Re: Soprile Wednesday

In article <D4mNU7LWnPKKFwQN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kate Brown
<elvira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Ralph B wrote
On Jun 5, 11:33 am, Linda Fox <linda...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:34:42 -0700 (PDT), Ralph B





<googl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kate Brown wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Ralph B wrote
On Jun 4, 12:11?am, Harry <flapdra...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(b) Unless it was actually broken up and buried (and why
bother?), how on earth do the SWs picture such a huge chunk
of scrap decaying and actually being swallowed up by the
earth so completely as to be forgotten about and never
referred to again, in a mere six or seven decades?? ?That
kind of thing takes thousands of years. ?They should have
found something from Joe's great-grandfather's time,
financially worthless and of only minor historical interest.

To be fair to the LSWs (Bod preserve me) thems were funny
times. I remember a couple of stories from way back when of
people burying an old car in the garden rather than taking it
to a scrapyard.

Seehttp://engineweb.co.uk/odds_and_ends.htmwhich also backs me
up with "Whilst talking to his neighbour my friend was told
that he vaguely remembered the car being buried there.
Apparently it was common practice years ago as the scrap value
was virtually nothing."

It still goes on today - although the current bunch are, of
course, too lazy to actually dig: -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131585/The-Ford-discovery-Counc
il-workers-Escort-buried-garden.html

It's not inconceivable, IMHO, that Grandpa Grundy would have
buried the steam-engine. Especially as he would have had
access to agricultural digging machinery. Perhaps he was being
hassled by the landlord to clear up the eyesore, and did so in
a typically pragmatic Grundyist fashion.

Give the LSWs a break. Although, of course, TBMG.

The people who had our house before us had a habit of burying
odd bits of dead car in the garden. Nobody knew quite why, but
when Ralph first moved in he had to remove a surprisingly large
amount, and we still come across strips of bumper in the
rockery. There's a persistent yellow patch in the lawn which I
suspect to be due to something of the sort, but it would take a
lot of digging to get at it.

I should just like to clarify that I am not the Ralph referred to
above - despite the similarity of surnames Kate and I are not
AFAIK related. Nor am I responsible for the yellow patches on her
lawn.

And anyway, they're not in your handwriting, are they?

If I had the pressure to hit her garden from here, I'm not sure I'd
be able to hold it in my hand anyhow.

I'm sure several of us can recommend a supplier of something
improving out of the myriads stuffing our spam folders.

Yes, I keep getting those emails offering to make out pen's bigger and
I always reply correcting their apostrophe errors.

--
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    ... on earth do the SWs picture such a huge chunk of scrap decaying and ... actually being swallowed up by the earth so completely as to be ... old car in the garden rather than taking it to a scrapyard. ... Nobody knew quite why, but when Ralph first moved in he had to remove a surprisingly large amount, and we still come across strips of bumper in the rockery. ...
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