test please delete

[BrowneIssue]

Evening all

^G

[NickFitz]

Why is it a Super Monkey Car and not a Super Ape Car?

(Or Wheelbarrow, for that matter.)

As with so many things in life, it comes down to The Simpsons.

I learnt to drive back in 2001, and bought the car from a friend the day after I'd passed my test. It was considerably more powerful than the driving school Corsa, and thus most exhilarating

A day or two later the Beeb showed A Milhouse Divided, in which Homer gets a divorce so he and Marge can have a proper wedding. Homer's self-written vows are read by Reverend Lovejoy:

"...in quiet solitude or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated..." [consults the notecards] "...and it goes on like this."

Given the regrettable tendency of our colonial cousins to refer to apes as monkeys, I immediately concluded that this was the perfect description of my noble vehicle. Over time the phrase "jet-powered, monkey-navigated supercar" gradually mutated into "Super Monkey Car"

[NickFitz]

Evening all

^G

WHS

[NickFitz]

Right, I'm off to see if anything's happened to the pub since last Sunday

[BrowneIssue]

Given the regrettable tendency of our colonial cousins

'colonial cousins'? Surely you are not suggesting we evolved from Americans? Heresy! Sacrilege! Offence! Evolved from mud-sucking slimy things, yes, but not that!

<shudder>

[BrowneIssue]

Right, I'm off to see if anything's happened to the pub since last Sunday

Beside their takings going down by five sevenths...?

[BrowneIssue]

ooh, look - an email from Sainsbury's!

Dear Nicholas

There's still time to pick up bonus Nectar points when 
you shop our Beauty and Toiletries aisles.

You'll find lots of gorgeous products and fabulous offers 
to help you sparkle and shine this Christmas.

Better get some pink glittery nail varnish, if they're that insistent...

(Does nobody ever include the "Gender" column as one of the criteria for targeting these emails? )

I sent my Sainsbury's loyalty card back.

I took it out when they first appeared. I dutifully used it for months and did not shop anywhere else.

After about 8 months they sent me a load of vouchers. For nappies, make-up and ladies sanitary items.

I sent the vouchers and the card back with a sharply worded letter asking where they thought I ought to stick the tampons and that they can stick their card in the same place.

[FiveTimes]

well that was a good film. I can't believe I have never seen scarface before

[FiveTimes]

well that was a good film. I can't believe I have never seen scarface before

there were a lot of F' words, probably more than Ramsay's kitchen noghtmares

[FiveTimes]

there were a lot of F' words, probably more than Ramsay's kitchen noghtmares

but it was un-interrupted apart from nipping to the fridge for a beer.