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Post by Mr_W on Jul 20, 2010 9:29:19 GMT
......Aaaah, I love the smell of English grammar debate in the mornings......... .........now, reference the above quote from my learned friend and Baron of the Bongos Mr_Chelstongull, it is (as any fule kno) his attempt at impersonating the greeting and woffling call of the Greater Crested Grammar Bird - this rather sensitive creature is usually to be found guffawing both to itself and any other interested species in places of high market industry, the City, banking institutions, positions of high authority in the Forces and generally to be spotted in the environs of technology, IT, computer design in general and nesting with other leaders in many of these technical fields - it is rarely bettered for quick thought, the one-line put-down, use of slide rules and log tables, obtaining complicated mathematical formulae solutions and generally being a right smart-arrse and irritant to all others in its' company, it has few peers in all of these - all in all, a bit of a swot really, it feeds mainly on Pimms, G & Ts and caviar - some might even say "........capable of working out the square root of a pickled onion but as for getting the lid off the jar?"...... ......hang on, I'm one too, now wheres' me fountain pen?....... ........Aude Sapere......  ...."till we have built Jerusaaaaaaaaaalem......." Chris (1C, 2A1, 3A1, 4H, 5B) also TBGS Sep 72-July 77 PS: ........Personally speaking, I am a huge fan of the Present Perfect Continuous Tense - viz a viz "I have been writing shiite like this for years"............ |
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Post by merse on Jul 20, 2010 9:34:36 GMT
capable of working out the square root of a pickled onion but as for getting the lid off the jar?  One of my late father's favourite sayings...............God I hope for your sake we're not related Chris!  |
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Post by chelstongull on Jul 20, 2010 18:25:34 GMT
It was great to share a beer with you last week Chris and have a chat about all the great music we used to listen to.
CD's as promised will follow later.
Do you like Jim Morrison's American Prayer?
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2010 18:38:22 GMT
"........capable of working out the square root of a pickled onion but as for getting the lid off the jar?"  Surely one gets one's butler to remove the lid off the pickled onion jar. |
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Post by merse on Jul 20, 2010 19:20:20 GMT
Surely one gets one's butler to remove the lid off the pickled onion jar. In some circles "one's Butler" is also one's bus driver |
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Post by Mr_W on Jul 20, 2010 20:34:27 GMT
It was great to share a beer with you last week Chris and have a chat about all the great music we used to listen to. CD's as promised will follow later. Do you like Jim Morrison's American Prayer? ........Hi Phil - indeed it was great to meet up, mate!....... ....Hey, I'd love "American Prayer" by JM and the Doors!......... .........I also have a few in the pile to do for you - why not just wait and see what comes through the post when I can get them burned off, amongst them will deffo be Steve Hackett and that "Tales of the Riverbank" classical guitar piece, a "Best Of" from Gallagher and Lyle - also a couple by Dean Friedman, probably also a bit of London-Irish punk-psycho-folk as well (Popes/Bible Code Sundays etc) if you like - I always say a day without a bit of fiddly-diddly and yee-haw is a sad day indeed! - I'll skip on the Katrina and the Waves and Tenpole Tudor ones although I think you MAY like "The Boothill Foot Tappers" one - remember "Get Your Feet Out Of My Shoes" from 1984? - oh and the "New World" one will be in there too - all together now "Tom Tom Turnaround", along with the "Kellys' Heroes" soundtrack - I also have a couple of other rather sad ones - "Double Deckers" - ("get onboard"...........) and, oh joy of joys indeed an "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" album as well - maybe those too?....... ........I will also make up a few limited editions - sort of lucky dip stylee for you as well!! (Savoy Brown, Foghat, Robin Trower - that sort of thing)......... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boothill_Foot_Tapperswww.myspace.com/boothillfootappers...and here is that link for Top 100 Rock Albums...... digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_albumsddd.html.........oh and how about "Yes - Essential Elements" - a few odd ones on there if you haven't got that one?........ www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/5850633/a/Essential+Elements.htmCheers Phil Chris   |
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Post by Mr_W on Jul 20, 2010 20:52:17 GMT
"........capable of working out the square root of a pickled onion but as for getting the lid off the jar?" Surely one gets one's butler to remove the lid off the pickled onion jar.  .....I am loving that, Jon!....... |
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2010 21:50:33 GMT
Surely one gets one's butler to remove the lid off the pickled onion jar. In some circles "one's Butler" is also one's bus driver Didn't it used to say at the end of "On The Buses" something like : All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.Was that to stop you suing for royalties?  |
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Post by merse on Jul 20, 2010 22:06:44 GMT
Was that to stop you suing for royalties? I've never used Brylcreem in me life sir! I'll tell you something though........................you wouldn't believe how a TV comedy could convince so many people that working on the buses was really like that. It even convinced so many of those that have done the job to behave in exactly the same work shy and philandering manner ~ it was a sort of obligation to try and get one over the supervisory staff and carry on with as many female passengers as one's appetite could possibly desire. I think there were very definite demarcation lines wherever I worked on the buses separating those who absolutley hated the job and those who literally loved it and lived it to the full and I would unashamedly put myself in the latter category. Love the job but hate the management was always my mantra and I'm not ashamed to admit it Even now I bump to people all the time who come up to me and say "Oh I know you, you used to work on the buses...................why don't you come back?" |
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Post by Rags on Jul 23, 2010 13:01:44 GMT
On a TBGS theme and picking up from another thread entirely and its Latin translations: From school-day recollections this phrase is often used in differing forms in Psalms and translates something along the lines of: The Lord shall bless those leaving and those entering.I dimly recall a Latin class where the teacher (Allen?) pronounced that "non animus revocandi" could be loosely translated as "Don't let the barstewards* grind you down" Do any other Old Torquinians remember being told that or similar? Rags, TBGS 1970's *Amended for family usage... |
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Post by Rags on Jul 23, 2010 13:11:09 GMT
Yes, that's right. Mark Gennard played for England Schools U18s in 1984 and 1985; Andy Rowland in 1984. I believe Andy Rowland then went to university before ending up playing for Exmouth. Then, aged twenty four, he signed for Southampton just a few weeks after that cup tie against Weymouth. Later, in March 1991, he signed for Torquay United - for a relatively sizeable fee if I remember correctly - and played around twenty first-team games (including coming on as sub in the Wembley victory over Blackpool). I always thought it was curious how he took such a circuitous route to eventually play for Torquay United. Only now wandering back into the origins of this thread, and it's not quite following direct topic but Russell Musker was in the 1st year at TBGS before moving to Teignmouth Grammar. I don't think he ever represented England at any level though. |
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Post by Budleigh on Jul 23, 2010 13:10:58 GMT
And further trawling through the brain-cells, I believe that this is actually now a legal term meaning something along the lines of:
There being no intention to revoke a will
as in a last will and testament
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Post by Budleigh on Jul 23, 2010 13:19:32 GMT
Illegitimi non carborundum
is the general expression used although I think you'll find that the word carborundum doesn't actually exist in latin and this expression was 'made up' by the Americans (Typical!)
A more apt way of saying it would be:
Noli sinere te ab improbis opprimi
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Post by merse on Jul 23, 2010 14:45:42 GMT
Russell Musker was in the 1st year at TBGS before moving to Teignmouth Grammar. I don't think he ever represented England at any level though. [/i][/b] [/quote] Whenever I see his name I conjure up an image of a one man band artiste in Totnes High Street!  I've already got me coat  |
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Post by merse on Jul 23, 2010 14:48:57 GMT
Noli sinere te ab improbis opprimi I don't think dyslexia was an option at NAGS |
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