Recent content by Martin_Billings

I've worn specs/contact lenses for years and years. Currently wearing the memory metal specs which I find so practical that I now have a stockpile of unused lenses and solutions at home. Speccies seem to divide into two groups, one of which carries at least one sterile, purpose-designed...

Re: I am very old .....or, to keep up the Dark Side theme, The great GIG in the sky <hr width=100% size=1>

Times today; an article about a chap called Simpson who is currently 3rd in Finn class world champs and who has apparently been second or third best in world in Finns and Lasers for some years but not appeared at Olympics because world #1 has also been British (Iain Percy/Ben Ainslie). Seemed a...

Re: Enlighten me. What\'s an AWB? I had always assumed that the particular resonance of the term AWB or average white boat had a connection with those 70s crooners, the Average White Band. <hr width=100% size=1>

Gives a whole new meaning to the Beatles' "Ticket to Ryde" <hr width=100% size=1>

Mmm...could you sell me 50% of the royalties? <hr width=100% size=1>

Re: Sorry but more \"Raggie\" Knocking Maybe it's a bit like when we were kids my cousin and I were trying to bump start an Austin A30 by towing it round a field with a land rover. I couldn't get it to start driving the A30, so he jumps out of the LR and says, you're not doing it right, you...

Yes wasn't it 20 odd years before that body was found in Coniston. (Not Donald Campbell, the other one) <hr width=100% size=1>

This is probably not very helpful but just this morning I heard a programme on the BBC World Service ("Outlook"?) which had an item about Greek and Turkish Cypriots being able to go back to visit their pre-1974 homes. There's an item about the relaxation of the green line on the bbc world...

Re: the owl & the Pussy On the issue of the visibility of green items, various sorts of scriveners, copyists etc used to work with a green background to relax their eyes from what they were otherwise concentrating on. <hr width=100% size=1>

I generally feel unlucky when I have to clean the green algae off <hr width=100% size=1>

I'd be happy to pay to see you swinging from one mast to another whether or not the halyards were stuck. <hr width=100% size=1>

Find rigger. Open wallet. <hr width=100% size=1>

So for you, at least, it's spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spaaaaaaam, spamitty spam..........sorry, spam's off <hr width=100% size=1>

Might be ok. Might be a nigerian scam variant. What about asking for a bank draft? <hr width=100% size=1>