 Water Tanks
On Jul 23, 3:04 pm, "Nicholas D. Richards"
<nicho...@salmiron.> wrote:
> In article <983bd264-51d0-4a7c-a16f-08bc14c97...@c58g2000hsc.p
> s.com>, Tony Haynes <canaldrif...@ntlworld.com> on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 at
> 04:36:47 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>
>
>
> >On Jul 22, 10:46 pm, Tiny <dhsrcr...m> wrote:
> >> On Jul 22, 6:12 pm, Brian J Goggin <myinitialsATmyorganization.ie>
> >> wrote:
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> >> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:59:57 +0100, "John Gwalter"
>
> >> > <ern...@stoppage.gwalter.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > >When a drinking water thread ends up with toilets you know it's a boating
> >> > >newsgroup.
>
> >> > Really? I mean, most drinking water ends up in toilets. But maybe
> >> > non-boaters do things differently ....
>
> >> > bjg
>
> >> And from toilets a lot of it goes on to finally end up in rivers and
> >> canals.
>
> >... which ends up in the sea..... which evaporates into clouds...
> >which deposit water into reservoirs..... which is filtered..... which
> >we then drink..... which we pee into toilets.. etc.... etc.....
>
> >Aaah... the good old water cycle....... better known in plumbing
> >circles as 'getting your own back'.
>
> In submariner circles, getting your own back, is when you lean over the
> toilet to flush and get the valve sequence wrong.
>
> --
> Nicholas David Richards -
>
> "Où sont les neiges d'antan?"
I'm aware of that one courtesy of good ol' Cyril Tawney. Now that is
some cistern!
Also, the misuse of the pigs ear and the jaunty's cap.
Tone (ex RN)
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