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Mike Barnes
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:48 pm
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In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio
Services, a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded
greeting said, "Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate!
Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of
course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry
always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
I'll have to Mull that over.
Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?
Some instances are appalling.
A rum remark.
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Muck (artney), actually. Forgive me if I broke cover unnecessarily, but
sometimes it's hard to tell whether I'm one step ahead or one step
behind.
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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:53 pm
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Frances Kemmish wrote:
| Quote: | R H Draney wrote:
In barely-related news, a cousin of mine passed away last
week...she
was the one who had tried to read to me out of a picture book when
I
was about three years old, and when she got to "C is for Camel"
got
corrected: "no, Alice, that's a dromedary!"...in the intervening
decades, we always sent her anything and everything to do with
camels that happened to turn up, at one time including the video
for
the Disney movie "Hawmps!", a fictionalized account of the
pre-Civil-War US Camel Corps....
More serious works on the subject describe the soldiers involved
in
this odd experiment as "cavalry", but I wonder if this is
misleading...seems to require horses..."gamalry", maybe?...r
Does the Air Cavalry use flying horses?
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You've heard of "air-guitar"? Well, air cavalry follows the same
principle: air-cavalry do air-riding, where, instead of marching,
they gallop along slightly hunched, the way children do when playing
cowboys.
There's a children's playground outside one of my windows; I often
watch for a while, but one day something special was happening. A
little girl was galloping round and round on her air horse, at
intervals jumping over an air hurdle (this _is_ Cheltenham), while
her father lolled happily on a bench smoking a cigarette and intoning
a sort of radio racing commentary to keep her moving. I suppose he
went home quite breathless.
Mike. |
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Frances Kemmish
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:02 pm
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Frances Kemmish wrote:
R H Draney wrote:
In barely-related news, a cousin of mine passed away last
week...she
was the one who had tried to read to me out of a picture book when
I
was about three years old, and when she got to "C is for Camel"
got
corrected: "no, Alice, that's a dromedary!"...in the intervening
decades, we always sent her anything and everything to do with
camels that happened to turn up, at one time including the video
for
the Disney movie "Hawmps!", a fictionalized account of the
pre-Civil-War US Camel Corps....
More serious works on the subject describe the soldiers involved
in
this odd experiment as "cavalry", but I wonder if this is
misleading...seems to require horses..."gamalry", maybe?...r
Does the Air Cavalry use flying horses?
You've heard of "air-guitar"? Well, air cavalry follows the same
principle: air-cavalry do air-riding, where, instead of marching,
they gallop along slightly hunched, the way children do when playing
cowboys.
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I thought that was just bad posture.
| Quote: | There's a children's playground outside one of my windows; I often
watch for a while, but one day something special was happening. A
little girl was galloping round and round on her air horse, at
intervals jumping over an air hurdle (this _is_ Cheltenham), while
her father lolled happily on a bench smoking a cigarette and intoning
a sort of radio racing commentary to keep her moving. I suppose he
went home quite breathless.
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You're in Cheltenham? My in-laws live just outside there in Coberley or
Ullenwood (depending on whether you're from the Post Office or the parish.
Fran |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:27 pm
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Frances Kemmish wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Lyle wrote:
[...]
You've heard of "air-guitar"? Well, air cavalry follows the same
principle: air-cavalry do air-riding, where, instead of marching,
they gallop along slightly hunched, the way children do when
playing
cowboys.
I thought that was just bad posture.
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Back to Victorian _Punch_. Regimental riding-master to young officer:
"If your head was the other way round, you'd have a fine chest, sir!"
| Quote: | [...] (this _is_ Cheltenham), [...]
You're in Cheltenham? My in-laws live just outside there in
Coberley
or Ullenwood (depending on whether you're from the Post Office or
the
parish.
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Very nice, too. We must arrange a Chelt boink next time you visit.
Mike. |
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Andy Dingley
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:36 am
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:46:01 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | OT, a while ago I learnt that one of Imperial Britain's regular
exports was flat-pack churches in corrugated iron.
