How Many G's In Lurry

Pubs called Waggon and Horses.

What's all that about?

Depends on how many horses,one g,g per horse

Waggon is a variant (chiefly British) of wagon, Dostaf.

G G G R O A N

Did this mon know?

Cheers, Jo Anne.

But, who he? ^^^^^^

Alfred Wainwright?

Correct.

And this mon?

Bowt googlin.

Some 'properties' info was more specific.

double your money

Bonanza or High Chaperal(?) man?

That was Hughie, you notreet.

He had nowt to do with the thread topic.

lorne

Hughie has a 'g' that you don't sound as 'g', like Alfred Wainwri'g'ht and Wag'g'on, so you're on a roll, Mache.

Character namy, young Jo Anne.

Mache has saved you looking at 'properties' for the actor's name.

Lorne Green Thanks, Mache.

And thanks, Dostaf - 'young' Jo Anne.

Well, you don't really remember those shows, do you, Jo Anne?

little joe was adopted by a large family and ben ended up in a spaceship

Stick to the topic, you sod.

Who was the other little Joe, in a transport cafe?

I remember Marie/a and Lorne - can't remember his character's name - in the High Chaperel(?)

I remember the map burning,dum dera dum dera dum dum dum dum. Little Jo was my heart throb Hoss was a great big softit,or even softie

Wainwright

Cartwright

Joe

Before the Trumpton series Alison Prince wrote the television series "Joe", a story about a small boy (below) who lived in a busy transport café. With her experience of writing material for young children, the BBC suggested that she should join the Trumptonshire team.

Here

Now.

What's the Woodcock connection?

Hold your horses, Dostaf - who's that cowboy in Mache's post 16:37?

early 007

God knows, where Mache is concerned.

It could be some uncle of his at Blackpool.

I'm busy trying to fnd out if I've not outclevered messen.

I'm sure there was Wagon Maker (in context) in Wigan.

An clue

Pilgrim, Mache?

Never mind this nonsense. Where's the pic of a coach builder or whatever that was on the corner of Market Stret and Woodcock Street.

not nonsense its on topic

Wagoner?

Just came to me as I read 17:01

Flint McCullough, an nother clue

Porter Wagoner, the American Country singer, Dostaf and Mache? Whoops!

Wagon Train, the long running tv series.

Ward Bond.

This corner, Dostaf?

Now can we sort out the Woodcock Street doings?

Sorted

Sorry, Jo anne, missed your 17:10.

Place was on opposite corner. See 17:15

Well if you had typed carriage makers etc.......

Thanks, Dostaf - that's definitely before my time, but it's good to learn of it from you old timer.

SOD OFF!

I did all but.

that should be old timer.

I'll edit, young - but not quite as young as me - Mache.

My cars older than me, I do like marinas

I know when the Battle of Hastings took place, but it doesn't mean I was there.

Not according to your autograph book

You asked for that!

I'm not here sombody else is posting for me while I am in the pub




must be oleg

Notreet!

What's not reet about a spider on a web, Dostaf?! That's how it was in the olden days.

Never mind a spider on a web. It's a notreet on my fine thread that troubles me, Jo Anne.

Typing of pubs, was Number 44 once your local, Dostaf?

Nice find, Jo Anne.

And a double G'er.

An nother

Thinking back to Cartwright and Wainwright ... it turns out there's a wheelwright.

Did you ever meet the person who invented the wheel, Dostaf?

Cheek!

But a spokesperson told me to tell you to look at the link on my 16:59, Jo Anne.

Hengist Pod pic was here.

This site has unwittingly linked to an image hosted on my website. If you want to see the image then please visit:

www.themoviescene.co.uk

Bugger!

Anyroad, It's Hengist Pod and his square wheel. 'Carry On Cleo'.

Sorry, I saw the wheelwright photo earlier, Dostaf, but didn't check the name in its properties.

truth v fiction

A good find, Oleg.

I get the picture, Jo Anne

That's ^^^ a wain.

Mot to be confused with a wean.

Nice find, Mache (or Oleg).

But Hengist lived ic Coccium. Which is somewhere near Haydock.

The Haywain is linked to my personal history, Dostaf. My Gran and Grandad had it up in their living room.Two G's.

Constable also painted a Paddywagon.

Black gloss.

Two coats.

If Hengist painted his wheel, I hope he stayed within the lines

didn't paint the bell though

Monet did the bells.

