Re: Big Wave

[tallbloke]

chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
news:1gq0bz9.41rqyi1nvayrkN%chateauSPAMKILL.murray @dsl.pipex.com:

> Insulting someone's
> religion is not racist.

Referring to people as "ragheads" is pretty unpleasant behaviour, no
matter what sophistry you deploy to justify it.

>
> Nowm, over the past few days, you have modified your stance from it
> being racist to it being insulting to "whichever culture/race/religion
> that is".

We're driving at two different things here. You're trying to 'win an
argument' whereas I'm just trying to discourage you from upsetting people
needlessly.

> See what happens when you collide with a superior intellect? You learn
> something.

See what happens when you believe in the superiority of your own
intellect? You learn f*ck all.

Superior? supercillious more like.

Come on TOG, rejoin the rest of the human race in a spirit of equality and
brotherhood.

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[The Older Gentleman]

tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:

> See what happens when you believe in the superiority of your own
> intellect? You learn f*ck all.
>
> Superior? supercillious more like.

Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'. And the
education and intellect that so endowed me also endowed me with the
ability to argue rather more cogently than yourself.

Point proven, then.


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[tallbloke]

chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
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> Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'

Punctilious too I see.

I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.

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[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
saying something like:

>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>
>> Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>
>Punctilious too I see.
>
>I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.

This has descended far enough.

Bread roll, anyone?

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[tallbloke]

Grimly Curmudgeon <grimlycurmudgeon683@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:7hr0u0palfs9365siaib34m226l2gggnbr@4ax.com:

> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
> saying something like:
>
>>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>>news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>
>>> Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>>
>>Punctilious too I see.
>>
>>I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.
>
> This has descended far enough.
>
> Bread roll, anyone?
>

How about some humble pie for Mr Superior Intellect over there?

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[Paul Corfield]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:37:00 -0600, tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
wrote:

>Grimly Curmudgeon <grimlycurmudgeon683@hotmail.com> wrote in
>news:7hr0u0palfs9365siaib34m226l2gggnbr@4ax.com:
>
>> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
>> saying something like:
>>
>>>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>>>news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>>
>>>> Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>>>
>>>Punctilious too I see.
>>>
>>>I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.
>>
>> This has descended far enough.
>>
>> Bread roll, anyone?
>>
>
>How about some humble pie for Mr Superior Intellect over there?

How about you both stop as you'll never agree?
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[The Older Gentleman]

Paul Corfield <aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:37:00 -0600, tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Grimly Curmudgeon <grimlycurmudgeon683@hotmail.com> wrote in
> >news:7hr0u0palfs9365siaib34m226l2gggnbr@4ax.com:
> >
> >> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> >> drugs began to take hold. I remember tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
> >> saying something like:
> >>
> >>>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
> >>>news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
> >>>
> >>>> Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
> >>>
> >>>Punctilious too I see.
> >>>
> >>>I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.
> >>
> >> This has descended far enough.
> >>
> >> Bread roll, anyone?
> >>
> >
> >How about some humble pie for Mr Superior Intellect over there?
>
> How about you both stop as you'll never agree?


Heh. It's quite simple. A comment insulting someone's religion may be
offensive on many levels, but it's not racist. It's religionist (if such
a horrible word exists).

I regard it as quite a simple point, in not quite the same way that I
regard tallbloke's ability to argue as simple.

And it's fun to watch him dance.



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[The Older Gentleman]

tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:

> chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
> news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>
> > Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>
> Punctilious too I see.
>
> I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.

Nah. Too irresponsible.


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[tallbloke]

chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
news:1gq46ti.ue96og1lmc10N%chateauSPAMKILL.murray@ dsl.pipex.com:

> Paul Corfield <aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:37:00 -0600, tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Grimly Curmudgeon <grimlycurmudgeon683@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> >news:7hr0u0palfs9365siaib34m226l2gggnbr@4ax.com:

>> >> Bread roll, anyone?
>> >>
>> >
>> >How about some humble pie for Mr Superior Intellect over there?
>>
>> How about you both stop as you'll never agree?
>
>
> Heh. It's quite simple. A comment insulting someone's religion may be
> offensive on many levels,

Thankyou, at last you seem to have got my point.

>
> And it's fun to watch him dance.


Now *you* really are starting to sound like Des.

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[The Older Gentleman]

tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:

> > Heh. It's quite simple. A comment insulting someone's religion may be
> > offensive on many levels,
>
> Thankyou, at last you seem to have got my point.

