Last Post in This Thread Wins!

[springs]

Originally Posted by Interference

It really is that cold

(I had to turn up the wick on my candle earlier - I know. I just don't care, me. I luxuriate in my carelessness.)

Um, that can be read in many worrying ways.

Anyways I lit lots of candles tonight; cheaper than oil and it's to get mild tomorrow; my oil system is at the back of our very spidery garage and I won't go anywhere near it, so short term fluctuations = big woolly jumper.

Originally Posted by Ursa major

To be honest, Springs - no, really - I've been endeavouring to do something else entirely. (I'd tell you what it is, but dash it! It would have to be in code.)

Well, you gave us the first bit. What's next? (I'm still convinced you've been out of the thread and are possibly now an interloper.)

Oops; that's the other one. Ooops. Or maybe you both are, in which case with Timba vanished; I win!

Oh goody. Can I close the thread now?

[Interference]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

Why not use the equipment that King Alfred designed? The buns'n'burner....

Health 'n' safety, I'm afraid. Then there's the Mary Whitehouse contingent who complain about the use of naked flames.

As far as closing the thread is concerned - well, if you have to ask, I guess the answer must be


.......THREAD CLOSED

[Interference]

That seems to have worked

[Ursa major]

Sorry, no. I think your previous post was open to interpretation.

[springs]

What was that Inter? Didn't hear you, you need to speak up.

[Interference]

Should it have said "Thread Back In Five Minutes"? Cos when I see that on shop doors, they seem to stay closed an awfully long time.

I got my size sevens back

[Ursa major]

I wish you'd kept that under your hat.

[Interference]

Is that the sort of thing that could get me band?

[Ursa major]

Only if you use real brim-stone and not felt.

[springs]

I dunno, it beret close to the cusp.

[Interference]

(I can hear the Two Ronnies doing their Morris Dance for some reason )

You can't cap good headgear in this weather.

[Ursa major]

What about a fast bowler?

[Interference]

You don't get many of those at the Derby.

[springs]

They'll fleece you for it.

[Interference]

A fleece? Do American law enforcement agencies recommend those, now? It might, then, be worn by some Fed or a nother.


Suddenly reminded of the line in Hitchcock's 39 Steps, after Hannay calls the policeman a sheep and when encountering a flock of sheep, "Oh, look. A flock of policemen."