To work by bike, back home by taxi

Previously on usenet, Pip said...

You *had* one. It's currently sitting in my tool chest and I still have
185 quid

 

Previously on usenet, ogden said...

George White's, and they have a horny female technician there too. Give
her one from me will you.

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

"Hello, is this Carole Nash Breakdown Recovery?"

 

Champ was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Yep, the Northern part that gets the secondhand English weather.

I has been mentioned before.

Strangely enough it doesn't. I need to give it a good clean now but
the Bimota parts don't seem to be too affected by the getting wet. The
Yamaha parts, now *that* is an entirely different story.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Timo Geusch

<Hand over phone>

"It's him! I've got him *again*!"

<removes hand, adopts dodgy Indian accent>

"No sah, this is the Raj Tandoori, are you wanting some take-away?"

 

Are ...

... You ...

... Sure ... ?

 

Previously on usenet, Pip said...

OK, you got me. I don't have 185 quid.

 

Went on a narrow boat holiday with some piss artists/friends and the
boat broke down six times marooning us. On each occasion the hire
company sent a man out and after the third breakdown they were paying
for decent evening meals at local hostelries because although we were
insistent thing were done and done *NOW* we didn't rant and rave. The
nice bit was there always was an absolutely superb place to eat each
time.

At the end of the holiday they gave us most of our money back.

They did try this once for a laugh.


If you haven't tried it a narrow boat holiday is an incredible amount of
fun.

 

It's something I'd like to do, for sure.

 

I have access to a 10 berth "fucking-how-long" narrow boat with a coal
fire. It's on the Kennet and Avon ATM.

 

I can a see a "Ukrm does Captain Pugwash" trip coming on.

Just don't let Timo anywhere near it.

 

Exactly. My next-door neighbour goes "fishing" with the boys on the
broads every spring. In ten years, he's never seen a fish that wasn't
served with chips.

 

If you've just volunteered I'm up for it.

Long weekend piss up anyone?

 

I did a stag weekend a few years back - 2 boats, 22 blokes, god
knows how many pubs[1]...

I'd do it again )

[1] The put we went to on the Friday night, not only gave us our
own personal lock in but offered to do breakfast the following
morning. Breakfast consisted of half a dozen pints of Guinness
and a couple of bloody marys each and a fry up.

 

It's on my list of things to do.

 

I`m game for it!

When I lived in Norfolk we used to do it all the time - it was cheap
as anything doing it at weekends off season at last minute prices.
I`ve taken my family on the broads for a week for the past 3 years -
we`re going again this year.

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

"We've got 18 inches' worth of armour, triple bottomed hull, two
redundant boiler rooms, I reckon we're OK"

A couple of hours later, in a rowing boat...

"Bugger, we didn't even make it out of the harbour..."