Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

? He's done it again! ?

"A double entendre is an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate."

The Pickled Egg is definitely one pub which you can walk into and ask our bar staff for a double-entendre and be certain to be given one!

Regards Neil

[bobins]

There have to be a few people here who remember Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres ?

[mickthemaverick]

You could order a double here:
(click on image to enlarge)

[NewcastleFalcon]

There have to be a few people here who remember Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres ?

Yes, and also the Samantha and Sven double entendres from "I'm sorry I haven't got a clue". Jack Dee currently is excellent, but someone has taken the trouble to complile the Complete Samantha 1993-2007 when Humphrey Lyttelton was in the chair.



Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Yes, and also the Samantha and Sven double entendres from "I'm sorry I haven't got a clue". Jack Dee currently is excellent, but someone has taken the trouble to complile the Complete Samantha 1993-2007 when Humphrey Lyttelton was in the chai


Regards Neil

Indeed I remember many an evening cracking up to Humphrey's remarks, but I have to say hearing them on the video loses a lot of the impact because context is everything and they lose it when streamed one after the other. I only got 14 minutes into the recording when it began to feel tedious!! However it did remind me of a joke which I will go and post on the right thread!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

.. I have to say hearing them on the video loses a lot of the impact because context is everything and they lose it when streamed one after the other.

Totally agree with that Mick. Worth a quick dip in, but always funnier in the context of listening to the whole programme.

REgards Neil

[bobins]

I only lasted 5 minutes with Samantha............

[mickthemaverick]

I only lasted 5 minutes with Samantha............

You clearly need some little blue pills

[bobins]

Whilst at Dungeness earlier today, we stopped in at the RNLI lifeboat station there. Managed to get close to a lovely little vehicle - it'd suit me for the run down to the shops

Supacat tug - own work

The engine sits in its own airtight cell (not surprising, really ! )

Supacat engine 1 - own work

There's a Scania DC13 12.7 litre turbo charged diesel in there ?

Supacat engine 2 - own work

This is what it's pulling ?

Dungeness Lifeboat - own work

This is what it looks like when loaded ?

Dungeness Lifeboat 2 - copy of RNLI photo, own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

This is a lead-sheathed telephone cable in wooden trunking c 1900 from the Science Museum



Now from the little box immediately inside the front door, while not having the wooden insulation, we still have a lead sheathed cable bringing in telephone/internet and TV via the internet and the firestick.

It travels a very circituous route to a further box inside the house where the first bit of modern pvc coated telephone cable continues on.

Yes the house is over 160 years old, but is the bit of lead sheathed telephone wiring a relic from the early 20th Century still providing the route whereby most of my 8000 odd posts to this very forum have been transmitted

REgards Neil

PS on the subject of Telephones...over at the Pickled-Egg I have just put a selection up. It is, in my opinion, a perfect couple of minutes of telephone related popular music

[mickthemaverick]

This is a lead-sheathed telephone cable in wooden trunking c 1900 from the Science Museum

REgards Neil

The other astounding fact about that cable is that the inner cores (wires) were sheathed in paper making the picture a true collection of materials of the time. I remember replacing many such cables as a GPO apprentice when dampness had done its inevitable evil deeds. Those were the days.....

[NewcastleFalcon]

The other astounding fact about that cable is that the inner cores (wires) were sheathed in paper making the picture a true collection of materials of the time. I remember replacing many such cables as a GPO apprentice when dampness had done its inevitable evil deeds. Those were the days.....

I am in a dilemma whether to leave it alone, or attempt a replacement with modern stuff. If it ain't broke dont fix it maybe should prevail I suppose! Not sure why it was routed along the top of the skirting boards and literally under the inner door rather than putting it under the floorboards. It could definitely do with re-routing.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Leave it alone Neil, unless the routing is bugging you. In those days internal cables were installed by a telephone fitter whose equipment was a pair of cutters, a pair of long nosed pliers (or 81's as they were known due to their stores stock number), a stapling hammer and selected screwdrivers so fitters went for the easiest route by which they could secure the cable with staples, in open view to impress the visitors that you were "on the phone"!

[myglaren]

I could do with some of the same - my broadband went out for a week last October and has never been the same since - It has dropped out at least four times this evening - I only see it when trying to load a fresh page.
Only for a couple of minutes usually.
BT can't find the problem, as with so many intermittent problems.

[mickthemaverick]

I assume you have BT broadband from your comment or do you have a third party service using BT lines? I had Talk talk over BT for the last few years but it was getting worse and worse for drop out, speed and errors so a couple of months ago I moved over to Virgin who were already supplying our TV. I now have nominal 200meg Broadband, though guaranteed at a minimum of 105 and when I measure it, it is usually around the 145-160 bracket and no failures at all so far. Now we are 125meg faster and we are also saving over £50 a month for 12 months and then when we revert to standard price we will still be £30 a month better off. No brainer, I just wished I'd looked into it much sooner!!