What a life:
Mince pies
Mercedes 380 SL
and…
trains, trains, trains
don’t “shot” the messenger but wonderful insight into your many hobbies
Have been enjoying your youtube posts!
I don’t mind him not giving me a ride in his Mercedes…! I don’t mind him running his trains without me…! But when he doesn’t share his mince pies…!!!
Quote:Well, I did find a pack in TJ Max last year, next to the shortbread.
Mince pies
But my sister-in-law sends a ‘care package’ every Xmas, with a christmas pud, mince pies, and other goodies. Yum.
Yup, now you all know why I’m poor.
Still and all, I’m glad that you seem to have enjoyed looking at them.
Dick - we’ll bring you some over if we can, your importation laws being what they are…no doubt the TSA would ‘try’ them out to make sure they were OK.
tac, ig and ken, the GFT
Quote:Actually, all fruit pies are allowed (per TSA website.) I can confirm that a large Key Lime Pie (a lot more than 3 oz of filling) is not even sniffed at.
.....no doubt the TSA would 'try' them out to make sure they were OK
What your UK lot would do is undetermined though…
OK, consider it done. A dozen to keep you going? If I can pursuade the ig to keep his paws off 'em.
tac
tac said:
OK, consider it done. A dozen to keep you going? If I can pursuade the ig to keep his paws off 'em.tac
Don’t forget to have some extras to grease some palms.
Steve, you’ll have to come down to SW Oregon to collect…else the nearest we’ll be to you is up in Joseph up in the Wallowas.
tac
tac said:... Another one no stranger could pronounce, uh, Steve? :/ :( :rolleyes:
....Wallowas.....
Wallowas. schmallowas.
Try Llanfihaengl-ym-Rhaedr, or, better yet, Bwylchgwyn. Even road signs…Fordd Ddwyddianniol, Gwasanaethau, Arafwch Nawr, ‘Pam welych olau goch, sebbwch yma’, and ‘Ymddiriadolaeth Genadlaeothol Cymru’.
You Washingtonians have got it easy.
tac
tac said:
Wallowas. schmallowas.Try Llanfihaengl-ym-Rhaedr, or, better yet, Bwylchgwyn. Even road signs…Fordd Ddwyddianniol, Gwasanaethau, Arafwch Nawr, ‘Pam welych olau goch, sebbwch yma’, and ‘Ymddiriadolaeth Genadlaeothol Cymru’.
You Washingtonians have got it easy.
tac
Odd people, the Welsh… to take a perfectly adequate alphabet and turn it into scrambled eggs like that.
'Course, then there’s Polish… :lol:
John, you have it alll wrong, my friend. The Welsh language was here first by about 1500 years before the Anglo-Saxons came…
Iechydd dda!
tac
I’ve seen their scribbles on the rocks, tac.
I actually speak a little Gaelic, 'tho not stone-age Welsh, I’m afraid. My sweet wife is Irish, her brother a Gaelic scholar who speaks the language at home, and her otherbrother a Welshman by adoption. None of this changes the fundamental and indisputable fact however, that the Welsh are funny people.
The Romans, with their alphabet and all, may even have tried to influence them. They failed utterly, of course, and the proof is evident to this day in the difficulty that the poor Welsh have with the simplest of Roman-style orthographic rules.
One can only feel immense pity for a people so constitutionally handicapped. :lol:
Doubtless you are familiar with the Asterix books, which tell the true story of Roman-Gaelic interaction as it really occurred, in only a very slightly different location… I understand that these scholarly works are available nowadays in several modern European languages, not merely in the original Gaulois. They do make for a most illuminating read.
Slainte!
You will not be altogether amazed to find that they are also published in Welsh.
You’d better carry on your premise and critique of the inadequacies of the Welsh with my wife, who is Welsh.
tac
You tell him Tac…Wonder if John has seen the film Rorke’s Drift?
Ah, yes, the gallant stand of the 24th of Foot and a detachment of Royal Engineers. I think that there may have been a couple of Welshmen there but remember that a border has TWO sides, and most of the Toms there came from Warwickshire. Birmingham is the largest city there, and those who emanate from that town, called ‘Brum’ have an annoyingly whiney voice. Think of the singer Noddy of Slade. Most Americans think the group is called ‘Slide’. The comedian Jasper Carrot is also a Brummie, and would really benefit from the rapid application of a sack of snooker balls to the temple.
Ifor Emmanuel [‘Owen’ in the movie] certainly had a most melifluous set of vocal chords, but for sure there was nobody like him at Rourke’s Drift.
tac
I belive the movie is called ‘Zulu’ and yes it is a good one. I watch every once in awhile. How maney Victoria Cross’s were awarded for that battle? Look it up.
Paul
Gogla earth it, you can find it there!
The rapid application of a sack of snooker balls to the temple??? Wouldn’t that hurt?
Oh, I see.
Snicker… I mean snooker.
Cerftainly was a lot of movie licence for that film…and as for the singing of Men of Harlech.
Battle of Isandlwana ( 22 January 1879)…Despite a vast disadvantage in weapons technology, the numerically superior Zulus ultimately overwhelmed the poorly led and badly deployed British, killing over 1,300 troops, including all those out on the forward firing line. The Zulu army suffered around a thousand killed.
Near the end of the battle, about 4,000 Zulu warriors of the unengaged reserve Undi impi, after cutting off the retreat of the survivors to the Buffalo River southwest of Isandlwana, crossed the river and attacked the fortified mission station at Rorke’s Drift.
The station was defended by only 139 British soldiers, who nonetheless inflicted considerable casualties and repelled the attack
Rorkes Drift earned 11 VC’s.
Isandlwana…None