No - you see, you've snipped the essential ingredient *again*

Let me put it back for you;

"but it's not racist"

And that was your original point.

*Sigh*

A useful rule of Usenet is that when you make a cock-up, the best thing
to do is simply say "Yeah, OK". Constant avoidance efforts by diverting
from the original point, selective snipping, etc only make you look more
of a prannet.

Des used to do it. Probably still does. Hoyt McKagen, of blessed
carbonaceous memory, was the all-time master of it. But, for a newbie,
you aren't doing badly.


> And it's fun to watch him dance.

Now *you* really are starting to sound like Des.


Actually, there you may have a point ;-))


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[tallbloke]

chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
news:1gq4b7k.1m8r8zg1h6je1pN%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:

> tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>
>> > Heh. It's quite simple. A comment insulting someone's religion may be
>> > offensive on many levels,
>>
>> Thankyou, at last you seem to have got my point.
>
> No - you see, you've snipped the essential ingredient *again*
>
> Let me put it back for you;
>
> "but it's not racist"
>
> And that was your original point.

No. it was my original jibe. I tacitly conceded *your point* posts ago,
when I said that I was merely trying to discourage you from upsetting
people no matter whether the insult was against their
race/culture/religion or whatever.


>> And it's fun to watch him dance.
>
> Now *you* really are starting to sound like Des.
>
>
> Actually, there you may have a point ;-))

Lets not go there, Ok? ;-)


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[Christopher Des Clayes]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:28:14 +0000,
chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:

>tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>
>> chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>> news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>
>> > Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>>
>> Punctilious too I see.
>>
>> I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.
>
>Nah. Too irresponsible.

Heh. When I was at school bamboo blowpipes were de rigeur, using
pellets of blotting paper as a missile.

I modified mine to accept a ink cartridge inserted from underneath,
which imparted a liberal amount of ink to the pellet at it accelerated
up the pipe.

Even less popular was the big-bore version that projected an ink
cartridge with a modeling pin mounted in the front.

They eventually made me a prefect just before I left, but I got the
impression they were hoping it would make me more responsible, rather
than considering me to have achieved that unhappy state already. It
didn't work.
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[The Older Gentleman]

tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:

> No. it was my original jibe. I tacitly conceded *your point* posts ago,
> when I said that I was merely trying to discourage you from upsetting
> people no matter whether the insult was against their
> race/culture/religion or whatever.

Ah. OK then. Be more explicit next time.

And **** not upsetting people anyway ;-)
>
>
> >> And it's fun to watch him dance.
> >
> > Now *you* really are starting to sound like Des.
> >
> >
> > Actually, there you may have a point ;-))
>
> Lets not go there, Ok? ;-)

Indeed not.

Kissy-kissy.




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[Bear]

In article <3o42u0hid12tlb8dt4fqq4e1n3bjhirc3q@4ax.com>, Christopher Des
Clayes says...

> Heh. When I was at school bamboo blowpipes were de rigeur, using
> pellets of blotting paper as a missile.
>
> I modified mine to accept a ink cartridge inserted from underneath,
> which imparted a liberal amount of ink to the pellet at it accelerated
> up the pipe.
>
> Even less popular was the big-bore version that projected an ink
> cartridge with a modeling pin mounted in the front.

Born engineer :)
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[tallbloke]

chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
news:1gq4dwt.o9i8wb1ebm7vqN%chateauSPAMKILL.murray @dsl.pipex.com:


> And **** not upsetting people anyway ;-)

Well keep it specific. Northern git, southern poof etc is more acceptable
when aimed at an individual.

> Kissy-kissy.
>

Slap-slap


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[The Older Gentleman]

tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:

> > And **** not upsetting people anyway ;-)
>
> Well keep it specific. Northern git, southern poof etc is more acceptable
> when aimed at an individual.

But *all* Northerners are Northern gits.


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[Colin Irvine]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:35:57 +0000, Christopher Des Clayes
<Chris@127.0.0.1> squeezed out the following:

>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:28:14 +0000,
>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>
>>tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>>
>>> chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>>> news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>>
>>> > Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>>>
>>> Punctilious too I see.
>>>
>>> I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.
>>
>>Nah. Too irresponsible.
>
>Heh. When I was at school bamboo blowpipes were de rigeur, using
>pellets of blotting paper as a missile.
>
>I modified mine to accept a ink cartridge inserted from underneath,
>which imparted a liberal amount of ink to the pellet at it accelerated
>up the pipe.
>
>Even less popular was the big-bore version that projected an ink
>cartridge with a modeling pin mounted in the front.

Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant. I used to
fill the space between cap and spud with gunpowder emptied from my
stash of penny bangers. Loud bang, big flash, very fast spud.

Actually, that puts me in mind of a gun you once described to me. Punt
gun was it? Punchline was, IIRC, "Bugger Oi".

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[tallbloke]

chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
news:1gq4h4y.yba4qw40vdboN%chateauSPAMKILL.murray@ dsl.pipex.com:

> tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>
>> > And **** not upsetting people anyway ;-)
>>
>> Well keep it specific. Northern git, southern poof etc is more acceptable
>> when aimed at an individual.
>
> But *all* Northerners are Northern gits.
>
>

Come up and tell us one at a time. That way we can take our time over kicking
your arse back to lunnun.

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[Lozzo]

Colin Irvine says...

> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.

Mine was a rounders bat.

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[tallbloke]

Lozzo <lozzo@speedyspic.co.uk> wrote in news:MPG.1c4b4d3fc990313e989882
@news.individual.net:

> Colin Irvine says...
>
>> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.
>
> Mine was a rounders bat.
>

Did you do P.E. with the gurls or something?

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[Lozzo]

tallbloke says...
> Lozzo <lozzo@speedyspic.co.uk> wrote in news:MPG.1c4b4d3fc990313e989882
> @news.individual.net:
>
> > Colin Irvine says...
> >
> >> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
> >> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.
> >
> > Mine was a rounders bat.
> >
>
> Did you do P.E. with the gurls or something?

Boys played rounders occasionally at middle school, they called it
softball but we all knew it was rounders really. I nicked a bat for my
own purposes.

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[tallbloke]

Lozzo <lozzo@speedyspic.co.uk> wrote in news:MPG.1c4b54cfa8183f0c989887
@news.individual.net:

> tallbloke says...
>> Lozzo <lozzo@speedyspic.co.uk> wrote in news:MPG.1c4b4d3fc990313e989882
>> @news.individual.net:
>>
>> > Colin Irvine says...
>> >
>> >> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>> >> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.
>> >
>> > Mine was a rounders bat.
>> >
>>
>> Did you do P.E. with the gurls or something?
>
> Boys played rounders occasionally at middle school, they called it
> softball but we all knew it was rounders really. I nicked a bat for my
> own purposes.
>

Our softball bat and ball was bigger than the rounders kit. More or less
rounders rules, as you say.

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[steve auvache]

Lozzo wrote
> Colin Irvine says...
>
>> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.
>
>Mine was a rounders bat.

Mine was Big Eddie.

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[Christopher Des Clayes]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:02:43 +0000, Colin Irvine
<Colin.Irvine@spamcop.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:35:57 +0000, Christopher Des Clayes
><Chris@127.0.0.1> squeezed out the following:
>
>>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:28:14 +0000,
>>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>>
>>>tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>>>> news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>>>
>>>> > Well, if nothing else, I know how to spell 'supercilious'
>>>>
>>>> Punctilious too I see.
>>>>
>>>> I bet you were the ink monitor at your prep school.
>>>
>>>Nah. Too irresponsible.
>>
>>Heh. When I was at school bamboo blowpipes were de rigeur, using
>>pellets of blotting paper as a missile.
>>
>>I modified mine to accept a ink cartridge inserted from underneath,
>>which imparted a liberal amount of ink to the pellet at it accelerated
>>up the pipe.
>>
>>Even less popular was the big-bore version that projected an ink
>>cartridge with a modeling pin mounted in the front.
>
>Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant. I used to
>fill the space between cap and spud with gunpowder emptied from my
>stash of penny bangers. Loud bang, big flash, very fast spud.
>
>Actually, that puts me in mind of a gun you once described to me. Punt
>gun was it? Punchline was, IIRC, "Bugger Oi".

That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.

"Pull!"

Boing...

BOOM

From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:

"Bugger Oi what were that then?"
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[Nigel Eaton]

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Christopher Des
Clayes <Chris@127.0.0.1> typed
>
>That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
>replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.
>
>"Pull!"
>
>Boing...
>
>BOOM
>
>From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:
>
>"Bugger Oi what were that then?"

Heh.

A while back I was trying to get a recalcitrant bonfire to go. This was
eventually accomplished with the aid of quite a lot of methanol[1].

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!

