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BS: Marmite or tenor banjo

18 Nov 03 - 02:45 PM (#1056421)
Subject: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

That is the question.   One of them has to go but which one? I need help on this one. They both have a long history and each have benefits as well as disadvantages. How will I decide?


18 Nov 03 - 02:48 PM (#1056424)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: jeffp

Keep the Marmite. Send me the banjo.

Simple, really.

jeffp


18 Nov 03 - 02:52 PM (#1056429)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Rapparee

Oh, OR. I thought it said "Marmite ON tenor banjo" and I wondered how it would taste.


18 Nov 03 - 02:57 PM (#1056435)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

I already know.


18 Nov 03 - 03:18 PM (#1056443)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: The Barden of England

Quick - I want my medication!!! Both are awful, but I'm addicted - Cold Turkey is not in the vocabulary!


18 Nov 03 - 04:28 PM (#1056470)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Mr Red

a) Well nobody cries when you cut up a Marmite.

b) One burns longer.

c) Being able to throw both into a skip without touching the sides.

Tick one of the above.


18 Nov 03 - 04:54 PM (#1056486)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dead Horse

Is there an antipodean equivalent called Veggiejo?
(not that I really give a damn, actually)


19 Nov 03 - 03:00 AM (#1056731)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hrothgar

Vegemite - but let's not go through all that again.


19 Nov 03 - 04:13 AM (#1056752)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Ella who is Sooze

marmite marmite marmite... it has to go!

marmite marmite marmite... it has to go!

MARMITE MARMITE MARMITE... IT HAS TO GO!

Keep your banjo you can stuff the marmite!

Ella


19 Nov 03 - 04:24 AM (#1056759)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: muppett

I prefer dueling marmite


19 Nov 03 - 04:30 AM (#1056767)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Beverley Barton

dear mudcat,
            please delete this thread now!


19 Nov 03 - 04:33 AM (#1056768)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: muppett

Wot's up el ted


19 Nov 03 - 04:44 AM (#1056775)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Beverley Barton

you bugger! you've done it again! a combined thread on my two least favourite things!


19 Nov 03 - 05:06 AM (#1056787)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Bryant

If you get shot of the banjo, what are you going to put the bread on when you toast it under the grill, before you put the marmite on it ?


19 Nov 03 - 05:15 AM (#1056792)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: muppett

A bodrum ?


19 Nov 03 - 05:29 AM (#1056796)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Beverley Barton

now you're talking!we need a recipe thread on how to combine the two into a nice souffle! maybe topped off with marinated smallpipes.


19 Nov 03 - 05:34 AM (#1056798)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: muppett

Along with diced electric organs ?(ask Raggytash about the story of the organ!)


19 Nov 03 - 05:35 AM (#1056799)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Beverley Barton

no no! piano accordians!


19 Nov 03 - 06:42 AM (#1056834)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Bryant

How long do you have to boil a shaky egg ?


19 Nov 03 - 07:49 AM (#1056863)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Mr Red at woooooooork

Ella

I quite agree, how are you on ukelelies visa vis Bovril?

muppett

There is only one thing worse than Marmite - dual Marmite (apologies to Ambrose Bierce)
FWIW I duellled Marmite for 4 years at boarding school AND went without many a pudding in the process. Now I am a man and have put away childish things like the pot of Marmite. I think I won that jewel.


19 Nov 03 - 07:53 AM (#1056866)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Still seeing red

Dave Bryant

How long do you shake a boil? And talking of shaky song spots.......... and if you squeeze a banjo it oozes brown I guess.


19 Nov 03 - 08:30 AM (#1056892)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Rapparee

I think that if you put the marmite under the banjo, shove a fused blasting cap into the marmite....


20 Nov 03 - 04:57 AM (#1057623)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Ella who is Sooze

ukelelies any time... Bovril NEVER!

errwwwwwwwwwwww!

Heck I'd even go for a shaky egg than a tub of bovril!


20 Nov 03 - 07:30 AM (#1057682)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,banjoman

Why is everyone so cruel to this much loved instrument - the banjo of course-
Don't you know that most of the worlds worst conflicts ( American Civil War for example) were fought over the right to make & play the banjo.
The banjo is a much maligned instrument, unlike the melodeon which is the last refuge of the musically incompetent.
As for Marmite - I hate the stuff, but it can be used as an adhesive to stick floor tiles down.

