Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40

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Byker28i said:

"Bloody crockles..."

Don't tell me I've been getting that wrong all these years!



I thought it was grockles.

It's okay, the locals probably thought I was a crockle with a speech impediment.

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Byker28i said:

Fecking fire tablet... Changed it, should be grockles....

But I'm writing letters of apology to numerous County Councils.

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TT Single Question Friday Night Quiz

Why do many cartoon characters have collars?

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Byker28i said:

Wasn't it something to do with Hanna barbera and separating the head from the body so therefore didn't have to do lots of drawing for the speaking?

We have a winner.

It all came down to cost.

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pequod said:

Who voiced Baloo....



... and what other characters did he 'voice' act?

Mel Blanc. Almost every cartoon character I can think of.

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My mum said it was Louis Armstrong and it was very disrespectful.

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Phil Harris. Of course.

I'm not having a good evening, nostalgiawise.

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pequod said:

DickyC said:

My mum said it was Louis Armstrong and it was very disrespectful.

Ah. Apols if I've offended again....

None taken. It was an aside directed towards my mum's irrepressible oddness.

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T6 vanman said:

Just putting this here


Things may be less trivial next week

We could run a book on whether or not the new ones are better than the old ones.

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Bomma R1 said:

glenrobbo said:

That's nice!

She really knows how to shake your Keo, eh Bom?

She certainly does that old boy.

All over my Da Nang beach T shirt too

https://youtu.be/wuk8AOjGURE?si=4z7PacSPMxdHjs5X

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We Buy Any Car guesstimated £899 for the Golf. I made an appointment and drove down there. £310.91.

I was so insulted. If they'd gone to £311 exactly I may have considered it.

91p indeed. Pah!

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Bobberoo said:

spikeyhead said:

This morning I watched a puffin flying across the bay

*Sounds of furious page turning.......

Nope, can't find that anywhere in the code book....

Could I refer you to Gazelles over Oxfordshire in Boats, Planes and Trains?

Over.

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Someone in the TVR Forum asks, "How much to recondition heads?"

We won't be asking that question in here. There's not enough money in the world

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Bobberoo said:

We were in Harrowbarrow, or more precisely on the one road through Harrowbarrow!!!

Is that near Trivtonivton?

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DickyC said:

We Buy Any Car guesstimated £899 for the Golf. I made an appointment and drove down there. £310.91.

I was so insulted. If they'd gone to £311 exactly I may have considered it.

91p indeed. Pah!

I paid £900 for it in April. The MoT last week cost £50. I advertised it this morning on FaceBay for £950. SOLD. £950 cash.

Inundated with enquiries I was. Could have got more. Still, it was three times as much as We Buy Any Car offered yesterday.

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slopes said:

Bobberoo said:

DickyC said:

DickyC said:

We Buy Any Car guesstimated £899 for the Golf. I made an appointment and drove down there. £310.91.

I was so insulted. If they'd gone to £311 exactly I may have considered it.

91p indeed. Pah!

I paid £900 for it in April. The MoT last week cost £50. I advertised it this morning on FaceBay for £950. SOLD. £950 cash.

Inundated with enquiries I was. Could have got more. Still, it was three times as much as We Buy Any Car offered yesterday.

I'm sorry, they offered you how much in person???
If I'd have taken a car all the way to that bunch of shysters and they then offered virtually a third of the original price I suspect I would have become somewhat belligerent.

You and me both Bobbers. Some people need to learn that taking the piss is not on

In person they reduced their internet £899 estimate to £310. They've just emailed to say it was good to see me yesterday and they are sorry we couldn't do business and would I like to see their revised estimate? Today's Internet estimate has shot up from £899 to £818. If they reduced in the same proportion as yesterday, today's in person estimate would be £278.12, down from £310.19.



I think they should look at their business model.

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I see everything twice.

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pequod said:

Pictorial competition from your correspondent’s recent adventures!


Identify this place, and the opposite place?

Polruan and Fowey.

I went there fifty years ago.

They may have changed a bit.

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+1 for Clapton

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I saw his bespoke Ferrari in the Vallleys in South Wales. The giveaway was the registration which I have inconveniently forgotten.

Clapton's Ferrari, not Battert's.