Blue ones.

Did he?

Artistic licence.

Were they pulled with old rope ?

So Monet was for old rope, Mache?

Shameless!

I thought it was a stroke of genius.

Don't push it.

'stroke of genius'

Mache mixes in interesting circles - his lodger, Oleg, seems to be an impressionist, too.

Oleg has been cleaning his shoes since 17:50

Obviously a very smart spider.

I can't believe I'm about to.

But:

Is he going out, Mache?

I've seen you trying to do impressions on General, too, Dostaf.

No he's in his bowl

Yes.

I'm about to do 'Little Johnny's' farmyard party piece.

In his bowl, Mache?

Yes he lives in a ceramic bowl in the bathroom

Watch out he's not all dressed up like a dog's dinner ... Or cat's.

Yes he lives in a ceramic bowl in the bathroom.

That's one of Macs false eyelashes you daft sod!

Leaves them everywhere he goes, allegedly.

Mac's eyelashes don't post on my behalf though

Eyelashes don't wear shoes - that would be some feat - so we can see that's flutter nonsense, Dostaf.

Any more rooms to let, Mache?

yes but legslie and legsley have the other rooms

The thought of Mache chatting to something in a so-called ceramic bowl in the bathroom, cracked me up.

you should hear the echo

It's potty!

Is Legsley a spinster? Or do the couple live together in spin or webb-ed bliss?

no they are brother and sister

Perhaps I am a bit nosey, after all.

So they are not the couple who married at Hay Hall?

brother and sister twins i think, they look so alike

Hence the phrase:

A crackpotty

Give the bowl a ring.

If it don't ring, yon spider is a series of cracks.

The spinning image of each other, Mache?

Spider Wheel


This spiders web was in a direct line in front of an old metal wagon wheel.



I should be thankful for small mercies.

The spiders aren't filaments of Mache's imagination, Dostaf.

Would a Fr*nch spider be thankful with small Mercis, Dostaf?

Don't get him going, Jo Anne.

Sorry, Mache - a peace offering.

Sod it!

It's my thread.

SHhhhhhhhh I went on the day

Nowt wrong with repeats.

I bet it was spectacular, Mache.

'Sorry, that's a little Johnny joke gone wrong'

me shoe wer'nt big enough

Wagon Wheels are made at Burton's - can you get bags more bugs at Burton's for spiders?

Big ish?

and I were scared, had to have a drink to settle myself down, it took a while

Bags more buz at Burton

GROAN



Big ish.

Was the spider in Liverpool thankful for small Mersey, Mache?

it only just fit down the hole

was it a tunnel web spider ?

I bet your spiders in the ceramic bowl feel quite well off, Mache.

... Hope it can never be said they feel flush though.

Oleg is well off he has a silk tie you know

I start a thread on wagons and the only eight legger to appear is yon mon's spider.

No wonder.etc..

Hope he doesn't smoke, Mache.

Aha!

Saves Sept explanation, too.

October explanation?! Tyred?

Even in Oct.

Oct-ober - eight, yet the tenth month in the modern day calendar, easy to be confused.

Behave. Yon mon will be going on about Leyland Octopi any minute now.

The eighth month in the old Roman calendar.

saw one of these once get a puncture. then another ect...driver lost about 8 tyres before he got the jacks up

Leyland Octopus

I'm sure those Guinness containers arrived at Runcorn 'docks'. (Manchester ship Canal)

used to go right into manchester docks and unload on guinness road

Quite a dramatic sight to see that on the motorway, Mache.

My Dad worked at British Leyland, Dostaf.

saw one going up moss lane in platt bridge a few tears ago they had to lift the pub sign out of the way at the mini roundabout

Really, Jo Anne. Have you been to the Commercial Vehicle Museum?

No, he's not as enthusiastic about vehicles as you two - he loves aeroplanes and makes & flies model ones.

My Grandad worked at Spring's Branch, but we never went there, as I can remember.

I was brought up with transport, it started eith a pram

Mine was a Perambulator, Mache.

I spent years when it felt I was permanently fixed to a pram if out and about, Mache.

then I started collecting red lorries and yellow lorries I had too many to say never mind count

A lot of horse power then - even easier to lose count after a night in the Waggon and Horses.

me dad had an oss scared the hell out of me

Tongue twister.

"Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yelow lorry etc"

Hard work bowt ale.

Impossible with.

its ok if you copy/paste

Dostaf missed a yellow l!

