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The Knackers must get a Thraping when riding an old Knacker, and, that Guy needs to tuck his shirt in.

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What happened to Bingbong. I think that was it, it was a short relationship.

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“Dicky Dicky doubt with his shirt hanging out” A very old one that, can’t remember the rest of it.
Anyone know the rest?, someone? anyone?, anyone at all? Now who used to say that on this forum.

I notice that there are a lot of solicitors advertising (I remember when it was illegal for solicitors to advertise) for clients who have been “miss sold” insurance and other things by the banks over the years.
Lovely words, “miss sold” sort of innocent sounding like “miss placed”, you know “not our fault really”.
Miss sold is a new one on me, I can remember the old word for it, it used to be called “Swindled” and another word for it was “Conned” taken from the words “Confidence trickster”, however seeing that they are banks who used to rely on people trusting them completely with their hard earned few bob, they had to come up with a respectable sounding name for robbing the folks who trusted them, bloody scandalous in my opinion, especially when we are all suppose to be equal in the eyes of the law, the directors should have been lagged the whole lot of them.
Consider for a minute that if I made a very expensive diamond ring for one customer, and an identical not so expensive one for another customer, the expensive ring had a real diamond while the cheaper one had a man made Diagem in it, hard to tell the difference with some of these new man made stones, especially to the untrained eye.
Then suppose I decided to pull a con job on the wealthy real diamond customer and I substitute the Diagem and hold onto the real stone. The customer takes the ring to be valued for insurance purposes and I’m found out.
But I’m not worried, all i have to say is “I’m so sorry madam, but I miss sold that ring to you, that was meant for someone else”
Think I’d get away with that in court? not likely, but then I’m only a bench worker not a banker.

Greedy buggers, money is not the root of all evil, money is a good tool if used wisely, greed is the enemy and always was, someone always wants to have all the lolly and all the power that goes with it.

This brilliant scene from the film “Tom Thumb” came to my mind.

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One yard in,
And one yard out!

Cant remember anymore at the moment Jem!
But will search my archives and report back tomorrow!
I expect youve heard that one before though?
Similar to l'll get back to you, or l was just going to call you, etc?
And what about when you go to pick up a repaired article on the
promised due date and we are still waiting for parts, will arrive this
afternoon!
I expect you've got your own tales on this theme?
Donkeyman!

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Hoping Solo is improving and will be back with the scribblers soon.....

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Yes indeed Mags she’s badly missed, just thinking about her as I logged in.
The sooner this long drawn out Winter is over the better for all of us”


“One yard in and one yard out” that was it.
Thank you kindly for giving me that extra line Donkeyman, it was driving me nuts trying to remember it.

Waiting for parts is the watchmakers favourite excuse, in the old days a good watchmaker made his own parts if he couldn’t get them handy, but I was never a watchmaker, worked in the same room with some, but it’s a completely different trade, you’d know more about watches than I would, I make rings, pendants, broochs, etc from precious metals, set stones in and finish polishing them, that’s my lot for my sins. Oh I also learned Celtic engraving ten years ago, new to me and I love doing it.
I do very little in the workshop now as me old eyes are not the best, I have to use a strong magnifying lamp when I do the fine work now such as engraving, ah well I’m not complaining, it served me well and I never considered it to be “work” as such, I had a good innings on the bench.
That sounds more like a retired judge, I should have said a good innings sitting on the bench, no that’s even worse again, I wasn’t sitting on the bench, that sounds like I was a lazy tramp, I was sitting AT the bench. well yeh know what I mean and to hell with the grammar.

Still no response from RJ to my latest PM, I wonder is he OK. I loved his stories about his Uncle Vivian, what a lovable old rogue he was.
I have a post typed out somewhere about my real life wicked Uncle, true tale, quite the reverse of old Uncle Viv, I’ll post it when I find it.

When I appeared on Mastermind back in 1981 I chose Egyptology as my specialist subject.
As a shepherds boy I used to study Ram asses in the meadow, some of them had the clinkers real bad, ugh! (you have to be a shepherd to know what clinkers are, and believe me you don’t want to know)

This chap Christy Hennessy worked in construction for most of his life and finally asbestoses caught up with him and he passed away in 2007, very sad just when he was at the height of popularity over here. The good folks of Tralee in Kerry have erected a statue of him down there where he was born, rest in peace Kit.
Starting off as a messenger boy myself I love this old song he wrote.

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We now have Ballet, in the City of a Thousand Trades, and not before Time.

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What about the face that launched a thousand ships? Was she made redundant since H&W closed down?

I’m not one for sports except having a small daily flutter on the nags, but the wife loves the Gaelige football as does my son and his son. The Dublin football team have won the all Ireland title for the past five years in a row and she searched everywhere looking for a commemorative tee-shirt for our son and his seven year old son, just to have as a souvenir, anyway she had no luck.
She was in town today and spotted the shirts she was looking for at a market stall, she asked the lad how much they were and he told her €10 each, she wasn’t sure if she’d have enough money for her messages so she told him she would be back.
When she got the rest of her shopping done she found she had plenty over so went back to yerman, he said he only had toddler shirts left, but she could go three stalls down to his brother and he might have the larger sizes. When she got there she was in luck the brother had them in all sizes, she asked him how much they were and he said €5!!!, so she got one large one for the son and one smaller one for the boy, and all for a tenner.
She was thrilled telling me this when she got home, one would think she won the lotto. She took a snap of one shirt to send to the son, here it is below, not bad for €5.
Well done Philomena, said I.
Great when you have an easily pleased and contented wife, them fussy birds are the back of the neck.

There was nothing good on TV today after the horse racing so I watched that old film again “Some Like it Hot”, I thought Marilyn was terrific in it, as was Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, George Raft had a part in it too, I never knew Raft was an old pal of gangster Bugsy Siegel when he was younger.
George Raft was a small man, but did you know he had a very tall younger brother?, yes, his name was Ger Raft and it cost the family a fortune for cough mixture every time the poor lad got a sore throat.

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Home at last as I decided being a bit of a diva...well a lot of diva to be truthful isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Have to take things a bit easy so will catch up slowly but surely..you have been missed my friends x

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It’s good to see you back on your feet again, Solo

Take things easy...