manna Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 G'Day Folks 5 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 I wonder if it is just a coincidence that this site in the New Forest is just down the road from "the Fighting Cocks" pub 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 6 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: I wonder if it is just a coincidence that this site in the New Forest is just down the road from "the Fighting Cocks" pub Don't know whether it still does, but it used to have a nudist section, two..... Julian PS. Yes I can spell. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 G'day Folks 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2020 On 14/01/2020 at 19:13, manna said: G'Day Folks No, now you would have two dirty glasses! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangoman69 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 5 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two_sugars Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Aren't they n the same building as . . . . HADDAWAY AND SHYTE.? John 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philou Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Referring to the camp site sign above: I was at a party on Wednesday evening and an ex-pat and I got talking (as you do). He told me that one of his old English teachers was called Mr Balls - but his wife was called Ophelia - oh yes, really! Cheers, Philip 1 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 40 minutes ago, Two_sugars said: Aren't they n the same building as . . . . HADDAWAY AND SHYTE.? John The real ones are "Hadaway & Hadaway" in North Shields. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 G'day Folks 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PannierTanker14 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) On 10/01/2020 at 21:31, PhilJ W said: It’s meant to be a smaller version of ‘sheets’ but it’s better like this.(and it’s how I always pronounce it ) whoever made this tag is a legend. Edited January 20, 2020 by PannierTanker14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 On 17/01/2020 at 21:44, Philou said: Referring to the camp site sign above: I was at a party on Wednesday evening and an ex-pat and I got talking (as you do). He told me that one of his old English teachers was called Mr Balls - but his wife was called Ophelia - oh yes, really! Cheers, Philip And I used to work with a woman who really was called Joy Balls... steve 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 1 hour ago, steve1 said: And I used to work with a woman who really was called Joy Balls... steve ...and at the party everyone was feeling gay, so Gay left, at that everyone jumped for Joy, who was less than pleased! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 10 hours ago, PannierTanker14 said: It’s meant to be a smaller version of ‘sheets’ but it’s better like this.(and it’s how I always pronounce it ) whoever made this tag is a legend. A friend of mine from Romania gets ribbed whenever she mentions washing the sheets or asks for a sheet of paper but she also found it extremely funny when her other half wanted a model of a Resita narrow gauge steam loco because the pronunciation is Reshita! Word play works both ways across languages 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 2 hours ago, steve1 said: And I used to work with a woman who really was called Joy Balls... steve I had a customer years ago who's maiden name was 'Cherry Orchard' she said her parents had a sense of humour and she prayed for the day she'd get married. Unfortunately she married 'Richard Stone' 4 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Father had a pair of twin boys in his class, way back. When he came to write up the new register for the class, when he got to them, the first said he was Baron Norman Plum and the second replied that he was Norman Barron Plum. Regards Julian 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2020 I spent most of my working life doing payroll. We had an employee by the name of Richard Head. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprintex Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I've worked with a Wayne Kerr and a Dick Burns over the years My mum beat that by miles when she worked in insurance years ago though, she genuinely had a lovely old lady on the books by the name of Frances Tickler, who preferred the shortened version of her first name - Fanny Paul 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2020 Wayne Kerr is an electrical equipment company. http://www.waynekerrtest.com/ Strangely years ago nobody thought it was a funny name, maybe people these days are more easily amused? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 The Daddy of them all Jim 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2020 I have to sat that I struggled to keep a straight face when introduced to Annie Trembler, at one time Catering Manager for the Birmingham Post Regards Ian 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ian Smeeton said: I have to sat that I struggled to keep a straight face when introduced to Annie Trembler, at one time Catering Manager for the Birmingham Post Regards Ian After she gets married to John Smith: Annie Smith nee Trembler......... Edited January 21, 2020 by melmerby 2 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two_sugars Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I used to know a couple who were called Legg . . . They named their daughter SONJA. John 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2020 4 hours ago, melmerby said: Wayne Kerr is an electrical equipment company. http://www.waynekerrtest.com/ Strangely years ago nobody thought it was a funny name, maybe people these days are more easily amused? I was going to ask what was so funny about that name; but, as you say over there, the penny dropped! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I think I may have mentioned this before, but the 'lad' that worked for me, when I was a mechanic, used to go to school with a girl called Helen, who was the daughter of Mr & Mrs Bach. 6 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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