standing in my underpants (regardless of how statuesque I may be) or whatever it's called. Talk about control freakship! Privacy and independence are hallmarks of a free society and have been eroded for decades, a fact noted by justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (b. 1841, d 1939) when speaking of the (new) private telephone installation, intoning the right of a man in his own home, "not to be disturbed", in this case, by infringers who would blithely cause a bell in his house to ring at any time. The privacy enjoyed by our parents is no longer possible, even in the remotest of locations. That, of course sidesteps the question of how much privacy is a right; in today's world, not much, it seems.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jul 4 17:23:06 2011

hey arrows, lay off the Hermes baiting cause I always get blamed
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 13:34:58 2011

i hope heermes isn't one of those key werds !
. <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 13:18:53 2011

China, Ven and a few other untrustworthy places,(I think most countries have this.) have certain key words when typed by internet users in their posts are reported by the IPS people to the security who check..........Interesting article jj,one has to be on ones toes....otherwise we are jiggered? wink wink..
Diana <>
, , , Mon Jul 4 10:54:53 2011

It transpires that we're all being profiled by FaceBook and google: at w=w=w.economist.com/node/18894910 there's an article that I posted on FB and commented, "Gee Guys! Thanks: I'm into private browsing and dogpile.com exclusively from here on in! What a bunch of supremely supercilious Twerps those guys turned out to be". Worth a shufty. I think anyway.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jul 3 22:34:21 2011

and solely 4 use by children after a training course at altcar. and three meter armz.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Jul 3 22:30:36 2011

Conkers - too hazardous for the little-ones now, can be played if wearing helmet and safety glasses, it is recommended that tough leather gloves also be worn.
would I lie to you, Jimmie <>
, , , Sun Jul 3 22:13:21 2011

I was watching the superb Brit drama " Larkrise to Candleford' and a small segment that revolved around Conkers brought a lot of memories to mind. Do the lads in the U.K. still play that game ? I recall having one super conker that was a champion,hard as a rock and never a crack in it. I wonder now what I did with it ? DJ <>
, , , Sun Jul 3 20:56:39 2011

crosby pubs of yor. any 1 remember spitoons. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Jul 3 20:25:48 2011

well smoking 'em.
. <>
, , , Sun Jul 3 00:14:50 2011

Been sampling your agricultural efforts dear boy
Greenthumb <>
, , , Sat Jul 2 21:05:26 2011

who reads steve cribbin anyway
<>
, , , Sat Jul 2 14:52:57 2011

methinks Heermes has spent too long in the upper rooms at the Red Lion Pub on Bridge Road. (see CH)
. <>
, , , Sat Jul 2 13:28:24 2011

Reading the Steve cribbin piece in the ch btw never read him before, he goes on to talk about the dereliction of the Alex in south road and the general demise of urns British public house.. Then he gives a potted history of Crosby pub life in times past and he mentions Esther the erstwhile manager of the George who made Maggie thatcher look like Emily nugent..however the George was a great pub at that time with very mature bar staff Esther took over the pub after the death of her husband. I remember one guy behind the bar who was always lifting his elbow as esther would say drinking the profits.. Now and then he would get belligerent and start a nark with one of the customers, And when they retaliated he would run to Esther for protection she did have class from another era does anyone else remember her?
Hermes <>
, , , Sat Jul 2 12:48:33 2011

Mrs. Lloyd of Crosby is a s**t...
MilfMan <dominic@lld.co.uk>
The Final Hole, , , Sat Jul 2 03:21:39 2011

Things are getting worse in Canada also; 4 out of 3 people do not understand fractions
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jul 1 22:28:22 2011

Not too much to celebrate in the UK at the moment. Many people losing their jobs. Another 15,000 Lloyds Bank workers will soon be on the dole. TJs, Thorntons Sweet shops going to the dogs...Sterling lost 4% of its buying power...Blimey its a sad day for Britain....Border Control Officers letting in every Tom, D**k and Harry...don't they look at their computers...It seems that anyone going to the USA on a British Passport has to notify them inadvance: USA entry procedures have changed and UK travellers to the USA under the Visa Waiver Scheme must now complete the I-94W form online using the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA) system - All Visa Waiver Passengers will be finger scanned and their pictures taken upon arrival in the USA. This will take place during the inspection with US Customs & Border Protection who will use an inkless digital finger scanner to electronically capture either, the left & right index fingers of the traveller or a full scan of all fingers. A digital photograph of the traveller will also be taken. The process usually takes an average of 15 seconds and should not inconvenience or delay arrival into the USA...........................If the UK bods did the same maybe the undesirable individuals would be kept out....Here there is a huge problem. Last month over 1200 passed over the border from the Sinai desert in to Israel...Tel Aviv is now now inundated with thousands upon thousands of illegal homeless...Some horrific stories these people have suffered en route at the hands of traffickers...h*t*t*p://gulftoday.ae/portal/ddbebbc7-5ce6-48df-95f7-0ede0be953b1.aspx...
Diana <>
, , , Fri Jul 1 16:59:43 2011

Many happy returns Canada. Does the UK have a celebration day, or (for some) is that every day? I can't remember, must be loosing me marbles.
Salty <>
, , , Fri Jul 1 15:21:25 2011

That reminds one of the old Soviet joke, "If Communism were to take over the Sahara, there would soon be a shortage of sand". But even so, the situation on the ground still is a bit of a mystery; we know not what sort of the Big C it is, a state that precludes qualified medical opinion's speculations regarding the prognosis. In his speech on TV, he virtually said the it was Fidel that diagnosed him. He still governs from a afar (not allowed) etc and a slew of other 'irregular' odds&ends are in evidence. As for the chances of an opposition win next year, whatever they may be, we are still faced with a Supreme Court, self-declared, "at the service of the revolution"(!) with an armed forces whose chief said that they were 'married' to the present "process" , implying that the military wouldn't accept but a continuation of the status quo. And the opposition winning candidate would have his job cut out elswhere: Venezuela impotrs gasoline abut 'supplies' Minsk with it under contract (bought at international prices elswhere and shipped on). The nation's debts are enormous: only out "acknowledge" only legitimately contracted debts (very few) but still face Chinese upsettedness (supposedly: their vast loans, for payment in oil lack parliamentary appro, a sine qua non for legitimacy).
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jul 1 14:54:22 2011

Say Ta Ta to the family jewels /news/world-south-asia-13982031
<>
, , , Fri Jul 1 13:31:34 2011

It's a "socialist" Government, they won't be turfed out until the country is totally bankrupt
;o( <>
, , , Fri Jul 1 13:19:32 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-venezuela-chavez-snap-idUSTRE7600MV20110701................They don't give too many details as to what and where he had the big C..? .....Well jj, seems that Mr C maybe on the way out of Government, that's if the opposition get in next year..? ................Will there be a big change in policy for the better if the opposition take over?
Diana <>
, , , Fri Jul 1 07:48:03 2011

Waited all day at the airport, no sign of Pippa ?
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 23:59:11 2011

Dear Di', I posted your link on FB accompanie by the text; "Apart from the substance, some of which, with changed names, could have been lifted from government sites based here where I am, I post this on grounds of spotting possible traces of Toungue-In-Cheekery International members in the phrase, "...flotilla steering committee.." That has to be worth at least a mono 'AARRGGHH?, if not a double"
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 30 22:19:07 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-also-sabotaged-irish-ship-say-gaza-flotilla-organizers-1.370434...................................................................................................................
Diana <BTW, downtown Pireaus is like the black hole of calcutta. Not a nice place to walk around, neither daytime or night...>
, , , Thu Jun 30 21:47:59 2011

davy jones. nuthin but trubble them taffiez.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Jun 30 21:03:39 2011

Oh another thingie...How can these vessels leave port without special provisions. Life boats should be available..In fact lets say 60 persons...must have lifeboats on board for 120.More than 12 passengers on board a licensed doctor must be on board with full medical facilities...Some of the delegates are very elderly people. Many paid fees for joining these ships...I rest my case...A quick way to Davy Jones's locker...
Diana <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 20:59:37 2011

Dear Di', Let's have a link to the Pireaus matter; i searched in the BBC and got nowt.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 30 20:50:32 2011

Diana doesn't have too much to say....Seems a bit of a pigs ear in Pireaus regarding the pending Flotilla...Certain parties have been accused of sabotaging the propeller of one of the vessels.(Oh Dear)..Thus delaying its departure...Now I ask our techie team of Chief Engineers. How could one of the bronze blades be cut off in shallow water in port? Wouldn't special equipment be needed. Wouldn't there be noise.....I personally believe that these old ships were not sea worthy when they were purchased. Probably the Greek Captain passed over a rock or something en-route...Many delegates came from all over the place and are now going back home as they realize that the flotilla will not be floating in the near future....
Diana <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 20:43:05 2011

Dear Mare, You're so right! Maybe we should table a motion for the SAS to form special-mission, women-only units for 'The Ruggeder Lady' in the same language vein as 'For the Fuller Figure'! One thing that came through though was that the writer had long since forgottine what manners were for and the writée seemingly had no idea that 'manners' in any incarnation had aplace in life. But you're right, in one of those so-handily cited parallel universes, you and I have no dog in that fight. What say you, Diana?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 30 20:11:20 2011

Wimmin at War. Love it! bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13973331
Mare <>
Burbo, , , Thu Jun 30 17:20:42 2011

Iggnaramous, the toe wrestling champs.
Jimmie <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 16:54:25 2011

Kate and willy who ?
Backwoods barny <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 14:13:44 2011

I hope yuze guys over in the Canadian backwoods are going to see our Kate and her Willy on their arrival today. Get waving those little red leafy flags now.
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 13:52:29 2011

I believe that Toronto International Airport has some sort of a chap with nasty birds on his arm that are used to scare non-nasty birds away from jet intakes etc.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 00:54:20 2011

"this little piggy went to market, this little piggy got ripped off at the ankle?"
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 00:43:52 2011

sometimes life is just a "Beech" as "Nasty Nash" looses world title to new"Toeminator : /news/homepage/news/3663920/toeminator- <>
, , , Thu Jun 30 00:05:17 2011

Pigeon chat: "Percy, old fellow; fancy a glide down to Wimbers, see whether we get lucky crumbs-wise?" "No blooody fear Algy: they got the'selves some ruddy American marauder aloft and, just like before, 'overfed, over-sexed and over Wimbers!'" In a more serious tone though, it sounds like a pretty good idea and can't be expensive compared to other options espacially as it actually delivers the goods!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 29 21:04:12 2011

that might indeed be true !
;o) <>
, , , Wed Jun 29 19:35:19 2011

Arrers, one would say that that little blighter had a bird's eye view...
Diana <>
, , , Wed Jun 29 18:16:24 2011

it's for the bluddy berds : /news/business-13939805
<>
, , , Wed Jun 29 15:31:15 2011

I hear that Woolworths and Kresges might be shutting down
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jun 29 14:21:15 2011

My first memories of Father Christmas down in the basement. Remember some of those real crappy prezzies one got (for an extra fee)?
Salty <>
, , , Wed Jun 29 13:39:17 2011

Heard that TJ HUGHES are closing down? Shame, it was a landmark for Liverpool's shoppers...I think they were Liverpool's first outlet shop. Always could find a bargain there.Lovely old building with many special features....................h*t*t*p://w*w*w.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2008951/4-000-retail-jobs-threatened-department-store-chain-TJ-Hughes-needs-administrator.html
Diana <Another building for student accomadation..>
, , , Wed Jun 29 05:51:23 2011

Yes.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Wed Jun 29 04:47:40 2011

Dear Bri', it must have been very upsetting for that fellow in school: "Jim Lee and you, Tarquin, stay behind after class and write out your name 500 times!"
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 29 03:55:58 2011