Followed a few seconds later by my neighbour's voice from the other side
of the hedge:

"That sounded like it should have had a countdown".


[1] I had some, I used it. OK?
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[Colin Irvine]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:23:17 +0000, Christopher Des Clayes
<Chris@127.0.0.1> squeezed out the following:

>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:02:43 +0000, Colin Irvine
><Colin.Irvine@spamcop.net> wrote:

>>Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>>derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant. I used to
>>fill the space between cap and spud with gunpowder emptied from my
>>stash of penny bangers. Loud bang, big flash, very fast spud.
>>
>>Actually, that puts me in mind of a gun you once described to me. Punt
>>gun was it? Punchline was, IIRC, "Bugger Oi".
>
>That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
>replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.
>
>"Pull!"
>
>Boing...
>
>BOOM
>
>From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:
>
>"Bugger Oi what were that then?"

<g> That's the one.

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[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Nigel Eaton
<nigele@rcav8r.demon.co.uk> saying something like:

>
>A while back I was trying to get a recalcitrant bonfire to go. This was
>eventually accomplished with the aid of quite a lot of methanol[1].
>
>WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!
>
>Followed a few seconds later by my neighbour's voice from the other side
>of the hedge:
>
>"That sounded like it should have had a countdown".

Couple of months ago I was about to burn some rubbish in a 45gal drum. I
lobbed a little bit of petrol in and tossed a match on top.

Wahey!

All the crap whoomphed up about 20 feet in the air as the vapour down
the bottom ignited.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

[Muck]

Nigel Eaton wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Christopher Des
> Clayes <Chris@127.0.0.1> typed
>
>>
>> That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
>> replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.
>>
>> "Pull!"
>>
>> Boing...
>>
>> BOOM
>>
>> From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:
>>
>> "Bugger Oi what were that then?"
>
>
> Heh.
>
> A while back I was trying to get a recalcitrant bonfire to go. This was
> eventually accomplished with the aid of quite a lot of methanol[1].
>
> WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!
>

Heh.. nice one, it's a while since I've done that sort of thing. :(

> Followed a few seconds later by my neighbour's voice from the other side
> of the hedge:
>
> "That sounded like it should have had a countdown".
>

My old neighbor was a strange paranoid old bint, that would send us
letters in the post in strange slanting backwards hand writing.

>
> [1] I had some, I used it. OK?

<fx: mumbles>

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[Bear]

In article <h1f3u0di285q924q6ieb9q4venahfqg949@4ax.com>, Grimly
Curmudgeon says...
> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Nigel Eaton
> <nigele@rcav8r.demon.co.uk> saying something like:
>
> >
> >A while back I was trying to get a recalcitrant bonfire to go. This was
> >eventually accomplished with the aid of quite a lot of methanol[1].
> >
> >WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!
> >
> >Followed a few seconds later by my neighbour's voice from the other side
> >of the hedge:
> >
> >"That sounded like it should have had a countdown".
>
> Couple of months ago I was about to burn some rubbish in a 45gal drum. I
> lobbed a little bit of petrol in and tossed a match on top.
>
> Wahey!
>
> All the crap whoomphed up about 20 feet in the air as the vapour down
> the bottom ignited.

I learnt that lesson the hard way when I was 15 ... there was some
rubbish to be burnt off on the farm ... my dad used to chuck it into an
old oil drum (converted to an incinerator with a few holes knocked in
the sides) and lob on a few pints of diesel to get the thing really
going. I couldn't find the spare diesel can, so I used some petrol I
found instead. Plus I lobbed a fair bit more on, coz that's what you do
when you're 15 and allowed to set your own fires.

"How different could it be?", I thought.

I found out how different it could be about 1/2 second later ... even
chucking the flame in from a distance of about 10 feet didn't stop me
getting knocked on my arse, then covered in flaming bits of cardboard as
the rubbish I was burning fell to earth.

