They take it back to the car retailer?
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The anticipation is killing me.
I don't think they have cars they ride a rat or two wheel bike
Iechyd da! (good health)Just having one myself.
Cheers!!!
Na Zdorovie!
Up until quite recently (in answer to Lyn's response, oh so long ago), it was thought that barnacles, particularly the goose barnacle
were the embryos of the Barnacle Goose.
Hmmmm.
They breed in the Arctic, so no one had ever seen them mate or lay eggs, so when they arrived in the summer, at the same time as the old driftwood coming in off the sea,covered in barnacles, people made this strange assumption.
Barnacles growing on ships reduces the ship's efficiency by a huge amount.
Scientists are looking at the glue that binds barnacles to rocks as a kind of dental cement.
were the embryos of the Barnacle Goose.
Hmmmm.
They breed in the Arctic, so no one had ever seen them mate or lay eggs, so when they arrived in the summer, at the same time as the old driftwood coming in off the sea,covered in barnacles, people made this strange assumption.
Barnacles growing on ships reduces the ship's efficiency by a huge amount.
Scientists are looking at the glue that binds barnacles to rocks as a kind of dental cement.
Or instead of going to the expense of false teeth and needing strong glue to keep them in placeUp until quite recently (in answer to Lyn's response, oh so long ago), it was thought that barnacles, particularly the goose barnacle
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were the embryos of the Barnacle Goose.
Hmmmm.
They breed in the Arctic, so no one had ever seen them mate or lay eggs, so when they arrived in the summer, at the same time as the old driftwood coming in off the sea,covered in barnacles, people made this strange assumption.
Barnacles growing on ships reduces the ship's efficiency by a huge amount.
Scientists are looking at the glue that binds barnacles to rocks as a kind of dental cement.
- just stick a couple of barnacles on your gums.
What a lovely smile you would have!
When W.H.Auden got old, he had a very craggy, deeply lined face.
One of David Hockney's first commissions was to do a series of drawings of him.
Auden said, "Blimey, if that's his face what can his scrotum look like?".
One of David Hockney's first commissions was to do a series of drawings of him.
Auden said, "Blimey, if that's his face what can his scrotum look like?".
It might catch on.
Fashion is a mysterious beast, quite beyond me.
How did Nelson keep his men's spirits up after he died?
I read this recently - wasn't he preserved in a barrel of brandy or whisky after he died but the crew drank it?
Don't know if that is fact or fiction though!
Sorry to nit pick (or nut pick) but
did Auden or Hockney say that?
Points.
It is partly true.
Most sailors, when they died, were buried at sea, but Nelson asked not to be buried at sea, so he had to be taken back from Trafalgar, off the Spanish coast, to Britain.
They preserved him by pickling him in a barrel of brandy.
The sailors (and this bit is not confirmed) used tubes of macaroni to suck up the brandy.
By the time they got to Portsmouth, the brandy was all gone.
The naval expression, "tapping the Admiral" comes from this, meaning having a surreptitious slug of booze.
Yep, sorry, my mistake, it was, of course, Hockney who said this about Auden.
Silly me.
( probably the wine to blame).
Why are male anglers so pathetic ?
.........and hence the term marineated - when you soak meat in stuff before cooking!
Nelson wasn't cremated - he was flambéed!
There are so many reasons!!
Are we talking abut the fish or fishermen who stand in rivers dangling their flies in cold water for hours?
Yep, we're talking the rather lovely fish, here, not the people.