I see J. Desi Lewis was a friend of Screaming Lord Such too. BE, when you were in Montreal didn't they have something similar - the Rhinoceros Party?
<>
, , , Tue Jun 28 23:45:50 2011

ps, bye-the-way do you get the International express?
) <>
, , , Tue Jun 28 22:15:38 2011

Very good brian, you should be awarded the CDM.
;O) <>
, , , Tue Jun 28 22:14:22 2011

Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel
BE <>
, , Sameold, Tue Jun 28 22:04:38 2011

Not exactly a spitfire but a bit nearer home. Does anyone remember the name of the gentleman who ran for the Crosby Parliamentary seat in 1981 beating both an "Independent" and the "Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident" parties....., His first name was Tarquin and ended with some sort of Barrel. (and no it wasn't Watney's Red Barrel.
<>
, , , Tue Jun 28 21:18:44 2011

What an interesting story ! I have found that the people from S. Ireland are to a large extent rather gentle and human regardless of the "troubles" (where the silly b*ggers burnt down the records office destroying all census and vital records in 1922). Whomever sent that news worthy story.... Please keep us informed of further developments re. the spitfire, what an amazing find.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jun 28 18:11:42 2011

Now, That was interesting! I had no idea at all at all. And to think that he could have found himself a nice colleen but opted otherly! Thanks, whosoever thou be.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jun 28 15:13:41 2011

Interesting little insight as to how the Irish took care of their wartime prisoners : /news/magazine-13924720
<>
, , , Tue Jun 28 13:55:31 2011

An assortment of high powered weapons and a stash of drugs including cocaine, heroin and ecstacy have been found behind the job centre in Liverpool. The locals are said to be in a state of shock......; They had no idea they had a job centre!
;O) <>
, , , Tue Jun 28 13:46:23 2011

That reminds me of an exam question of yesteryear, along the lines of "'It gets back to magic Mushrooms'; Discuss". So, how about it? Do you feel like giving it a whirl or maybe we should opt to shift gears at this point and ask TCC'ers globewide, "Does the Euro have a snowball's chance in hel.l and does it matter anyway?" or "Under Obama's high-handed and arrogant fiscal recklessness, is America likely to be able to avoid debt default (yes; real peril) for time enough for Barak to get relelected and finish the job?" [purists, see; w=w=w.economist.com/node/18866851?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/themotherofalltailrisks] But, just for the record, I, for one, am interested in the much-closer-to-home Magic Mushroom stuff, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jun 28 01:53:59 2011

it gets back to Magic Mushrooms.
. <>
, , , Tue Jun 28 00:17:38 2011

Sefton Park, Close to Penny Lane and stomping ground of my infancy, has always been Eel-Challenged thereby throwing a veil of doubt into the works; besides, the query from a Crosbological Gene Bearer would give more weight to the Sniggery rather than the -- in those days -- upmarket, Sefton option. I mean, how would a faroff park infiltrate the regular shenanigins of Sniggery-area Denizens? Answer me that. Lar.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jun 27 17:01:38 2011

then again, it may have been Sefton Park.
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, , , Mon Jun 27 16:50:14 2011

Dear Arrers, I think that might have been Sniggery Woods; you have to bear in mind that 'to sniggle' is to fish for eels and the Sniggery area was famous for them. Once upon a time, not so long ago, they formed a significant part of Crosbological culinary ingredients, Crosbegians for the use of. That would have been when Marl pits were commoner: the only remaining trace is the Duck Pond. The woods weren't far from Hall Road Station where German troops would have landed, only to be repulsed by waiting Home Guard units of the crack Eel & Repulse detachment, awaiting the landing of German troops had they planned to land. At Hall Road. Inasfar as the enemy troops failed to put in an appearance and the Hall Road Eel & Repulse Detachments were disbanded the moment that invasion became improbable, ageing 303 Lee Enfield Mk 1's being redistributed to the Bayshore Battle Group on Morecombe Bay Cockle Patrol, all has vanished: bearing in mind the properties of Magic Mushrooms, the Vanishing and the historical links involved, that must have been where the Magic Mushrooms were. Though I may be wrong.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jun 27 16:37:24 2011

Wot woz d place d grew magic mushrooms? I forgot, in fact I forget everything deze daze.
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, , , Mon Jun 27 12:00:05 2011

dj. ok bye me. and toxteth park.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Jun 26 23:44:49 2011

S.B. How could you leave out the Ancestral home of my Liverpool linage; dear old Toxteth Park
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jun 26 23:11:12 2011

S.B. How could you leave out the Ancestral home of my Liverpool
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jun 26 23:09:16 2011

Dear Arrers, yes, there's some mystery there but IF your interest is lively enough, punch in h=t=t=p://runrun.es/runrunes/20577/rompiendo-el-cerco-informativo-las-verdades-de-la-enfermedad-del-presidente-chavez.html and Google translate; if I do it for you, the post becomes cumbersome in TCC terms. That's about as close as can currently be got actually and is a pile more than the BBC reports will say.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jun 26 22:47:52 2011

dye ana. my memorie is uther. not youse lot. but all youse. may b regional. smithdown. bewtle. scotty road. old swan. etc. walton. sew both cud b rite.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sun Jun 26 22:44:27 2011

'you' lot...'you' lot, my my, the Scouse lingo is YOUSE lot....
Diana <>
, , , Sun Jun 26 19:25:27 2011

Lordy, Lordy, B****r-Brook?
;o)....say no more....say no more <>
, , , Sun Jun 26 15:28:08 2011

Stone the crows ; I am somewhat at a loss trying to understand why Canada was dragged into this dialogue about proper English, here in the colonies we speak proper Canadian with a twist of French and Irish
DJ <>
, , , Sun Jun 26 14:37:52 2011

Yuze guze over in Ven must be fealing very lonely deze daze, wearz yer leader den mate?
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, , , Sun Jun 26 13:10:14 2011

Well, Arrers, flawless punctuation there; well done old sock!
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jun 26 04:18:53 2011

Yer wot?
. <>
, , , Sun Jun 26 01:06:03 2011

If your school forwent 'you lot' then it forwent inculcation of the vulgate, insulating the pupils from the world at large and frankly, a palpable error. You could catch up, though by meticulous perusal of TCC, for starters, Lar.
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jun 26 00:52:53 2011

When I attended Eaton, nobody but nobody would have used the expression "You lot". Lord Beaverbrook, in English, one might say "You're slip is showing". Almost guarantee that you probably spent more time in Eaton's than Eton, certainly when younger.
Sir Claudius Bonkington-Smythe <>
, , , Sat Jun 25 22:20:54 2011

What's wrong with the phrase? It's abundantly clear, "The Daily Sport will never be dead as long as you lot aren't" seems to be the message; where's the problem? As for the "school boy Canadian" jibe: whence&why? You left me behind altogether there.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jun 25 21:19:06 2011

Billy Maxwell, ......."while you lot are aound", what sort of good English is that, or a bit of a retreat into your school boy Canadian?
;O) <>
, , , Sat Jun 25 21:06:43 2011

The Daily Sport will never be dead while you lot are around.
Lord Beaverbrook <>
, , , Sat Jun 25 20:05:24 2011

That reminds me of another less known rhyme: There was a young lady from Dean/ who invented an erotic machine/ on the 33rd stroke/ the bluddy thing broke/ and / Oh dear I forget the rest of it.
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, , , Sat Jun 25 15:35:27 2011

Reminds one somewhat of that well know rhyme: "There was a young man from Kilbride//who fell in a privy and died// his broken hearted brother, fell into another///And now they're interred side by side ! Bah Bum ;O) <>
, , , Sat Jun 25 13:52:05 2011

cake or Burbo burger?
. <>
, , , Sat Jun 25 00:17:23 2011

well dJ you cannot have your cake and eat it
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, , , Fri Jun 24 23:40:54 2011

Just arrived back from a 400 mile round trip to pick up another J/D.Two thoughts spring to mind.... Mayor if the new Burbo sewerage and muck plant was built with your mayors municipal and political will it looks like your re-election will be a piece of cake....... When I pop off I will be taking several valid credit cards with as I don't know which one they will accept down there.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 24 19:36:49 2011

ohh eh, no more crabs, jellies or johnies? won't seem de same as de old daze.
;o) <>
, , , Fri Jun 24 19:36:21 2011

ps. amongst the salmon, sea bass and trout no doubt?
Salty <>
, , , Fri Jun 24 16:21:59 2011

That's the difference jj. Unfortunately, those of a Brownmoor persuasion, never had the good fortune to frequently swim amongst the Garston trout and other such fabulous flotsam. I suspect that myself, DJ, Salty, Diana et al are made of hardy stuff. And by the way, the sewage system along the Crosby coastline was renewed several years ago and it is now possible to swim once again in the Burbo Sea of sighs...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Jun 24 13:58:25 2011

Well, well! I am at a loss regarding what you have sought to imply there but I have long since given up skirts for daytime tennis and, for after hours games in the tropix, different conventions apply.
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jun 24 00:09:21 2011

Has anyone ever seen a corpse lying in a shroud? In North America (I suppose except for certain parts of Kentucky and West Virginia where the moonshine may be hidden between the fold of such garments) most people are dressed up in their "Sunday best" or other such uniforms (army, navy, free-masonic [if there is such a thing], Kniggits of St.Columbus) when they put on their last display. Let's hope JJ is not produced in tennis skirt and flip flops. As for pockets, I was going to drop a cheque into the coffin for production 'on the other side', don't need pockets.
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jun 23 22:37:36 2011

Indeed, shroud design hasn't progressed a great deal since I was younger and less shroud-proximate, so to say. I'm booked to play tennis tomorrow. That's the plan anyway...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 23 15:22:25 2011

DJ, you are so right Dear friend...enjoy life to the fullest, spend your children's inheritance. Remember that a shroud has no pockets.
Diana <>
, , , Wed Jun 22 18:33:21 2011

Off to a funeral today, another old pal called it quits, feeling rather downcast about old friends who have recently packed it in all from the big C. Makes me determined to live everyday to the fullest.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jun 22 15:43:42 2011

reflecting. if scared it outa them. he implyz. they wer ful of it b 4. fertiliser. question mark. ful of fertiliser. a ferst a palpable ferst. but callz 4 a proper sewage disposal sistem r out of line. ther has been a mersey for as long as i kna remember. un 4 tunately. thatz kwite a long thyme.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed Jun 22 15:07:00 2011

Those last few entries seem to have scared the fertilizer right out of posters - all quiet on the Mersey front.
;o( <>
, , , Wed Jun 22 13:30:55 2011

I sincerely hope that Crosby has a proper sewerage disposal plant by now..... You could be correct Mayor, when I was a teen we used to swim in a small lake north of Toronto. It was surrounded by what we used to call " common law houses" and their sewerage would flow directly in to this lake. When swimming we would push aside various floating objects. Yuk........Funny how things change, the toffs dicovered this lake and now it is surrounded by large toff type mansions with proper sewerage arrangements.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jun 21 21:00:26 2011

What do you mean, "immune"? I was born in March, 1941 and, already, I'm 70, albeit weathered, flinty-eyed and not beyond striking, but 70 nonetheless so you'll know what I think of your "immune" claim! Harrumph! And Gertcha for good measure! [thinks: maybe if I had gone to the shore more often to get the fuller benefit..?...?]
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jun 21 20:51:23 2011

DJ, what the Mayori says is correct..Its that muck which heightened our immune system. I can't remember ever taking anti-biotics as a youngster, or even in my teen years....Mind you, I don't think I could get my teeth round one of the Burbo Burgers........................................................................................Elaine Scouse, are you receiving my emails?
Diana <>
, , , Tue Jun 21 19:54:18 2011

But that is how we gained our immunity DJ.
Mayor <>
Burbo Burgers For All, , , Tue Jun 21 18:17:14 2011

Crikey Di, Don't remind me of the "ingredients" found on Crosby beach, to think we used to swim and play among that muck its a wonder we did not die of typhoid.
DJ <>
, , , Tue Jun 21 15:29:04 2011