If yellow and red lorries start to blur, it's time to drink orange.

You can lead a horse to water, but can you make it drunk?

Will it fall off the Waggon?

(How many G's in modern day lurries? There's just one in a HGV. )

up to a certain weight it could be a PLG

Heavier Goods Vehicles then, Mache?

Been a recent WW dispute over such teminology, Jo Anne. Its now LGV.

Still only one G, unless there's a G in the first word?

driven steam locos in the past and once borrowed a bus

Not the old 'took the bus home' one.

Bit of a do HGV/LGV

na, wanted to move some big stuff, so borrowed a bus can be driven legally on ordinary licence if it is over 30 years old

Thanks, Dostaf - Large Goods Vehicle, one G, one g.

Or sometimes lager Goods Vehicle. (Those help some pub patrons become rolling drunk)

N.B. The gearbox came to no harm

'N.B. The gearbox came to no harm'

So why mention it?

HAHAHA

So the bus wasn't bust, Mache? Bust ups always seem to be at large on WW.

woke the street early hours, none synchro

He was thinking doubt side of the box?

Kerunch!

Were you doing a moonlight flit?

I have a lovely thread which may interest you.

Was it a single or double decker and did people want to deck you, Mache?

single dec could have ended up a single if it had been a double decker going through leigh at the time

N.B. The gearbox came to no harm

Great minds synch alike ^^^

too late

also looking for a side mirror on the glass of a half cab is not clever

dostaf Coccium was at the top of the Wiend where the statue of the face is. There weren't a lot of Romans based here at any one time because most of them were continuing to maraud up the Country.

Bandits at 10 o clock.

MarieM that's really not too far from Haydock in terms of the entire Roman Empire.

Mirror at ten-o-clock Ish.

Ten to ten is cowboy time.

first loco was a royal scott class at patricroft shed me dad knew a driver restricted to shed duty because of ale, he told me what to do as he was shaking

How far did you drive the steam locos, Mache?

up and down the shed for re coaling

Were you stoked?

I was slippered the second time on a pit line whilst on a cross country run when I got caught

Strangely enough, there isn't a 'g' in 'angry' going spare.

And, I know this is a fummy question, but has the letter M become the new N?

(Dostaf I didn't realise the link between Wainwright, Cartwright and Wheelwright until I re-read through the thread and researched wain. )

See, out of drivel cometh knowledge.

And here's a bit more knowledge:

From time to time, I pass a couple of pubs named Waggon and Horses; one in Bolton and another in Westhoughton (Also Bolton in the none Tonker sense ).

I also know Bowtoners who, like Wiganers, call lorries 'lurries'.

Tenuous link time:

So, I had me a little google.

LURRY

Lurry is an old-fashioned spelling of Lorry. Wikipedia articles include:

Lorry (horse-drawn)
Amalgamated Carters, Lurrymen and Motormen's Union

Bit of union history, there.

So I had a look.

Amalgamated Carters, Lurrymen and Motormen's Union (Bolton, est. 1890)


Case sol-ved. It's not a Wiganism. It's a Bowtonism.

In't google great?

As for the new 'n'; have we got another member of the 'ticky pedant' club?

there is a pub close by called the cart and horses, is it older

Where is it, Mache? Could you draw us a map?

'Ticky Pedant'?! It's all good fum. Sorry, I'll try not to become a spammer in the WW works.

Sol-ved?

Where would any wagon or waggon worldwide be bowt a bolt on?

(And what do you think about mischievous Mache- wagging cross country?)

'Sol-ved' is an impression of Mr Peter Sellers in a certain law enforcement role, Jo Anne.

Wagging, on my lovely waggon thread?

And I thought I was being tenuous.

Why didn't they call it the Horses and Cart.

Thus avoiding putting the cart before the horse/s?

A great photo, Mache, but Holt on - where is it?

astley

And I thought I was being tenuous.

Cross country is often strenuous, so I don't blame Mache really, Dostaf.

Thanks, Mache - Astley

Which reminds me - 'Ast seen a Marina for sail in Leigh?

(Or is it even *older than your present Marina?)

For tenuous links - how does the *older photo link with a recent - not WW -News story about Leigh?

Ray sources

Is that a purpose-built vehicle, Mache - Horses for courses, as it were?

Is the news story here, Jo Anne?

