The Really Really Boring And Pointless Snippets oF Information Thread MkX
The Really Really Boring And Pointless Snippets oF Information Thread MkX
Blame My Parrot
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Somerdorset, UK
Age: 65
Posts: 227
Mornin' all.
Chap in my office was driving from Norwich to Somerset on Sunday last. He said to his pax - "Look, in 1 mile's time the milometer will read 66,666 miles."
Whereupon the engine died and withiong two minutes the car was fully ablaze. 
Happily they all got out safely. 
.....bless all who sail in this Trabship!
Chap in my office was driving from Norwich to Somerset on Sunday last. He said to his pax - "Look, in 1 mile's time the milometer will read 66,666 miles."
Whereupon the engine died and withiong two minutes the car was fully ablaze. Happily they all got out safely. .....bless all who sail in this Trabship!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Over the bridge
Posts: 63
Green post van on island rounds
The first electric post van is doing the rounds on the Isle of Man.
The Manx Post Office said the new addition was an environmentally-friendly alternative to the traditional delivery van.
The Mega Multitruck II has zero exhaust emissions and runs completely on rechargeable batteries. The van will be used for the Isle of Man Government messenger service in Douglas and may also be tested on a small rural delivery route.
That's Life!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Out of the sand pit, carving a path through our jungle.
Age: 67
Posts: 396
How kind of them to point out the actual colour for us, that's really going to fox the colour blind then! Now if they came across to Erin, all the An Post vans are green, even the ones that punch out noxious fumes.
Last edited by Sailor Vee; 11th Jul 2007 at 10:20. Reason: addition
(a bear of little brain)
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: 51 10 03.70N 2 58 37.15W
Age: 70
Posts: 274
MadsMum showed me the article about the kids wrecking the house with a party but she thought it was a repeat of the earlier article (the bit about someone peeing on the mothers wedding dress was what raised her suspicions. Although there could be a teenager out there with a thing about wedding dresses).
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 1,473
Yer they been around for sixty years,they made em up here at Smiths Electric Vehicles,one was offered a job there when one left school,of course one refused this employment, being determined to sign on before the mast and head out on the ogan and see the world,which sadly one found a bit disapointing,it being awash wi furriners
Last edited by tony draper; 11th Jul 2007 at 11:04.
stiletto psychopath mk4
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: uk
Posts: 122
Starbucks ignoramuses notwithstanding, I have decided to launch a new line of gourmet coffee variety packs. These packs will include three types of, um, pre-digested coffee beans - Asian palm civet, rockhopper penguin, and capybara. Get your orders in quickly, chaps - supplies are limited and they are bound to sell out soon.
PS I also have a vacancy for a coffee, um, sorter. Must like animals.
Well, you didn't expect me to sort the beans myself, did you? My French manicure would be ruined.
PS I also have a vacancy for a coffee, um, sorter. Must like animals.
Well, you didn't expect me to sort the beans myself, did you? My French manicure would be ruined.
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 1,473
Bet if yer were honest Madam SG yer wudda rather had one of me roast pork n peas pud stotty sarnies for yer brecky than a bowl of that Buddha Jumped over the Garden Wall Soup.
Last edited by tony draper; 11th Jul 2007 at 11:26.
stiletto psychopath mk4
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: uk
Posts: 122
Hmmm. My gourmet coffee venture is having teething problems. Capi the capybara is normally quite docile and spends most of his time swimming in the pond, munching on water hyacinth. Since feeding him coffee beans he has become somewhat hyperactive - he has already attacked the postman.
And Rocky keeps spitting out the coffee beans. I think I shall have to resort to hiding them in a sardine.
And Rocky keeps spitting out the coffee beans. I think I shall have to resort to hiding them in a sardine.
