Today I'm happy about......

[Bijou Bob]

I se the IRA have agreed to allow women to join them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/29246741" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good for this. Not before time if you ask me. Women should be allowed to be terrorists too !!

You had me going for a minute there. I was just going to Google Bernadette Devlin.

Not to mention Mairead Farewell, about whom I have a great story for over a beer. Remind me Bruce!

[TANGODANCER]

You need a passport to start a new job these day Bish.

Cue my famous embarrassing moment passport story: I was flying out by helicopter to do a job on the gas rigs in Morecambe Bay. Very strict on rules, those lads, and even wanted my beard shaving off so the face part of a survival suit would fit close etc. I got around that one but passports were insisted on before we flew out from Blackpool. Mine needed renewing (could be done at the post office back then) and I duly arrived at Bootle post-office and asked for such. A well-meaning but nosey ( and loud-voiced) female assistant asked me:
"Where you off to love, somewhere nice?
" Oh, er just Morecambe..." I coughingly mumbled . Stunned silence...then...
"Eh, Morroco?"
"Er no, Morecambe Bay" I croaked.....more silence then a disbelieving laugh.
" Eeh, you don't need a passport for Morecambe chuck" in a too loud voice that had me hissing.
"Yes, I do really, I'm going off shore and I have to take my passport"
"Hey, Sandra. Chap here thinks he needs a passport to go to Morecambe" loud guffaws and my face the colour of the post box wishing she'd shut her big gob. Too late, damage done and all the explaining mattered not. The Scousers had their laugh.

I laughed later, but not right then. Wondered after why I didn't just lie and go to Morrocco

[Bruce Rioja]

I se the IRA have agreed to allow women to join them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/29246741" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good for this. Not before time if you ask me. Women should be allowed to be terrorists too !!

You had me going for a minute there. I was just going to Google Bernadette Devlin.

Not to mention Mairead Farewell, about whom I have a great story for over a beer. Remind me Bruce!

I keep having to remind you about the beer, let alone the itinerary!

[bwfcdan94]

First awayday since 30th August tomorrow(feels like a year ago), I'm feck* buzzin. I just hope I have the same enthusiasm this time next season when were in league 1.

[Burnden Paddock]

Happy that I have taken a leaf out of HG's book and volunteered along with Miss BP, as a dog walker at Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary. Took our first two dogs out yesterday and will more than likely be back tomorrow. Certainly put a smile on Miss BP's face, which works for me!!

[Worthy4England]

Mildly amused by someone I work with, sending out an email entitled "Attention to Detail", copying the great and the good and berating some folks for completing some work "in a careless manor". Small things never cease to amuse my small mind.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Mildly amused by someone I work with, sending out an email entitled "Attention to Detail", copying the great and the good and berating some folks for completing some work "in a careless manor". Small things never cease to amuse my small mind.

Many years ago an administrator wrote a memo with the Dubject 'Spelling' concerning a Vice-Principal (Academic) whose surname had been misspelled with a 't'. The text ran: "Vice-President [sic] Pederson is of Scandiavian [sic] decent [sic] and spells his name with a 'd'." That one got broad circulation.

[Prufrock]

What Dubject?

[EverSoYouri]

You need a passport to start a new job these day Bish.

Cue my famous embarrassing moment passport story: I was flying out by helicopter to do a job on the gas rigs in Morecambe Bay. Very strict on rules, those lads, and even wanted my beard shaving off so the face part of a survival suit would fit close etc. I got around that one but passports were insisted on before we flew out from Blackpool. Mine needed renewing (could be done at the post office back then) and I duly arrived at Bootle post-office and asked for such. A well-meaning but nosey ( and loud-voiced) female assistant asked me:
"Where you off to love, somewhere nice?
" Oh, er just Morecambe..." I coughingly mumbled . Stunned silence...then...
"Eh, Morroco?"
"Er no, Morecambe Bay" I croaked.....more silence then a disbelieving laugh.
" Eeh, you don't need a passport for Morecambe chuck" in a too loud voice that had me hissing.
"Yes, I do really, I'm going off shore and I have to take my passport"
"Hey, Sandra. Chap here thinks he needs a passport to go to Morecambe" loud guffaws and my face the colour of the post box wishing she'd shut her big gob. Too late, damage done and all the explaining mattered not. The Scousers had their laugh.