How's about a condom burger fresh from the Mersey tide
Recycler <>
, , , Tue Jun 21 13:59:18 2011

a 'Burbo Burger' sounds so much more posh than the 't**d berger', yes much more Blundellsaahhrrds.
;o) <>
, , , Tue Jun 21 13:33:47 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/?test=faces..........................................Well the KOBI STEAK is put on the back burner...These people could collect a lot of 'ingredients' from around the sewer on Crosby beach...My,my, whatever next.?
Diana <staying a veggie.:-0>
, , , Tue Jun 21 06:01:16 2011

u did indeed. i suppoze u cud sey. d&j are. deere john letterz. hmmnn.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Jun 20 20:12:22 2011

SB Did I cheer you up ..thats what I want to know
Deere John <>
, , , Mon Jun 20 19:54:14 2011

eye am a grate supporter of copilots.
sb <att@ease.edu>
cc, cc, c, Mon Jun 20 19:29:11 2011

didn't know Jack/Danials made tractors.
;o) <>
, , , Mon Jun 20 19:04:01 2011

Here is a positive comment. I just clinched a deal on another J/D tractor, a real steal for me. I have a 5 hour drive hauling my trailer to pick it up with SWMBO riding co-pilot. Hows that for cheering every one up on a Monday.
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jun 20 18:15:18 2011

Why is commentary always negatively tainted? I read the CH piece and it looked not like a Cavern II but the potential beginnings of a Crosby Phil, offering the advantages of not having to downtown it for a bit of decent music: having been originally founde by an Irish congregation, I hope they can see their way clear to Maritana's "There is a Flower That Bloometh" first and then "Bella Figlia de Amore" and the standards, along with a few rousing "Carmen" odds&ends and maybe a jaunty "Gaudeamus Igitur" to maintain, ahem, that Latin touch....Vale!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jun 20 14:23:30 2011

Are the modern Brothers intending to turn St. Marys into a new Cavern Club? see CH
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, , , Mon Jun 20 13:48:50 2011

BE, let's hope those Rabbis' involved with the Benjie/lawyer thingy are also afflicted with kidney stones.
;o) <>
, , , Sun Jun 19 14:42:42 2011

BTW, just in case that some of you are concerned about Jewish treatment of animals, checkout: jewfaq.org/animals.htm
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Jun 19 13:00:08 2011

Dear di, We men don't just think of the part you mentioned. We think of the whole delectable body!
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Jun 19 12:51:38 2011

Dear Di', Next to what we know here, the report you cite, depending as it does on official statements, falls far short of what we've learned here over this last week; there are, officially admitted to, 22 fatalities among prisoners; local folk, however, are likely to give more crdence to morgue arrival figures, which would give more like double but, to sidestep that easy 'book-keeping' route, the authorities are ostensibly taking bodies to different morgues, thus to confuse the issue. While all this is going on, The Man is ill, operated this last week in a Cuban facility and governing - really, he signed a law into effect - from a Cuban hospital bed. That's actually not allowed but that frequent feature of anything The Man does is never taken into account. In this general area, purists may like to consult w=w=w.economist.com/node/18836430 where you can read a phrase like 'squirelled away billions' quite fast but stop for a second to ask what that would entail in your own countries and how many political careers would be ended with hankypanky involving one ten-thousanth of that amount.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun Jun 19 02:02:59 2011

Di, about as tall as some of those very strange hats all religious types seem to prefer. Poor little doggy, must admit it doesn't look as though it would make a good sarnie.
Salty <>
, , , Sun Jun 19 00:15:22 2011

Youse lads can only think about women's bums....Typical men..jj, could this place be mistaken for Walton Klink? ;-0...h*t*t*p://w*w*w.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/18/venezuela.prison.violence/index.html?eref=igoogledmn_topstories
Diana <>
, , , Sun Jun 19 00:12:49 2011

honker. hmmmn. u need a very tite definition 4 that term 2 avoid reel trubble.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Jun 18 22:02:45 2011

SB I feel that I may get my honker flattened if I feel.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 21:17:49 2011

First that I heard about the doggie. The ultra religious court in Mea Shareem Jerusalem is a very religious sect of their own. They don't recognize Israel as a state and have their own laws which they abide by..The Neturei Karta is one of several ultra-Orthodox communities, though perhaps the most radical because of its opposition to the existence of the state of Israel. The community believes Judaism is different from Zionism and that Jews should not have a state on earth until the Messiah returns. It believes it is sinful to establish a Jewish state in Israel before that time...Each to their own...That doggie story does seem a very tall story indeed...
Diana <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 21:07:44 2011

or even. 4 mor dramatic effect. encouraged. u feel.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Jun 18 20:19:44 2011

dj. i c that u feel encouraged. hmmnn.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Jun 18 20:14:04 2011

hermes Its always encouraging to run across a chap who obviously has a keen eye for the gluteus maximus regions of the female gender. Being in the U.K. I hope that you are a Pippa fan
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 15:35:56 2011

Al, if you close your eyes and think of your ex-wife's lawyer, it might not taste too bad. Marinate in holy oil for about as long as it takes to say 25 Hail Mary's before roasting, the flesh should be fairly well tenderized after the stoning bit. You can thank all those chaps in their funny hats and hair cuts for that last bit.
jimmie da butcha <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 14:56:10 2011

Dear Sirs/Madam, referring to the previous posting: If dogs are considered 'impure animals', does that mean I can't eat my dog when it is hot?
Alowesheeus Billberry III <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 14:47:56 2011

Never mind all this frivolity, shall we send the troops into Israel to protect 'Bengie'? : /news/world-middle-east-13819764'
;o) <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 12:46:58 2011

hermes. if it iz as bad lyk u sey. turn the lites down. and think of tee nage walks in wales. undul ating country syd.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat Jun 18 03:28:04 2011

The publicity hungry women who got that award has a terrible tush it seems ti begin at her thighs and then transcends into a bulb us bow that finishes up around her waist and after all is said and done it's only full of shight anyway as my mate curly would say
Hermes <>
, , , Sat Jun 18 02:08:43 2011

DJ, That would make your protest a real life rear-guard action. You dog! Ironically, it puts you in the vanguard of rear guards. Pippa has the advantage of having passed the Damascus course though, where, on a crowded street, one Arab admonished a slow-poke donkey driver, "Get your a*s into gear, for Heaven's sake"!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jun 17 20:23:00 2011

News has just reached the colonies that Pippa was disqualified from being entered in the "Rear of the Year" contest held in Britain. Instead it was awarded to a 50 year old TV personality. I feel compelled to protest in strongest terms.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 17 17:09:37 2011

J.J. I wondered what all the sudden blather was about, thanks for the explanation. .......BTW that botox stuff is starting to look good,I discovered another wrinkle while gazing into the mirror murmering mirror mirror on Etc.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 17 16:51:18 2011

Dear DJ, Look at who partly financed her campaign: look at her (botoxed to the gills, literally) and with whom she hobnobs and you'll see that she's not the best that Argentina can come up with at all at all. That sort of pol uses the kind of declaration you cite when she's in a corner, any corner. Franco emblematically claimed Gibraltar every time he was in a jam. Famously, once, with an angry Spanish, crowd demonstrating "Give us back GIBRALTAR!!!!!" outside the embassy, the ambassador emerged on a balcony and signaled for silence [What can he say? wondered all] "I haven't got it", he declaimed, (pointing south) "It's down that way!" The 'angry' mood, taken by surprise, fell into the 'Spanish' mood, and everyone burst out laughing: that's and ambassador who can ambassade, matey! If Christina's sounding off about that business again, it's becuase she's in a jam at home. The whole thing ought to blow over.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jun 17 00:46:15 2011

A spot of trouble brewing perchance ? BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's president has called Britain a "crude colonial power" for its stance on the Falkland Islands. President Cristina Fernandez is taking issue with a remark by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron says that "as long as the Falkland Islands want to be sovereign British territory, they should remain sovereign British territory — full stop, end of story." Fernandez calls that an "expression of mediocrity, and almost of stupidity." The islands are claimed by Argentina, which Britain defeated in the 1982 Falklands Islands war. Fernandez has insisted Argentina and Britain should negotiate over the islands. Fernandez said on Thursday that the British "continue to be a crude colonial power in decline."
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 23:13:12 2011

Smiley, Using a comparison to claim that A was greater than B is to sidestep the issue; it assumes that we are all of a mind regarding what greatness is: whilst your statement may find acceptance in many quarters, it still leaves us at a loss as to which characteristics are in question. I might just as well have said, "Compared with the two latest PM's, American Presidents stood taller": unless I clear up what 'to stand tall' denotes, then we're gumtreed. Thus, in what essence does greatness reside? From there, we can all agree or disagree on presidents X, Y or Z but we will know what we're talking about.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 16 21:06:32 2011

JJ, when compared with the last two socialist rascals in Britain, all the US Presidents including Wubblya have been great.
;o) <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 19:06:59 2011

just the fax. no multiplicationz plz. i did not hav sex with that woman.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Jun 16 16:28:52 2011

Dear Observer, Where are you coming from? From a clear blue sky, "And I suppose..." to proceed to "rubbish". No charlie claimed owt about Bush or Nixon so to charge about the place wielding a drawn sword, all unbehested, leaves me wondering. Please elucidate. As a matter of interest, of all American presidents, would you call any 'great' at all at all? Indeed, name a songle essential element of that elusive concept of 'great': I'm interested to see what you choose.
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 16 15:08:45 2011

I repeat: "I did not have sex with that women" which one was that by-the-way?
Willie <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 15:03:14 2011

And i suppose that bush was a great pres ? And nixon ? What a load of rubbish
Observer <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 14:18:17 2011

Herms, bankers have always "Gambled" with other peoples munny - its how they used to pay interest AND share holders dividends.: unless, like the Bushes, they printed it ! (Although these days the banks seem to do very well on service charges alone)
Claude Bonkington-Smythe <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 13:22:33 2011

Hermes, wrong again. Slick Willie was one of the best Prezes we ever had (or should I say I had)
Monica <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 13:04:51 2011

Clinton was a total disaster president, apart from the housing problems that was his baby he also did away with the glas-steagall act that allowed bankers to gable with other peoples money causing the financial meltdown I can not stand the man never could. However there is one american Polly that I have an enormous amount of resection for and that is. Ron Paul d Texas one great great man to good to be president...sorry about the spell and the punctuation. Getting used to the ipad
Hermes <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 12:00:30 2011

dj. creative memory is a positive advantage. and good for remembering a manz monicker.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Jun 16 03:31:11 2011

and slippery...............in his political dealings !
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, , , Thu Jun 16 01:29:59 2011

Bill Clinton was refered to as Slick Willy if my memory is correct. Perhaps you mean the newest U.S. badboy Anthony Wiener
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 16 01:12:36 2011

remembering bill clinton. that repherenz lookz lyk u r sailing very close to the wind.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed Jun 15 16:17:25 2011

SS, are you related to slippery Bill Clinton?
<>
, , , Wed Jun 15 00:37:54 2011

Personally speaking I have always found Broadmoor a pleasant place to spend some time with Devils Island coming in a close second, wonderful climate also.
Slippery Sam <>
, , , Tue Jun 14 21:41:58 2011

Dear Diana, You'll have seen that the facility is run not by authorities but a predominant, albeit (very realtively) benign group of inmates. In prisons in general, the overcrowding is legendary and casualties and fatalities are not unheard of: Just this week (it's only Tuesday!) there were 18 fatalities in a melee in one prison and last week, three more occurred; the subsequent news revealing that holding cells are so crowded that nobody can even sit down. so your scouser's lone experience was just that. Unfortunately, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue Jun 14 13:36:13 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/06/10/mersey-cocaine-mule-says-venezuela-prison-in-the-best-jail-in-the-world-100252-28853775/
Diana <Seems our jj is not the only Scouser in Ven ?>
, , , Tue Jun 14 05:30:27 2011

