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- 09 Apr 2019, 07:22
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
- 07 Apr 2019, 07:15
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
- Replies: 5240
- Views: 618560
Re: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
" and give them the benefit of a small warm glow!" The reverse, where i served my time, not jail, we had a fitter nicknamed Snuffy from his habit, as a group but individually we would walk past his workbench and tell him in different forms that he wasn't looking well with in an hour he wou...
- 04 Apr 2019, 07:20
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20234
- Views: 2398260
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I also used one,it was for a down to earth job in the house
- 31 Mar 2019, 08:08
- Forum: Site Donations
- Topic: OGFB Finances March 30 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4409
Re: OGFB Finances March 30 2019
Ian i assume you got a couple of quid from me last month ? Tony
- 24 Mar 2019, 19:26
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Tombstone epitaphs 1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home, cooks from time to time, cleans up, and has a job. 2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh. 3. It's important to have a woman who you can trust, and doesn't lie to you. 4. It's important to have a woman who like...
- 12 Mar 2019, 08:37
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16695
- Views: 2009182
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Stanley an interesting site for "old" things http://www.junktionantiques.co.uk/galle ... es-Engines
- 28 Feb 2019, 08:27
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
A bloke starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. The first is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does this, a huge fish jumps out and bites him. To show the others who is the boss, he beats it to death with a spade. Realizing his employer won't be best pleased, he disposes ...
- 27 Feb 2019, 08:18
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
How Would You Describe Couple Sex? Image For How Would You Describe Couple Sex Joke An 8 year old girl went to her grandfather, who was working in the yard and asked him “Grandpa what is couple sex?” The grandfather was surprised that she would ask such a question, but decided that if she was old en...
- 27 Feb 2019, 08:15
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Morning Sex, It’s All About The Timing! My wife was standing in the kitchen preparing our usual eggs, bacon, and toast for breakfast and wearing only the t-shirt that she normally sleeps in. As I walked in, almost awake, she turned to me and said in a hurried tone, “You’ve got to make love to me thi...
- 23 Feb 2019, 08:31
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20234
- Views: 2398260
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I lived at Victoria on the A 616 about 8 miles from Huddersfield & 12 miles from Sheffield, at nearby Gatehead there was a disused colliery and on the tip were many Ammonite fossils, as a young school boy it fascinated me that at sometime in the past that part of England must have been under wat...
- 15 Feb 2019, 07:44
- Forum: National Service
- Topic: National Service
- Replies: 64
- Views: 25417
Re: National Service
So far so good
- 14 Feb 2019, 08:17
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: THE FLATLEY DRYER
- Replies: 5024
- Views: 650597
Re: THE FLATLEY DRYER
I hope you relate your army time in the manner of Spike Millington !!
- 13 Feb 2019, 08:30
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Old Rugby Players Never Die ... Two 90 year old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends all of their lives. When it's clear that Joe is dying, Mike visits him every day. One day Mike says, "Joe, we both loved rugby all our lives, and we played rugby on Saturdays together for so many years. Please ...
- 12 Feb 2019, 09:04
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2467
- Views: 311043
Re: Shed Matters 3
Stanley, did you ever come across 6 jaw chucks ? https://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/tls/ ... 18489.html
- 12 Feb 2019, 08:57
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
- Replies: 5240
- Views: 618560
Re: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
Years ago i worked next door to a unit that made and filled little sachets of shampoo, the guy running it bought 45 gal drums of Teepol, Shell i think?, he made a small fortune on each drum he used, an aside i once worked in a pilot plant laboratory, the senior chemist told me that to make detergent...
- 12 Feb 2019, 08:41
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20234
- Views: 2398260
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
More surface area for freezing
- 11 Feb 2019, 10:43
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 601056
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Paddy & Mick go to London to donate sperm, it was a disaster, Mick missed the tube and Paddy came on the bus
- 10 Feb 2019, 09:33
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3944
- Views: 635965
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 7;size=150
Scroll to the description of "truing a fly wheel " the use of the word, fudging ?
Scroll to the description of "truing a fly wheel " the use of the word, fudging ?
- 10 Feb 2019, 09:21
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6950
- Views: 986150
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
by Stanley » Fri Feb 01, 2019 5:52 am
Re the picture of a waggon and horses, is it an optical illusion or are the wheel rims beveled and if so why ?,
Re the picture of a waggon and horses, is it an optical illusion or are the wheel rims beveled and if so why ?,
- 10 Feb 2019, 09:17
- Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
- Topic: Marine Engineers
- Replies: 484
- Views: 244805
Re: Marine Engineers
I wonder, did he actually say "Kiss me Hardy"?
My father reckoned that he actually said "kismet Hardy" = gods will
My father reckoned that he actually said "kismet Hardy" = gods will
- 09 Feb 2019, 09:59
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16695
- Views: 2009182
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Stanley, how about this for you next project, you could base the doll on yourself ?
https://www.chonday.com/15454/the-writer-automaton/
https://www.chonday.com/15454/the-writer-automaton/
- 07 Feb 2019, 09:45
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16695
- Views: 2009182
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
THE OIL PATCH WARRIORS OF WORLD WAR II Seventy-five years ago this month, a Band of Roughnecks went abroad on a top secret mission into Robin Hood's stomping grounds to punch oil wells to help fuel England's war machines. It's a story that should make any oilman or woman proud. The year was 1943 and...
- 07 Feb 2019, 08:50
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16695
- Views: 2009182
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
We pay .90 euro /m3. with a standing charge of 90 euro / yr, our daily average is less than .2/ m3. So far we have not exceeded our standing charge, that is with two OAP in the house, we must be scruffy buggers.
- 05 Feb 2019, 08:59
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
- Replies: 5240
- Views: 618560
Re: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
how do grossly obese people wipe their bottoms? In a similar vein many years ago i fell two stories through a hole cut into a cotton mill being converted, amongst the injuries i had both wrists broken and finished up in plaster above both elbows, it made wiping a bit of a contortionist act, when ask...
- 05 Feb 2019, 08:47
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3944
- Views: 635965
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
BBC news today, Raynauds disease, accentuated by cold weather. As a young lad in Yorkshire lakin out in't cowd weather if i felt nesh and went indoors to warm missen ad get "hot aches" as my hands thawed out, was this a form of Raynauds ?