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When sometimes it's hard to hold it all together!
12 April 2013 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME THESE EEC DIRECTIVES ARE !!! Well some info for your site Our local parish council decided to install OLD sleepers along the length of the village green to stop cars driving on it. I advised that this is a public place, where children play, and old ones should not be used. They ignored this advice and......
11 May 2012 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Telegraph poles and grapevines An answer as to how "grape-vine" came to be used figuratively to mean "an informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip" This originates in the USA. In the early days of telegraphy, companies rushed to put up telegraph poles, some made none too well and some actually using trees rather than poles
07 May 2011 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Railwaysleepers.com to corner old shoe market
The last thing I would want to do is laugh at people trying to speak or write a foreign language - especially as the British are particularly lazy and arrogant in this department. Their version of communicating with someone from another country normally extends to speaking louder, and shaking their heads with incredulity when stupid Johny Foreigner looks bemused. The idea of old blighty writing letters in another language is highly unlikely. Anyhow, we received a wonderful spelling mistake the other day that made us chuckle, so here it is..
Dear Sir,
I'm referring to the advert of your company in the Internet. I buy and sell used slippers of various kinds. I would appreciate some more information about the slippers that you're offering.
Spain
07 May 2011 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Horse s**t or what? 1) Do you know any anagrams for 'Kilgraney's well-rotted horse manure' ? 2) do you even know what an anagram is ? 3) do you even care ? (Anagram = Juggling all the letters around in a phrase to make a completely new one that still vaguely makes sense) We stumbled on a curious site - www.anagrammy.com - that
11 May 2010 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Interesting eye test. 1) Count every "F" in the following text FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.. HOW MANY ARE THERE? (Scroll down the page for answer) Send this to your friends. It will drive them crazy! And keep them occupied For several minutes..!
05 May 2010 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well for example, the other day I went into town and went to a small shop on the High street. I was only in there for about 5 minutes. When I came out, there was a policeman writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "Come on buddy, how about giving a senior citizen a break?"
01 April 2010 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
I SUCK CREOSOTE - 20 times a day! .....WORLD EXCLUSIVE !! Blocked up by a slight cold last year, as summer slipped into damp autumn, and Nottingham Forest's early sparkling form duly subsided into mediocrity, I invested in some Potter's traditional pastilles (£1.85p) 'The traditional remedy for the relief of Catarrh, Coughs and Colds' (and ailing football teams).