Leave of the banjo and pick on something (or someone)your own size


20 Nov 03 - 07:57 AM (#1057696)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Guessed

Now given the alcopops and all that crap - and flower flavour brews from Belgium - like limbics - how long before we see Marmite flovoured beer (full circle - eh?) and real ales with a dash of Mm?


20 Nov 03 - 09:20 AM (#1057746)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Rapparee

What was the name of that sauce in the story "Two Bottles of Relish"? Num-nuts or something, wasn't it?


20 Nov 03 - 11:02 AM (#1057803)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Bryant

Banjos aren't very nice on toast or in a sandwich.


20 Nov 03 - 09:39 PM (#1058213)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST

Actually banjoman, the Civil War was fought over the right NOT to play the banjo...


21 Nov 03 - 07:41 PM (#1058862)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Mr Red

But not necessarilly in Alabama - right?


22 Nov 03 - 05:00 AM (#1059002)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

This is all very interesting but it still doesn't answer the question. All I'm getting is knee jerk reactions and obscure passions. Can somebody please be more specific? We'll start with you Ted 6El9.


04 Dec 03 - 03:54 AM (#1065307)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Bella Button

I lick honey off organs. Hope this helps


04 Dec 03 - 07:49 AM (#1065395)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

banjos have more uses than marmite, you can't slice cheese with marmite. Get real.
luv eric


05 Dec 03 - 02:57 AM (#1065872)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

Like it Bella, not so sure about eric but I see his heart's in the right place!


05 Dec 03 - 04:06 AM (#1065896)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Sttaw Legend

I also like it Bella.


05 Dec 03 - 05:57 AM (#1065941)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Bryant

Bella - I hope you lick it all off - it might feel rather sticky if not !


05 Dec 03 - 06:21 AM (#1065951)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Be


05 Dec 03 - 06:25 AM (#1065952)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bella Button

I have a long moist tongue and am not happy until every bit of honey is consumed.


05 Dec 03 - 07:57 AM (#1065979)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sailorsam

You sound like my type of girl Bella but I have Vellum Pluckers Disease. Would that be a problem?


05 Dec 03 - 08:07 AM (#1065983)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

luv it Bella, my organ is vastly underused.
eric


05 Dec 03 - 08:17 AM (#1065994)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

It sounds like marmite is now off the menu. O/k banjo or honey?


05 Dec 03 - 08:40 AM (#1066017)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Bella Button

To pluck or not to pluck!
Give that organ an airing more often


08 Dec 03 - 08:53 AM (#1067742)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Sailorsam

How do you like to pluck Bella?
5-string, 4-string, G-string, no-string or just stilleto's?


08 Dec 03 - 09:40 AM (#1067768)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Little Hawk

A difficult choice. Is one obliged to eat the banjo? If so, I guess it beats the marmite by a slim margin. If, on the other hand, one is obliged to play them, the marmite wins by a substantial margin!

Did you know that TWAWKI is threatened by an imminent attack of giant marmites?

- LH


08 Dec 03 - 12:01 PM (#1067838)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: ced2

Isn't the truth more like:- marmite makes a more tuneful sound... and by the way Eric le Rouge which of your two organs are you on about?


09 Dec 03 - 09:53 AM (#1068409)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

Well not a bloody mouth organ.
eric


09 Dec 03 - 11:05 AM (#1068446)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Little Hawk

What did the organist say to the Marmite when it siezed his tenor banjo?


09 Dec 03 - 12:00 PM (#1068480)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Why is it that I have developed a craving for honey ?


09 Dec 03 - 12:05 PM (#1068483)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST

Is it because you are a bee?


09 Dec 03 - 07:22 PM (#1068832)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

I think their is a bee connection but it's BEEla Button.


10 Dec 03 - 09:32 AM (#1069301)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

I have a relation called eric the half bee.
eric the red


10 Dec 03 - 12:20 PM (#1069491)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: ced2

So had a Mr M Python.... well nearly he was called eric the halg a bee!


10 Dec 03 - 08:13 PM (#1069805)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

To bee or not to bee, that is the banjo. Bella where are you? Have you just opened another jar? There is only one marmite but many different types of honey. What's your favourite?