Now that just wasn't very nice, was it?
j <etc>
etc, ec, & God Bless, Tue Jun 14 01:40:38 2011

man doze fellas from de black africie all have sand-paper on der feets. Never seendem playdat footy man?
Sirs Bobby Mugabeee <>
, , , Tue Jun 14 01:13:55 2011

smyley. thanx. power 2 our top model man. i hope he leaves the rest in the dust..... & slaves information in yur link sez. yes there were few sales. but that. after 1772. all became free on landing. sew. how kan i c paving stones 200 years later so worn. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Jun 13 22:03:23 2011

sb, you can google-up many references to the "Liverpool slave trade". Yes we do know that most were shipped out to the Americas (many on Liverpool owned ships). eg: *w.liverpolitan.im/main/liv_19_1.htm. Also checked in CH, first article:crosbyherald.co.uk/news/crosby-news/2011/06/11/waterloo-personal-trainer-sets ..........thought that might get your attention.
;O( <>
, , , Mon Jun 13 20:00:29 2011

smiley. plz elucidate ch repherenz. i cud fynd nowt.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Jun 13 17:16:11 2011

Local lad Danny O'Connor, ex-Southport Tech pupil, will strut 'is stuff wearing only swim and evening-ware to represent our native land. Wish 'im well ! (see CH)
:O) <>
, , , Mon Jun 13 13:42:42 2011

Salts in reply to your question., yes I do remember the tide flowing up to our french windows in the back garden.Went up Warrenhouse Road I believe that there is the possibility of it happening again, what with all the ice melting in the North. Funnily enough,last week I was sitting with hubby on the beach here in Haifa. There is hardly any sandy beach anymore, as the sea had covered most of the area and taken most of the lovely white sandy beach away..It seems its something to do with the Aswan dam in Egypt....(after googling just found this article if anyone is interested) ..h*t*t*p://w*w*w.israelweather.co.il/english/page2.asp?topic_id=72&topic2_id=123&sub_topic_id=1....Back to Crosby..As a child living in Endsleigh Road, I remember nothing but beautiful sand hills outside our house on the seaside..I remember a group of women from Warrenhouse Road use to bring their packed lunches and sit along the high redbrick wall which was surrounding the huge field at the bottom of Riverslea. It was a suntrap there in front of that wall..That redbrick wall was a popular spot for kids to jump off.(A dare) I remember jumping off it into the sand below, (it was about three metres high) I put my front teeth through my tongue and was rushed to hozzie...We talk about the good old days, yes I can really say they were good old days. Everyone was satisfied with their lot and there didn't seem to be a 'living' up with Jones's attitude as there is today..
Diana <>
, , , Mon Jun 13 07:15:38 2011

Doing. Of course. ahem. Ding indeed! and without an "a ling" to boot: what's the world coming to?
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jun 13 03:12:29 2011

If you live in Canada, the OECD says you're ding just fine....w=w=w.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jun 13 03:09:13 2011

Top of the morning to you, Mrs. Maloney; I'm back in town & heard it all; sorry about Declan's being out of work but I heard about the new lad: he must be going on three by now... Sure, he is, Kelvin and yesterday, he said his first words, "Ora pro nobis".
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon Jun 13 03:06:34 2011

Thanks Mike J.J. and Brian. Since I posted my request for a clue I have been reading some more of Masefields poetry. Being a wind powered sailor in the past some of his poetry has a real salty dipped rum soaked nautical mal de mer swagger to it that really hits the spot with me.//////// Interesting facts that I gleaned from reading the short history of Liverpool and area shipbuilding. In 1900 the ship yard workers union at Harland and Wolf in Belfast approached management and demanded that all R.C.s be let go, fearing a strike this was agreeded too immediately. How rotten is that !
DJ <>
, , , Mon Jun 13 01:04:39 2011

salty. slaves sold in liverpool. u say. duz that sound rite 2 u.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon Jun 13 00:48:51 2011

Dave, I believe that a "masque" is like a play. Those words may be the introduction.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sun Jun 12 18:00:47 2011

The last line is particularly appropriate as at certain high tides water would come right up to the ends of Riverslee and Warrenhouse Roads (A bit before the building of the original "new Crosby Baths") I am sure Diana will remember water rising at least to her front garden gate. But it was not just the tide that filled the streets of d'pool; when younger, my father would take me around the various sites where the pavement had been worn down by the bare feet of 'numerous' slaves while being sold.
Salty <>
, , , Sun Jun 12 14:17:46 2011

I believe that is the full text. I could not find any further verses for this, I think it was written about 1930.
Mike <>
, Schifferstadt, , Sun Jun 12 09:44:08 2011

I wasn't able to find a fuller text; did anyone else? It really looks like something that the Museum itself should have available. Maybe a mail to the Maritime Museum would bear fruit: they're the ones using it.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jun 11 20:34:52 2011

Last night I finished a book about Liverpool history in brief. I found a wonderful piece of poetry in the opening pages that really appealed to me : ..." I am the English sea queen; I am she, Who made the English wealthy by the sea, The streets of this my city is the tide, where the worlds ships,that bring my glory,ride."................ A Masque of Liverpool written by John Masefield. I would love to read the rest of this piece but am unable to find it, Any body out there familiar with Masefields work ?
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 10 21:23:42 2011

I cannot think of a stronger bond than that of a parent and a child, how these parents live with themselves is hard to imagine. It is frustrating to dwell on these types of cruelty,one feels helpless. Time to move on.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 10 13:45:59 2011

Di, I am sure the thought crossed his mind more than once
;o) <>
, , , Fri Jun 10 13:06:06 2011

DJ, so true, so true, I suppose that there are the pervies who manage to gleam youngsters through the internet, but what is going on in those other countries are known by the authorities and they do nought..As I have said many many times, there will never be democracy or children's rights in those places...One should say thank the Lord for being born in a more "normal" country.. At least me Dad didn't sell me off at 5 years...
Diana <>
, , , Fri Jun 10 11:51:27 2011

J.J. I have equal contempt for the modern day slavers and get very upset for the kids who get caught in this. When you start to take stock there are many dark sides to mankind.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 10 01:07:14 2011

DJ. Shame? You are too polite, sir, by an Irish mile, or we would say here, "una cuadra llanera"; without judging individuals, after all, the husbands are less damaged but still caught up in the same rubbish, the 'shame' term, in the context of public policy, falls short: 'bluddy criminal' begins to approach the matter a tad. And governments can't plead ignorance, grounds upon which many a 'man on the street' could be excused for misundertsanding what was being gotten into.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 9 22:08:00 2011

Any man that marries that style is little more than a pervert. I have always thought that one sign of civilization is how we treat each other. The husbands and parents of the child brides are barely civilized at all. AND we are letting them into this country by the boatload. Shame!
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 9 21:24:07 2011

Dear Di', What a repugnant set of circumstances, beginning with the parents' willingness to treat daughters like that. Cultural imbalances -- and there are obviously plenty there -- aside, just how does a father or mother let it happen right there in front of them? Or ever did so; this has been going on for generations. "Mix in a spot of democracy and, by next week, it'll all be ok..."
j <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu Jun 9 20:38:42 2011

SB.Your triple posting was without a doubt your longest statement in a long long time. Are you becoming a motor mouth.////////////////I just read that Sarah " wild west" Palin is taking her circus to London and wanted to meet her hero Baroness Thatcher.Spokesperson for Thatcher says" no way"
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 9 14:51:50 2011

sb, you got the hiccups again,or is the auld Parkinsons setting in? ..........h*t*t*p://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/child-brides/sinclair-photography....click on the feature article... ...This world has gone mad.
Diana <>
, , , Thu Jun 9 14:13:10 2011

trubble in 3s. as usual. sorrie.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Jun 9 03:49:56 2011

eyther yur spellingz sufferd or yur into the dubble entente area. beaut-anything is bound 2 raise eye brows. at least. no need to end the day with twisted cammies tho. and mannnerz r only local. sew. u hav 2 try anuther werd if u r 2 make any hedway with this. or heed old saw. if u kant beat them. no snkickerz plz. join them... if yur wether is hot. u cud reconphigure yur at tire.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu Jun 9 03:49:01 2011

I was shocked by the sight in that film of some of the mens bare beautocks and frontal nudity. I am not wrong I watched it 2031/2 times just to make sure.
Miss Manners <>
, , , Wed Jun 8 22:53:47 2011

miss eti quette. the clip woz gud. & tell us how many pants wud b enuff 4 u. u must broaden a bit. the mind part. i mean.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed Jun 8 21:31:38 2011

frightfuly lovely pictures but I do wish some of those fellows would but some pants on.
Miss Manners <>
, , , Wed Jun 8 20:17:53 2011

Dear Di, after that lot, my vague feeling of being or, at least approximating to 'normal guy' has evaporated: braod brush, and the vid is nothing if not that, there's seemingly no 'normal' at all. Now, is that a relief, I wonder?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 8 20:03:47 2011

Awesome, Thanks Di
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jun 8 14:45:36 2011

Wonderful in the fullest of terms
Salty <>
, , , Wed Jun 8 13:55:45 2011

youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large .............. WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today’s PEACE.
Diana the worrier <we think we have seen it all, but have missed out on so much.>
, , , Wed Jun 8 08:34:33 2011

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow
Curlymop <>
, , , Tue Jun 7 16:36:53 2011

all that hair(?) and not a pomme de route in sight : /news/world-asia-pacific-13680884
;o) <>
, , , Tue Jun 7 14:01:51 2011

all that hair(?) and not a pomme de route in sight : /news/world-asia-pacific-13680884
;o) <>
, , , Tue Jun 7 14:01:29 2011

f. aboot hoo nose. dont wurry. u will get there. just a bit of fonetic delay setting in.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Mon Jun 6 18:24:20 2011

By der vay, wots it like to have a "Hoo nose"
F <>
, , , Mon Jun 6 17:51:33 2011

being from de Farter land, I always am. Especially over cucumbers, putting all those pions out of verk Ho Ho Ho
Fritz.... <>
, , , Mon Jun 6 17:49:57 2011

f. not the ferst tyme i hav bee sew accused. so may b yur rite. hoo nose.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Mon Jun 6 16:11:02 2011

sb, smart !
F <>
, , , Mon Jun 6 02:11:39 2011

fritz. in po lite company. how du u say the as.terisk part. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Sun Jun 5 23:47:35 2011

Curlymop, the phrase is "folicly challenged", but I see from you name you must really be called "Horse-droppings-head". I might recommend using "the cure" to more benefit on the roses, provided of course that it is well seasoned and not straight from the horses a*s, as you might say in polite company.
Fritz.... <>
, , , Sun Jun 5 17:02:46 2011

Fitzy Are you speaking from experience of follicle erosion
Curlymop <>
, , , Sun Jun 5 16:30:32 2011

My hairdresser, who is a male, started having hair transplanting . OMG, he looked like a hedgehog. I personally think, that bald is beautiful. I think its easier to put a 'rug' on ones head if one is feeling inhibited with the 'skating rink'.
Diana <>
, , , Sun Jun 5 10:52:09 2011

PS: Fitz, The Don Smith one gives onscreen words; if by chance, you're not familiar with it, maybe better to begin with. Hope u enjoy.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jun 4 22:04:47 2011

Dear Fitz Çur, I was intrigued by your choice of "that other Irish Scouser" which implied that we all knew who the first one is. However, after that glaring omission, the incorporation of "horse manure" let slip a clue as to the sort of thing we could expect. Truth be told, historically, all Scousers are Irish-influenced to some extent, the Irish having been such an integral part of Liverpool culture over the last couple of centuries: your very own mordancy betrays that inasfar as, were you not (ould) sod influenced, you could readily have reported the comically potential Rooney coiffure episode in a lighter and more bantering vein than the one that you selected for your post. You might have opted to mention that an athlete's top sprint velocity is increased when the apex is duly streamlined so any Man U lawyer worth his salt should have written into his contract that, if baldness (ostensibly sexy to the distaff side) were to emerge, ahem, he would be contractually obliged to live with it, thereby retaining the new-found speed enhancing feature. As for the horsey primitive tinge in there, if you'd like to look at an Irish contribution beyond that reprobate GBS or Brendan Behan or William Yeats or James Joyce and one 'less touted', try "There Is a Flower That Bloometh" from the Irish opera (yer wha'? Irish opera? Yes, "Maritana", you can google it up). There are several options -- including John McCormack's -- and one is at w=w=w.youtube.com/watch?v=QrC5uD5Gamw though some may prefer Don Smith's version at w=w=w.youtube.com/watch?v=m3cdD7JgAT0&feature=related . Whichever you try, do let me know what you thought of the lilting melody (I mean, I like it so feel it fills the bill today, as t'were). And, as we say in the Erin-tilted byways of the 'Pool, "May the wind always be at your back".
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jun 4 21:51:36 2011

I see that other Irish Scouser has come out of the closet; he has finally admitted that horse manure rubbed on twice a day did not work. Besides the smell, (which affected his eyesight and kicking ability), it would seem that the balls tended to slip off the top of his dome. Radical Harley Street thinks surgery might offer a better result: /news/uk-13654209 good job he can afford it?
Fitz..... <>
, , , Sat Jun 4 20:34:53 2011

Now, that is good word coining, "closet mongrel": I for one like it altogether. Congratulations. DJ, It looks as though your lot were ahead of the game; with that Irish input you cited of late, maybe they still are...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat Jun 4 03:25:04 2011

I must confess that I am a closet mongel. This is my coming out..according to my DNA this is meYou belong to haplogroup R1b, The Artisans, who first arrived in Europe from west Asia about 35,000- 40,000 years ago at the dawning of the Aurignacian culture. This cultural was remarkable for its subtle yet significant technological progress, like the from random flint collection to the use of a single stone core to shape flint tools as needed. Aurignacian decorative beads and jewelry could also be the first sign we have of the uniquely human quality of self-awareness and adornment. Additionally, some anthropologists believe that the Aurignacian culture was the first to paint. Either way, the people of this time period left behind fascinating cave paintings in France, Spain and Portugal.
DJ <>
, , , Sat Jun 4 01:06:57 2011

It looks to me as though the whole thing hangs on the 'mongrel' term, a straightforward enough word conveying an indiviual of mixed ancestry; the whiffy element creeps in when the overtone of 'mixed (hence unknown) ancestry' makes itself felt. Simply mixed is fine: in today's world, there's not a soul, however remote, who can claim 'pure' ancestry of any description. So, since all us TCC'ers are of mixed ancestry, it emerges that the term as used isn't a description of a type but rather an indication of our ignorance of X or Y's provenance; if we don't know, it must be 'bad' somehow. Fits (sic) opted for the word, technically "bis in unseren Nasen einzudrengen" [to get up our noses] and, we like to think, to promote robust banter and riposte. Didn't he? Back to the Irish Canadian backdrop: DJ, your children are about as mongrelish or unmongrelish as are mine: mine, all unknowing, just stick to the end bit there, "mong RELISH" an its stand-alone form.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jun 3 20:51:08 2011

Fitz old chap, my wife's ancestors and family all married fellow Irish from the mid 1700's until she met me ( Night school 1969 - lucky girl). Does that Sir, make my offsprings mongrels ?
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 3 19:14:22 2011

How many husbands will go uncollected ? If it was a wife creche there would be serious trouble no doubt.
DJ <>
, , , Fri Jun 3 19:08:20 2011

Saw a nice piece of Scouse humour/marketing savvy outside a Liverppol city centre pub today. "Husband Creche. We'll look after him while you go shopping. Collect him later"
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Fri Jun 3 15:50:08 2011

Dear Fitz-P, Blimey days, mate, how can you mention 'mongrels' and cite "Irish" as examples -- or indeed, any specified race -- when mongrels are an admixture of several: "Irish", standing alone, signifies just that wherefore cannot denote mongrels until same crossbreed with non-Irish, as for instance, my children, a cross of Liverpool Irish (though virtually 100% in the event) and Venezuelan Corsican immigration; we figure that they came about 1850, so they would qualify. Can't help getting a whiff of animosity too in that term you opted for; surely there are others, less whiffy? Even so, when I was being updrug, themtheres were ancient "Britons", which I had understood to be the point at issue with my learned colleague, SB. Gotta say too, taht inschool, I had always wanted Bodicea to whip the Romans' collective ar se. Frankly.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri Jun 3 01:45:59 2011

After slaving all day digging and leveling a base for a small retaining wall I carefully placed all the stones in position. Standing back to admire my newfound masonary talents I realized all was not well, I should have staggered the joints in each level. Blast it, another promising career path down the drain. Complete rebuilding tomorrow.
DJ <>
, , , Thu Jun 2 23:26:52 2011

there is an app for ethnic cleansing of britain
PC <>
, , , Thu Jun 2 15:53:11 2011

SB, it was, as with most countries, filled with 'mongrels' from 'all parts', some say, even Irish.
Fitspatrick <>
, , , Thu Jun 2 14:19:40 2011

twas never filled with britains. they wer britons. even the ancient 1s. including bodicea.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Thu Jun 2 12:51:16 2011

It would seem that Great Britain is no longer filled with 'Britains' - the EU have made sure of that! (then some would say Brown and Blair had some small hand in it somewhere). Don't think the Blessed Cherries ever played cricket or ran cross-country, might have something to do with it.
;o( <>
, , , Thu Jun 2 10:51:19 2011

Godfrey, I'm a cross-country man myself...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 1 21:47:43 2011

Good God John, fair play is taught on the cricket fields of Eton, always will ! Rule Britania What
Sir Godfrey Windrush-Ringworm <>
, , , Wed Jun 1 21:23:10 2011

Dear Diana, You can get always people to do anything, especially in groups; one of the cultured countries, Germany, has a pretty chequered past in that vein and, in France, there was a sector of the cabinet that pushed the option of joining the Nazis against the UK that, at the time, looked to be in a parlous state, increasing France's chances of at least some of the spoils and none of the pain (purists: Churchill: hist. 2nd WW). The actual number of Maquis was, i beblieve, never over 75,000; after the war tout français had been a maquillard. Fair play is touted a British characteristic: what do TCC'ers think of its really being reflected in the national psyche?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 1 20:03:42 2011

Have you read that one Israeli shipping company has been dealing with Iran?.....ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4077015,00.html......Big scandal here and America...Would make a good novel, certain would be/gorra.....
Diana <>
, , , Wed Jun 1 18:32:45 2011

That does surprise me jj, as I thought Ven had a very religious following. See how one needs to have someone on the spot to get the correct info..DJ, its not so easy to pull up one's roots and disappear.(Not at our age anyway.) Remember that Magali, jj's partner has much deeper roots there, including family, who I believe are many generations there. Must be an extremely worrying time for jj.
Diana <>
, , , Wed Jun 1 18:26:21 2011

DJ, It's been that time for a long time but, with logistical scaffolding as it stands, it's not a practical option.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 1 16:34:26 2011

Time to pack up and vamoose J.J.
DJ <>
, , , Wed Jun 1 16:04:22 2011

Dear Diana, The Church has been a target for years, having been described by Our Man -- to the assembled foreign diplo corps, including the Papal Nuncio -- as a 'tumor' on Venezueloan society. More recently, last week to be precise, statues of the Virgin and a locally revered 1920's doctor up for be-sainting, have been vandalised with paint and, in one case, beheading (also carried pout on Virgins in years past). The problem lies in the Catholics and Jews have a social teaching that entails private property, freedom of speech, and a string of elements that run counter to the Party Line. The synagogue in question was invaded by 'homeless' people who had jackets with 'defence of socialism' group badges; they were finally taken away in taxis with darkened windows so we have to begin doubting their homelessness and who's putting them up to these acts, not just this one. With an election upcoming, the regime seeks to earn brownie points with (outlandish) very publicised measures aimed at communities, buildings (simply taken over, occasionally) laws on rented property: judges cannot enter evictions against renters who never pay, for instance, and renters are to have preferential treatment in buying at a price set by the regime and not to include land-value factors ('land is the state's) if they so wish. The All property owners are charactyerised as property speculators, regardless. Anyone whose social teaching speaks of individuals having rights is suspect. that includes your lot and my lot.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed Jun 1 15:11:02 2011

S.B. you get an "A" for effort
The Boffin <>
, , , Wed Jun 1 15:03:30 2011

There will be no grads from the class of 2011. Correct answer :Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
The Boffin <>
, , , Wed Jun 1 15:01:30 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.haaretz.com/jewish-world/homeless-squatters-demand-venezuela-synagogue-be-turned-into-a-home-1.365026............Maybe the churches will be next target.
Diana <jj, what do you say.?>
, , , Wed Jun 1 05:43:48 2011

boff. is that for a six futter. or a 7 stone wee kling of 4 foot nine and a half.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue May 31 16:42:58 2011

Enough frivolity - - here is the test: Using all the formulas given apply them to answer this question : Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement =
The Boffin <>
, , , Tue May 31 16:14:57 2011

yes now madam, let's see what you have in that plastic bag.....AAAGGGHHH
Insp. Plod <>
, , , Tue May 31 14:12:39 2011

yes now madam, let's see what you have in that plastic bag.....AAAGGGHHH
Insp. Plod <>
, , , Tue May 31 14:12:16 2011

oooooh....might need that surgical tubing....../world-south-asia-13594762. cut off in his prime, you might say.
;o(( <>
, , , Tue May 31 13:22:14 2011

mr.boffin. orl gud stuf. keep em kummin. but. there r leaguez and leaguez tho. i see u r 4 the 2.4 myl 1. hmmmn.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon May 30 23:48:13 2011

Last Formula before big big test: 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
The Boffin <>
, , , Mon May 30 23:24:37 2011

i have mor, but of the contagious kind, shud be allrite if keep taking the pills
<>
, , , Mon May 30 23:13:55 2011

i lyked the micrfiche 1. gud 4 u çur. hav u mor. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon May 30 22:30:43 2011

Dear Boffin, That 'coming soon' takes me back to "The Regent" in days of yesteryore, "Quo Vadis coming soon". You were probably younger then though...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon May 30 20:22:05 2011

Formula of the day: 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche. ( Test coming soon )
The Boffin <>
, , , Mon May 30 19:16:58 2011

1 + 1 + 2? =
. <>
, , , Mon May 30 17:56:31 2011

Thanks DJ. By 'amateur' I meant people who do it for love not for money.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Mon May 30 17:35:25 2011

devon. wher the coider a'lles grow.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Mon May 30 17:17:54 2011

Thanks for the heads up Mayor, greatly appreciated, these papers could solve a 136 year mystery that I have been trying to solve for over 30 years- However I do brisle at the term amateur, Why my pals wife gave me a big hug and a kissypoo for tracking her family to Devon, That eliminates my amatuer status absolument !
DJ <>
, , , Mon May 30 17:10:32 2011

Dear Prof,I would posit that, with your "1 + 1 + ?", you have brilliantly stumbled on the binary form of "Yer wha'?" So, never good at maths, I'd anxiously enquire whether you've got any more where that came from, to practise on, like?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon May 30 16:50:04 2011

Not-so-Smailey, The hospital's comments inlcuded the phrase, "We would like to apologise to Mrs Moylan and her family for any distress this incident caused." In among the 'any distress' was the (probably premature) death of the patient. Talk about obsequiously worded offciciousness of the highest order!
John <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon May 30 15:46:21 2011

Er, I meant genealogists.
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Mon May 30 15:35:51 2011