Sorry, Dostaf - it wasn't on WW after all. www.wigan.gov.uk

you'll get on the wrong cider him doing things like that

Zummerzet, where zoider apples grow. (Pub location)

Watchet!

That Ticky Pedant thread only became so antagonistic after I linked to it earlier, Dostaf. I hope the two aren't linked.

I do believe *prey pre-dates pray. (*The tables have since turned.)

Have you ever noticed how chapels always have a constant reminder of the temptation within?

Clue

More incider information

Yes. And all those hymns, too ... there's sin in singing.

Back to topic: The Little House on the Prairie.

There is a link between A prairie and Bamfurlong

Here

And why isn't that here, Mache? ... I'll forgive you.

Brilliant picture, but I'm not seeing the prairie link?

Heaven knows why s Great Western prairie tank engine is on the LMS main line

God's Wonderful Railway

Never mind about God's Wonderful Railway;

Look what you've done to Dostaf's Marvelous Thread

Nice find by mr google there.

Are you trying to gee us all up, Dostaf? Quip us into shape?

I recently happened upon something about flagellation, Jo Anne.

My Boz no less.

I love the bit in Oliver Twist where The Beadle goes on about feeding orphans meat and raising unnatural spirits in them.

One mo.

No wise cracks about flagellation.

Oliver:

"No, I will not, sir," replied the beadle: adjusting the wax-end which was twisted round the bottom of his cane, for purposes of parochial flagellation.

...

"It's not Madness, ma'am," replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. "It's Meat."

"What?" exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry.

"Meat, ma'am, meat," replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. "You've over-fed him, ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am, unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened."

No. I menat to have a google about it and forgot.

"No, I will not, sir," replied the beadle: adjusting the wax-end which was twisted round the bottom of his cane, for purposes of parochial flagellation.

"Tell Sowerberry not to spare him either. They'll never do anything with him, without stripes and bruises," said the gentleman in the white waistcoat.

I'm puzzled about the 'wax-end'.

The only other thing I know of which had a wax-end was a nautical depth plumb.

The wax would, in cases, touch the bottom (no pun intended) and the imprints, or bits of sand/gravel etc would give the sailors an idea as to if they were above a sanbank or rocks etc.

Whacks?

In't google great



Curled

No. I menat to have a google about it and forgot.

Did you look up about the 'wax-end' straight away?

Not convinced.

I think it could be to do with something to stop the end of the cane splitting.

Similar

Likewise the ends of climbing ropes in school gyms.

We'll be onto sheeting and roping next.

No. Jo Anne. I forgot to check the wax end thing.

It was only the other day that I re read the 'Madness Madam!' bit of text.

I nearly used a bit of it on a thread which went a bit naughty.

Poly boot

You learn something new etc.

Noel

Too early.

Shakes fist and cries 'Humbug!'

That quick link doesn't work

Which quick link, Kryten?

The one in Dostaf's link.

It didn't at first, but it did at 17:44:34

Get back in't knife drawer.

Yes, it's not ropey anymore.

Poly boots are like aglets then - that's one of Joseph 1's words on the 'learn a new word' threads. And the only one I've remembered.

I'll now try and commit 'poly boots' to memory - parrot fashion.

Here let me help.

A striking design, Kryten. Thank you.

Wigan's flag elation.

And, hopefully the race to save Hindley Baths could now be on the home straight.

The meeting is set for next Thursday (or, yes - Turdsday as a WWer thought to call it today.)

Let's hope it's muck for luck.

I'm losing the plot!

I thought there was an election for a flag in the offing.

See politics and 'bandwagon'.

'flag elation'

Who are the Phoenix Group? Local people all mucking in to help?

Hope it all goes swimmingly.

My son's quite excited as he got his first voting card today.

He'll have just turned 18 by then and is already on the electoral roll.

Hope he participates in democracy, Jo Anne.

At one time, the various parties noted such things (on the roll) and sent the young uns birthday cards.

Most confusing to get a birthday card from some politico.

Again, that's before my time, Dostaf. We haven't got any flyers about the candidates as yet.

Expect a lurryload

HAHAHAHAHA

Boooooooooooooo!