11 Dec 03 - 05:12 AM (#1070070)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

when it's been converted to alcoholl.
eric


11 Dec 03 - 12:13 PM (#1070330)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Have just discovered a new honey called "Honiolin" apparently it was named after a violinist, any one come across it ?


11 Dec 03 - 12:33 PM (#1070342)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Beverley Barton

Stop it David you silly boy! There is no such product.Who in their right mind would name anything after a violinist.


11 Dec 03 - 09:39 PM (#1070654)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

Well spotted El BB. Bella we need you. The thread's losing it's interest.


12 Dec 03 - 04:57 AM (#1070820)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

is that simple interest or compound ?
eric


12 Dec 03 - 06:32 AM (#1070871)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sweetfia

What the hell! I didn't kno BS threads were like this!


12 Dec 03 - 06:35 AM (#1070873)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: s6k

i htink my speling si prety bad so i carnt tipe much but thsi fred is verry rewd


12 Dec 03 - 11:35 AM (#1070953)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Little Hawk

If you pack a tenor banjo full of marmite it actually sounds better, but tastes worse...

Decisions, decisions....

- LH


12 Dec 03 - 04:21 PM (#1071134)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

I've just bought a new jar. It's all black and smelly.


13 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM (#1071440)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

if you fill a tenor banjo with honey it couldn't sound any sweeter.
eric


15 Dec 03 - 08:42 AM (#1072806)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Bella Button

I am now back. I have been very busy with the organ in my mouth everynight. It is very hard work pushing, blowing and sucking! I am hoping for a longer instrument as I only have 10 holes.


16 Dec 03 - 07:44 AM (#1073440)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sweetfia

Oh My!!


16 Dec 03 - 07:57 AM (#1073447)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: s6k

Lord!!


16 Dec 03 - 11:51 AM (#1073764)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Some one has observed that the fluff in your belly button is always blue, if correct why is that ? Is it an attraction from honey remains left un-licked ? Bella do you suffer from fluff in any of your holes ?


17 Dec 03 - 04:49 AM (#1074347)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sweetfia

I'm having a word with you tomorrow night Dave...!


17 Dec 03 - 07:27 AM (#1074403)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Oh heck - sorry mam


17 Dec 03 - 07:55 AM (#1074419)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

69


17 Dec 03 - 08:37 AM (#1074458)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sweetfia

What a surprise...


18 Dec 03 - 04:24 AM (#1075157)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

It is blue, especially this weather. So Bella you actually play an instrument?


13 Jan 04 - 07:42 PM (#1092276)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Guessed

Hey
I went through a small pile of stuff left by Bor-in-Law when he went back to NZ. AND I found a jar (yes glass jar though not yer familiar shape) of Marmite. The brand is well known in NZ - Sanatarium = which roughly translates as "You must be mad to like this gunge"
Joy declined the Vegemite as an inferior pseudo-clone. If she doesn't like the idea of this Kiwi Marmite - what am I bid for a genuine collectors item? It is kept well away from proper food lest it contaminates the fodder.


13 Jan 04 - 07:59 PM (#1092295)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,hungry horse

I prefer fromage frais on organs, but thats cos I'm classy.


13 Jan 04 - 10:08 PM (#1092375)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

We don't like that foreign stuff ungry oss, and no it's not classy.
Yorkshire pudding with gravy, now thats CLASSY, but not in a tenor banjo.
eric


14 Jan 04 - 05:47 AM (#1092546)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Garnished with onions extra CLASSY


14 Jan 04 - 06:51 AM (#1092567)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Davetnova

There was a wonderful programme demonstrating on the development of limpet mines by filling a saucepan with porridge and sticking it to the bottom of a boat. What kind of pet mine would a banjo filled with marmite and stuck on a bottom make?


14 Jan 04 - 07:02 AM (#1092570)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bobjack

Yorkshire puddings are shite without HP brown sauce.Marmite is a very poor relation to the mighty HP.


14 Jan 04 - 07:06 AM (#1092574)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

Do not, I repeat do not enter the Broad Acres and talk like that about our great pudding.
You have been warned.
eric the invisible.


14 Jan 04 - 07:28 AM (#1092583)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Is that the Broad Acres in/near Bridlington ?


