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[Larry S.]

I know..i was only "pulling your leg"  !
  Funnily enough tho, we were talking only the other day about Latin and Italian, wondering how close they were, and could Italian speakers basically understand Latin conversation, (other than the normal church stuff we've all come across..)
So you see we have very intellectual discussion over a pint, don't cha know..

LOL

We had the same conversation in one of my Latin classes in college.  It continued during an evening of imbibing at a local hangout.  A very drunk friend, who spoke Latin and Italian started bouncing between the two.  In the end he said - I don't think so. 

[w3526602]

"I like being married to Peter Pan".

Hi Correus,

Maybe it's those  "kinky" pantomime tights? 

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[Larry S.]

"I like being married to Peter Pan".

Hi Correus,

Maybe it's those  "kinky" pantomime tights? 

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[w3526602]

Hi Correus,

Or maybe there is another explanation ...... ?

Do our Colonial cousins realise that pantomime heroes are played by girls (in tights)? And pantomine "dames" are played by blokes (in padding)?

Pantomimes can be quite risque (sp?), but hopefully the children will not understand.

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[Porkscratching]

LOL

We had the same conversation in one of my Latin classes in college.  It continued during an evening of imbibing at a local hangout.  A very drunk friend, who spoke Latin and Italian started bouncing between the two.  In the end he said - I don't think so.

I shall report back to my comrades that having consulted one of my expert contacts in the USA the answer is a fairly definitive "No"..!   

[Larry S.]

Hi Correus,

Or maybe there is another explanation ...... ?

Do our Colonial cousins realise that pantomime heroes are played by girls (in tights)? And pantomine "dames" are played by blokes (in padding)?

Pantomimes can be quite risque (sp?), but hopefully the children will not understand.

602

Most probably have no clue.  To my knowledge pantomime was never a popular form of entertainment here in the States.

[Larry S.]

I shall report back to my comrades that having consulted one of my expert contacts in the USA the answer is a fairly definitive "No"..!   

Expert?!?!        

[Porkscratching]

Expert?!?!        

Blimey mate, you've done Latin, that makes you an expert..! 

[w3526602]

Blimey mate, you've done Latin, that makes you an expert..!

Hi,

Us RAF "erks"... all of us ... were fluent in one particular Latin phrase. No doubt the other services were too

"Nil ilegitimo carburundum!"

Roughly translated, it was advice not to let fatherless officers and NCOs grind you down.

So let's see how good the forum censor really is? 

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[Kernowcam]

I wonder how many of the Land Rover owners who deplore jeeps have actually driven one? Jus to asking? Would make a good poll ,not that I know how to do that.

[w3526602]

I wonder how many of the Land Rover owners who deplore jeeps have actually driven one.

Hi Kernowcam,

A true Brit would never mock the afflicted. 

During WW2, many thousands of GIs were invalided out of the US army, suffering from ... wait for it ... No, better still, Google it yourself.

Search for JEEP DRIVER'S BOTTOM Very painfull, but apparently it only affected those with white/pink nether regions.

I've never read of a Land Rover driver suffering from this.

602

PS. OK .... you can stop laughing now ... you shouldn't mock the afflicted.

PPS. Please don't ask why I was Googling stuff to do with Colonial nether regions.

[Porkscratching]

You'd never get away with wangling your way out of WW2 like that in the British Army !

[Fluffle-Valve]

I wonder how many of the Land Rover owners who deplore jeeps have actually driven one? Jus to asking? Would make a good poll ,not that I know how to do that.

I'm going to start a new thread about this.

[GlenAnderson]

Weaver’s/Tailor’s bottom is a real thing. Officially it’s called hip bursitis. It is very uncomfortable; take my word for it. The upright driving position in my Land-Rover is one of the few places I can sit comfortably for prolonged periods.

As for Jeeps, my father told me that when the first couple of Jeeps arrived at his base in North Africa during WW2, his C/O regarded them with barely concealed contempt, and dismissed them as “toys”. He instructed my father and a couple of other REME fitter/drivers to take them out and do their best to break them, so that they would have an excuse to leave them behind... So they spent a happy couple of days thrashing the living daylights out of them around the base and across the roughest terrain they could find. Apparently they started out fairly gingerly, and got steadily more and more reckless as their confidence grew. Dad claimed they were impossible to turn over on a loose surface, no matter how quick you went or how hard you swerved. Apparently one did get flipped over because it clipped a rock, but the driver was thrown clear and the vehicle was still drivable once righted, which two of them managed by hand. He thought they were great, much better than any of the lightweight British stuff like the Austin Tilly. They had to report to the C/O that they were very robust and that they’d not been able to break either of them, and because of that they were grudgingly added to the strength.

[Larry S.]

I wonder how many of the Land Rover owners who deplore jeeps have actually driven one? Jus to asking? Would make a good poll ,not that I know how to do that.

I learned to drive in a late '40s Willys that my older brother bought when he was 16.  When he was 18 he bought a mid '70s j**p; I was always "borrowing" it when he wasn't looking.  Other than my love for the early Series, the other reason I decided against getting a j**p is a no-brainer... just about every around here has one!!!  I like to cut my own paths, and don't like to conform.