Anyone else enjoy the demise of the Sheep-stealers' cricket team at the hands of Pakistan?
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Anyone else enjoy the demise of the Sheep-stealers' cricket team at the hands of Pakistan?
:D
Thank you, I'll try it! You know, it's a little embarassing, even 10 year olds can do it...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
Hey, did you all notice, Scher is reviving some of our old controversial threads...She brought back the one about celibacy...
Oooh, I must go look!
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Originally Posted by The Atheist
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The crowds at Hedingley were a bit thin- there is talk of a financial crisis there. They paid alot of money to get the test, but ticket sales were poor. There is a large Pakistani community near by who turn up to the 20/20 games, but they didn't bother with the Test Match.
Headingly is a good ground but you can't drive to it - you can drive past it - but just try and park within 2 miles of the place, you'd have your motor towed away and impounded in a second. If you take out a second mortgage and sign up to a corporate package, you can park on the Rugby pitch next door (owned by the Cricket club.) Many a Rugby league player has developed a devastating side-step avoiding the wheel ruts at Headingly.
Oh, yeah, it'll be like old times...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
The parking thing is such a racket. Every place here that is worth going or involves compulsory business has a car park that breaks your wallet...Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Oh, don't you love the valet services, you baby your car and they drive away with it popping wheelies. You look at your gas gauge later and noticed its lost a quarter tank...:shocked:
Bet they wish they had now!Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
15 years in the making.
The vista of a month off looms - and all those jobs I've got to do too. Painting - tiling the living room floor, sorting out the garage...Some of them won't get done. I'm always too ambitious.
We're not going away this year - it's going to be expensive when the eldest lad leaves for Uni.
How have my blokey friends been doin?
It has been too long since I set foot in this joint.
The next round of Lonesome Gobble Goats is on me!
(That’s one can Lone Star beer, one cup Wild Turkey 101 and half cup Goat milk)
Athiest – belated happy birthday to thuh yung’ns
Prendrelemick – Is cricket season starting up? This year I must try and get a handle on this game!
Soundofmusic – You are as beautiful as ever. An Edelweiss to you.
Paul – your spuds are starch to my ears of corn.
Hey, you could market those spuds. Since they are from the allotment, how about “Allot - o - Spuds”, huh? What d’ya think?
Or “Clemintators”?
Speaking of corn, I’m shucking away the next few months in Illinois, working on a project up here. The company will be flying me home periodically though. In fact my first trip home is this Friday.
Since I’m here, I may as well see what they have in the way of Big Foot sightings or hunts I can take part in.
Jocky, where did you go this time?
It is summer. It is hot and I smell meatloaf…:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fAPE...eature=related
Gilliatt
Sasquatch steaks, mmmmmmm!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
I like your spuds Idea Gilliat. If ever you get sent up to Alaska, you could sell refridgerators..:thumbs_up
Cricket is easy compared to Baseball I think.
Thank you, Gilliatt, you put a smile on this old wilted face...actually, it has some color today; Jess insisted I get a weed wacker since the lawn is calf legnth. I'm out there with my 4 batteries (it's a battery charged trimmer) cutting those things down...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
When I noticed, that little bit of poinciana that was growing into my house is now taking off a bit of the roof tiles...
Tonight, heard a terrible sound, a dove was trying to fly into one of the fallen screens in the fascia board...
I guess I might have to hire me a man!
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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Good idea - but I like them too much to sell. We have a baked potato company here called Spud-u-like so Cleminatatos is the one. If we combine companies it could be "The Dumpy Spud and the Corny Guy" perhaps.
How did that happen? I ask myself. Yesterday we went looking for a car with my daughter and I end up holding Mrs Ps various coats, gloves, handbag, umbrella while she rummages in a remnants tub for suitable material to cover the piano stool.
How does she do it? I set off with the pleasurable anticipation of kicking a few tyres and shaking my head whilst noisily sucking in my breath and playing offer/counter offer with salesmen. However, the daughter finds something straightaway (She likes the colour - it matches her outfit. :rolleyes:)and so shopping ensued. Worse, it was shopping without any particular need or object in mind. We came home with a packet of slug pellets and a piece of cloth. This took us all day.:confused:
Classic stuff!
You're not Del-boy are you?
Gilliatt, Cricket is dead easy. Put simply, you have two sides, one of which is out in the field and the other is in. Those who are out try to get those who are in out. Those who are in try to stay in, but obviously some get out as a result of the work of those who are out. Once those who are in are all out, they go out, and the other side are in, until they are all out. At the end of the day, it is all a precursor to (a) spending the day away from the missus and (b) going down the pub to discuss a game that 80% of the players didn't understand in the first place. There is no better way of spending a day without having to dangle worms on bits of string in to rivers. Hope this helps.
I can see that this is a big thing for you. I too was of your ilk until I started my own - "I'm just going over here/ into this shop/ meet you in ten shopping strategy. I now like shopping, because Mrs P appreciates a fellow shopper, (even if I'm shopping for nothing) more than a moping drag along.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Stolen!Quote:
Originally Posted by dafydd manton
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It's still a good description, though. There's another that discusses silly mid-off and other cricketing positions, which is good as well.
I must try to find it!
Ah, fishing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dafydd manton
Work is the curse of the fisherman.