Noozepaper nooze for amateur geologists. The British Library is to publish 40 million newspaper pages online from the 18th & 19th centuries. Said newspapers were only previously available through a personal visit. guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/30/british-library-digital-newspaper-archive?INTCMP=SRCH
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Mon May 30 15:34:07 2011

the madness continues: man breaks hip in Fazza-curley hospital, has to wait 25 minutes for ambulance to take him to operating room - see CH
;o( <>
, , , Mon May 30 14:09:13 2011

1 + 1 + ?
thr prof. <>
, , , Mon May 30 02:05:29 2011

Please be aware - There will be a test.
The Boffin <>
, , , Sun May 29 16:07:52 2011

Formula # 3: 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
The Boffin <>
, , , Sun May 29 16:05:33 2011

Eh Ma! Does the pilot know there are so many people back here, and some fatties too? Maybe we should tell him? Will it get off the ground, Ma? Won't the wings fold up? Do we get our munney back if they buckle an' break? Have a dekko at h=t=t=p://787flighttest.com/hanger/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer/player.swf?streamer=rtmp://cp81820.edgefcs.net/ondemand/tpn/firstflight/&file=TestLog4.flv
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun May 29 03:53:10 2011

Honorable Mr. DJ, On receipt of yours of the 28th instant, I would like herewith to declare my relief on the news and can reveal that, on first reading, reflexively, I uttered the word, Phew!
Pippa <aspiring2heights@buckhouse.org>
lunnon, .., .., Sun May 29 03:39:44 2011

Pippa, Fear not; I have not forgotten you !
DJ <>
, , , Sat May 28 17:34:09 2011

#2 conversion formula: Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower.
The Boffin <>
, , , Sat May 28 17:29:38 2011

must be calleeing all dat waite
hu flung dung <>
, , , Sat May 28 16:43:54 2011

Con Fewsh Eius thinks, it looks to me 'Boffin' as though you have Won Hung Lo.
con Fewsh Eius <>
, , , Sat May 28 16:41:42 2011

Conversion formula of the day: 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
The Boffin <>
, , , Sat May 28 15:28:56 2011

Dear DJ, Nowt to get upset about; BE's site was worth any 'blue' tinge that might have crept in there, I thought.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat May 28 00:51:47 2011

My reference to Lyons triggered a disreputable odious deluge multifarious trumpery
DJ <>
, , , Fri May 27 21:19:18 2011

Dear BE, What a fascinating trove of contemporary info, old fashioned teashop prices (and unexpected variety) & pictures. I can taste the tea and we can put to rest any doubts about outfits, along with the odd terminological item there: a waitress was a "Nippy"; whence Nippy, who knows? But, I suppose w elive and learn: Nippy? Hmmnn. so, thanks and the next tea's on me, how many lumps was yours again?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri May 27 20:45:29 2011

Check: kzwp.com/lyons/teashops.htm
BE <>
, , , Fri May 27 17:50:52 2011

arrerz. now. i am cinvinced u hav lost yur touch.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Fri May 27 16:33:23 2011

BUTTAR*K
<>
, , , Fri May 27 15:14:31 2011

sb, not even big beautiful b*****k bouncing black bountiful bloomers?......now calm down sb, take another blood pressure pill.
<>
, , , Fri May 27 15:13:16 2011

bountiful bloomers dont fit in little black skertz. or hav u anuther bountiful in mymd. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., ., Fri May 27 00:07:37 2011

certainly bountiful black bloomers
;O) <>
, , , Thu May 26 22:22:00 2011

DJ, Are you sure that was Lyons? [Little] black outfits, [starched] white aprons and [jaunty] hats....HMMnn...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu May 26 20:50:27 2011

I was reading something the udder day that mentioned Lyons coffee shops. Remember those places in Liverpool ? I believe the last one closed in 1977. That was always a treat if I was in the pool with my parents we would go into Lyons and have tea and sticky buns served by waitresses with black outfits,white aprons and hats. ......Now my wife and I go to the Canadian Iconic "Tim Hortons" for our daily dose of tea, bagels and gossip.
DJ <>
, , , Thu May 26 17:42:58 2011

I never sang, I just mimed it saving my voice for greater things. still saving it.
DJ <>
, , , Thu May 26 17:33:50 2011

Jimmie, You's at it again: you gloss over the off-key finer tones to the detriment of a fellow TCC poster. As I'm sure you're aware, ther's rotten off-key and cute off-key, this last generally from the most well-meaning but ultimately not super-gifted, which might describe some of us, or nearly all of us or any permutation etc etc. In the "cute" case, you'll also be aware that all church windows installed after the year of Our Lord, 1635, had to comply with the "cuteproof" regulations and were tested on installation by a specially formed boys choir, the "Leading Leaded Lights", to their contemporaries, the "Singing Minors from Palfret Major" whose offkey presentations would test any wondow in the Realm, including St. Nick's, wherefore, and herewith I rest my case, DJ's putative offkey wasn't going to do any harm at al, at all. There must be another reason for the deterioration.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu May 26 16:37:01 2011

DJ, I hope you won't be seen by your disciples after a bit of a doze. It may be of interest to know that the stained glass in your old stomping ground (St.Nickers) is about to fall out; no doubt due to all that rotten out of tune singing you did as a little lad.
Jimmie <>
, , , Thu May 26 15:23:41 2011

Not before ensuring the funds be safe in the mattress, though!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed May 25 19:48:06 2011

I was selling off some surplus items from my inventory and one buyer said he would pay me via the internet, I refused but apparently this is possible now days. I'm going to crawl back into my cave and roll a boulder across the entrance !
DJ <>
, , , Wed May 25 18:35:41 2011

elsie nore and family. no doubt.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Wed May 25 14:15:00 2011

Disgraceful Sir, and them there Danes with such a smell associated with the place.
;O) <>
, , , Wed May 25 12:55:41 2011

Oh, Great Lord, Infuse your spirit into the deepest and farthest pores of the State of Denmark, so beloved of those who love Denmark, and pervade its inner functions with a due and adequate remorse for banning the ancient nourishment from abroad, MARMITE. We Marmitiers have faithfully imported Danish Bacon since the era of Beowulf so why, disinterring dusty legalities of no fixed civility, would they have been led to this drastic, nay, Draconian, exercise in discrimination? I, for my part, will no longer employ the term, "Danish" in tart&scone mode, to convey that whirlygig affair. So There! Cope with that in your Hagen, matey! [doubters, see: .bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13536479
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed May 25 03:45:09 2011

dj. sum mite claim 2 hav heard that assertion b 4. yur chek is in the mail. hmmnn.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Tue May 24 21:38:58 2011

The cheque is in the mail Mayor.
DJ <>
, , , Tue May 24 21:07:42 2011

From a Rapturously language viewpoint, being that of one who favours " Iced Tea" over " Ice Tea", is that "Life Savings" or "Life's Savings"? I'd posit that the former refers more readily to occasions where life is saved. But I'm open to suggestions, to be forwarded before the Oct. 21st deadline, natch. Actually, that's got to be the "Deadlline" to beat all deadlines, what?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue May 24 15:51:16 2011

End of the world - revised. Apparently, doo to a Noo miscalculation, The Rapture is now 21st October! Being The Mayor's birthday, this is obviously 'A SIGN'. Still not too late to send me all your life savings...
Mayor Jesus <>
Burbo, , , Tue May 24 15:23:29 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2427017.ece
Diana <Hermes, hope this will help.>
, , , Tue May 24 12:39:41 2011

jj, This came to light not to long after the child went missing, my memory of the finding of the DNA is somewhat foggy so please excuse a little para phrasing and not verbatim wording, from what I can gather the sample was foud in the hire car that her parents hired about ten days after the child was reported missing, and I'm quite certain that Scotland Yard will insist on an explination for this and I can envisage alot of egg on some faces.
Hermes <>
, , , Tue May 24 03:07:42 2011

I read of the travails of Crosby Traffic Wardens. It seems that the article, along with accumulated others simply points to there being a slo-mo collapse of Crosbegian civilised behaviour, owing solely to a slo-mo collapse of Crosby civilisation. A civilisation of any description is characterised by a set of norms - some palatable, otherjjs less so but all agreed on as central to it - that, well, characterise it: without same, the society in question is no longer what it was, of itself, possibly not a bad thing but, more to the point, it becomes something else and that something else looks to be quite uncharacterised by anything recognisable. That's surely the reason why the government sought to study 'what it means to be British', whereof no one seems to be sure at all at all. If accumulated CH reports are credible at all, then all Crosbegian norms have been corroded beyond recognition. In that circumstance, no one has the slightest idea what's 'acceptable' and what's not but a proliferation of very dodgy rights widely touted and a thunderous silence on the irremediably associated duties, including respecting Traffic Wardens won't help. I think.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue May 24 02:18:00 2011

Still active in the higher echelons of the auto wash business however I just do one afternoon a week and all electo, air and hydraulic repairs and maintenance as needed, all cash goes into a rolltop safe and I do NOT get a BMW company car.... Re the traffic Wardens Job, What goes on "Crosby traffic wardens laid bare" of course they do
DJ <>
, , , Tue May 24 00:59:35 2011

ps, but whatever you do, don't go for a traffic wardens job!
) <>
, , , Mon May 23 15:34:37 2011

DJ, as a former/active car wash manager, you might be interested in a job with "five Star"........see CH. Kevlar helmets and bullet proof jackets will be provided. The Qwners insist that no take money be carried home after shift.
;o) <>
, , , Mon May 23 15:21:00 2011

Phew! I thought I was in trouble there for a mo' but on reaching the last word, I realised that I'm off the hook! Mind you, just yesterday or the day before, two small cars crashed in a built-up area close by here: on getting out, one insisted they wait for the traffic cops (the required procedure to get all in order for insurance etc) and the other objected. On the first guy's continued insistence, the one that wanted to move along called on his cel, saying "We've got a 51 here". A couple of minutes later, a heavily tanned gent showed up, uncermoniously shot the ' insister' dead and both he and his mate made off. Moral: be careful when manageing any sensetive road situation; you NEVER know who you're up against. Yes, I do try top be carefull all the while...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon May 23 15:10:59 2011

J.J. over the weekend I read a newspaper blurb that started out with "Venezuela suspends a mans drivers licence". it appears that this chap was driving an overloaded bus with one of its rear wheels missing at excessive speed. Apparently this suspension is almost unheard of as traffic laws are continually flouted and testing of drunken drivers is virtually unknown............I urge you J.J. to be careful when tooling around in your Bentley
DJ <>
, , , Mon May 23 14:46:56 2011

Dear Herm', Was that DNA a new find or had the car not been checked prior? The case has been mentioned here of course and I access the BBC site but, even so, it's is hardly top news further afield where I am. From my spotty input, the whole thing looks to be a mystery that seems unlikely to unravel anytime soon. And what has prompted the police to revisit it anyway?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon May 23 11:57:07 2011

It will be interesting to follow the investigation that is to be carried out by Scotland yard in to the McCann kids disapearence, the investigation was ordered by the PM..Will the MaCans and the British press show the same contemp for the British police as they did for the Purtugese Police, and I am looking forward to them revisiting the the only piece of real evidence in this case, and that is the finding of the childs DNA sample, found in the hire car about ten days after she went missing
Hermes <>
, , , Mon May 23 03:01:47 2011

I am not in the business of "a more attractive feel to IT" Dollies mixture is not an option.
God <>
, , , Sun May 22 21:21:19 2011

There is a school of thought that underpins the scenario of the world's end NOT requiring a destruction phase. Inasfar as every individual's world comes to an end at death, all that's called for is a mass die-off of all such 'individuals' leaving the earth intact for the next lot. That approach somehow has a more attractive feel to it. Somehow. Some way. As though it offered the chance to hide under the bed and come out when it's all over, nip down to the, now empty, sweet shop on the corner of Endbutt Lane and the main road and scoff dolly mixtures until feeling a bit queasy...
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun May 22 21:03:49 2011

