On 01/01/2022 21:34, Peter wrote:
>> Bring back Muffin the Mule.
>
> Illegal, now. The mules objected.

I would have thought they would quite enjoy it.

Tone

Sam Plusnet said:
>
> Opinion in this house was that singer & musicians should have come to an
> agreement before the prog. Sounded a bit like 'one song to the tune of
> another'.

That could be fun, taken "seriously".

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 09:40:19 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
<briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
> Does seem a bit random.

New Years are a bit random. The one we celebrated a couple of days ago
is only one of several. There'll be an other one along in no time.

Nick

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 11:42:01 +0000
Tone <email@address.com> wrote:

> Naah. That's squirriels. But underground shelters up trees don't really
> jbex.

Use fambly trees, they're downside up.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On 02/01/2022 09:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

> So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
> Does seem a bit random.

Better on the sofa.

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 09:40:19 -0000
"Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?

The lap marker fell out and there was a big argument about where it
should be and the Chinese don't like the compromise and insist on using
their own. It really doesn't help that there's nowhere solid to hammer the
thing into so we have to make do with a virtual one.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:05:20 -0800 (PST)
Don Stockbauer <donstockbauer@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 6:35:25 PM UTC-6, Nick Odell wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:22:34 +0000, "Nicholas D. Richards"
> > <nich...@salmiron.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I am absolutely knackered, so
> > >
> > >Can I wish everyone a Happy New Year early, and then I'm ohttrevat off
> > >to bed.
> > The same to you Mr 0sterc@tcher - and to all and sundry who, from time
> > to time hang their cardies from the nails in this rather lovely little
> > abode.
> >
> >
> > Nick
>
> I hung my Cardi here , then someone stole it : can we mount a posse?

Is this the right place for a rood joak?

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:28:29 +0000
RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

> On 02/01/2022 09:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>
> > So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
> > Does seem a bit random.
>
> Better on the sofa.

I dropped a spare day down the back (nothing much was happening)
that we can pull out in a couple of years to fatten up February.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 12:35:37 +0000
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:05:20 -0800 (PST)
> Don Stockbauer <donstockbauer@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 6:35:25 PM UTC-6, Nick Odell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:22:34 +0000, "Nicholas D. Richards"
> > > <nich...@salmiron.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am absolutely knackered, so
> > > >
> > > >Can I wish everyone a Happy New Year early, and then I'm ohttrevat
> > > >off to bed.
> > > The same to you Mr 0sterc@tcher - and to all and sundry who, from
> > > time to time hang their cardies from the nails in this rather lovely
> > > little abode.
> > >
> > >
> > > Nick
> >
> > I hung my Cardi here , then someone stole it : can we mount a posse?
>
> Is this the right place for a rood joak?

<distant yowl> I think Tom's taking care of it.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:20:03 +0000
Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:28:29 +0000
> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 02/01/2022 09:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> >
> > > So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
> > > Does seem a bit random.
> >
> > Better on the sofa.
>
> I dropped a spare day down the back (nothing much was happening)
> that we can pull out in a couple of years to fatten up February.
>

<gloom> February goes on long enough as it is.

(Insert </gloom> on St David's day)

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

On 02-Jan-22 15:20, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:28:29 +0000
> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 02/01/2022 09:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>
>>> So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
>>> Does seem a bit random.
>>
>> Better on the sofa.
>
> I dropped a spare day down the back (nothing much was happening)
> that we can pull out in a couple of years to fatten up February.
>
Hang on.
Let me find that box of dates, & I'll see what I can do.
Do you want the little plastic twig as well?

--
Sam Plusnet

On 02-Jan-22 11:43, Tone wrote:
> On 01/01/2022 21:34, Peter wrote:
>>> Bring back Muffin the Mule.
>> Illegal, now. The mules objected.
>
> I would have thought they would quite enjoy it.

No worries about pregnancy at least.

--
Sam Plusnet

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 19:02:35 +0000
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> Let me find that box of dates

Ooh now a date, that'd be fun, haven't had one of those in a long
time.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

On 02/01/2022 19:40, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 19:02:35 +0000
> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me find that box of dates
>
> Ooh now a date, that'd be fun, haven't had one of those in a long
> time.

I've got a bag of Saudi dates - shorterer and fatterer than noral
'Oasis' stylee dates. I've even got soe stones sprouting.

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On 02/01/2022 12:54, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 11:42:01 +0000
> Tone <email@address.com> wrote:
>
>> Naah. That's squirriels. But underground shelters up trees don't really
>> jbex.
>
> Use fambly trees, they're downside up.
>

My old man decided to trace his fambly tree, found out he was born out
of wedlock, and gave up looking, much to my great amusement.

He was very annoyed that when I called him an old bastard I was right!