(also stolen ;))
Thank god Mrs Atheist detests shopping!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Coping. It's all a bloke can do. :smile5:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
Atheist, my old, Plagiarised, please, it sounds so much more refined!!! Oh, all right, nicked, then. I actually wrote an artice putting all the various positions in German, which was a bit odd. Kurzer Bein, Dritter Mann, all that kind of stuff. If ever I can work out how to upload stuff from my computer on to here, I'll post it.
Paul you are a saint. I just can't stand it. Its the hours and hours wasted that gets me. If you need a pair of socks, why not just go into a shop and buy some? My Mrs P goes into several, and then returns to the first one and then buys some- why? Those slug pellets, we were half an hour choosing them, do the slugs care wether they are organic or not?. (She used to use some of my Newkie Brown to drown them in - they were getting more than I do) Anyway rant over, A large brandy please, Parker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Gad, Sir. You feed your slugs on brandy? A decent Asbach, one trusts!
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Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I know. It's a rant I've ranted, but now I've relented. No more war so no more losing.
Never mind the brandy, how about some of this stuff?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fo...strongest-beer
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Originally Posted by The Atheist
Can I pick my dead animal?Quote:
Only 12 bottles were made, each housed inside a stuffed dead animal and sold starting at 500 pounds ($NZ1086) each.
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Originally Posted by prendrelemick
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Originally Posted by dafydd manton
You may joke about this technique, but my now sainted mother swore by the slug beer drwoning method. I remember as a young lad, seeing shallow pans placed in the garden with dozens of sloshed slugs laying about in each one.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
She would knock down the first five then save the sixth for the slug traps.
The fumes alone wafting off that Dutch concoction would eradicate the slugs.
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Originally Posted by papayahed
Sure, the elephant's gone.
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I might give that a try, we have the slugs from hell around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
One night in summer, we were outside and I went to pick up what I'd assumed was a small branch that had dropped at the side of the pool. I was astonished to see the damned thing moving as I approached. Jesus, the thing was bigger than some snakes! 8 inches long and half an inch across, it was bigger than....... [/edited for content!]
I spread slug poison around and they just eat it and carry on - might be why they're so bloody big! Goddam mutant slugs.
UGHHHH!
The beer method works fine. The trouble is they seem to like the good stuff the best, cheap lager just won't do it - hence the commandeering of my personal supplies.
All you do, is push a dish into the soil so that its rim is level with the surface. Then devise a cover above it that slugs can squeeze under, we used a flat stone supported on smaller stones. We found the slugs round here liked Guinness the best.
On the first night we caught 124 slugs in three dishes- a record that stands to this day.
Just the thought of 124 slugs is pretty nauseating, but (and I'm not joking here), how do you dispose of them? Surely you can't put 'em in the bin? Presumably bury them.
They are absolutley disgusting. When they drown in beer all their slime seems to ooze out of them, and become covered in a yeasty growth (from the beer I suppose.) Ours went on the compost heap.
Bleurghh! Fortunately Her Indoors does all the gardening, so not really my problem. The only thing she'll let me do is cut the lawn, and sadly I get hay-fever, so that's out.
I wonder about the orientation of the bottle within - which end do you pour from.:blush2:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
So, her indoors does the outdoors eh.:smilewinkgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by dafydd manton
At the moment, yes, but if she knew I was contemplating a deceased Dingo full of alcohol (provided that I can pour from that end which is capable of facial expressions) she'd have me out there with a spade in my hand before you can say "Care for the other half?"
Nah. I'd be too scared to get 'em drunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I'm with you on the nauseating bit. We once had an enormous one sneak into our house. It was honestly one of those "What the bloody hell is that?" moments.Quote:
Originally Posted by dafydd manton
I was sitting on the bog and something caught my eye up on the ceiling near the fan. I pulled it off the ceiling, where it left a huge reddish stain and honestly, the thing was wriggling in my hand like a live chipolata!
Unbelievable, the size - and feel - of it. I certainly felt nauseous after that.
Have we got any ads for slug bait yet?
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Leave 'em out in the sun, they're gone in no time.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Oh, hang on, you're in England.......
Yep, into the compost!
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Not just England - we're both in Yorkshire, sunshine capital of the Western World! And it's a brave man that could pick one of those things up. I didn't mind changing nappies, but I draw the line at that!
At our old house we used to get loads of leopard slugs in the kitchen. It was a bit damp you see.
They are the large and spotty ones, they would occasionally treat us to a mating display:ack2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtD5dxTcXm4
Now there's a mental picture I can do without!
We tried coper tape around the pots we had. As for the beds, we just plant stuff they dont eat.
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Originally Posted by dafydd manton
Of course!
Whichever idiot planted at this place put a load of tropical plants in one border which attracts slugs like fish does cats. I've killed the entire garden with glyphosate and they appear to have moved to more suitable areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
I shudder to think what'd happen if I planted cabbages!
Ah, it's tough being a woman n the midst of a bunch of brilliant bloaks: they know about slugs, the latest news, the latest sports and also can lay floor tile...well, at least everywhere except florida
Meanwhile, I had to spend 5 hours drinking slowly from my amaretto bottle and visiting with my neighbor last night in hopes that he will get his chain saw and take that bit of tree off my roof...
I offered cash; but darn it all, he wants company...
No car? I always hate going car shopping; you can go in, pick out the car, give them the cash and they still aren't happy unless they stall you the whole day giving you their pitch:icon_bs:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick