Captain Oates

The vicar was driving!

As a child I was driven around the Scottish countryside in one of these - Austin Eight - black (of course). FFS 256

How many living explorers are there? I managed to work my way unaided across the 'Magic Roundabout' in Swindon once, am I an explorer? Swindon Magic Roundabout or, if your legs are up to it, the view from Mount Everest

Gwynfor Evans got the better of that woman! Born 1912

Sell the Clio - nasty tinny thing! Buy a Five. Horribly dangerous, but fantastic fun to drive.

Hello Matt! Sorry I missed your joining party - I had a few days away - but it's great to meet you at last. Welcome, and enjoy! By the way, my avatar is not a perfect likeness, whatever anyone may tell you...

Here are some Corrados for sale. The sellers are asking more than £800 for most of them, but they are fairly high spec. If yours matches any of these cars, you might be wise to research the market before you sell.

Posts written in an understandable language and style (such are found in the first two pages of this thread!) are much appreciated. It is always good to rub up against someone else's thoughts and ideas, but if those ideas are not expressed in a clear way, then misunderstanding and unnecessary conflicts can arise. Or the ideas just get ignored. But it also helps if the reader pays attention!!! ...perhaps a reflection of the state of the world?

Job done then. I'm very pleased to read that you have finished being rude.

Is that Welsh for piles? Here's a way to find out: put Duct tape on your piles!

Does this help? Derek Bond and a younger version.

Yes, Derek Hart was on 'Tonight' for many years. And it seems that Derek Hart appeared in an episode of Monty P*thon (The Buzz Aldrin Show)with a nude man and The Bishop. Does anyone else remember Derek Bond as an interviewer quite early in the history of that programme? Derek Bond also was, with Peter Haigh, co-presenter of Picture Parade - a weekly review of the film world.

But you simply must give examples of said bastardizationing especially when you consider it is of the ignorant sort which means we are unable to realistically remember the qwestion you had presented. Really though Notapotato, isn't what you refer to as ignorant bastardization in fact just more regional dialecting? I suppose you could argue that the rapper from South Central and his twists of words may be considered non-regional if it lands in Chicago or London or Paris however is it not now regional if the persons listening to said sounds adopt these word forms as their own? In a broader sense look at the English language itself which consists at many times of words and parts of words and combinations of words from other languages. If it has become a firmly engrained part of the Queen's English and if it appears in The Oxford English Dictionary does it in fact maintain 'bastardized' status or is it not thusly elevated to a real word? It is just plain bad manners to write in a way that cannot be understood. I have no difficulty in understanding Notapotato, nor in understanding the several posters for whom English is not their first language. However, I have tried to work out what your post, (quoted above) means and have concluded, after a brief intensive effort, that my time would be better spent watching Garfield, The Movie. Is there a kind person out there who speaks 'Brimley' and can be bothered to extract the meaning for me?

Not borne out by the evidence.

why do you not register?????

If JP2 recovers his health it can only lead to a prolonged struggle on his part, as he seems determined to go on until his very last breath. Would it not be kinder to pray that he has some peace, whatever form that might take? Perhaps he will be persuaded to retire? I think we all acknowledge his sincerity (whether or not we agree with his views) but can see that it's time for him to go.

Does that involve playing the ukelele?

Now you're talking! Even in the darkest and coldest days of Jim Callaghan's administration the PM was personally respected and regarded as a decent human. Hind-sight only re-inforces that view. They certainly don't make then like that any more, it seems!

Fallen Sparrow missed this one!

(I must remember to log in before posting! It's all too exciting...) Lord James Callaghan BBC obituary

My guess is that it's genuine. It would take a gargantuan feat of forgery to create such a fake and it would have been spotted long ago. A good one to watch as there seems to be personal input from No26.

FF and new spouse. Congratulations to both of you. Hope you have many happy years together. (...some folk will go to any lengths to get a holiday in Florida! )

That's one day more than God took, probably. (Enjoy!)

Banjo ukelele. I'm pretty sure that isn't Notapotato tartan. And that's the other sort of ukelele.

Like this? Scary!!!