'Candidate information will be available from 26th October 2012': www.choosemypcc.org.uk

Dostaf 11:46 "Lurry is a Bowtonism - the Union - est., 1890 ... "

Ticky Pedant Time

WW: Old News - Friday, October 31, 1890

'Thos. Brown, 9, Fisher's-yard, Wallgate, and Thos. Charlson, Dorning-street, were summoned, the former for illtreating a horse by working it whilst in an unfit condition, and Mr. Charlson for causing it to be worked. - Inspector Brown, of the R.S.P.C.A., said about a quarter to twelve on the 18th inst., he was in Wallgate, and saw Brown in charge of a lurry laden with ...'

'Marriage: 2 Sep 1876 All Saints, Wigan, Lancashire, England
John Hart - 22 Collier Bachelor of 54 Spring Gardens
Ann Wood - (X), 21 Weaver Spinster of 15 Bottom Croft (Hallgate)
    Groom's Father: John Hart, Collier
    Bride's Father: John Wood, (deceased), Lurry-driver'

From en.wiktionary.org - lurry:

Etymology 1 Of obscure origin. See lorry.

Verb
lurry (lurries, lurrying, lurried)
(transitive) To lug or pull about.
(transitive) To daub; dirty.

Noun
lurry (plural lurries) (obsolete)
A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.
To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. — Milton.

Verb
Lurry (lurries, lurrying, lurried)
(intransitive) To hurry carelessly.

I think you can safely say we have helped to make a lurry of your Marvelous Thread, Dostaf.

Marriage: 29 Nov 1873 Park Street Wesleyan Methodist, Bolton, Lancs.
Nathan Bailey - 29 Lurry Man Widower of 5 St. Helena Road, Little Bolton
Sarah Nabs - 25 Widow of 27 Bolton St. Little Bolton

'A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.

To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. — Milton.'

Great find, Jo Anne.

Milton is a clever lad

Yes he is, ask his grandads

Typing of funny men and sticking to topic:

Atkinson had a licence to drive an Atkinson (True)



I'll not link to the 'I like trucking' song.

Milton, the English poet - As well you know it! Dostaf

John Milton was 'a scholarly man of letters' - not quite the same ones as Milton Jones.

'Atkinson holds a category C+E (formerly 'Class 1') lorry driving licence, gained in 1981, because lorries held a fascination for him, and to ensure employment as a young actor. He has also used this skill when filming comedy material.' (wiki)

Atkinson by name, Acting-un by nature.

An I like trucking link would be asking for trouble:

'The video from this song caused absolute outrage when it was first broadcast, because it featured footage of Princess Anne driving a large lorry, interspersed with hedgehogs being crushed under the wheels...

... The following apology was aired at the beginning of the following show:
"The BBC... would like to point out that the hedgehog used was in fact a stuffed hedgehog, and we feel we've probably exhibit less cruelty to hedgehogs per se than whoever it is who goes around stuffing them in the first place."'

Wise to have no truck with a link and no link with a truck.

(Best to back out of jump-starting the banned wagon.)

It was marvelous at the time, Jo Anne when all the complaints about the hedgehogs went in.

(I really do like hedgehogs and not to eat)

People really over reacted. Rowan Atkinson was shown, during the song, stickig little emblems on his cab door including cyclists and hedgehogs, even people . Intiimating that they were 'kills', similar to the little swastikas etc RAF Fighter Pilots had on their cockpits.

Best thing was, each episode was recently pre recorded, so the following week, mor heghehog references were made.

And they subsequently featured in other sketches.

Censorship is a prickly issue.

'Kills'?

Not sure of the exact term.

I vividly remember somebody leaving an office at the end of a sketch (Possibly a Scotland Yard parody), and as the person neared the door a squeal was heard. Followed by a line similar to:

"Ooops, I'm sorry, Sir; was that your hedgehog?"

I could well laugh at something like that.

return to cack

Return to topic

Dakota 'Skytruck'

1 H.P.

Lovely creatures.

But what of g's and Dakota Skytrucks?

By the crin, Jo anne, I thought we were getting into the realms of the 'Vomit Comet' there.

Parabolics and all that.

vomit comet
n
(Engineering / Aeronautics) Informal an aircraft that dives suddenly in altitude, simulating freefall, in order to allow astronauts to experience the nausea that can affect people in a gravity-free environment

Not at all, Dostaf.

If someone asked if I'd like to try that, I'd say NO! (Most forcefully )

Typiing of parabolics, I looked for a lurry with a pair of bollards.

No joy.

But, I'm reminded of the bollards installed across the road from Springs Branch depot to stop lorries mounting the pavement as they enter or leave the depot.

