BS: Is this job shite

Subject: Folklore: Is this job shite
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 05:53 AM

Of course I mean working on a Nitrate clipper hauling guano.
eric

Subject: RE: Folklore: Is this job shite
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 06:39 AM

Better than working the city's "honey wagon" - at least you can get upwind of it at sea!

LTS

Subject: RE: Folklore: Is this job shite
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:17 AM

At canal festivals one of the "joys" is working on the "Lavender Boat" which goes round each morning - ringing a big handbell and giving the traditional cry of "Bring out your dead". At one IWA National Gathering at Peterborough we gave a fantastic concert using the large effluent tank which was aboard nb Hesperus as a stage. Dave Blagrove, kept asking the audience "What do you think of it so far ?" and then pointing downwards !. The tank was well capped - thank god and anyway people who use porta-potties etc usually put plenty of "blue" in them.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Is this job shite
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 09:29 AM

Love it Dave, best laugh of the week so far.
eric

Subject: RE: Folklore: Is this job shite
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 09:31 AM

Reminds me of a story about the demolition and explosives expert Blaster Bates accidently blowing up a sewage tank and showering everything for miles around with it.
eric.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Is this job shite
From: Peterr
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 10:36 AM

As I recall, it wasn't accidental - he'd been contracted to do it. An old marl pit used as a soakaway for too long had it's level rise too far. It had a leathery crust and when he lobbed sticks of bang into it, it chuckled as it thought he was feeding it!

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: ced2
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 04:25 PM

Ah, M. Eric Le Rouge, the well known Shower of Shit over Shropshire story.
I wonder if he, the young Blaster, got an earful when he was still a "master". I did hear that when a certain Mr & Mrs Bates the affluent local wool merchants took their son to Bradfoird Grammar School in order that a paid for education would ensure that the rough Yorkshire edges were knocked off him. Upon being shown into the great man's study Mr Bates, never one to beat about any sort of a bush said by way of introduction "I am Mr Bates, this is Mrs Bates," and pointing to the boy "And this Master Bates."   The head's reply was to assure them that the school would soon cure him of that!!
But back to effluvent..
In the words of a well known song...
Down in the sewer, shovelling up manure,
That's where the navvies do their bit, shovelling shit,
You can hear the shovels ring, with a ding-a-ling-a-ling,
When you're down in the sewer in the morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 04:39 PM

Equally malodorous but with a Pacific Northwest twist, some years ago a dead and decomposing humpback whale washed up on an Oregon beach. After much consultation the powers that be decided that the quickest way to dispose of the carcass was to blow it up. Which they did, with attendant huge chunks of blood, guts and effluvia sailing through the air for hundreds of feet. Took quite a long time to clean it up, it did.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 05:14 PM

I recall a folk festival at which the guy driving the honey dipper truck got busted by the cops for having an open beer in his truck while making his Friday afternoon rounds. It pissed him off badly enough that he refused to come back for Saturday and Sunday. Can you say "ripe"? How'bout "overflowing"? How'bout "sometimes cops think with their asses".

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: Peace
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 05:37 PM

Workin' in the NWT. Lotsa honey pots which people would empty into plastic garbage bags and put outside in the freezing cold. That was fine when the temperature stayed on the other side of 20 below. But the kids would skidoo over them and tear the bags. Yep, ya wanted to be there when the warm days came. Oh, Death, where is thy sting?

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 06:31 PM

Just for you ced2,
"The shower of shit over Cheshire"

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: ced2
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 06:29 AM

Thank Ya!! I think I might even have the record somewhere!

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 06:56 AM

As we used to say in the plumbing trade ' it might be shit to you, but it's our bread and butter '
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: ced2
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 05:49 AM

Bloody hell your diet sounds worse than the Atkins diet!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 05:55 AM

I actually live off a mostly liquid diet nowadays.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Is this job shite
From: ced2
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 10:30 AM

We have noticed!! Were you drinking No3 last night? A tasty brew I thought! See Ya!