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[d_Guy]

... Also, since the accidental release of a "probably not harmful" agent by ICI in 1981, sheep in the Runcorn area have turned both carniverous and sociopathic.

Ah! That explains the here-to-for indecipherable Runcornian flag. It with its belchs of cloud, large psychotic eyes and what appears to be a mugging occurring in the background. Still working on a translation of the motto, however.

[fsn]

Ah! The Runcorn motto can be translated as "Yesterday's Tomorrow: Today", or "cash and valuables in the bag".  There is a school of thought that says it should be "Don't feed the sheep". Certainly up to 1964 the byline was "Don't Worry About the Yellow Clouds", with the unspoke corrolary of "but beware the Green ones." 

[Orcs]

There's still a massive chunk of beef, we were given recently, still sitting in the freezer*.....I think the animals can regard them selves as safe.  

(*I wish I'd cut it up into steaks before it went in there.)

Cheers - Phil

Its beef, so you should be able to defrost it once and slice it up then refreeze it without too much trouble. A quick search on Google says if you defrost in a refrigerator and refreeze it should not cause any problems.

To be safe you could  test it on the MIL first

[Techno]

To be safe you could  test it on the MIL first

Oh, don't, Mark  ......It's almost impossible to get her to eat anything, at the moment.
She barely eats enough to keep a sparrow alive.

(Though she claims she is...... We're not sure whether she's telling porkies..("I've cooked myself two eggs today.")......or whether she's just so confused, she doesn't know WHEN she's eaten anything.  )

If we didn't cook her something each evening.......

We're not sure if her thyroid has gone completely, ar*e about face...Or whether she's taking all her pills properly anymore.
Von's taken her down to the Doc's again this afto', for another blood test.....And see how much MORE weight she's lost.

Cheers - Phil.

[d_Guy]

Ah! The Runcorn motto can be translated as "Yesterday's Tomorrow: Today", or "cash and valuables in the bag". 

Yes, while it was mostly clear that it was in the emphatic form using an implied verb, the accent mark in the fourth syllable of the third word was problematic. If pronounced with a sudden intake of air (as one does when one falls on the frame of one's bike) it implies the passage of time, BUT if pronounced with a rapid expulsion of air (as one does when hit in the abdomen with a bat) it implies the transfer of goods.

Yours  is certainly the best rendering of the possibilities that I have seen  - including, of course, Wikipedia. Thanks!
Always good to get the straight doe from a native speaker. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sorry, where did the plot go? 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Plot - WHAT PLOT

IanS

And it's S. McQueen on a motorbike in the Barbled wire 

[fsn]

Gosh! That sounds like a new version of Cludeo! ("Clue" for our American cousins.)

My turn!

Arnold Schw...gger - squashed by a big metal press thing.

Alien Q Alien - blasted out the shuttle and incinerated by the rockets!

Isn't this fun!

Bambi's Mother ... 

[Techno]

 

Have to have a really good think about this one.

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

Gosh! That sounds like a new version of Cludeo! ("Clue" for our American cousins.

Thanks!  Saved yet another trip to Wikipedia. 
Is that pronounced:
Clu-de-o as in rodeo, Clue-due as in Zulu, or See-lude-o, like the naughty magazine published at the turn of the last century?

[Wulf]

Klu-Dough

(and as Techno rightly points out, it's Cluedo - which somehow I read despite it not being written...)

[Techno]

I think Nobby's spelt it wrong....

Isn't it Cluedo ?......Not Cludeo. ?

Cheers - Phil

[Leon]

Only 24 hours to go for UK people, get your orders sent through by midnight on Friday otherwise we can't guarantee them for the big day!

[Sunray]

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