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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Tue 18-Aug-20 22:29:37

Hello
We wanted to clear a few things up:
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Firecracker123 Sat 22-Aug-20 18:48:47

dash

Wow I did it now how do I type darker words please.

Doodle Sat 22-Aug-20 18:38:53

Well I got my leg over again ?

Doodle Sat 22-Aug-20 18:35:51

I’m sure there are many many more. Well put it this way, you always make me laugh. ?

Doodle Sat 22-Aug-20 18:33:52

What about cursing the gammon?

phoenix Sat 22-Aug-20 16:51:57

Doodle I suspect that is for 2 threads in particular, namely "So I pulled my pants down* and the follow up "It dropped off!*

Can't remember any other thread titles that were humorous.

Some people may have found the content of the "Apart from arnica" thread to be quite amusing, but as I was practically upside down in a wheelie bin I wasn't especially amused. blush

Doodle Sat 22-Aug-20 16:44:43

Not drumming up trade for the Argy with an elderflower presse. I don’t think they’ve even heard of it in the Argy. Poteen is the drink of the day. Puts hairs on your chest (at least I think that’s where mine came from ?)

Anyway, back to ourkid. That’s a very interesting story. It seems our suspicions were right. That Soo is a saucy minx.
urmston you have become an expert (at last ? ?) Well done.
grannywn never give up hope. You never know what will arise and give you the opportunity to erect your stiffgit.

Callistemon Sat 22-Aug-20 16:38:51

I'm going nowhere near the place.
Whenever I venture in they put a mop and bucket in my hands.
?

Chewbacca Sat 22-Aug-20 16:33:48

Are you drumming up business for the Argy Callistemon? Only a certain clientele goes there of which I'm often one blush

Callistemon Sat 22-Aug-20 16:22:08

suspect?

suspect sun is ?

Callistemon Sat 22-Aug-20 16:21:14

If the suspect over the yardarm somewhere in the world then it's ok, apparently, although make mine an elderflower pressé please!

kittylester Sat 22-Aug-20 16:18:27

But, it's Saturday, charley!

Charleygirl5 Sat 22-Aug-20 16:11:08

OurKidl I am aware it is not evident but we do have standards here and it is too early for alcohol. It may well be after 17.00 hours somewhere but not here.

OurKid1 Sat 22-Aug-20 16:06:33

Wow - this was a very long thread. I've never read to the end of such a long thread before, but this one has so many twists and turns that I was hooked lined and sinkered.

To get to the most important bit - I used to know the REAL Sooty's dad. In fact, we lived very near him in Dorset. I've met the real Sooty several times and he had his suspicions about that Scampy too. Soo's nephew? Huh, as if!! If one looks carefully, one can see a definite similar gene pool to those of Sweep and Soo ...
PS Mine is a dubonnet and bitter lemon. Please.

Urmstongran Sat 22-Aug-20 15:56:02

hello I’m still at it in case you were interested
Practising my new skill.
It’s harder than it looks but totally empowering once you’ve cracked the bugger

So the extra dashes go in at 1st & 3rd places on an iPad.
I was doing 1st and 4th.

?

Callistemon Sat 22-Aug-20 15:54:02

Sounds like Morse Code to me

SOS

Urmstongran Sat 22-Aug-20 15:45:22

I’m going to keep at it.
annoying you all

Urmstongran Sat 22-Aug-20 15:41:52

BlueBelle

Um you re obviously not following the pattern ?
1. -first Dash then word (no space)
2 -first- Then go to front of word and do a dash that end (no space)
then right back to the very beginning BEFORE the first dash
3 --first- So far ok?
4 then right to the end for the second dash after
first

So you’ve got four movements before word, after word before dash, after dash ( no spaces)

hope

Thanks Blubelle. Yay! I did it ?????

Grannynannywanny Sat 22-Aug-20 15:36:57

I am Doodle. I rearranged my bedroom during lockdown and made sure I kept a space free for mounting it. But no success yet. I haven’t abandoned hope yet though ?

Doodle Sat 22-Aug-20 14:44:52

grannynw you’re not still waiting for your stiff git are you?
It’s hard to get isn’t it? ?

Award for phoenix let me think ? How about an award for the most humorous thread titles. ??

Chewbacca Sat 22-Aug-20 14:33:09

What do you get if someone is rude to you but you don't report it and then it gets deleted anyway?

That earns you a Stiffgit by Proxy kitty.

Chewbacca Sat 22-Aug-20 14:31:13

Well, to equal Charles's collection, you'll have to work very hard trisher. You have to do nothing whatsoever to have earned your gongs and turn up once in a blue moon to have a ceremonial dinner to commend you on how how hard you worked doing nothing of merit. It's a hard job but someone's got to do it and it may as well as be you.

kittylester Sat 22-Aug-20 14:29:31

What do you get if someone is rude to you but you don't report it and then it gets deleted anyway?

I think that deserves more than a stiffgit (isn't that a husband who can't bend over........or something?)

Callistemon Sat 22-Aug-20 14:29:30

May I mention, regarding Callistemons post of 13.31, that would much prefer not to ever to be judged worthy of a "stiff git"

You don't know what you're missing, phoenix
Magic squares, lollipops, jelly beans and all.

Callistemon Sat 22-Aug-20 14:27:24

phoenix We award you The Order of the Frilly Garter
That is the Royal We by the way ?

Grannynannywanny Sat 22-Aug-20 14:24:54

I’ll have to see what I can do Chewbacca