Eeeeh noooooo.......
At least, I can't top those two stories by a long shot. (poor pun, I know)
Search found 128 matches
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:33 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Dangerous things we did when young
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9986
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:28 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Disgusted
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4090
Re: Disgusted
a guy was halfway through the door of the tube and he collapsed with what turned out to be a heart attack. An off duty nurse and I ended up lifting him off the tube and onto the platform (at the insistence of other passengers - lovely people all in a hurry to get to work) That is just one step away...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:06 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: I liked this!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 978
Re: I liked this!
I remember seeing this performed live at a student Christmas party, using an overhead projector: the Rector's face was the last slide up.
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:33 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Old ads
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3556
Re: Old ads
Brilliant marketing strategy! Play on the fears and social stigma of the sufferer to pay cash for the hope of a cure without having to face a possibly judgmental GP. And when it doesn't work how likely were they to be sued....?
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:01 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Three Towns Haiku
- Replies: 69
- Views: 11526
Re: Three Towns Haiku
For incautious youths
In imprudent excitement
Merciful relief
In imprudent excitement
Merciful relief
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:04 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4778
Re: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
I would guess that that big plook saved me from an awful lot of imprudence or at least took away the opportunities. Had I gone to Kenya at the time, poachers might have darted me and sawn it off to sell on the black market!
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:50 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4778
Re: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
Nothing odd about that, BUT where prevention has failed the remedy has to be appliedmorag wrote:I'm all for prevention rather than cure. I'm odd that way... : )
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:08 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4778
Re: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
Disagree. Icy water only douses the "imprudent excitement", boiling water cures the underlying problem permanently and not an antibiotic in sight.
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4778
Re: 'Good news to the afflicted', 1838
I had plooks and no one was "suspicious at home."
I believe a good dousing with a pail of boiling water is the best remedy for the affliction in question.
I believe a good dousing with a pail of boiling water is the best remedy for the affliction in question.
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:44 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Scots Wiki
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1170
Re: Scots Wiki
Well, I wouldn't want it made illegal or anything :wink: but I just can't get too excited about the Scots revival. I consider it my own first language (English second, Gaelic third), but I have a number of issues with it from a historical perspective. It really is a homegrown development of Northumb...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:28 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Auchanshangan and Saltcoats?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6122
Re: Auchanshangan and Saltcoats?
Sounds like someone with no Gaelic just plucked entries out of a Scots dictionary down at the library headquarters! My money is going on what has been said already: achadh na seangán = antfield (field of ants) achadh - field na - definite article in the genitive plural seangán - ants, genitive plura...
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:09 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Unusual railway passenger, 1851
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1220
Re: Unusual railway passenger, 1851
Manchester Guardian? More like the Sunday Post!