I'm also trying to remember where I've seen cast iron bollard doings on the corner of guildings to stop damage from carts and the like. Clarence Yard (Wallgate) comes to mind, but I'm not sure.

Clarence Yard photo. By guildings did you mean buildings?

Yes.

I was practisining my vent act. Obviously not that entry. I'm sure there's on nearby with the bollards.

Another type of bollard was the much smaller type used to protect the corners of building from cart wheels, these pushed the rim of the wheel away from the brick or stone work so the protruding hub of the wheel would not cause damage. They are also seen at the foot of gate posts, such as those at the entrance to railway yards. Some were made of stone, others were of cast iron. A in the illustration below is a stone type, B is a cast iron type formed to 'cup' the corner of the building it was protecting (over the years heavy delivery lorries have compacted the road, causing the bollard to progressively lean outwards away from the wall). C is a very substantial version of B, it stands about five feet high, it is made of cast iron and is bolted to the corner with two very substantial bolts at the top (from the evident damage it was very necessary).

Here

Also, the Warrington Road (Springs Branch) bollards are mentioned, possibly pictured on WW.

Part of a discussion about locomotives beiing moved to and from (mainly to), the Branch by lorry.

There's a pic of a lorry on a trailer on Cemetery road too, I think. On the wrong side of the weight restricted bridge, if memory serves.

Isn't that one on the left-hand building?

WW Album - Railways:

Dead loco turning onto Warrington Road from Morris Street, Spring View

31418 (on the back of a low loader) slowly makes it way down Wallgate & is about to pass under the WCML bridge (circa 1996).

Another photo

"That low loader driver certainly had some skill."

And passing through Goose Green.

Haven't spotted the photo of Cemetery Rd so far.

Great finds, yet again, Jo anne.

Don't think the thing at the side of the Clarence Pub, now Harry's Bar, is an actual bollard.

I think there may be some in the vicinity though.

Swan And Railway and the Vitoria (now The Venue), or similar, may have them. Also possibly similar near the road that leads down to the car park opposite Wallgate Station, at the side of what was the Nat West Bank (Now Revolution).

Edit

I think the Cemetery Road pic may have been in the WEP

I'll try and remember to look out for them when next in Wigan, Dostaf.

To lurry the tone:

'Tories blaming Labour for introducing green parakeets to London to offset the budgie deficit...'

When I was little, my family was driven home from Scotland in the cab of a truck - our broken down Austin Princess and caravan in tow.

My abiding memory is when we stopped at a transport cafe and the driver's bacon butty having his black oily handprint on it.

Messers Akinson and Smith had similar 'proper butties' in the song video I mentioned.

But the filling was squashed hedgehog, complete with spines, legs hanging out from between the bread.

They drank from gallon oil cans as they chomped away.

'But the filling was squashed hedgehog, complete with spines, legs hanging out from between the bread.'

That's made me laugh again. They really went the whole hog.

Blimmin 'eck.

It's available on youtube.

Hadn't seen it for years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo

Final scene.

At least me momory's ok.

Me momory is similar to a memory.

They milked complaints

A viewer's comment under a YouTube clip of Milton Jones' For One Night Only Show:

'He looks like a bewildered hedgehog'

Little Dave Hedgehog (far left) next to Spud Gun[/url]

'Bottom'

Richie (Mayal) asked- "Why do they call him Sud Gun?"

SG replied "Give me a potato and I'll show you"

Richie cringed and moved on to Dave

"And why do they call you Hedgehog?"

Dave replied "Give me a hedgehog and I'll show you"

Richie grimaced and shuddered.


Or something like that.

Or, according to google:

Richie: What was your name again?
Spudgun: Spudgun.
Richie: Spudgun. Why do they call you 'Spudgun'?
Spudgun: Well, give me a potato and I show you why.
Eddie: No, Richie! You dont want to see that.
Richie: Well, why do they call you 'Hedgehog'?
Dave Hedgehog: Give me a hedgehog and I show you why.
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I've never watched 'Bottom', but after you and Veg Grower discussed some episodes recently I read DVD reviews online - I might try and watch it.

(Is it better than that League of Gentlemen?)

What did the hedgehog say when it backed into a cactus?

'Bottom' may be a bit laddish at times, Jo Anne.

Some of the slapstick stuff is a bit brutal at times.

Hmm ... 'laddish'

I Mayall or Mayall not watch the shows in that case.

(But it's unlikely they'll be hogging my telly time any time soon.)

