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Only rail because it came up as a publication including a rail story - but I love the publication name the Stray Ferret. Lighter side - brought a smile to my face! Other publication / people's / places names that bring a smile? Please don't suggest we meet in Loggerheads to discuss this after lockdown ... |
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2021, 09:51:07 » |
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Known to all patrons of the Imber Bus: "Brazen Bottom"  (I think the bridge in the photo is part of the new Imber by-pass  ) |
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2021, 07:58:50 » |
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Is the link behind the picture intentional?
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2021, 09:49:06 » |
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Is the link behind the picture intentional?
No, it's the link for the photo. I couldn't get rid of it - unless I deleted it - then no photo of course. Never had it happen before. |
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2021, 10:25:36 » |
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Is the link behind the picture intentional?
No, it's the link for the photo. I couldn't get rid of it - unless I deleted it - then no photo of course. Never had it happen before. It can be done - if you delete all the [url]...[/ulr] bit before and after the  link itself. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2021, 15:32:22 » |
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Is the link behind the picture intentional?
No, it's the link for the photo. I couldn't get rid of it - unless I deleted it - then no photo of course. Never had it happen before. It can be done - if you delete all the [url]...[/ulr] bit before and after the link itself. Thanks for that, I had a good look at the link and there was some odd text in it. Didn't look like like anything I had been doing previously. Anyway, it worked  |
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2021, 17:26:26 » |
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
- Sir Terry Pratchett.
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« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2021, 19:38:14 » |
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I encountered a couple in my waterway magazine days. Will Drown from Crewsaver Lifejackets was rightly celebrated. But I always had a soft spot for Lee King, maintenance manager for the Canal & River Trust.
(Hello again! Sorry. Have been away for a while. Life has been manic...)
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2021, 21:09:19 » |
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I am a bit surprised that a police officer with such a name has not changed it ! Or sought permission to be known and identified at work by an assumed name.
An historic unfortunate name was a Mr Burstall, boiler engineer !
I used to know an RNLI volunteer, with the given name of Storm !
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2021, 22:50:34 » |
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A friend of mine was once a school music teacher before moving to pastures new. One of his pupils was the son of a Mr and Mrs Pipe. But how, in all good reason, could you justify their decision to give him the first name of Dwaine?
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« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2021, 03:22:51 » |
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Many years ago, I was working in the Safeway (as was) Petrol Station in Taunton. We had a regular customer who had an interesting name. First time I saw his credit card I laughed out loud. Got a verbal warning for that after he complained. I was young and my puerile sense of humour got the better of me. His name? Roger Mycock. Oh, and I've just done an electoral roll search. There's what I presume is a daughter at the same address. Hannah Mycock. Say that quickly...  |
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2021, 00:54:38 » |
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Many years ago, I was working in the Safeway (as was) Petrol Station in Taunton. We had a regular customer who had an interesting name. First time I saw his credit card I laughed out loud. Got a verbal warning for that after he complained. I was young and my puerile sense of humour got the better of me. His name? Roger Mycock. Oh, and I've just done an electoral roll search. There's what I presume is a daughter at the same address. Hannah Mycock. Say that quickly... We had moments of childish humour at an old place of work when we received an enquiry from a Pat and Paul Mycock. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2021, 12:30:08 » |
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About 40 years ago, shortly after I started working in the IT (DP as it was then) department of a life assurance company, I was investigating a system fault which occurred during the update of the company's main customer file. Although not the cause of the fault, the name of the customer being processed was a Mr Oswald Alan Kenneth Coffin. (GDPR I hear you shout - this person was 78 years old in 1981!). A very appropriate name for somebody paying £1 a week for funeral expenses, whose entry in the agent's collecting book would have been Mr OAK Coffin!
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« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2021, 15:53:31 » |
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A customer called Lydia Kettle caused a junior bank clerk friend of mine to excuse himself temporarily from the counter. And had a tale of a rather pompous Rosemary Soul who insisted on using her initial instead of first name. Stop tittering at the back!... |
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« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2021, 18:32:29 » |
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Taunton had a dental practice where the partners were, in the 1980's, Gilfillan, Shovelin & Blood.
Their name featured in an episode of 'That's Life!'
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