eBay meets The Goons

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Spongs-Mincer-/110652004424

Yes, I know it should be Spon, Ivan - but near enough is good enough on
a wet Saturday afternoon. The thought of minced Spong for dinner made
me wince.

 

It'd be even more apt if the seller were in Bushey rather than Brighton.

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Heh. I've got one of those in garage.

 

I remember using one - under close supervision by the old dear,
obviously. It always seemed to be my turn to clean it, though.

 

You can't have everything, all at once. I'll put Spong in my regular
searches and see if one in Bushey comes up, shall I?

Ooh!

http://www.freeotrshows.com/otr2/1958-03-03_0023_-_Goon_Show_the_-_Spon_
Plague_the.mp3

 

I was thinking more of

or
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/ajwills/raw/series08/s08e25.html

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

<claim to fame>
My folks used to run an upholstery business and did a lot of work for Mr
and Mrs Spong, who were absolutely loaded and had a rotating
conservatory attached to their mansion. One memorable piece was a
Chesterfield sofa in grey leather that included 500 deep-set buttons
that I helped to make.
</ctf>

 

<jaw drops>

Eeeh, you never know who you know, do you?

PS. A /rotating/ conservatory? Next on the list for Krusty, I'd think
- he'll knock one up over a couple of weekends ... then find the house
rotates around it.

 

See you think you're joking there, but you have no idea how close you
are. Not a conservatory, but a garden office with three solid walls &
one glass, that I can rotate according to the weather.

It's also going to have a moat for the fish, so I can watch them
swimming past the windows.

 

George Bernard Shaw had a shed that he wrote in which was like that,
apparently.

 

He did.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-
shawscorner/w-shawscorner-garden/w-shawscorner-garden-hut.htm

 

No, you think I'm only joking. I know better, as I have just
demonstrated. I obviously know a lot more about you than you think I
do, you see.

Three solid walls and a glass wall - is that for solar gain, so it
won't need heating? I can see that, with a well-insulated roof and
walls, the glass one being double-thermal-glazed: you'll be working
nekkid, ladling water onto the coals beside your desk, which will both
float your boat and boil your kettle at the same time.

Excellent. If you float it in the maot it will rotate even more
easily. Or why not have a raised moat made of glass - that'll save all
that tiresome digging. Unless you're intending to engage that well
known groundworks contractor, Two-Stroke Wilson and his amazing
collection of antique machinery, of course. He'll have you excavated
in next to no time.

 

Scared now.

Both gain & un-gain.

I think that's going a little too far.

That would be pretty cool but a tad spendy methinks.

And take away the fun I'll have with a mini-digger? I think not.

 

Of course - hadn't considered that!

 

Why did Tony Robinson pop into my head with that last sentence ?

And here we have the fossilised remains of Swindon-man ....

Paul.

 

You're welcome to him. How did he taste?

Living fossils. This place is full of them.