Miranda makes me laugh at the moment.

(This Miranda, remember, not that Miranda! )

I'm really enjoying watching Miranda, Jo Anne.

Generally speaking, I can take her, or leave her. But this show is great. Proper laugh-out-loud moments.

The unexpected end to the face painting scene last week, really tickled me.

I like the knockabout stuff she does with Stevie (sp) and the fourth wall stuff (asides to camera) work for her.

I loved Miranda in Call The Midwife, too, but haven't really seen any of her other shows, Dostaf.

(There was the chance to meet her yesterday - she was book signing in Manchester, according to her website.)

What a woman - she makes me laugh prolifically on Miranda, and she even does it without squashing hedgehogs.

She was very good in the 'Not going Out' comedy series with Lee Mack.

And, as you mentioned, played a great part as a trainee Midwife, Jo Anne.

She carried it well and, though quite posh, wasn't too posh to push herself to always deliver her best performance.

Hyperdrive was a bit of a flop.

But you could see then, Miranda's self depracating style.

I really like her style and the rest of the cast in Miranda.

'face painting? I thought Miranda was exposed to more than that last episode?

Aye, a sweep.

Google tells me, Stevie was one of the Horrible Histories gang.

I thought she was familiar, Dostaf.

I always thought Stevie Smith, the poet who wrote, 'Not waving but drowning', was a man. (I wonder how Oleg is, now his friend is eight feet under.)

'eight feet under'



Cruel.

The humour is black, in keeping with Oleg's garb. (I really don't mean to be cruel, Dostaf. )

Oleg's garb?

More like Mache's garbage.

"Mache's garbage" That's rubbish, Dostaf!

Almost back to topic - Wigan Council are planning to recycle a warehouse:

Plans for a new council depot, bringing together teams from three separate sites, moved a step closer this week following approval by Wigan Council’s planning committee.

A deal has been agreed to bring back to life a disused former Asda warehouse in Ince ...

The council and its partners currently operate three main depots for core services such as waste collection, storage and maintenance of the vehicle fleet, highways department and Leigh Building Services.  These depots are located at: Sovereign Road, Wigan; Christopher Street, Ince and the Towns Yard, Hindley.

Expect Peawapp's thoughts on bin lurries.

WW Album - Work - Cleansing Department, Wigan

WW Stuff - 'I remember ... the huge shire horses pulling the dust cart ' :

" the horse drawing a cart would occasionally "take (tek) boggarts" as we used to say. This meant it would be startled and dash off down the road, with the driver in hot pursuit. Many years later I heard on a word program named 'Call My Bluff' on TV that the dictionary definition of a "Boggard" was a spirit that frightened a horse. Just goes to show that dialect is often a corruption of a real word."

I recently read about boggarts (spirits), when looking for examples of the 'Red Clogs' story.

Boggart Hole Clough sounds scary.

Ooops, it's a place, not a medical procedure.

When boggarts are about it's not an auspicious start to the day, but can be ...

... an horse-spicious start to the dray.

Two G's in boggarts too.

Just noticed, there's a Waggon and Horses near to the Sportsman's (Leigh), which is featured on General.

General Thread - I'm not familiar with the area, Dostaf.

Wigan Road.

The best thing ever to come out of Leigh.

Fair's fair, Dostaf! There's one g in Wigan and one in Leigh.

Jolly Carters just came to mind, for no reasons at all.

One in Scholes and one in Lowton - according to the WW Google Custom Search.

They're not so jolly when you hog the middle lane of the motorway doing fifty.

How many miles to the gallon?

And Howe many gallops to the Mill? (Boggarts!)

Stick to topic!

I was also sorely tempted to fling some of those wavey snots around. But resisted.

I'm part way through a van of special brew and have lost all my coordination.

I've stumbled on what could be a rock dog's quarry] though.

A van os SB?

I had to check if I'd done a typo on the other thread.

No, you hadn't, Dostaf. I think it's an effect of the special brew - it's changed the of to an os now.

I'm a bit bittered and brewsed, but just *a can from me and a few more cans from the van and they'll all be supped.

(*Two cans are beyond my limb-it now I'm nearly legless. Trying to kick the habit, anyway.)

Just glad you didn't suggest Special Brew in a hurry ... dread to think of the ailment a lurry load would bring.

obviously not on the wag(g)on

Two cans

Smart Alec! (Sorry about that, it's the Special Brew.)

