From chess set to train set
Posted: Monday, 29 January 2007 |
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Presumably the railway will be electric to use all the spare capacity from the redundant windmills on the Barvas Moor. Will there be a Fat Colltroller?
calumannabel from The Waiting Room South Dell
Won't the singletons want to be on the pull themselves?
train spotter from the sidings
And will Tormod be pulling Chrissie Mary and Calumannabel, his two loyal trucks? I said TRUCKS!
Flying Cat from Catagugachoochoo Express
Tch. Fat controller indeed. Sounds like another government anti-obesity initiative. They'll be banning Paris buns next and creating a Lard Czar if we don't watch out.
Annie B from the usual
'llinking' - is this a Welsh word?
calumannabel from Bayhead Junction
All together now: Love and marriage Love and marriage Go together like a Ness train carriage.
train spotter from the sidings
Sorry about the llinking. I just had a frog in my throat.
Annie B from the usual
I thought we weren't allowed to mention the f word in order not to cause Big Brother type offence to our Continental cheums........
Flying Cat from in a fluff
Why would the word, Fank cause upset to our continental chums?
calumannabel from Ness
I've had some llinctus now so feel much better. Isn't the Clousseau-style pronunciation of 'chums' even more offensive than using the original f word? Call in the equal opperchancities experts!
Annie B from the usual
It all depends on how you use the F word FC, Annie B had a frog in her throat, ( I am assuming here that Annie B is of the female variety, and she never actually had a frog in her throat, I believe it is one of those " sayings" and it is not causing any offence, oh heck I've forgotten to close the brackets, a strange computer I'm on ) therefore it should be permitted, however if you call peoples of France frogs, it may or may not cause offence. I'm not really sure if it does, as Roast-Biff doesn't offend me, or Haggis, or Jock, or any other name that I can't think of just now.
Tws from Mainlanded
Beware strange computers- some of them hard drive on the right!
calumannabel from Hewlett Packed Up House Brue
Whoever called the French frogs? Not me, surely! # As for roast beef, I like mine with kosher pickles, but I would rather have pastrami if the truth be known. # Anyone wanting to call me Jock has better verify that s/he has good life insurance (we'll bypass NHS). And I am not a gringo either, thank you very much.
mjc from NM,USA
As it will presumably be a narrow guage railway will it be a wee free train?
Hyper-Borean from Stromness Central
This train is going nowhere (and peace be with you). Next! What do you have hidden in your apron Calumannabel? Show and tell!!!
mjc from NM,USA
of course I meant to ask Annie B. what was up her sleeve (or was it an apron pocket?), but wrote down C.'s name instead. Even the best of us can make mistakes, eh?!
mjc from NM,USA
mjc, I'm wondering from your comments here and elsewhere are you a: french, b:Quebecois c: Cajun?
mia from purrondering in front of a fire
Dear Mia Is this a phone in competition? If so what is the prize?
calumannabel from A Brue B Dell or C Cross?
There are only so many insults I am willing to take from you, Mia dearieo. Cajun? Quebecois? Good grief!! 'Tis true that my parents moved to Belgium ages ago, and now owe allegiance to King and Country, but I have only passing acquaintance with the place (so, don't you dare suggest I may be a Walloon!!). As for being French: mon Dieu, quelle idee!! There the often complex matter of origins and education lies, in peace.
mjc from NM,USA
see what happens when a cat gets curious! I'll just assume that like me and my staff mjc has a very mixed ancestry!
mia from being hopeful
mixed-up, more like it. But we bear up. As does Tony Blair.
mjc from NM,USA
Mia, it is not fair not to answer a straight question. So, here goes. Re: ancestry. I am ethnic Chinese, born (fourth generation) and raised in Mauritius (hence the French and English) until I was seventeen, worked in England and the continent for a while, went to univ. in Durham, and then on to doctorate etc in the US, where, after many years, I decided to stay and become a citizen. Did some international work. My parents and siblings are in Europe. Thus, in a sense, I was an islander (a tropical one), though I have not been back to Mauritius for a long while, and do not have the slightest desire to return.
mjc from NM,USA
mjc: accadien perhaps?
carol from france
Thursday's the day for The Accadien. And Orkney Today...
Flying Cat from drawers full of newsprint
Carol: I read on another blog that you have five moogies. Are moogies cats? Five? and a hound as well?
mjc from NM,USA
thank you mjc, my curiosity itch has now been scratched! I am British Longhaired with Burmese ancestry, the paws give it away.
mia from on the bookcase
Good grief! We're moggies mjc not moogies. Moogies are the synthesized version. Carol's got teh balance about right....apart from the d.o.g.
Flying Cat from Mogs R Us
Than you, FC, for letting me know that moogies are the synthesized version of moggies (eh?). Thus Mia is a moogie, right? (we'll forget about music synthesizers this way around). It's all a little complicated, but we'll do whatever it takes to keep up with islanders...
mjc from NM,USA
sorry mjc but I'm a moggie, no synthetics in me!
mia from feeling fluffed
There there mia of course there's nothing synthetic about you, you're all she-cat and some. Take no notice. It's just his funny little ways.....
Flying Cat from pouring oil on troubled water
Of course you are a moggie, dear, and certainly not a doggie.
mjc from NM,USA
thank you fc *purr* & thank you mjc for realising I'm an elegant feline, you may have a regal swish from my tail plume.
mia from caterwaul high
mia, please stop...'a regal swish'....oooohhhh.......*SWOOOOON*.......thdunk!
Flying Cat from a delicate shade of pink
mjc i have indeed got FIVE moggies plus a mutt, sadly goldfish all dead -pablo a balck and white living version of garfield (cute but tiring) had them for breakfast
carol.chauveau from in frezing france
FC, I wouldn't get too carried away, she's just as capable of leaving bruises with that tail, but we love her all the same.......
jas from under mia's paw
The best place for a goldfish is inside a cat and for a biped, under a regal feline's paddypaw... That's what I like, a place for everything and everything in its place. All's right with the world.
Flying Cat from Smug corner
That's enough cats' stuff Ed
Mr Macavity from Depravity House Adabrock
What's a talking horse got to do with cats' stuff? And I'll thank you not to go down the taxidermy for cats route......it's bad enough when Tws wants to darn a cat, but stuffing! It's just too much.
Flying Cat from hiding under a woolly jumper
Niseach meanderings. (Niseachs come from Ness - the villages in NW Lewis from South Dell to the Butt.)
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