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24 Aug 06 - 01:43 PM (#1818024) Subject: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Rapparee Ah, those nutty Welsh!! What will they think of next? |
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24 Aug 06 - 02:07 PM (#1818039) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Becca72 So....rocket scientists have invented a machine which throws shoes? |
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24 Aug 06 - 04:45 PM (#1818135) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Bill D shoes???? ah, no....rubber BOOTS with a cutesy name! They'd never bother if they just called 'em boots. |
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24 Aug 06 - 05:18 PM (#1818159) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Richard Bridge The boot invented by an English hero, SAH! No connection to the Earl of Sandwich. |
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24 Aug 06 - 06:01 PM (#1818186) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Paul from Hull Course, the Welsh call them something else, unprintable in mixed company....*G* |
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24 Aug 06 - 06:53 PM (#1818216) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Bill D What did that English hero call them after inventing them? And what if his name had been Dumfries? |
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24 Aug 06 - 07:22 PM (#1818240) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: robomatic If only you Brits had had this during the war, we Yanks could've stayed home and slept in during the early 40's! |
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24 Aug 06 - 07:46 PM (#1818265) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Richard Bridge As opposed, I suppose, to sleeping with our women. |
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25 Aug 06 - 01:52 AM (#1818421) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: robomatic You sound bitter, he said compassionately. |
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25 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM (#1818648) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Paul from Hull You DID stay home & sleep in, in the early 40's! *WG* *puts his tin hat on, & runs off dodging all the way....* |
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26 Aug 06 - 02:15 AM (#1819213) Subject: RE: BS: Robotic Welly Wanger From: Big Al Whittle Yes......Aberystwyth its that sort of place really, isn't it? when I had a studio, we had this band in from Aberystwyth -The Elephant Men. Their songs have always haunted me. there was one called Your Shit Stinks!, another about JCB machines..... the chorus went OH NO! ITs THE DIGGERS! and another called Hang 'EM High - a tribute to the Clint Eastwood film. I often wonder what became of them - they were delightful people. |