Mundane News (Part 1)

[stephec]

But what if you don't need one?

I'm always dirty.

 

[classic33]

The Commutation Act of 1784 at one stroke reduced the tax on tea from 119 per cent to 12.5 per cent.

 

[Donger]

I'm learning French, but my schoolboy German keeps invading it. Ironic that.

"Schoolboy German" ..That brings back very bad memories for me. I remember blagging my way through the oral part of my German O level many years ago, making stuff up left, right and centre. The guy asked me about my Dad, and what he did for a living. At the time he was a campus warden and principal lecturer in comparative religion at a teacher training college. So naturally I said "Er is Schuhmacher". The guy was fascinated by this and just wouldn't let it drop. Like a dog with a bone, he just kept probing, and he wanted to know exactly where my dad's cobbler's shop was. It got hotter and hotter in there, and I started to panic as my language skills and bulls**t reserves began to dwindle. I wasn't thinking straight by this time, and even ended up translating "Kings Heath High Street" to "Konigsheide Hochstrasse"! Still, my mate Rich fared even worse - claiming to have spent the majority of the 20 minutes either just pointing at things or else saying "Ich habe keine Ahnung" (I have no idea) - a phrase that both of us had rehearsed at length for the occasion.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

"Schoolboy German" ..That brings back very bad memories for me. I remember blagging my way through the oral part of my German O level many years ago, making stuff up left, right and centre. The guy asked me about my Dad, and what he did for a living. At the time he was a campus warden and principal lecturer in comparative religion at a teacher training college. So naturally I said "Er is Schuhmacher". The guy was fascinated by this and just wouldn't let it drop. Like a dog with a bone, he just kept probing, and he wanted to know exactly where my dad's cobbler's shop was. It got hotter and hotter in there, and I started to panic as my language skills and bulls**t reserves began to dwindle. I wasn't thinking straight by this time, and even ended up translating "Kings Heath High Street" to "Konigsheide Hochstrasse"! Still, my mate Rich fared even worse - claiming to have spent the majority of the 20 minutes either just pointing at things or else saying "Ich habe keine Ahnung" (I have no idea) - a phrase that both of us had rehearsed at length for the occasion.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have just worked hard to make a man very happy if you catch my drift.

 

[Gravity Aided]

On this day:
The first European reached the Mississippi River. (1541)
The first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opened. (1877)
The first eye bank opened in the US. (1944)
V-E Day was celebrated. (1945)
The USSR announced it would boycott the 1984 Olympics. (1984)

Don't tell the guys down in Chile about that VE Day thing, though, okay?
At :44-Dress that line, Schweinhund!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZGuPfGNrY

 

[Shut Up Legs]

3 hours until my commute home, which apart from being the highlight of every day, is also the end of my working week .

 

[classic33]

Its raining.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I just blocked someone on this forum, I've had enough of them, its nothing personal, I've just had enough of them.

Don't worry, it isn't any of you lot.

 

[tyred]

I just blocked someone on this forum, I've had enough of them, its nothing personal, I've just had enough of them.

Don't worry, it isn't any of you lot.

Did someone speak?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Did someone speak?

What?

 

[numbnuts]

nothing to report

 

[Archie_tect]

You entered a competition to 'win' this prize?? Like, knowingly?

In further mundane news I've worn a hole in the sole of my right slipper. My right, not yours. (A thought, if you have wood flooring do you still wear carpet slippers?)

2nd prize was four tickets....

 

[alicat]

The Commutation Act of 1784 at one stroke reduced the tax on tea from 119 per cent to 12.5 per cent.

Is this news?

 

[IDMark2]

2nd prize was four tickets....

...to a real Rod Stewart concert.