What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Mary had a little lamb

She kept in a bucket

Every time the lamb got out

The dog tried to......

 

Or

Mary had a little lamb,

Her father shot it dead

She still takes it to school

Between two pieces of bread

 

Those childhood nights used to fly by........

[Fumbler]

Surely you could say Carillion Bridge is falling down...

[DVee8]

Mary had a little lamb

She also had a duck

She put them on the mantlepiece to see it they would?

[Craig the Princess]

Moog, that's bloody great news. Best of luck with the PhD!

 

I think I saw the beginning of the 'numbers' game, if I'm honest. We were in the second-round of student fees (£3,000ish a year) and there were a couple of people that I knew that had absolutely no business being at that University. They should have been kicked out in their first year but got marked very low - but not quite low enough to actually get rid of them. Funnily enough, the two in particular I can think of (over two different courses) both left of their own volition anyway... but they should have been failed months before then and told to go home. Made an absolute mockery of the rest of us.

That's me you are describing, but thanks for your understanding*.

[DodgeRover]

Georgie Porgie, Puddin’ and Pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry,

When the boys came out to play

He kissed them too, cause he's funny that way.

 

I think I may have picked that up from a folk band my dad used to like, along with

 

My uncle billy had a ten foot willy,

He showed it to the lady next door,

She thought it was a snake

So she hit it with a rake

And now it's only three foot four.

[AMC Rebel]

Saw a lot of Morgans around here today - I assume there was a show on somewhere - also a very tidy Austin Healey 3000.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Seeing this at a show yesterday:

 

 

and this:

 

[The Moog]

Collecting filing cabinets from a birthday boy

 

Thanks hairnet!

 

[Fumbler]

And very nice Bisley (I think) cabinets they are. You can buy those a Home Sense for 120 big ones. For £139.99 I could get a more practicle, while cute, tumble dryer. More fun too.

[somewhatfoolish]

One I remember from from my childhood;

 

Mary had a little lamb,

She tossed it up a pylon;

11,000 volts went up its bum

and turned its wool to nylon.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I've been spending too much time on this forum, it's started to bleed into unrelated apps.

 

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Seeing this at a show yesterday:

 

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and this:

 

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S and VS? Is the third one a Q? Which show?

 

(Too many questions. )

[stonedagain]

Mary had a little pig

She couldn't stop it grunting

She took it down the river bank

& Kicked it's little cunt in.

[stonedagain]

Sing a song of syphyliss, a foreskin full of scabs

Four and twenty abscesses, and twice as many crabs

When the scabs burst open, the crabs begin to grunt

What a fucking horrible thing to ram up someone's cunt

[Split_Pin]

Felt a bit shit this morning, have to endure a week of work with some awful folk that are too cool to talk to me. I did however have the prescence of mind to kick the 172's cunt in on the way to the train station this morning. Thats me set up for the day now

[Guest Hooli]

Mary had a little pig

She couldn't stop it grunting

She took it down the river bank

& Kicked it's little cunt in.

 

 

Sing a song of syphyliss, a foreskin full of scabs

Four and twenty abscesses, and twice as many crabs

When the scabs burst open, the crabs begin to grunt

What a fucking horrible thing to ram up someone's cunt

 

 

Not heard either of them since school, thanks for cheering my morning up.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

S and VS? Is the third one a Q? Which show?

 

(Too many questions. )

 

Correct. The third one is a "PP".

 

All of them have working inside valve gear.

 

The show was Scaleforum - held every year in Stoke Mandeville.

[Volksy]

Mary had a little skirt
with splits right up the sides
and every time that Mary walked
the boys could see her Thighs
Mary had another skirt
twas split right up the front
but she didn't wear that one very often.

[New POD]

Art? I'm Computer Science

Or Dark Arts and witch craft as I like to call it

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after receiving the result of the first PPI reclaim: £1200.    That'll go towards the cost of rebuilding the CX auto 'box.   

 

Easy come, easy go....

[Guest Hooli]

Talking of Heinz, there was a really interesting documentary on BBC about their factory at Wigan, if you missed it you can get it on ketchup.

[Guest Hooli]

The inventor of the hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat has died.

RIP Scott Chegg.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Row, row, row your boat

To the Isle of Dread

Where upon the dinosaurs

Are waiting to be fed

 

One for the old D&D players there

[willswitchengage]

Probably old news for you but at the weekend I enjoyed a trip to the Brooklands Museum with my professional institute, the IMechE. Essentially a giant yard filled with old motorcycles (stunning priceless Brough examples), bicycles (as above), cars (which I wasn't that interested in) and old British civil airliners which made you wonder where it all went wrong. I've never really been interested in Concorde before but learning about it was absolutely fascinating. With the London Buses Museum on site too one could easily spend a whole day there, which we did.

 

 

Unusual highlight. Four speed!

 

 

I assume this was a jet engine snow plough

 

 

Bus porn

 

 

BAC 111. Looks a lot comfier than the expensive seat classes you get on planes now

[Guest Hooli]

People scoop bus, so you can collect them without stopping. I wonder why it never caught on?

[Guest Hooli]

Last time I went to Brooklands was about 2004, I won the autotest at the Midget & Sprite club 50th anniversary for Spidgets. I then retired from competition undefeated.

 

Still amuses me how pissed off the second place bloke looked. He'd taken the spare etc out the car to make it lighter, it was tuned & tweaked & he appeared to take things seriously. I had a standard 1500 with a passenger & my Jack Russel sat on the shelf behind the seats. Oh & silly hats.

 

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Correct. The third one is a "PP".

 

All of them have working inside valve gear.

 

The show was Scaleforum - held every year in Stoke Mandeville.

Thanks for that. I'll try to get over for the show next year. Inside valve gear in 4mm is almost a dark art.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Another PPI reclaim has come up, so that's more money for the CX gearbox fund.

 

... Inside valve gear in 4mm is almost a dark art.

 

Until I started doing it for myself, I'd have agreed with this. But once you understand how the parts fit and work together, it's not necessarily difficult at all. Here's a crank axle I put together:

 

[wuvvum]

Last time I went to Brooklands was about 2004, I won the autotest at the Midget & Sprite club 50th anniversary for Spidgets. I then retired from competition undefeated.

 

Still amuses me how pissed off the second place bloke looked. He'd taken the spare etc out the car to make it lighter, it was tuned & tweaked & he appeared to take things seriously. I had a standard 1500 with a passenger & my Jack Russel sat on the shelf behind the seats. Oh & silly hats.

 

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Your hair appears to have migrated to the south side of your head since then.

[Guest Hooli]

I stood up too quick one day & it slipped.