Trainspotters? Very dull.Red Celt wrote:How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
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Bella? You've exchanged body fluids with this man?Thinking Aloud wrote:Trainspotters? Very dull.Red Celt wrote:How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
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Seems we have some very bitter wannabe cricketers on this forum...
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Meh. I stopped writing the numbers down years ago. Then started running them instead.
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Red Celt wrote:Bella? You've exchanged body fluids with this man?Thinking Aloud wrote:Trainspotters? Very dull.Red Celt wrote:How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
Every chance I get.I'd do him in a train, if I could.
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TA... the trainspotter's messiah. This, too, could be you, my anorak-wearing, notebook-carrying brethren... a (non-inflatable) hot blonde might actually want to have sex with you.Bella Fortuna wrote:Red Celt wrote:Bella? You've exchanged body fluids with this man?Thinking Aloud wrote:Trainspotters? Very dull.Red Celt wrote:How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
I'd do him in a train, if I could.
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I thought Bella might enjoy some Boxcar Willie....
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Someone on Radio 4 just described following cricket on Ceefax as the next best entertainment to watching paint dry.Clinton Huxley wrote:A comment on the BBC new website....
Ceefax is what the internet could be.
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Well said, Ernest!
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Here it is on Ceefax.Clinton Huxley wrote:I thought Bella might enjoy some Boxcar Willie....
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Reminds me, I need to check the primer on my radiators....woohoo!Rum wrote:Someone on Radio 4 just described following cricket on Ceefax as the next best entertainment to watching paint dry.Clinton Huxley wrote:A comment on the BBC new website....
Ceefax is what the internet could be.
Ernest Hope Stephenson, UK
Well said, Ernest!
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The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
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And the engine in that picture, if I'm not mistaken, is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". Which sadly I'm not.Bella Fortuna wrote:The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
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There's a modern art exhibition in there somewhere. Just think of the financial possibilities ...Thinking Aloud wrote:Here it is on Ceefax.Clinton Huxley wrote:I thought Bella might enjoy some Boxcar Willie....
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On the good side, you use significantly less coal.Thinking Aloud wrote:And the engine in that picture, if I'm not mistaken, is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". Which sadly I'm not.Bella Fortuna wrote:The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
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It's not the locomotive, it's the style with which you manoeuvre it into the sidings. Or something.Bella Fortuna wrote:On the good side, you use significantly less coal.Thinking Aloud wrote:And the engine in that picture, if I'm not mistaken, is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". Which sadly I'm not.Bella Fortuna wrote:The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
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