Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:23 am
Was that the trees a rustling? Or the hinges of the gate? Or Ernies ghostly goldtops a rattling in their crate? 
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Questions that need to be answered
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Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:44 am
Dunno, have a look in settings for your chosen ring tone.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:38 pm
Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost over night?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:46 am
Why did Bristol get the honour of becoming rhyming slang for thruppenies? Why not Manchester or Leicester or Swansea or Cardiff or... (I've run out of City football teams 
)?
"Look at the magnificent Manchesters on that bird!"
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Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:50 am
What was clockwise and anti clockwise called before clocks were invented?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:24 am
Right hand down a bit and left hand down a bit.Yambo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:50 am What was clockwise and anti clockwise called before clocks were invented?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:27 am
Or were clocks named after the clockwise way they turned…?Yambo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:50 am What was clockwise and anti clockwise called before clocks were invented?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:33 am
Big Bristols!Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:46 am Why did Bristol get the honour of becoming rhyming slang for thruppenies? Why not Manchester or Leicester or Swansea or Cardiff or... (I've run out of City football teams
"Look at the magnificent Manchesters on that bird!"
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:35 am
Widdershins is anti-clockwise. I don't know if it predates clocks but it does have an old fashioned ring to it.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:44 am
Right Hand threads tighten when you turn them clockwise, but they're not called clockwise threads. Somehow it seems correct that they're turning 'right', but they're not - they're going in a circleYambo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:50 am What was clockwise and anti clockwise called before clocks were invented?
The top of the circle you're looking at moves to the right maybe?Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:49 am
Widdershins and....?Yambo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:50 am What was clockwise and anti clockwise called before clocks were invented?
Spin and anti spin?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:56 am
Tis a good question. More amusing is kids and adults calling each other berks in the 70s, even on TV, when its actually rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt = C**t!Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:46 am Why did Bristol get the honour of becoming rhyming slang for thruppenies? Why not Manchester or Leicester or Swansea or Cardiff or... (I've run out of City football teams
"Look at the magnificent Manchesters on that bird!"
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:31 pm
When will people designing car parks realise that cars are no longer the same width they were in the 60's ??
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:02 pm
Cockney rhyming slang innit.... Bristol Cities.....!Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:56 amTis a good question. More amusing is kids and adults calling each other berks in the 70s, even on TV, when its actually rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt = C**t!Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:46 am Why did Bristol get the honour of becoming rhyming slang for thruppenies? Why not Manchester or Leicester or Swansea or Cardiff or... (I've run out of City football teams
"Look at the magnificent Manchesters on that bird!"
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:07 pm
In following up the 'Why Bristols?' I found 'Bristol-milk' but it's not to do with Bristols. It was sherry (17th century), I suppose 'cos a lot of it landed there.
'Bristol fashion' obvs just means 'in good order' and not frilly bras. Maybe they had time to furl all the sails neatly and do a bit of deck swabbin' etc in the long voyage in from the coast.
It was sherry (17th century), I suppose 'cos a lot of it landed there.'Bristol fashion' obvs just means 'in good order' and not frilly bras. Maybe they had time to furl all the sails neatly and do a bit of deck swabbin' etc in the long voyage in from the coast.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:15 pm
Bristol City - TittyCount Steer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:07 pm In following up the 'Why Bristols?' I found 'Bristol-milk' but it's not to do with Bristols.
'Bristol fashion' obvs just means 'in good order' and not frilly bras. Maybe they had time to furl all the sails neatly and do a bit of deck swabbin' etc in the long voyage in from the coast.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:46 pm
Guessing you all missed Sagas reference to other FCs that end in "city".
I also guess "Bristol Cities" rolls off the tongue easier.
I also guess "Bristol Cities" rolls off the tongue easier.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:55 pm
Yes....but the original question was why Bristol and not, say, Manchester, Swansea or Norwich etc? It could have been any city. I suppose a 'berk' type word could have been conjured up from any famous hunt too. I guess some thing are what they are because that's just what are.Mr Moofo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:15 pmBristol City - TittyCount Steer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:07 pm In following up the 'Why Bristols?' I found 'Bristol-milk' but it's not to do with Bristols.
'Bristol fashion' obvs just means 'in good order' and not frilly bras. Maybe they had time to furl all the sails neatly and do a bit of deck swabbin' etc in the long voyage in from the coast.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:58 pm
Fnarr
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:13 pm
Swansea only became a city in 1969 . Bristols were bristols long before that !Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:46 pm Guessing you all missed Sagas reference to other FCs that end in "city".
I also guess "Bristol Cities" rolls off the tongue easier.