The Boeing has gone over[1]

Seeing that I live directly under the flight path for the Heathrow northern
runway it bloody well should have done by now... and I've been very well
behaved[3], having had only the one beer since last Wednesday, so bugger it,
I'm cracking open a tinny... anyone care to virtually join me in a can or
two of Old Speckled Hen?

Slurp slurp

[1] A daft euphamism that I learned in South Africa, it means "we can have
first beers of the day now"[2]
[2] But it's rather apt given where I live.
[3] For given values of behaved.

 

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:54:42 -0000, "Zobo Kolonie"

Ah, those were the good old days. When the excuses ranged from 'I'm
awake, and there's beer left in that can' to 'it's 11, the pubs are
open already' to 'hey! it's not eleven yet, but we're in an airport,
it'd be rude not to'!

Instead of 'well, I had quite a large glass of wine on Sunday, and
there's a party on Friday night, so I'd better not have a drink until
then...'

Enjoy.

 

well, if you can wait until about 3pm, I'll join you in a couple of
glasses of Champagne[1]

[1] or whatever Champagne-analogue they actually serve in Business
Club Class on the Eurostar...

 

Which reminds me, I must re-schedule my flights to Bangalore..

Thanks.

 

setting up a call-centre?

 

Heh, that's the one! Definitely rude not to

Shame :-/

Oh I am... Old Speccy, slurpity slurp slurp
Thank you.

 

Well, can we just say that I started without you? Ta

You mean that them Frenchies don't serve proper champers aboard the
Eurostar? Shame on 'em! Best things to come out of France are good champagne
and cognac.

Mind you, the worst airline wine I ever tried was on Air France, which was a
bit of a shocker I can tell you!
(They made up for it with the little bottles of drinkable cognac and the
smokers corner though <g>)

 

nah, they do. It's just on their website they refer to it as
"Champagne*" with no reference to what the asterisk is for.

 

Wot's "Cardinal's finest"?

By 'eck lad!
70p?
£1.40 per litre?
It's chuffing well £2.46 per litre from Sainsbury's here, and that's when
you buy a 24 can case.
(Oddly it's £2.27 per litre if you buy it in four packs, somebody wasn't
thinking straight!).
Switzerland cheaper than Blighty, what is the world coming to <fx: drip and
moan about the way things used to be ad nausem>
Not just cheaper, but *lots* cheaper. Quite a shocker that - or did you nip
over the border to France for your supplies?

Oh come now sir, we're all friends here (erm...), I'm sure the skipper won't
object to just the one under the yardarm

 

I don't give a stuff about that, as my employers are paying...

 

I'm guessing it means "wildly overpriced and in very small bottles"

 

You have to pay for bevvy in club aboard the Eurostar? Sod that.

 

"*Not covered by expense claims" then

 

"sort of"

 

How about
"*Paris/London only. London/Paris, Asti"?

 

you misunderstand. The champagne and 3-course meal is included in the
price of the (already paid for) ticket.

 

I don't believe you do - Gorman's just showing his ignorance...

 

My parents always used that one - if they wanted to start drinking
earlier, it was "the thingy must be over the whatsit by now, surely!"

or there's always the "well, it's evening in (Australia/Singapore/etc
etc) " excuse too ;o)

 

And there's other problems
http://www.thisismoney.com/20040209/nm74070.html

 

.... or whilst skiing. ...

Q. "What time is it?"
A. "Beer O'clock"