On 4/6/05 11:25, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:

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from Sacha contains these words:

True, I don't provide a livery, d'you think I should?

I'm sure that's where you're going wrong. ;-) Breeches and gaiters and a
collarless shirt, plus free straw for the chewing of, are the minimum
requirements. ;-)

I'm sure you're right.

I've some spare flatcaps, too, but unfortunately not of the 'Ecky Thump'
variety. I take it he brings his own tacketty boots?

Yes but you will of course, pay for them and replace them every year, on his
birthday. And his wife will be given 3 yards of strong cotton twill to make
up new shirts, every Christmas.
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

--
Mike.

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H



Little finger cocked you know. Cucumber sarnies, terribly sorry, sandwiches
with the crusts cut orf you know, antimacassars, vicar to tea etc etc etc.

Sad as it is, there 'are' those people about and they are just tooooooooo
snobbish to talk to the 'bloke what empties the bins'.

I love to put those down and tell them they are equal to all and go to the
loo like the rest of the world

Mike

Harold Walker wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

--
Mike.

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they
be,
it sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater"
and
the likes....H

Ah, but it's what lies beneath the mask that counts. Don't ask what
they put in the tea up at the Manor-house; don't look too closely at
the contents of the Vicar's tobacco-pouch!

--
Mike.

"Mike" wrote in message
...

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H



Little finger cocked you know. Cucumber sarnies, terribly sorry,
sandwiches
with the crusts cut orf you know, antimacassars, vicar to tea etc etc etc.

Sad as it is, there 'are' those people about and they are just tooooooooo
snobbish to talk to the 'bloke what empties the bins'.

I love to put those down and tell them they are equal to all and go to the
loo like the rest of the world

Mike

Altho there are many "faults" over this side of the big pond (USA)....the
Iraq war for example....generally speaking snobbery is not one of
them....here you will see 'the bin emptier' playing golf with good old money
bags...success here to a high degree comes not from whence you came but what
you make of yourself....I did something over here back in the mid-fifties
that I would not dream of doing in the UK....fresh out of the Royal Navy and
little busness experience except for three years in the sales dept. of
Rowntrees prior to the RN....I took a job in the factory at minumum wage
doing menial work...the only one 'lower' in rank than me was the
janitor....had I done the equivalent in the UK back in those days I suspect
I would have been branded for life.....within a year at Texas Instruments I
was on salary and on the way to retirement at the age of 58....HW

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.


Janet.

'tis only 50 years

"Harold Walker" wrote in message
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be,
it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.


Janet.

'tis only 50 years ....oops....I forgot my Royal Navy days when I spent 3
years of it in Washington DC + of course another year in Canada.....still
talk more like a Brit than a Yank tho except to the ears of the pucca
Brits....H

Harold you are at a disadvantage in this newsgroup with the owners such as
Barrowcloth, being ex Senior Service :-((

Mike

"Mike" wrote in message
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Harold you are at a disadvantage in this newsgroup with the owners such as
Barrowcloth, being ex Senior Service :-((

Mike

Mike...who on earth are the Barrowcloth's......bet they never had a
"Discharge by Purchase" personally authorized by Lord L. Mountbatten, then
the First Sea Lord.......H

In article ,
Harold Walker wrote:

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.

'tis only 50 years

Hmm. Only marginally longer than I have been living in this
gloomy, cold and damp country.

Paterfamilias.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Harold Walker wrote:

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
.. .

Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.

'tis only 50 years

Hmm. Only marginally longer than I have been living in this
gloomy, cold and damp country.

Paterfamilias..........sounds a wee bit like my old school tie sort of
'lingo'

Perhaps gloomy etc. but what a super climate for so many things like mundane
spring cabbage and the likes...H

Mike...who on earth are the Barrowcloth's......bet they never had a
"Discharge by Purchase" personally authorized by Lord L. Mountbatten,
then
the First Sea Lord.......H


OK, that puts you on a level footing. Name dropping is A1 on this newsgroup.
The next thing you have to do, is to have a very long involved conversation,
on the newsgroup don't you know, name dropping at every opportunity, with
one of the owners, which could very well be done by email, but not quite so
'one upmanship' so to speak.

