IT contractory type people

I tried but my eyes misted up and boohoohoo..


I'll have a BA to cheer me up - Marston's Oyster Stout springs to mind.

 

I'm currantly working (inter alia) on a project called MICE[Squeal].
The punes abound[Squeak].

[Squeal] Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment
[Squeak] Such as their class names for exception reporting[mout]
[mout] Can you guess what they are yet?

 

Given that R7 is to be renamed R4X, can't we have a petition to get him
shuffled from R4 to R4X?

 

If you like that, you might like this:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/morrisons-chocolate-and-vanilla-stout-bottl
e/114579/85382/

Especially when they knock it out for 22 bob a bockle. 'Snice, honest.

 

Shuffled off this mortal coil more like. Well, radiophonically, anyway.

 

£1.10, innit?

 

Nah a guinea and two tanners innit.

 

I hope so. If not the dementia's kicking in.

 

Decimalisation pre-dates my birth by quite a few years.

 

Mutter-mumble-youngsters...

On Auntie's talking box yesterday someone informed us that a guinea was
25 shillings...

 

Therefore I am?

 

Decimalisation was started in the reign of Queen Victoria, with the
introduction of the florin.

Two shillings, or ten (new) pence to you youngsters.

Just think, we used to do calculations using (in th same question) base
4, base 12 and base 20 in our heads as younglings.

 

Four crowns and a florin.

 

It was a good system, all those handy factors made it much easier
for division.

I do hope nobody decides to "simplify" the base 60,60,12,2,7
arithmetic we still use.

 

I'm pink, therefore I'm Spam.

 

It is.

I near-terminally confused Dad-In-Law last week, when he asked me how
much he owed me for the milk I'd brought him. After demurring and
giving in, I said "Go on then, thirty bob'll cover it". For the hard
of thinking, it was ~£1.50.

He puzzled about it a bit, then dug into his pocket and handed over
50p. He rang up later to apologise and we had a right old giggle about
it, I can tell you. You have to get your entertainment where you can
find it, these days.

 

Rusty Hinge said:

Nine half crowns, and enough change for chips on the way home.

 

In communiqué <>,

Heh, a 'six' of chips. A half crown kept in the glove box of the Moggie
Minor in case of needing to put half a gallon of juice in on the way
back from a night of passion parked up in the quiet country lane near
the TV transmitter.
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You mean twenty two and six wiv a tanner change.

 

Phew!

When I was an anklebiter the milkman was the farmer, who had a TT herd
of Jersey cows. He came each morning on a (flatbed with a backboard and
canopy) cart, pulled by a substantial horse.

The milk came in several differently-sized bottles: a gill, half pint,
pint and quart. Thse were thick glass with a wide neck, sealed with a
waxed cardboard disc which had an almost punched-out fingerhole in the
middle. (We used to play a game similar to flicking cigarette cards with
those.)

You also had the choice of taking your own jug to the cart ad reeiving a
measured quantity from one of the churns.

The milk hadn't been robbed, pasteurised, homogenised or otherwise
mucked-about, and the cream on top took up about a third of the height
of the bottle - which, allowing for the narrowing at the top, probably
amounted to about a quarter of the volume.

IIRC it was then thruppence a pint, so for 30s you'd have got 120 pints.