Here is a new one Brolly

[Dave5Cs]

Clifford Trust me on this, Guinness in the Day!.....
Ó Éireannach riamh, rinne an Engish flippin beoir maith ina saol. lol

Dave

[Jeremy]

..he threw another curve at me when he ask where to buy autogas for the furnace then he showed me the propane tanks..

It'd be interesting to know what car he had because only a relatively tiny percentage (less than 1%) of cars here run on Autogas and it's not necessarily a term that many people would even be familiar with. It's 40% butane incidentally, rather than straight propane.

About accents etc - last week a friend of mine who's doing a TV & film production course at college let me watch one of her assignments, which was a 2-minute long action scene from a Batman movie where she'd had to replace the entire soundtrack (music, sound effects, dialogue) with one she'd created herself. And she'd done a bloody good job of it, except that she'd only had British actors (ie, her fellow students) available to re-voice the speaking parts - and it was deeply strange watching NYPD officers eating doughnuts and driving black-and-whites, but talking with very British accents. Or to be more accurate for Iceni John - West Midland accents from around Coventry - slightly South of being classic Black Country accents I guess...

Jeremy

PS - To say 'Brolly' is strange because 'awning' is in widespread use here, especially relating to motorhome and caravan awnings etc. But at least he didn't say 'parasol'. My Mother probably would have....

[gumpy]

Umbrella sounded good to me Dave lol I didn't look it up but it made sense a 12x8 umbrella this guy was funny I liked him alot he threw another curve at me when he ask where to buy autogas for the furnace then he showed me the propane tanks  , but the English beer he gave me sucks big time    

Prolly cause the beer was warm!

I think brolly is a Yorkshire word.   

[Iceni John]

At least he didn't call it a Bumbershoot . . .

John

[luvrbus]

He was a nice guy he even he did a repair on the wife's little Triumph car something I thought was a major deal was a 5 minute  repair for him 

[Iceni John]

He was a nice guy he even he did a repair on the wife's little Triumph car something I thought was a major deal was a 5 minute  repair for him 

He probably has to do it every day.

John

[Oonrahnjay]

He probably has to do it every day.

John

      Only if he wants to drive it.  BTW, through this whole thread (despite mention of Scottish, or Yorkshire, or Nawridge accents), I've been thinking that this fellow is probably "an ahffarwfally nice chap, axxshooalley".

[TedCalvert]

You know why the British drink their beer warm, right?












Because Lucas makes refrigerators.

[luvrbus]

The guy told me the Brits don't make computers because they cannot figure out to make one leak oil     

[gumpy]

At least he didn't call it a Bumbershoot . . .

John

That's a new one I don't think I've every heard. What are it's origins of fame?

[Oonrahnjay]

That's a new one I don't think I've every heard. What are it's origins of fame? 

     I think it's just twee.  Maybe even too twee for words.  Or, maybe it's just naff.

[Iceni John]

That's a new one I don't think I've every heard. What are it's origins of fame?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bumbershoot

John

[Ed Hackenbruch]

There is a music and art festival in Seattle called Bumbershoot. It is held on the Labor Day weekend......and being Seattle, odds are you might need an umbrella that day! 

[Iceni John]

You know why the British drink their beer warm, right?












Because Lucas makes refrigerators.

Oh oh, here we go again . . .
I refuse to discuss the differences between fine British hand-drawn ales versus American "beer"!   Can one really compare a subtly-complex and characterful IPA or Porter or Stout to, er, Bud Lite?   Yeah.

Seriously though (!), I read somewhere that the legendary electrical problems with English cars using Lucas equipment were largely a result of their having positive grounds  -  somehow a positive ground could encourage corrosion on electrical connections more than a negative ground, especially in damp conditions?   Is galvanic corrosion polarity-dependant?   Is this the same reason that boats need sacrificial anodes?   Maybe Lucas has been unfairly maligned because of this  -  I feel I have to defend The Prince Of Darkness if nobody else here will.

John

[gumpy]

Oh oh, here we go again . . .
I refuse to discuss the differences between fine British hand-drawn ales versus American "beer"!   Can one really compare a subtly-complex and characterful IPA or Porter or Stout to, er, Bud Lite?   Yeah.

Seriously though (!), I read somewhere that the legendary electrical problems with English cars using Lucas equipment were largely a result of their having positive grounds  -  somehow a positive ground could encourage corrosion on electrical connections more than a negative ground, especially in damp conditions?   Is galvanic corrosion polarity-dependant?   Is this the same reason that boats need sacrificial anodes?   Maybe Lucas has been unfairly maligned because of this  -  I feel I have to defend The Prince Of Darkness if nobody else here will.

John

I don't know. I buy American! We don't have those problems here.

But I'll agree with you regarding the porter and stout (not the IPA) but they still have to be cold!