:D For those folk who enjoy the 'sauce' from time to time there is an infallible test as to whether you
should leave the car and hand over the keys.

It is a free test as to your inebriation and is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language:-

''The sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick.''

So if you start seeing purple 'Lennies"- give it a roll. :lol: ;)

:D Heres a 'Hot' shot (?) headline ...........................................in 02.

''Dung power station fires up''

Well I've heard about going 'Green' but heck..............' Brown' ? :lol:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2135431.stm

Slip of the Fat Finger. The Times. 9/12.

'Feel fraternal sympathy with all who have ever suffered a senior moment of scrambled memory: namely
most of the poor, fuddled human race.

A trader on the Tokyo stock exchange was told to sell a single share in a company flotation for 600.000 yen
(about 3000 pounds.) Wires in the trader's head crossed, and he put through an order to sell 600,000 shares
at a yen each. It is the sort of slip that most of us cam make at algebra or Su Doka. Market dealers are
supposed to be better at sums than the rest of us. But they no longer shout face to face in a finger-waving,
self-correcting hubub. They sit tapping keyboards - and all who tap keyboards know that error is not only possible,
but inevitable. Fool-proof computer systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

As the insane bid flashed up on other screens it created shockwaves on the Tokyo exchange.
There was a deer-in-the-headlights effect, a carnage of stockselling. Until the culprit firm was named,
investors dumped shares of every brokerage firm, in case it had been responsible. Nearly 2% was lopped
from the value of the Nikkei 225 Index. The error cost an estimated 1.6 billion pounds.

To err is human. A Swiss banker leant on his keyboard while attempting the crossword, and bought
an oil company. It cost his bank 60,000 ponds

Such cock-ups are called 'fat fingers' in the trade.' :lol:

i know the fat finger syndrome all to well :oops:

Except airliners don't do that. For obvious reasons, they have sceptic tanks.

MARPOL does allow for the rejection of waste. I'm not a E/R guy so I don't know the specifics, but I know ocean going ships don't wait to pump out ashore. In the Lakes and in some special areas, of course, waste is retained onboard.

Heck, we can throw food overboard 3 miles offshore. I don't see why we would be able to throw s... overboard as well.

:lol: Etienne - I think perhaps its just an overfow problem ?

Not suggesting crop spraying ;)

Shock, Horror BBC headlines with some appoligise to bird lovers.
' Twitchers watch robin served rare.'

'Birdwatchers from all over Britain who gathered in Grimsby to catch sight of a rare American robin were
horrified to see it eaten by a passing sparrowhawk.

They were still setting up their cameras when the predator swooped down from a row of drab factories and
warehouses on an industrial estate.

The young bird, from the southern US, "didn't really live to enjoy her moment of fame," a twitcher told the Guardian.
The robin's vivid red breast made it an obvious candidate for a lunch date.

"It was a terrible moment," Graham Appleton, of the British Trust for Ornithology, which had spread news
of the bird's arrival, told the newspaper. '

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I can laugh because I don't think they are particularly rare in America... at least not where I live...

BTW,

Kudos to Bellman for turning the "Bilge" thread into the "Crap" thread. :up:

:lol:

:lol: Yep the connection came to me in a moment of sheer inspiration.

Another thing I've been thinking deeply about is that 'ole saying that there are only two certainties
in this life namely - Death and Taxes.

Well I had an 'apple' moment, a eureka, a vision of transcendentant perspicacity when it came to me that
we can add Weather.... Yep, I know quite staggering isnt it.

But take a deep breath and hold on to your bowels because I am pushing the boundaries even further
with the revelation of a further 'essential' truth that our core list of certainties can be extended to CRAP. ;)

I do prefer the Old English meaning of this term - "dregs of beer or ale"as it conjurs up more acceptable pictures
than the American interpretation.

However thats progress for you ? :-j

BBC headlines the headless ?
 

''Brothel madam caught by PC boast
Julie Hyett and her husband John Thomas (sic)

A woman's secret life as a brothel-keeper was exposed when her policeman partner told tales of her lavish
lifestyle to work colleagues.

In her loan application, Hyett claimed to earn £45,000 a year working for a company called Swansea Buy and Sell, (sic)
but her money came from the massage parlours in Haverfordwest and Swansea Marina. ''

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4528402.stm

'Nippelspanner' has just reappeared ........................ :rotfl:

Sorry but that name breaks me up .....................funnier than the penguin 'Slapper', Lennie the purple sheep
or the 'Killer Cat.'

:( Very worried about the decline in creativity with signatures.:yep:

Can noone beat the that 'Machine Gun Mog' - you know the 'Killer Cat' - the maniac puss ? :hmm:

Pigfish had a splendid missile launcher but that disappeared with Kaps Lennie and Lotte the purple sheep.

Still the superb MSGallilleo penguin slapper takes my award for originality. But noone challenges these folk
they strut there stuff - the style setters.

Can anybody top them ? :lol:

Reading ? Some interesting UUV stuff.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/...e_26/index.htm

The mind boggles and the imagination overheats at future potential UUV applications. :|\

PS. 17/12 The link has died ? My appologise if I should not have been there - it was a link from Harpoon.
( :lol: I wasnt figuring on ''flying'' anywhere ) :roll: :dead:

This thread is turning into a bit of a soliloquy - Hamlet - madness ? Perish the thought.:lol:
But I crave the Mods continued indulgence because all of life can be reduced to an essence. The cooking process
reduces and reveals the essentials, the distillation of life to its core spirits. Before they too evaporate.

As a kid in the country I was fascinated by owl pellets. Those dessicated regurgitated devourings.
Each one carefully picked apart revealed the owls victims, its menu and activities - a potted history.

http://www.owlpages.com/articles.php...itle=Digestion

Similarly with human detritus, the archeologists intellectual seed corn.

So I wish to claim some reverence and respect for 'Bilge' - for what we are is what we become and much of what
will persist is bilge. And who knows those who brave the stream and pan vigorously may find the occasional nugget.

Of course another interpretation of the term 'bilge' is nonsense or rot - well heck we need some light relief.
Technicaly the bilges prevent rolling and provide 'stability.'

So the claim for viability of this thread rests on two legs - Firstly an examination of what is beeing thrown-away
for what it might reveal. Secondly nonsense and rot providing 'stability' :-j

Matt cartoon.

CIA spook, with shades, fingers Santa Claus's collar -


''We heard that you fly secretly around the world.''

:yep: ;)

Thanks to Makeshift52 RTW TW Forum SPQR:-

"She's so stupid she returns bowling balls because they've got holes in them" - Joan Rivers on Bo Derek
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full" - Henry Kissinger
"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious" - Alan Minter
"When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." - Sacha Guitry.
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth." - Patrick Murray.
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early." - Charles Lamb.
"If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?" - Steven Wright.

:-j

Do I smell beer... :doh:

:P Nup - note the times :o

''Small beer'' ? :lol:

A wee story. (Scotitish ?) The Times 16/12.

'The long-suffering press people at the UK Department of Trade and Industry are having more fun than their employers
with the directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Yesterdays press release offered 18 increasingley
hilarious (?) instances of the new unfortunate acronym.

WEEE, our favourite, is a ''priority waste stream for the EU because of its growing volume in the municipal waste stream
and its potential hazardousness following disposal.'' ' :-j