I laughed later, but not right then. Wondered after why I didn't just lie and go to Morrocco

[Montreal Wanderer]

What Dubject?

Someone keeps moving the keys on my keyboard....

[LeverEnd]

You need a passport to start a new job these day Bish.

Cue my famous embarrassing moment passport story: I was flying out by helicopter to do a job on the gas rigs in Morecambe Bay. Very strict on rules, those lads, and even wanted my beard shaving off so the face part of a survival suit would fit close etc. I got around that one but passports were insisted on before we flew out from Blackpool. Mine needed renewing (could be done at the post office back then) and I duly arrived at Bootle post-office and asked for such. A well-meaning but nosey ( and loud-voiced) female assistant asked me:
"Where you off to love, somewhere nice?
" Oh, er just Morecambe..." I coughingly mumbled . Stunned silence...then...
"Eh, Morroco?"
"Er no, Morecambe Bay" I croaked.....more silence then a disbelieving laugh.
" Eeh, you don't need a passport for Morecambe chuck" in a too loud voice that had me hissing.
"Yes, I do really, I'm going off shore and I have to take my passport"
"Hey, Sandra. Chap here thinks he needs a passport to go to Morecambe" loud guffaws and my face the colour of the post box wishing she'd shut her big gob. Too late, damage done and all the explaining mattered not. The Scousers had their laugh.

I laughed later, but not right then. Wondered after why I didn't just lie and go to Morrocco

A friend of mine actually did believe that Tango. Bolton Harriers once went to a league fixture on the Isle of Man. Some of the lads convinced him as a younger member of the team that he needed his passport and he went into a blind panic at the ferry dock. After the team manager had set him straight he laughed it off and sheepishly proclaimed he'd not fall for that again. On the way back someone told him that the tray of chips he was carrying onto the ferry were a biohazard and he could be arrested. He started to fall for it again until someone lost the straight face and gave the game away.

[TANGODANCER]

A friend of mine actually did believe that Tango. Bolton Harriers once went to a league fixture on the Isle of Man. Some of the lads convinced him as a younger member of the team that he needed his passport and he went into a blind panic at the ferry dock. After the team manager had set him straight he laughed it off and sheepishly proclaimed he'd not fall for that again. On the way back someone told him that the tray of chips he was carrying onto the ferry were a biohazard and he could be arrested. He started to fall for it again until someone lost the straight face and gave the game away.

[boltonboris]

On a 'slightly' similar note... An ex colleague of mine had a delivery to Scotland to set up for a customer. She got a Welsh haulier on it doing a backload.. sort of a 'get it collected and we'll advise delivery address later'

Manager went mad at her and she had no idea why.. Especially after she proclaimed "Isn't Aberdeen near Abersoch?"

[LeverEnd]

On a 'slightly' similar note... An ex colleague of mine had a delivery to Scotland to set up for a customer. She got a Welsh haulier on it doing a backload.. sort of a 'get it collected and we'll advise delivery address later'

Manager went mad at her and she had no idea why.. Especially after she proclaimed "Isn't Aberdeen near Abersoch?"

A German studying friend of mine went to study in Bayreuth for a year, his Gran was beside herself because he might get bombed. She calmed down when she realised he wasn't heading to Lebanon!

[General Mannerheim]

Red Bull Rampage this weekend. by far and away the greatest sporting spectacle of the year!! cant wait.

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[Beefheart]

Just been told I'll be getting a bonus after all, apparently since it's paid on the 28th October and my last day is the 31st then I'm eligible. Doesn't sound right to me, but I'm hardly going to argue

[bobo the clown]

Just been told I'll be getting a bonus after all, apparently since it's paid on the 28th October and my last day is the 31st then I'm eligible. Doesn't sound right to me, but I'm hardly going to argue

They aren't especially commercially minded then, are they ?

Just keep your head down and be grateful I guess.

[Bijou Bob]

Off to do a Nepalese cookery course tomorrow. Birthday pressie from Not Yet Mrs Bob. I'm quite excited.

[Burnden Paddock]

Off to do a Nepalese cookery course tomorrow. Birthday pressie from Not Yet Mrs Bob. I'm quite excited.

I can guarantee, that sentence will never, ever be repeated on here. Very niche!

[Bijou Bob]

Fantastic day's cooking curries. Two meat, five veg and two daal. I'm stuffed.