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I have the catalogue ! Most were actually made in Wales (Swansea)
though, home of the developing rolled and galvanised steel industry.
| Quote: | There's quite a nice simple little example in use,
appropriately, as a joiner's workshop in Faversham, Kent.
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Lots of them still about, often as rural workshops. They were well
enough made to last a very long time. No insulation in the walls
though, so they're hard to convert as houses - hence they survived as
garages or workshops.
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Smert' spamionam |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:49 am
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Andy Dingley wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:46:01 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
OT, a while ago I learnt that one of Imperial Britain's regular
exports was flat-pack churches in corrugated iron.
I have the catalogue ! Most were actually made in Wales (Swansea)
though, home of the developing rolled and galvanised steel
industry.
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Of course! How I could I have forgotten? Sospan fach, the
Kidwelly/Cydweli tinplate works, Merthyr Tydfil when it was reputedly
the biggest city in Europe (so, I suppose, the world), etc. Wales is
an unfailingly astounding little country. You will understand, won't
you, if I burgle your house for that catalogue? (Failing that, I
don't suppose you could scan it on line one of these days, could
you?)
Mike. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:35 am
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Mike Barnes wrote:
| Quote: | In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio
Services, a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded
greeting said, "Calvary Portfolio Services"? How
appropriate!
Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of
course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry
always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're
in
Calgary....r
I'll have to Mull that over.
Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?
Some instances are appalling.
A rum remark.
Muck (artney), actually. Forgive me if I broke cover unnecessarily,
but sometimes it's hard to tell whether I'm one step ahead or one
step
behind.
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A man can get eigg on his face that way. But I can't be the firth to
thay tho.
Mike.
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Andy Dingley
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:35 am
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:49:58 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | You will understand, won't
you, if I burgle your house for that catalogue?
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You're welcome - if you can find it. Anyone who wants to do battle
with The Quaking Bookpiles of my lounge is braver than I am. A quick
headcount recently suggested I'd broken 2K.
| Quote: | (Failing that, I
don't suppose you could scan it on line one of these days, could
you?)
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I'll add it to the (sadly not inconsiderable) pile. Along with the
rather splendid "Ecclesiastical Woodwork" catalogue by Mowbrays of
Oxford (can you say "High Anglocatholic" ?), which has much better
illustrations.
It's not _that_ rare though. I saw one on yAbe a while ago. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:51 am
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Andy Dingley wrote:
[...]> Mowbrays of
| Quote: | Oxford (can you say "High Anglocatholic" ?), [...]
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I don't think you can: any Higher than Anglocatholic would be beyond
the range of our present measuring instruments. Rome has certainly
never ventured to such altitudes.
Mike. |
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:14 am
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Charles Riggs wrote:
| Quote: | Maria Conlon wrote:
R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
Skitt hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,
a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting
intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
...and possibly causing a stampede resulting in much suffering.
and subsequent nappy washing.
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Been there, eh?
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:45 pm
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:31:24 -0500, "Maria Conlon"
<mariaconlon001@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote:
Maria Conlon wrote:
R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
Skitt hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,
a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting
intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
...and possibly causing a stampede resulting in much suffering.
and subsequent nappy washing.
Been there, eh?
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No shit.
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Joe Fineman
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:42 pm
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Frances Kemmish <fkemmish@optonline.net> writes:
| Quote: | Does the Air Cavalry use flying horses?
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And do they look down on the Horse Marines?
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Joe Fineman
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:43 pm
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Charles Riggs <chriggs@comcást.net> writes:
Don't give me that horse maneuver. The age of cavalry is dead.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:00 pm
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| Quote: | Skitt hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,
a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting
intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
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I do hope she didn't say "Calvary Portfolio Services, please hold"....r |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:41 am
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R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio
Services, a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded
greeting said, "Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate!
Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of
course.
I do hope she didn't say "Calvary Portfolio Services, please
hold"....r
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Not right like that, but I did wind up on hold for at least five minutes.
One of those "next available flunky" things.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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