Did I tell you of the time I was a VIP in Bruges and met and dined with the
Belgian Admiral of the Fleet?
By the way, I will be away for a few days later this month, because I have
to meet the Air Commodore Simms at RAF Cosford. He is the Commanding Officer
don't you know. We are having a fly past of a Spit from the, sorry Spitfire,
Battle of Britain Historic Flight don't you know.
Most interested to see that your 'Discharge by Purchase' was personally
authorised by Lord L Mountbatten. Lovely man, I met him in the 1960's when
he inspected a parade I was at. I was Lower Deck then you know, got my
Commish later, sorry Commission.

Sorry, must fly, Sun over the Yard Arm and all that. Sorry, 'Up Spirits',
'Hands of the Mess to Nosh'

NOW watch the flack from the owners :-)))))))))))))))

Mike
ex RN don't you know

"Mike" wrote in message
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Mike...who on earth are the Barrowcloth's......bet they never had a
"Discharge by Purchase" personally authorized by Lord L. Mountbatten,
then
the First Sea Lord.......H


OK, that puts you on a level footing. Name dropping is A1 on this
newsgroup.
The next thing you have to do, is to have a very long involved
conversation,
on the newsgroup don't you know, name dropping at every opportunity, with
one of the owners, which could very well be done by email, but not quite
so
'one upmanship' so to speak.

Did I tell you of the time I was a VIP in Bruges and met and dined with
the
Belgian Admiral of the Fleet?
By the way, I will be away for a few days later this month, because I have
to meet the Air Commodore Simms at RAF Cosford. He is the Commanding
Officer
don't you know. We are having a fly past of a Spit from the, sorry
Spitfire,
Battle of Britain Historic Flight don't you know.
Most interested to see that your 'Discharge by Purchase' was personally
authorised by Lord L Mountbatten. Lovely man, I met him in the 1960's when
he inspected a parade I was at. I was Lower Deck then you know, got my
Commish later, sorry Commission.

Sorry, must fly, Sun over the Yard Arm and all that. Sorry, 'Up Spirits',
'Hands of the Mess to Nosh'

NOW watch the flack from the owners :-)))))))))))))))

Mike
ex RN don't you know

Oh dear me...I now feel totally devastated and crushed...I was a lower deck
rating all of my nine years....lower deck had some distinct advantages
tho....as a photographer the Rules & Regs. allowed for the running of a
private business...even a price list was included in the "Bible" governing
all of our actions....rabbits as we called them....officially not allowed to
use pussa materials but allowed to cameras and other hard
equipment.....never did buy a sheet of paper as we thought that was against
common sense....made a bundle courtesy the RN....or should I say the Fleet
Air Arm.....a TAG in WW2 and photographer in the Korean epsisode.....must
admit never met his Lordship but did meet his boss....Winnie C that is, when
in Washington......H

p.s. Would rather see a flybye using Stringbags than Spits.....being lower
deck am allowed to use such language....

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

I've some spare flatcaps, too, but unfortunately not of the 'Ecky Thump'
variety. I take it he brings his own tacketty boots?

Yes but you will of course, pay for them and replace them every year, on his
birthday. And his wife will be given 3 yards of strong cotton twill to make
up new shirts, every Christmas.

*WIFE?* I need someone small enough to send up the chimneys!

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Why, for a couple of months I've been advertising locally for a
Saturday Boy, and no-one's even *ASKED* about the prestigious
position.

(See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ad/ )
[...]

¡Que sorpresa! if I may say so.

--
Mike.

Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H

That's most frightfully non-U. We refer to him as the Gov'nor, what?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/