Irish Trees

le_voyageur_en_velo wrote:

> A fundamentally existential question...
>
> I'm heading to Ireland next year, and usually 'stealth camp' with a
> Hennessy Hammock.
>
> A friend's just told me that Ireland has hardly any trees. Is she
> pulling my leg? Will I find places to put the hammock up?
>


Plenty of trees but no snakes...

:-)


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Best
Greg

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:38:25 +0200, Keith Anderson <keefy@> wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:49:12 +0100, "M............"
><mmmmmmtheobvious@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Following up to Tim C.
>>
>>> black hole.
>>
>>>As long as there's beer.
>>
>>one of the few beer names not in use I think
>
>In which case mine's a pint of Thruttock's Old Dirigible.

There appear to be several Black Hole beers in the US.
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Martin

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:54:48 +0200, Keith Anderson <keefy@> wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:54:16 +0100, "M............"
><mmmmmmtheobvious@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Following up to Keith Anderson
>>
>>>>one of the few beer names not in use I think
>>>
>>> In which case mine's a pint of Thruttock's Old Dirigible.
>>
>>they never call them "new" anything, do they.
>
>Good observation. "New" seems to be reserved for cars, toothpaste,
>washing-powder (and "New" bloody Labour) but not beer.
>
>Some years ago, acquaintances of mine were discussing opening a
>brewery and wondered about a brand name for their beer. "Auspice" was
>one of the names which sprang to mind. Just try saying it out
>loud......... :-)

Synonymous with H*inek*n?
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Martin

Tim C. wrote:

> > LOL he should get together with an Idi Amin look alike Brit who "played"
a
> > saxophone in central Leiden or rather he blew into it. People paid him
to stop.
> > The police confiscated his saxophone to stop him. A lawyer went to court
to get
> > the saxophone back. Within in minutes the guy was in the station blowing
away
> > again. The police confiscated it again. Since then peace and quiet.
>
> Hadn't heard that one. They could form a band.


scRunge could play the kazoo...

;-)


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Best
Greg

Keith Anderson wrote:

> Don't know if you can play it by shoving it up a place where the sun
> don't shine, though.........
>
>

Baked beans.

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:09:33 -0400, S Viemeister <firstname@lastname.oc.ku>
wrote:

>Keith Anderson wrote:
>
>> Don't know if you can play it by shoving it up a place where the sun
>> don't shine, though.........
>>
>>
>
>Baked beans.

Orchestrated?
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Martin

"Keith Anderson" <keefy@> kirjoitti
viestissä:ekv2c4p8p0hne1qlr5f955makbkoirge93@4ax.c om...
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:27:57 +0200, Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>Keith, I watched poor man's Traffic Cops on a German commercial channel
>>just
>>now. I haven't laughed so much for years. They followed a couple of
>>traffic
>>wardens. They caught a guy in a big Mercedes parked in a pedestrian area.
>>
>>How dare you put that thing on my car, what is it?
>>
>>It's a parking ticket.
>>
>>My car is a Mercedes. Have you no respect for a Mercedes owner in this
>>town?
>
The other bloke has a Mercedes of length about two inches......

M............ wrote:
> Following up to S Viemeister
>
>>> everybody in a street who doesnt put up a number out of snobbery should
>>> have thier mail burned till they grow up!
>> My house doesn't have a number.
>> There's no street name, either.
>
> you are excused!
>
> "turn left at Ben Nevis" :-)

We're closer to Ben Hutig, than Ben Nevis.

Erick T. Barkhuis wrote:
>
> What a wonderful world!
> Nowadays, in larger cities, people would immediately think: "Oh Dear,
> this opens up for theft. After all, if there's no sign, a friendly
> neighbour might just reply "The Bucket residence? That's right here.
> Thank you very much!".
> Your brand new notebook is now doing service in your neighbour's house
> without sign.
>
> You're obviously living in Paradise. Congrats!
>
It does have its good points.

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>
> In the area where I spent much of my childhood in Norway, about half the
> households in the village (loose term for houses and farms randomly
> spaced widely apart) shared the same surname- i.e. the name of the
> village. That was common then.
>
Did they use by-names?
Mail sent to my great-grandfather used to include his by-name, as there
were so many people in the area with the same combination of forename
and surname.
Actually, there still are. A few years ago, my uncle, my second
cousin-once-removed, and my third cousin were standing talking, when a
stranger approached them to ask where he could find (someone with the
same name as g-granddad) - all three of them had that name, but none was
the person being sought......