Chris S
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- Location
- Birmingham
Any good jokes ... ?
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Nibor
Bewildered
- Location
- Accrington
Swiss army knives don't have 2 tin openers?
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chris-suffolk
Über Member
Don't have quite a few of the implements shown in the pic
Profpointy
Legendary Member
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Not a joke as such. This was posted on Nextdoor (a sort of local site for local news etc) :
Pretty sure I saw something happening in the Roundhay area the other day. Couldn't really work out what was going on. It might have been a squirrel moving about. It was quite far away. Anyway, it doesn't matter what it was, the point is WE NEED TO STAY VIGILANT.
We it made me laugh
Pretty sure I saw something happening in the Roundhay area the other day. Couldn't really work out what was going on. It might have been a squirrel moving about. It was quite far away. Anyway, it doesn't matter what it was, the point is WE NEED TO STAY VIGILANT.
We it made me laugh
Toshiba Boy
N+1er
- Location
- By the beach, West Zummerzet
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Mmm, a mate of mine had the bent con-rod from when his Allegro's engine blew up. I assumed he'd got it as a souvenir from the garage, but he said "No, I picked it up out of the pool of oil left on the road". Evidently the piston had come off and smashed the cylinder head, then the loose con-rod bashed a hole in the side of the engine and took out the gearbox underneath. Presumably the crank broke too hence the rod ended up on the road
Toshiba Boy
N+1er
- Location
- By the beach, West Zummerzet
JtB
Prepare a way for the Lord
- Location
- North Hampshire
I can believe that, the bonnet on my Allegro opened up and wrapped around the windscreen at 70mph in the outside lane of a very busy M4 and another time the engine mounting sheared and the engine was left hanging on by a thread.
Domus
Guru
- Location
- Sunny Radcliffe
Very early 80's I drove a Marina Van 1.3 for work. I went to collect it after its first service but had to wait. I strolled through the showroom of new BL cars, Mini's, Allegro's, Marina's and Princess's all brand new and all had drip trays underneath.
I was very young at the time and don't know the details of what happened but I remember a Leyland lorry my Dad drove lost a piston in action. Bit of a BL theme to this!
I was working with an International 784 tractor when under load, the engine developed a knock and split second later, put a connecting rod through the block but the piston stayed where it should. I know someone who had a Skoda Superb that did something similar.
A neighbour was changing the oil on a Lamborghini tractor and found a nut stuck to the magnetic sump bung. He dropped the sump to see where it had come from and discovered one of the big end caps was missing a nut and the other side was loose. A very close escape from an expensive problem!
A great practical joker using photoshop as his oevre:-
https://x.com/fjamie013/status/1713588945882099724?s=20
https://x.com/fjamie013/status/1713588945882099724?s=20
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