It's really going to my head - I feel like the cat's whiskers now.

What goes sup, must calm down. I'll stop being giddy now.

bump!OUCH!shhhh! Hello!

Not exactly feeling hale and hearty today.

I'm fearing ale and heartily.

That cat looks sad.

Aye, well pussed off

The spur of the dog led to the curse of special brew.

From curse to cures.

I met a man (my Dad's age) in passing while out and about today - we often used to see each other to say hello to when dog walking, but we haven't seen each other for a while.

I was on my own so he asked in concern, 'Is the dog all right?'

When I replied positively, he cheekily chuckled and said, 'That's all 'us matters.'

It had me laughing for ages.

(Not sure if you had to be there to appreciate it. )

I know the feeling.

From heavy drinking to heavy thinking: Humour (and humans ) often evade explanation.

*Guess before you press:

A magic phrase - 'the *ghost in the machine. '

I didn't guess correctly.

It did involve quite a leap.

To stick to topic - how many G's turn a lurry green?

Blimmin Greenall Whitley lorries coome to mind now.

Lovely livery and Rolls Royce engines.

Rolls-coloured spectacles or De Vere goggles?! (3G's )

That looks like a lovely lurry really.

From G's to alliterative P's

'We' discovered the wheelie bin.

4 - Pagefield ‘Paladin’ vehicle. While the vehicle is no longer about,
‘paladin bins’ and versions of them are still in use across the world. The
photo also shows the crew using the loading device

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I could imagine such a comment being rubbished by a certain Wiganworlder, Dostaf.

I'm impressed by Mache's plain speak against them:

Mache 26th Oct 2012 at 14:20

'They point at skips in St Helens '

DNE

Densmore Walker, who'd been a director since 1923 (of Walker Bros) ... devised a tall circular bin with small wheels.

He seems to have played a binnovative role

Densmore having patents is a virtue.

Densmore.

I like that name.

Reminds me of Demenses.

Or an owd footballer who Python made fun of: Dennis Moore.

Lupins

Densmore is a good name. But what's in a name?

One more 'n' and one more 'o' (Is 'm' still the new 'n'?! )

'Dennis Moore' is a highway man.

Dennis Moore reminds me of *Thomas More.

*But studying that shot drives me demented.

The QI Elves (@qikipedia)

'No two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither was there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world.' John Constable

No two things are identical, not even hay carts etc ... Never the wain shall meet.

Thinking again of hedgehogs as Bonfire Night is almost nigh and rashly linking this to the miliariaty of NTNON ...

Hilehrerity is the spice of life. *

(I heard the somg on the radio last night. )

'Lehrer has said of his musical career, "If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while."



Of course, it's not to everyone's taste - it takes different jokes to amuse the world.

I was unaware of Lehrer himself, but have heard the periodic table song several times, Jo Anne.

The elements

Leaves one fair winded.

An exhalant song, but you can pause for breath ... periodically.

You may read the following with an element of surprise, but ...

... I know all the names of the elements, off by heart.

I know the humours.

Show off.

'A billious' do always makes me chuckle.

Google will now help me find the 'spleenful November' quote from Moby Dick.

A bit melancholic, but that's the clocks for you.

Whenever I get grim and spleenful，whenever I feel like knocking people's hats off on the street，whenever it's a damp，drizzly November in my soul，then I know ...


Policewomen Beware!

I daren't turn Bertie.

Sir Watkyn Bassett is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. Bassett is the father of Madeline Bassett and the uncle and guardian of Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng.

Bassett was at one time a magistrate in the Bosher Street magistrate's court in London and fined Bertie Wooster £5 for stealing a policeman's helmet on Boat Race Night.

I know the rumours. (In reply to 19:59)

Returning to topic

PG Wodehouse always makes me think of a man reading a book by him on a train who suddenly laughed out loud. (And that was years before I even knew the internet had been invented.)

P.G. Wodehouse - What do the initials stand for?

In't google great?

I never knew that. 'Pelham'.

Only Pelham I was aware of is the famous puppet brand.

Puppets

Funny you mention those - my sister had a Pelham puppet - I think it's Wellington Womble.

He's highly strung.

I seem to remember being warned away from one in the distant past.

Something along me being too young to handle them and a fear of getting the strings all knotted.

I was sixteen at the time.

*Sorry, Dostaf. I wonder what the suspension was like on this?

*Continuing from 20:38

Probably highly sprung.