14 Jan 04 - 08:27 AM (#1092613)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bobjack

Pudding eric?! it is peasant food and tastes like cardboard! my mother in law always used to serve it up as a separate course at dinner. bland shite! flour, salt and water from the humber. shite!shite! shite! HPrules!


14 Jan 04 - 09:05 AM (#1092628)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

What's the APR on the HP ?


15 Jan 04 - 04:51 AM (#1093162)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

Bobjack we know where you live.
rice the anagram


15 Jan 04 - 05:02 AM (#1093169)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bobjack

Come and get me copper!


15 Jan 04 - 05:10 AM (#1093173)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

So should that be whats the APR on the HP for the PC ?


15 Jan 04 - 07:00 AM (#1093209)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

Now that sounds like fluent gibberish to me Sttaw Legend.
Bobjack makes more sense.
eric


15 Jan 04 - 07:21 AM (#1093218)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Eric, Bobjack always makes sense - even after his recent keep fit regime has been very strenuous and risen to new heights
Sttaw


15 Jan 04 - 08:32 AM (#1093261)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bobjack

Of course I make sense, that's what BSthreads are for isn't it? The exchange of folky type information.And yes sttaw, my recent fortnight on a northern assault course has shifted a few pounds!


15 Jan 04 - 09:31 AM (#1093306)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

Bobjack, assault course? who were you learning to assault, your verbal is pretty good already.
eric


15 Jan 04 - 09:38 AM (#1093312)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bobjack

Yeah rice, assault course, orienteering, night navigation, rock climbing, unarmed combat etc etc. Not all of spent christmas sat on our arses strumming songs from the folky of the year songbook you know!


15 Jan 04 - 09:45 AM (#1093314)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Bobjack

ps: if you fancy a go at it eric, PM me for more details. I was camped out on Penny Hill which is near Castleton on North York Moors. Ripping time was had by all!


15 Jan 04 - 10:48 AM (#1093355)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

I'm too long in the tooth for stuff like that now mate. I did camp out on the North Yorkshire moors when I did the Lyke Wake walk many years ago and on my first weekend in the army even longer ago. Ended
up getting pissed both times.
eric


15 Jan 04 - 11:00 AM (#1093368)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

Getting pissed doing the Lyke Wake Walk - my kind of walk


16 Jan 04 - 05:33 AM (#1093956)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

If you set out from Osmotherly the first stopping place is a pub called The Lion at Blakey Ridge, if you time it right you can spend all night there [ free camping ] but walking through waist high bracken the following morning is no joke with a hangover.
eric


17 Jan 04 - 03:16 AM (#1094715)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

Time to get my walking boots out. I have a tenor banjo, a tent and a jar of marmite. I love the Yorkshire moors and can quite easily see some attractive sheep in the equation. The field behind the white Lion up on Blakey Ridge is desolate and cold and worth a visit by all concerned on this thread. A suitable date for the 'piss-up' will have to be arranged. A reply from Bella is now required.


17 Jan 04 - 07:25 AM (#1094761)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

You will have to get there early, before all the good looking sheep have gone.
Best embriodered wellies only [ standing orders ]
eric.


17 Jan 04 - 06:01 PM (#1095106)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Good Looking Sheep

I'm waiting boys.


18 Jan 04 - 05:27 AM (#1095376)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Dave Hanson

And always do it with the sheep overlooking a deep drop.
eric


01 Nov 05 - 06:48 AM (#1594832)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

O/k, I've thought about this and it makes perfect sense!


01 Nov 05 - 07:04 AM (#1594835)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: GUEST,Jon

I'd not spotted this thread before. I love marmite and the tenor banjo. The question for me would centre around possible substitutes...

There is a reasonable chance that I could substitute Marmite for Vegemite but less chance of me substituting tenor banjo for another banjo and if the only substitute available was a 5 string banjo, there is simply no way.


01 Nov 05 - 07:11 AM (#1594836)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Sttaw Legend

100


01 Nov 05 - 10:50 AM (#1594994)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Shiplap Structure3

Never mind about the marmite or the banjo (slight thread drift alot to be honest)
put failure into google and do a feel lucky search


02 Nov 05 - 08:08 AM (#1595668)
Subject: RE: BS: Marmite or tenor banjo
From: Hand-Pulled Boy

102