Tone

On 02/01/2022 16:53, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:20:03 +0000
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:28:29 +0000
>> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/01/2022 09:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>>
>>>> So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
>>>> Does seem a bit random.
>>>
>>> Better on the sofa.
>>
>> I dropped a spare day down the back (nothing much was happening)
>> that we can pull out in a couple of years to fatten up February.
>>
>
> <gloom> February goes on long enough as it is.
>
> (Insert </gloom> on St David's day)
>
No, the day after.
Can't give the welshies that sort of satisfaction
HTH, Chris

On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 4:18:42 AM UTC-6, chr...@privacy.net wrote:
> On 02/01/2022 16:53, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:20:03 +0000
> > Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:28:29 +0000
> >> RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 02/01/2022 09:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> So why do we not have the new year on the solstice?
> >>>> Does seem a bit random.
> >>>
> >>> Better on the sofa.
> >>
> >> I dropped a spare day down the back (nothing much was happening)
> >> that we can pull out in a couple of years to fatten up February.
> >>
> >
> > <gloom> February goes on long enough as it is.
> >
> > (Insert </gloom> on St David's day)
> >
> No, the day after.
> Can't give the welshies that sort of satisfaction
> HTH, Chris

I researched my family tree, and I quit when I came up with creatures swinging from the branches of trees.

On 02/01/2022 11:43, Tone wrote:
> On 01/01/2022 21:34, Peter wrote:
>>> Bring back Muffin the Mule.
>> Illegal, now. The mules objected.
>
> I would have thought they would quite enjoy it.

Maybe so, but there's the risk of catching Moby Dick.

On 01/01/2022 22:00, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 01-Jan-22 21:27, Mike Fleming wrote:
>> On 01/01/2022 09:54, Nick Odell wrote:
>>>
>>> Back in the days when I had a telly - more than 20 years ago - it
>>> would have been Jules Holland. I was staggered to see that he's still
>>> doing the same NYE programme and what's more, with much the same
>>> line-up of regulars too.
>>
>> Yola - awful song choice playing Sunshine of your love. I was
>> surprised to hear she's playing Sister Rosetta in a film - it's like
>> Rag and Bone Man playing Freddie Mercury.
>>
>> Rag and Bone Man - quite enjoyed him.
>>
>> Vic Reeves was enjoying himself - the old "enthusiasm more important
>> than ability" came to mind. Not awful on Believer and obviously having
>> fun.
>
> Graduate of the 'Mike Stand Swingers School of Excellence'?
>>
>> Quite enjoyed Ed Sheeran. Sorry.
>>
>> Lulu - great voice still, backing for Shout was woefully lacking in
>> impact.
>
> Wonder how many times she's sung that?
> Did she really need the huge sunglasses?
>>
>> Joy Crookes - like the Keir Starmer of vocalists. Something about her
>> voice was deathly dull and just killed whatever she sang.
>
> Opinion in this house was that singer & musicians should have come to an
> agreement before the prog.  Sounded a bit like 'one song to the tune of
> another'.

That was rather how Yola's version of "Sunshine of your love" came
across, plus the fact that it just doesn't sound right with horn section
and keyboards and so on.

>> Some fairly decent stuff from previous years - Supergrass, Soul II
>> Soul, and Primal Scream.
>
> They could have just done a "best of" compilation and saved a lot of dosh.

That's what they've been doing for the last year so they probably wanted
some "live" music. A bit of research (gwgling "ipswich vs barrow")
showed that it was recorded on 15th December, so later in the year than
it has been previously. Perhaps because, with the advancing age of
guests and performers, it lessens the risk of one falling off the perch
between recording and broadcast.

I thought they'd dug a hole for Dave Swift to stand in but he was just
playing his upright bass sitting down. Have I ever mentioned I've met him?

In article <sqt5a7$hb6$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <email@address.com> on
Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 21:26:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 02/01/2022 12:54, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 11:42:01 +0000
>> Tone <email@address.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Naah. That's squirriels. But underground shelters up trees don't really
>>> jbex.
>>
>> Use fambly trees, they're downside up.
>>
>
>My old man decided to trace his fambly tree, found out he was born out
>of wedlock, and gave up looking, much to my great amusement.
>
>He was very annoyed that when I called him an old bastard I was right!
>
My old man used to claim that an ancestor patented the first beer
engine. We discovered that the so called holder of the patent was, in
fact, a well known bar steward, murderer, philanderer and burglar who
was hung for his murders.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 02/01/2022 08:35, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>
> I suppose we could nail the jackets on the donkey, after all we hang the
> tail on the donkey
>
I oft-times hang many of my clothes on a horse.

--
Nev
It causes me a great deal of regret and remorse
that so many people are unable to understand what I write.

On 2022-01-02, Tone <email@address.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2022 12:54, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 11:42:01 +0000
>> Tone <email@address.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Naah. That's squirriels. But underground shelters up trees don't really
>>> jbex.
>>
>> Use fambly trees, they're downside up.
>>
>
> My old man decided to trace his fambly tree, found out he was born out
> of wedlock, and gave up looking, much to my great amusement.
>
> He was very annoyed that when I called him an old bastard I was right!
>
> Tone

Very common among the Irish in the states, people boasted of fleeing
British opression in Ireland were really fleeing an angry Father with
Slashook!

In article <sr14sb$6kt$1@dont-email.me>, nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@
yahoo.co.uk> on Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 09:43:39 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 02/01/2022 08:35, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>
>> I suppose we could nail the jackets on the donkey, after all we hang the
>> tail on the donkey
>>
>I oft-times hang many of my clothes on a horse.
>
I dry them hanging on the maiden, honest.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"