Sorry for the inconvienience but due to a labour/management dispute we will not be able to destroy earth on June 5th as we will be on strike.
Branch 66 <>
, , Branch 66. United brotherhood of Gods affiliated with the church of Rome, Sun May 22 15:39:55 2011

God, considering you died for their sins, simply asking for their bank account number and sort code seems a fair deal to me...
Mayor <>
Burbo, , , Sun May 22 15:19:54 2011

Change in plans, I started it in Iceland with a modest puff of smoke.........you do not have two weeks!
God <>
, , , Sun May 22 15:10:47 2011

On The Lord's Day Sunday June 5th at Bonnie's tea time (5pm) a massive earthquake will erupt destroying first of all Burbo, and then spread around the world destroying the planet. You have just TWO WEEKS to join The Rapture. Hurry! Don't wait any longer!! Send your life savings NOW to: His Worship Jesus Mayor of Burbo, Burbo Mansions, Burbo.
Mayor <>
Second Coming, Burbo, , Sun May 22 09:14:09 2011

Dear JJ, my post was for clarification, not recommendation. Cheers.
BE <>
, , Sunshine State, Sat May 21 21:22:54 2011

J.j. I always enjoy your messages when you when your in a jovial vein, reminds me of a time when SWMBO and I were in a small town in the Ottawa valley visiting an obscure and abandoned cemetery looking for her rellies. Way past lunchtime we looked for a restaurant and found one with a sign outside stating "Steak & Fishfood." Next to that was a sign " live worms" intended for fishermen...I presume. We took a pass on that place !
DJ <>
, , , Sat May 21 20:39:30 2011

Dear BE, I read the piece that you cited and, borrowing from SB, I'd say 'a very seedy episode all round'. The Munchener Re, as its known, is an insurance icon; this whole affair favours them not one jot.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat May 21 17:32:38 2011

Well Sir, If you truly don't feel that the bio soap is 'you', how about a tastefully presented industrial degreaser?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat May 21 17:28:10 2011

Dear JJ, you must have read the wrong article. Go to: bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160 and all will be revealed. Don't forget your rubber stamp.
BE <>
, , Sameold, Sat May 21 15:50:31 2011

When I worked in sales I was top salesman in 1988 in Bio medical soaps and industrial degreasers ( We had a very diversified line) All I got was a mini wall thing awarded to Dave "Kilowatt " J. Being of a virtuous nature I could not imagine any married man participating in the sales awards mentioned but in my case I would not have turned down a cuddle with the receptionist, A Diana Dors type minus any form or indication of a brain.
DJ <>
, , , Sat May 21 15:35:10 2011

.....for some 'sales' were rewarding...
J t R <>
, , , Sat May 21 13:54:15 2011

dj. a very seedy episode 4 all involved. i feer.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Sat May 21 00:38:15 2011

I merely asked whether they are colour coded; if saying yes or no is in the 'you don't want to know' catgeory, then my country-boy mode remains in effect. Were it to be the case, some dilucidation of the colour-coding nittygritty may turn out to entail sailing a bit close to the wind but the generic enquiry should be fairly innocent. Or am I missing summat? Bangle colours? So widely known as to show up on a board, as TCC, without elaboration? Have I been away too long, perchance?
jj <et>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sat May 21 00:35:27 2011

It appears that the terminator has reinvented himself as the sperminator. What
DJ <>
, , , Sat May 21 00:29:58 2011

you don't want to know......
. <>
, , , Fri May 20 23:59:05 2011

That last threw me right into 'country-boy' mode; what's this bangle-dangle about? Do bangle colours have coded significances?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Fri May 20 21:05:01 2011

Jimmie mien her, had your efforts been a little more productive you might have rated a white wrist band...sucker.
She of the white bangle <>
, , , Fri May 20 16:09:41 2011

jimmie the reprobate. pls sign full name. jealous jimmie the reprobate,. please. thank u.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Fri May 20 15:17:32 2011

and who says 'sales' is not rewarding? ....../news/world-europe-13454160
Jimmy the reprobate <>
, , , Fri May 20 13:14:04 2011

BE, never mind Louis Theroux, have you ever been in this wonderful local attraction? ...../news/magazine-13457576
<>
, , , Fri May 20 13:00:17 2011

Sir Walt has a lot to answer for .....
;o) <>
, , , Fri May 20 12:48:26 2011

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-13450315..............What a find eh.
Diana <>
, , , Fri May 20 06:58:13 2011

DJ, With you all the way! The first thing I try for on getting new hardware is "search for UK's answer to Marylyn Monroe". Diana Dors, as I recollect was a national institution when we were all less well worn. If you further delvings happen to run across "Z Cars", you'll see a clip there of a hard-nosed 28-year old Judy Dench too. Since then duly damed too.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu May 19 20:52:06 2011

Dear Smiley, Your error -- not uncommon -- was in your measuring approach; the 'not so long ago' that you opt to use betrays the use of those few short years since you were a whippersnapper and, to all intents and purposes, in a 'gentle' place: had you had recourse to a truer gauge, you'd have arrived at the conclusion that your present social location is a a much greater remove from your yardstick one than 'a few years' would suggest. I'm not in the UK but something we had then that has been cast off -- yes, I suggest a deliberate action -- to permit an atmosphere of 'anything goes'. Whilst social restrictions may have been an unduly oppressive obstacle in the past, there has, I feel, been a massive baby&bathwater error, based, if I were to proffer, on a repudiation of individual dignity. A proper 'amour propre' wouldn't allow some of the social tripe that passes as freedom and an atmosphere of "I know my rights" that reach ad infinitum. I too am saddened by the CH news these days but also by the seeming lack of outrage accompanying it all.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu May 19 20:24:28 2011

And now for something new. While surfing my new ipad ( yes I'm learning how to navigate it) I discovered the real name of U.K,s answer to Marilyn Munroe.......Dians Dors AKNA .......... Diana Mary Fluck 1931 - 1984. With a handle like that I am sure she did not have a happy childhood
DJ <>
, , , Thu May 19 19:59:43 2011

Oh, woe is me, the sky is falling. Is this the gentle place I grew up in not so long ago? CH reports on very naughty ex-MTS lag with sticky fingers, little 11 year old girl being held up with a knife in well known park; last week hoodies stole mobiles from young kids at knife point, and to cap it off, tropical killer required protective clothing and a used car wing mirror attached to a fishing rod to locate the hairy monster. Mom of three says "I'm up the wall with this" - perhaps it is not up there - maybe her BP is sky high with shock?
;o) <>
, , , Thu May 19 16:10:25 2011

sb, believe me you don't want to know..Sometime the sirens blast off and there's no time to put one's bloomers on...;-).....Only kidding, yesterday when I was writing my previous post the air raid sirens started ..It gave me a bit of a scare, but then I heard the neighbours saying it was a practice run...I could do without that, my BP was sky high from shock...
Diana <>
, , , Thu May 19 11:13:17 2011

crikey. wher els cud u find a notis board that goez from rockets in the tropix to irish nikkers in two paragraffz. thatz wot i want 2 kno.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Thu May 19 00:08:35 2011

Arrers, The 'all' is a giveaway; 'all' isn't two, for instance and, as you rightly note, we are talking of 'knowledge', very quite bereft of any evidence of that's not the 'carnal' variety. In his position, I'd try for the garment manufacturer option, the only safe way, especially if S,iley's a happily married man.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed May 18 20:14:34 2011

jj, he said, they were the only Irish girls :O) 'knew'.
<>
, , , Wed May 18 19:34:50 2011

Smiley, Re. that bloomer vs otherkind observation: One can but wonder exactly what manner of visiting gent would be qualified to write "the only ... girls ...ALL wore bloomers" authoritatively. Methinks that your only 'out' there would be a claim to be an underwear manufacturer with respectable access to knicker-model sales-trend figures: are you in a position to make such a claim or are we free to suppose that you came by this information more informally, as it were?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed May 18 14:35:54 2011

If Mr C IS really building those sites, then its certainly a very sorry day for world peace..The US won't be sitting on their thumbs doing nought for very long.I don't have to advise our man in Ven what I would be doing in the circumstances...Bit like the Cuban crisis, but a wee bit further a field.............In 1991 we had those Scud missile attacks, which came in from Iraq.(couple of thousand klicks distance) One fell about 50/100 metres from our block of flats. The left of our building sustained broken windows and the shutters were in tatters.The worry then was, that the scuds would possibly contain biological/chemical enhanced warheads. I must admit, that that prospect was taken very seriously indeed, we had to wear those gas masks when the sirens sounded, rooms sealed up. (BTW, we have just been issued with 'them' things again, in anticiaption of Iran's threats.) The waiting to get the all clear was very stressful, believe me, indeedo. We were lucky that the scud fell into a wadi between the Carmel Mountain and the sea..This was lucky because there were no homes in the immediate area and the blast was contained in the crater, effectively keeping the damage low. ....Well on Sunday last, 5000 Syrian civilians broke through the security fence and crossed over into the North of here.A clever move on Assad's part(backed by Iran) to take away the news media from the atrocities which are going on in his country...I think its about time for moi to have a holiday. Oh BTW, the MSC cruise ship Opera, (we sailed there last September)is in deep p*o...h/t/t/p://w*w*w.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13422756
Diana <>
, , , Wed May 18 08:09:49 2011

jj, This is abosoltely true, I went into the post office in the town of Balana in Co Mayo and I told tha man behind the counter that I wanted to send a fax, and he said "you will have tho come back in he summer as we can't do that now sir"
Hermes <>
, , , Wed May 18 04:55:16 2011

Dear Diana, i'm begining to get the kind of queasy feeling that surely some of you guys get... Goto: w+w+w.benzinga.com/11/05/1088809/judith-levy-iran-building-missile-base-in-venezuela --- and a Happy Rainy Season (starts this week) To You Too!!
kk <etc>
etc, etc, & May the Devil Take The Hindmost!, Tue May 17 21:48:59 2011

jj, the only Irish girls I ever knew all wore bloomers, admittedly with that extra strength River Dance elastic; all made so I was informed, by Abdul the tent maker. In which case some saving of luggage space may have been attained by using the 'Porst Offfice', even at their exorbitant rates.
;o) <>
, , , Tue May 17 21:30:56 2011

Commando Style, is that a Britney Spears move ? The funny part of of all those parcels was While I was standing outside the post office in Dublin ahowing my wife the bullets chips in the building left over from " the troubles" my s. in l. took one of her parcels into the post office, paid for it, had it wisked away then the chap at the desk said, "I don't know when this will arrive, we are going on strike tonight". How Irish........ J.J. on this dark dreary wet day your last post gave me a good chuckle.
DJ <>
, , , Tue May 17 16:27:02 2011

Dear DJ, That revelation is a direct affront to The United Irish Dry Cleaners & 'Tide' Tariff Maintenance Association's often unjustifiably maligned Statement of Community Solidarity of May, 1973. In addition to which I have to query just how big of an excess baggage charge did she have to pay if she was stretching her budget like that on a weekly basis and whether that compensated for the touted "savings" being achieved at our members' expense. Whilst possibly not 100% on topic, I would add that, since the RiverDance rehearsals discoveries regarding just how secure Irish undies were and the subsequent move to stronger elastic, no complaints -- nary a one -- have have been received in this regard AND new designs ensure that Irish knickers are guaranteed 'twist-challenged' for the entire day, all the way from 'on' to 'off'. So There!
John <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue May 17 14:47:24 2011

DJ, she could have gone Commando...
Diana <>
, , , Tue May 17 12:25:36 2011

I remember being in Ireland and noticed that my sister in law kept mailing parcels back to where she was staying Brighton ( she was on a years sabbatical) When asked she said she was mailing home her unmentionables and buying new ones to cut down laundry costs and leaving room for items purchased. I hope they all got to the correct address. Cor what a to do if they did not.
DJ <>
, , , Tue May 17 01:32:22 2011

