A little bit of fun for our trans Atlantic cousins..

[IWT]

Keep all of them, preferably behind a stockade fence.

And please don't send them over here; especially not that shy, modest guy, Mr.......whatshisname.

Ian

 

[Jonzjob]

Especially that one who thinks Paris is in Germany.

It was was for a while, but with a little help from you guys across the pond we got it back where it belongs, at the centre of the universe. Well, the bleedin Parisians think it is??

By the way the 'Meridian Verte' wot used to be known as the Paris Meridian and wot used to be the time set around the world until we English got it and is now known as Greenwich (pronounced Grenich for you lot over there ) took it away. Well that Meridian Verte is a line that runs through Carcassonne and Paris is about 500 miles straight north up from us...

 

[MacInWin]

Actually, Paris is in Virginia. Doubt that? Look here:

http://www.bing.com/maps/#Y3A9NDMuN...yQyUyMFZpcmdpbmlhJTJDJTIwVW5pdGVkJTIwU3RhdGVz

 

[Jonzjob]

Come now Mac? Next thing you will be telling me that your jobbie has a copy of the Blackpool Tower too

https://www.google.fr/search?q=blac...f0ydfKAhWHXBoKHRzlB_oQsAQIKg&biw=1109&bih=614

Complete with 'Kiss me quick' hats

http://images.google.fr/imgres?imgu...ved=0ahUKEwjmrI2jytfKAhVGWBQKHQ_tBNkQrQMITjAP

Blimey! That's one **** of a link???

 

[MacInWin]

Nope, OUR Paris has horses, and a pretty good tavern, and that's about it. Beautiful scenery though:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/10392273.jpg

 

[Dogbreath]

We are actually one up on the Blackpool Tower...we installed a space craft on top of ours!

 

[toMACsh]

You guys are way off! Everyone knows that Paris is in Illinois:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...m2!3m1!1s0x8872978c9cc6953b:0xac6fd1a9bd8ee4f

 

[MacInWin]

Ha! That's just a copycat of Paris, VA.

 

[Jonzjob]

We are actually one up on the Blackpool Tower...we installed a space craft on top of ours!


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Ah, but do it have a ballroom with a pop up organ at the base? And do you reckon it will still be there 112 years after it were builded Like wot B/pool tower has got.

The fact that Blackpool is the town where hemeroids (piles) were invented and is, in my opinion, the biggest hole in the world doen't come into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSw6b7PVpDw

 

[IWT]

I suspect patients invented haemorrhoids (Note British spelling Jonzob. I know you are walled in, in Carcassonne, but still, standards, man! )

Blackpool may have discovered them although I can find no documentary evidence of this. Was Blackpool around in ancient Roman times?

Ian

 

[Jonzjob]

It may well be just a matter of speech Ian, but at the tender age of 13 I spent 3 months in B/pool after 2 1/2 years in Malta. Jan, Feb and March 1956, in a forces transit hotel called The Glenshee and believe me if hæmorrhoids could have been invented then it will have been there!

Don't forget the æ Ian ;P;P

 

[Jonzjob]

Further to our conversation. Today the 6 Nations Rugby Union (15 players as opposed to League with 13 players) Competition has started. Rather than me trying to describe it have a gander at this site

http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/matchcentre/fixtures_and_results.php#8kdRM0CPSk3yPPzW.97

Fixtures list and the nations competing and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Nations_Championship For more info. No armour plating used by this lot

 

[MacInWin]

John, when I lived in England I watched an RU match on television. One of the players broke his arm in the first half, was taken off. Came back out to play the second half with a cast on his arm. Tough guys.

 

[Jonzjob]

Going back to cricket and as to just how important it is to us serious English here is a piece of youtube of our wonderful game. A little damp just doesn't matter..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX2CG-ZInQ

Enjoy and envy You won't see the like on the Western side of the pond!!

 

[MacInWin]

HEH! I think I saw a similar effort at The Oval once...the wicket is a bit tricky on the Solent.

 

[Jonzjob]

Possibly? But isn't there a kind of Oval on your side of the pond too?

I can't remember ever hearing of cricket being played there though. Too small and if I remember correctly a lot of underhand bowling going on

I think it's a room in a house somewhere

 

[MacInWin]

Well, despite the "games" played in that Oval, cricket is actually played in Washington. A group of cricketers gather on the Mall in Summer months to play on an oval area called the Ellipse just south of the White House. The players are usually ex-pats from UK, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies (i.e., where cricket is played). Most work in their various embassies or for companies supporting those embassies. The cricket is not bad for a bunch of amateurs.

EDIT: I forgot to add the Indians and Pakistanis as well. It's definitely a mix of nationalities. The odd Yank shows up, too.

 

[BudVitoff]

20. ... Hang on that one can stay.

Please translate.

 

[Jonzjob]

Certainly dear sir

If one Trumps then one coughs in ones trousers, obviously commonly known as a trouser cough and if one has a cold and is coughing as well it can be known as coughing at both ends.

That reminds me of the very posh lady who went to the doctors because she had terrible wind. She told the doctor that when she went to the opera it was very embarrassing because she just couldn't control it and that the only grace saving was that it was always quiet. Then she passed wind in the surgery (I wonder if that would be a skirt cough??) , apologised to the doctor and said do you see what I mean but at least it is silent.

"Ah, I see what you mean madam" said the doctor "but I do believe that there is another problem and that firstly we need to get you a new battery for your hearing aid"

 

[BudVitoff]

Oh, I had a good idea about the Trump part. That's why I used the ellipses. What I didn't understand was "Hang on that one can stay".