Stop it!!!

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Christofire amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

How did you work 3.5 out?

I've got a pair of Gericke boots. What score does that give me?

 

Mains. And I've got a little wooden box with bits. It's cut wood,
stone and metal. It's next outing will be a bit of polishing and I've
plans.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lady Nina

Can it grind away feral apostrophes?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

Murdering bastard. What is wrong with domesticating them?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

Becau'se every time you think you've got the little ****'s trained, they
go and crap on the grammatical carpet.

Grinding's too good for them.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

A Dremel is hardly grinding though is it? More like foreplay really.

 

I score 0 - I don't even use an angle grinder (too clumsy and imprecise).

However, I do have an Outfit, Para boots, open face lid, Mk 8 goggles,
Belstaff, diesel 'under' gloves, a canvass satchel and a workshop.

 

I score 5 on the sweller scale - unless para boots don't count if
they've been converted to roller skates by bolting castors on the
bottom.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

Well, undoubtedly. But they're only small.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

OH FFS. They're out in force (or should that be farce) tonight.

 

They escape and wreck havoc.

I've got access to an angle grinder.

 

It may be a cordless one with a rechargeable battery bit. I get mixed
up with which of the power tools is cordless (which reminds me must
have another look at that makita and see if it is the charger or the
power pack that's dead) and which are the ones where I have to
remember not to get the cable in the way. (which reminds me I need to
get my strimmer back)

There's this leaflet in the box about how you can cut pretty faces in
flowerpots. And you could probably sew with it if you had a suitable
attachment.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lady Nina

"wreak".

I don't know, young lady. I thought I'd brought you up better than this.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

"wreak"

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

<hi-fives Platy>

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Lady Nina wrote

"The", "my," you have no idea what misreading one as the other does for
mental images.

 

One instinctively knows when something is wrong...

 

I looked at it, thought it's pronounced wreak, typed wreak, it looked
wrong, typed wreck back in, told myself, ah well must be one of those
funny homi wotsits, when I knew it was wrong, went to swap it back
again and then I got distracted by trying to remember if it was a
homny wotsit or a symony wotsit I meant, then I got distracted again
because I was trying to work out which one was which by going back to
the Latin root, then I remembered someone had used sanguine and wasn't
that a lovely word and after that it all goes a bit blurry.

 

See explanation and have pity on me. It's not fair you two sit up
getting pissed and come out with utter beauties and I'm just a bit
tired and I can't remember which way the words go anymore. Right, time
for bed.