When my eldest was studying at Med School he took on a two week job for a Medical company to sell their product in the USA at a medical appliances exhibition, (in that instance he had to demonstrate a meter which can tell if you are prone to heart attacks.) BTW the company is doing astonishingly well and is now on the NYSE. Besides the point. Sonnyboy arrived back to Miami airport to catch his connecting flight home. The company had rented a car for him as he had luggage, suits and the demo equipment, which was a suitcase in its self. Along with all that, Sonnylad had all his valuables in a small black bag. (Returning the car to the rental place was quite a way from his terminal). On arrival to the terminal he realized he had left his black bag in the boot of the rented vehicle...Rushing in a taxi he got to the rental offices. "Sorry Sir, but we don't know where your car is parked, having over 5000 cars on the lot"...Three hours later his bag was found. He was hysterical I'm sure, as his passport, money, laptop and all the paraphernalia one takes with him was in that bag.He was so lucky to see the darn bag again, very lucky indeed....Yes jj, we also try to cut down on luggage when traveling..
Diana <>
, , , Mon May 16 22:46:48 2011

Dear DJ, I don't doubt it but, as it was a surprise for agalí and I and a short trip into the bargain, we took only carry-on pieces. The luggage stories are rife of course and here, apart from handlers, the local soldiery on airport duty purposely punctures baggage with a skewer to facilitate drug sniffing: no comeback, either on baggage or damaged/destroyed articles inside. In that vein mind you, I was surprised to see, in the very boarding finger, just metres before entering the aeroplaneitself, on leaving Miami, several offcicers askin for passports, amount of currency etc, along with a sniffer dog, right there, "Just carry on by, don't stop please, Just carry on by; don't stop, please...". And that was leaving for Caracas, not arriving which, historically, would have been more understandable. What a world we all live in, eh? Not to speak of Diana's Haifa-borne lot. And when I was sixteen, my very rpotective parents ahd no problem with letting me go alone, hitching through europe, in the event, to valencia, Spain, staying in Youth Hostels. No problemo, matey. Wayback then.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Mon May 16 16:18:27 2011

J.J. From your vantage point at the city of Tony Bennett were you able to view the baggage handlers. From my observations at various airports it is a wonder that any luggage arrives in one piece. I have had wheels snapped off my geriatric style rolling luggage on two separate occasions and one clothing bag ripped right thru to my elegant sartorial threads. The worst location I have spotted is Toronto were I imagine fast turn arounds prompt fast loading and unloading. Years ago I worked with a chap who shared an apartment with two baggage handlers empoyed at Pearson International ( Toronto), their tales of luggage etc breaking contests would enrage any air traveler. True
DJ <>
, , , Mon May 16 15:39:51 2011

In a different vein, it was my lot recently to undertake a lightning trip to SF, near whose aerodrome my daughter lives. While there, from her patio affair, a 'deck' they call it, you have a panoramic view of the local runways, "SFO", so called and I was able to see Lufthansa's inaugural AirBus 380 flight to FFM take off: I expected, hoped for even, a majestic Rolls Royce roar and solemn liftoff halfway or more down the strip. No such luck; in what constituted in fact, a magnificent witness to our lads' engineering [AirBus wings, THE single most sophisticated part of the airframe -- are made at Broughton, Chester, when I was a student with a Lambretta, a mere 29 minutes from the Pier Head: at this distance, easily "our lads"] the fella was unsticking one third of the way down the runway and I couldn't hear a thing! Power and sophistication embodied! Impressive in its way but, as Ana María observed, "Well, that was a bit underwhelming". and it was. BUT, on the way over, at the Miami switcheroo, I left all my home keys behind during the security check (belts, buckles, shoes, watches, etc etc) a massive inconvenience in the making. So, against everyone's advice, "Forget it; not a chance in Hades"and so on, I soought out the TSA lost&found, expecting to be shown a roomfull of lost keys, actually and had my keys back withing three minutes! Amazing efficiency and smiling the while: gotta acknowledge, they do do a great job there at MIA Lost&Found so, for any whose lot it is to fly&lose in Miami, take heart, something may be lost but 'All' is not! I actually wrote to them in appreciation --- and they replied!
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun May 15 16:39:08 2011

Thanks Di XXXXX
DJ <>
, , , Fri May 13 14:48:56 2011

DJ, Dave, so sorry to read about your brother being diagnosed with Alzheimers..You are so wise to get his personal papers and things in general in order. We have a good friend who sufferes from Alzheimer and his family are finding it very hard to come to terms, a lot more than he did, its not easy watching ones loved one deteriorate. You are lucky you have SWMBO at your side and I am sure together, you will help your dear brother and make the right decisions for his well being. He must be feeling very frightened himself at the news..I wish you and your family all the best Dave and keep well and strong. Di.
Diana <>
, , , Fri May 13 12:26:03 2011

4 once. i kwoat. so therz text lyk u all kno it. but it seemed werth wile. --- In Seville, Spain , local people found a way to stop the construction of yet another mosque in their town. They buried a pig on the site and made sure this would be known by the local press. Islamic rules forbid the erecting of a Mosque on "pig soiled ground." The Muslims had to cancel the project. This land was sold to them by government officials.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, .., .., Thu May 12 22:07:15 2011

Thanks Guys
DJ <>
, , , Thu May 12 21:23:14 2011

Blimey DJ! So sorry about that; my Mum had it too and it's no walk in the park at all at all. Also, I can tell you that there's no practical way that I'm aware of whereby an Alzhiemers patient can live either alone or merely generously accompanied by family. We took a while to get round to it but I am now convinced that some degree of institutionalisation -- my Mum went to an EMI "Elderly; Mentally Infirm) home next to Blundellsands station and lived happily for over six years until she finally 'went home', as I put it. I say happily because, in the home, she was known as 'Smiley', always smiling and equanimous and, whilst I'm sure they had medication, it wasn't a simple sedation protocol; they took them out and about and provided outside stimuli etc as practicable. But there's no denying that it is a cruel blow. jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu May 12 20:14:12 2011

Dear DJ: What a cruel thing to happen. I feel very very sorry for you both.
BE <>
, , .., Thu May 12 18:53:49 2011

I have just been through a very troubling & stressful time. My older brother seems to be in the mild stages of Alzheimers disease. I wenr with him to a seniors outreach session and sat with him through some of his testing. I had to leave because it was a shock to realize how serious his condition was. Later he refused to give me his car keys , calling me later to say he will give up driving. I disconnected the stove in his apartment and will endeavour to persuade him to give me power of attorney over his affairs. He 78 years old and had a brilliant mind, one of his hobbies was algebra ( shudder) I suppose that some of us have or will have to face situations akin to this. I am his only family.
DJ <>
, , , Thu May 12 15:10:58 2011

jj,lovely to see youngsters putting their energies into something positive.Really lovely. So many couldn't care less these days about others.Cheers.
Diana <>
, , , Thu May 12 11:27:05 2011

Dear DJ, No, no family is there in the vid; Pat is setting it up for a charity: he's not in it. The pianist's a mate of his and together, they acceded to organise what is, in fact, a yearly do but 'we' didn't get there until this year. The various participants are just messing around in one of their number's flats while together for some publicity snapshots. In what might be deemed beleaguered times (yes, a semantic stretch there but what the hell!) like these, the 'ambiente' came across as heartening wherefore, I shared same. That was the top&bottom of it. Kinda fun though. Re guy at homework, I couldna say.
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Thu May 12 02:35:27 2011

and who's the young lad at the table trying to do his homework?
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, , , Wed May 11 20:35:02 2011

Bravo John, What a talented group. I see the vid was posted by your missus, any of your family performing ?
DJ <>
, , , Wed May 11 13:58:04 2011

Brooke drink......The essence of qintessence
DJ <>
, , , Wed May 11 13:30:09 2011

Our lad's gotten hissel' roped in to set up a charity concert. Informality bein' the order of the day, some rehearsals wuz laider backer than others... goto: w=w=w.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_Mjqp28Io maybe there's hope for Caracas yet?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Wed May 11 02:12:34 2011

It could be, a bit of an after taste, you might say.
;o( <>
, , , Tue May 10 23:56:41 2011

Poor taste
BE <>
, , .., Tue May 10 20:56:47 2011

New drink in the Brooke...called a Bin Laden= 2shots and a splash of water.
Diana <>
, , , Tue May 10 20:48:47 2011

sorry der La, shud 'ave been "Yer wot?"
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, , , Tue May 10 20:02:02 2011

Dear Arrers, That's pretty polite, in arrers terms; are you in love? What I gathered was that the recommended vid, which I also saw, was on the daft side and, if that fellow managed to get paid cash money for that sort of thing, then his audiences, ostensibly American, have got a questionable "sense of humour" level, to the extent that it may be beyond rescue and hence would merit the "in trouble" qualifier assigned in that prior post below. This one.
jjetc <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Tue May 10 01:21:55 2011

Pardon?
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, , , Mon May 9 23:29:15 2011

vidyo woz a bit silly. if u asque me. if he makez munny with that trype. american senz of yuma is in bad trubble.
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon May 9 20:25:50 2011

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.stevebridges.com/obamavideos-promo-july2010-lg.html
Joker <>
, , , Mon May 9 08:44:55 2011

u sey reviewing the vid wil straighten ur factz. hmmn
sb <att@ease.edu>
c, c, c, Mon May 9 03:49:50 2011

Di, Yes I read that item about the unknown child. It is amazing what modern science can do. what a great ending to that childs story,recognized at last.................. J.J. I never thought of the J.Lo connection I think she has a Latin American background ( no pun intended) Any way I will have to review that video a few more times just to make sure I have my facts straight.
DJ <>
, , , Sun May 8 21:09:52 2011

youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0&feature=relmfu........I have just found out that most non Scousers think Jude is a shortened form of Judy...Isn't it a slang meaning for a girl?...........................jj, stop encouraging him..DJ I mean, he'll sell his tracker next for the fare to Ven...;-)
Diana <>
, , , Sun May 8 20:57:49 2011

DJ, There are no brazen young ladies in Venezuela but the weather can be quite warm, thus permitting people, including young ladies, to get by less abundantly attired than would be the case in cooler climes. As for the probability of J.Lo's passing unnoticed hereabouts, well, yes, that is a prominent feature of those with prominence in the caboose but less so of those who don't who, it might be observed, are not in the majority. If that answers your qestion. As for flight times, I think Air Canada still has a non-stop from Toronto to Caracas; I could meet you at the airport and ride shotgun up to the city if you'd like?
jj <etc>
etc, etc, & God Bless, Sun May 8 20:09:44 2011

Dear DJ, thought this would be of interest to you. Quite a moving story.....I was so many times in Halifax Nova Scotia and never managed the visit to that cemetery to pay my respects to those lost at sea on the Titanic.. h/t/t/p://w/w/w.livescience.com/13859-titanic-unknown-child-identification-sidney-goodwin.html
Diana <>
, , , Sun May 8 20:04:58 2011

Elaine, many thanks for the St George Card. I tried to E you, but the sytem didn't like the address I used. Can you send your latest E address, please? Regards. Frank.
Uncle Frank <>
Maghull, , , Sun May 8 19:34:14 2011

DJ, stop teasing the lads. It's not good for their blood pressure..
Diana <>
, , , Sun May 8 18:57:11 2011

J.J. A recent post reminded me of a question I wanted to ask you... A friend from the lower classes sent me an email titled "hips of Venezuala" when I opened it the content was a series of nude or semi nude young ladies. While inspecting it 8 or 400 times before reporting it to the decency police I did notice that a lot of the brazen young ladies had rather generous prortions in their rear. Is this a national trait ?, is it in the genes? When does the next flight leave ?
DJ <>
, , , Sun May 8 15:36:31 2011

OOPS my eagle eye caught a serious error.........Laboratory !
DJ <>
, , , Sun May 8 15:24:27 2011

Your Honour the Mayor. Heres the latest news on one of you fav recording artist