From: Pd on
Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote:

> Pd wrote
> > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >>> And obviously impeccable manners. I was so proud of myself that when I
> >>> first met you I didn't blurt out "Christ! That's a conk and a half!"
> >>
> >> But it's a geat conk.
> >
> > Ah, yes. That's what I meant to say.
>
> Well, provided the word was indeed 'conk' then I suppose that's fine.

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Pd
From: Basil Jet on
On 06/06/2010 19:44, Peter Ceresole wrote:
> Somebody delivered a box to our house, addressed to the house opposite.
> Nobody came for it, so I walked across and rang the bell. An African
> lady came down, and said 'Oh, it's my new shoes!' And I said, meaning
> it, 'You'll look great...'
>
> She peered at me closely and said 'You have lovely eyes.' What more is
> there to say?

She probably thought you said "You look great".

> Clearly the Africans of Peckham are a people of taste and judgement.

I dunno though.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.483361,-0.055661&spn=0,0.01929&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.483495,-0.055651&panoid=RzNbDg1pHc1CLqhavYIuAw&cbp=12,269.12,,2,-5.7
From: Chris Ridd on
On 2010-06-07 03:46:22 +0100, Basil Jet said:

> On 06/06/2010 19:44, Peter Ceresole wrote:
>> Somebody delivered a box to our house, addressed to the house opposite.
>> Nobody came for it, so I walked across and rang the bell. An African
>> lady came down, and said 'Oh, it's my new shoes!' And I said, meaning
>> it, 'You'll look great...'
>>
>> She peered at me closely and said 'You have lovely eyes.' What more is
>> there to say?
>
> She probably thought you said "You look great".
>
>> Clearly the Africans of Peckham are a people of taste and judgement.
>
> I dunno though.
> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.483361,-0.055661&spn=0,0.01929&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.483495,-0.055651&panoid=RzNbDg1pHc1CLqhavYIuAw&cbp=12,269.12,,2,-5.7

They
>
seem to have issues with quotation marks.
--
Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on
Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote:

> > Clearly the Africans of Peckham are a people of taste and judgement.
>
> I dunno though.

Oh, that's Peckham all right. An iternational place.
--
Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on
Rowland McDrivel <Rowland_liar(a)physics.invalid> wrote:

> So, did you compare conks to see whose was longer?

His was peewee by comparison. But then he was designed to wear oxygwn
masks.
--
Peter