Made a ****** of a bang. Dad came charging round the corner of the
workshop moving faster than you'd imagine a bloke his size could, saw me
getting up unsteadily, and pissed himself laughing. He said that I
looked exactly like Tom after Jerry has handed him an exploding cigar.
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[Mick Whittingham]

In article <fn73u05mc4b3sc1vdtkuu6mnr5ig1aa99f@4ax.com>, Christopher Des
Clayes <Chris@127.0.0.1> writes
>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:02:43 +0000, Colin Irvine
><Colin.Irvine@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:35:57 +0000, Christopher Des Clayes
>><Chris@127.0.0.1> squeezed out the following:
>>
>>>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:28:14 +0000,
>>>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>>>
>>>>tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>>>>> news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>>>>
>>
>>Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>>derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant. I used to
>>fill the space between cap and spud with gunpowder emptied from my
>>stash of penny bangers. Loud bang, big flash, very fast spud.
>>
>>Actually, that puts me in mind of a gun you once described to me. Punt
>>gun was it? Punchline was, IIRC, "Bugger Oi".
>
>That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
>replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.
>
>"Pull!"
>
>Boing...
>
>BOOM
>
>From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:
>
>"Bugger Oi what were that then?"


I've shoot at clay pigeon with a flint lock. That was very interesting:

"Pull"

Boing...

Click

WHOOOSH

(I'm now blinded by the pan flash and smoke)

WOOMBA


[FX] Small voice

Cough, did I hit it?
--
Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.

[Mick Whittingham]

In article <3HjdIVHE9a4BJwhx@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>, Nigel Eaton
<nigele@rcav8r.demon.co.uk> writes
>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Christopher Des
>Clayes <Chris@127.0.0.1> typed
>>



>
>A while back I was trying to get a recalcitrant bonfire to go. This was
>eventually accomplished with the aid of quite a lot of methanol[1].
>
>WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!
>
>Followed a few seconds later by my neighbour's voice from the other
>side of the hedge:
>
>"That sounded like it should have had a countdown".
>
>
Reminds me of sitting in a big field with a few others on a Sunday
afternoon. On of the locals was into building rockets from kits so we
went along to the launch.

After the countdown got to zero and nothing happened the owner staggered
over and starts pulling at the wires while being very close and even
leaning over the rocket.

"That's a bit dodgy" says I, "What's up?"

To which the reply from the guy sitting next to me was:

"Launch control is *stoned*!"
--
Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.

[Christopher Des Clayes]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:31:47 +0000, Mick Whittingham
<Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <fn73u05mc4b3sc1vdtkuu6mnr5ig1aa99f@4ax.com>, Christopher Des
>Clayes <Chris@127.0.0.1> writes
>>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:02:43 +0000, Colin Irvine
>><Colin.Irvine@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:35:57 +0000, Christopher Des Clayes
>>><Chris@127.0.0.1> squeezed out the following:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:28:14 +0000,
>>>>chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>tallbloke <spamtrap@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>>>>>> news:1gq3dny.1spp8861giwek8N%chateauSPAMKILL.murra y@dsl.pipex.com:
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>>>derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant. I used to
>>>fill the space between cap and spud with gunpowder emptied from my
>>>stash of penny bangers. Loud bang, big flash, very fast spud.
>>>
>>>Actually, that puts me in mind of a gun you once described to me. Punt
>>>gun was it? Punchline was, IIRC, "Bugger Oi".
>>
>>That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
>>replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.
>>
>>"Pull!"
>>
>>Boing...
>>
>>BOOM
>>
>>From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:
>>
>>"Bugger Oi what were that then?"
>
>
>I've shoot at clay pigeon with a flint lock. That was very interesting:
>
>"Pull"
>
>Boing...
>
>Click
>
>WHOOOSH
>
>(I'm now blinded by the pan flash and smoke)
>
>WOOMBA
>
>
>[FX] Small voice
>
>Cough, did I hit it?

Chuckle.
--
Chris Des Clayes (Header addresses are munged)
Reply to chris@ffcc.powernet.co.uk, but remove one "f"
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[Andy Bonwick]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:17:11 -0000, Lozzo <lozzo@speedyspic.co.uk>
wrote:

> Colin Irvine says...
>
>> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
>> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.
>
>Mine was a rounders bat.

You played girls games?
--
Andy Bonwick
ZX9RE1
BOTAFOT#22,BONY#22,MRO#22,IBW#12,UKRMFBC#6,UKRMRM# 4
BOB#7,BOTAFOF#4398723498723.3,Mirtth#30,FTB#2

[Lozzo]

Andy Bonwick says...
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:17:11 -0000, Lozzo <lozzo@speedyspic.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Colin Irvine says...
> >
> >> Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
> >> derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant.
> >
> >Mine was a rounders bat.
>
> You played girls games?

No. I stole it because it fitted in my school case. A cricket bat was
too big to cart around and aroused suspicion. I did think about carrying
an air pistol in a shoulder holster, but decided against it.

--
Lozzo
ZX-9R
In cunnis confidimus