Tea Break Challenge

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When I was very small, and asked my Dad inane questions about what he was making, the reply was invariably "A wim-wam for an Oozalin' bird" (as I heard/interpreted it). The rejoinder from any near-by adults was generally "we had one, but the wheel came off!".

It's obviously a distorted version of your two statements - wonder where it originated? Presumably some old radio show, but I don't remember ever hearing it on the radio. Could've been from when Dad was in the Forces - we're talking mid-'50s, so it wasn't long after he was de-mobbed.

I think that the first time that heard the "wigwam for a gooses bridal" was in the RAN.

I have heard about an oozalam bird, it was a verse from The Wild West Show......... '

"and on left ladies and gentlemen we have the Oozalam bird"

"The Oozalam bird?"

Yes! The Oozalam bird, renowned for flying around in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up it's own arse in a blue flash"

It has a chorus..................and then another animal or bird, e.g. the oorang ootang, the winky wanky bird, the leo-pard, etc.

A Winky wanky bird? And I suppose you're going to tell us that went off in a puff of white smoke after it dragged itself round the room a few times or something! Are you making it up Mobi? By honest!

No, I've heard of this one. Every time it winks it ...

(Didn't get that one from my Dad!)

ROFWMP

.............and on my right ladies and gentlemen we have the Winky Wanky bird.

"The Winky Wanky bird?"

"Yes! The Winky Wanky bird and did you know ladies and gentlemen, when this bird winks he w*#ks. LADY! Please do not throw sand into the bird's eyes."

(chorus)

And next the Dino-sore-arse.

Fro the latin Dinares= money. Sore-arse= piles.

Hence piles of money, very rich animal the Dino-sore-arse

Oddly enough it DID restrain the thread from going off topic .

Does it come in silver?

What's grey and comes in buckets?

Be nice Now!

milo

What's grey and comes in buckets?

Uhmmmm, paint?

An Elephant !

Hi Roger, the real tea break challenge is to explain, logically captain, how we have got to Genghis (Cohen - wholesale distruction - copyright Terry Pratchett) from an anciant wheel clamp!

I think you've got to say any thread that includes Ghengis Khan is a successful thread.

When will we see the wrath of Khan????

Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any better.

Kahn!!!!!!!

This is more like it..........or him I should say!!!!!!!

Yes, that's him. My favorite part of that movie though is still where Kirk screams his name and it "echoes" through space. Greatest Trek movie ever.

KAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I am impressed! Just when I thought it couldn't get any better!

I cant wait till you lot see what the next challenge is...

I'll post it Thursday..

The Borg could get Khan (I don't know which one now) and assimilate him.

There was only one saving grace for the Borg...............7 of 9.

Mmmmmm 7 of 9 .... Falls off chair... <thud>

Yeah, but how much of that is a mechanical cat trap?

Oh, and now full circle back to the beginning of the thread!

This is like a game of telephone.

"... game of telephone"?

Please elaborate.

You wanna talk dirty big boy..oooh...oooh...oooh..you are such a naughty Panda...oh do it again ...oh Pandy wandy..I wub you..

That's the sort of thing I'd imagine

You bin at the o-nine-hundreds, then?

Gonna tell you about my day, now, 'cause you've been unfortunate enough to reply to my inane query.

Big Day. Big Meeting pm with customer (stage payment time). Been wrestling with OrCAD last 2 weeks - more-or-less beaten it into submission. Polish up circuits, finish a bit of annotation, tidy up items lists, print run - off to meeting.

NFC! Went up to "office" (junk room upstairs, wherein I'm typing now). NASTY smell of hot plastic. Press ON button on PC - nada. Mains off 1 minute, back on, press ON button. POST OK, Windows splash screen - then blackness. Mains off 1 minute, press ON button - nada.

Wait 'til shop opens 9am. Buy new PSU. Home & fit. Nada. Back to shop. But new motherboard. Home & fit (time now 11am). Power on, POST OK, boots!

Next 2 hours - re-install all hardware. Won't work with USB mouse so find old PS2 mouse (find & fit lost ball). Go through "Found New Hardware" wizard about 15 times. Re-activate Windows. Find display drivers from web (having set all that lot up again), re-setup display resolution.

All back working - time now 1pm. Do a few edits of glaring mistakes, then do prints. Pack up & leave.

Drive to meeting (20 miles by country roads, mostly being dug up for gas/elect/cable/water/whatever, & scattered with tractors & JCBs). Arrive for 2pm meeting at 2:15.

Meeting actually went OK - they've signed it off!

Sorry to bend your ear, mate, but better this (where you can ignore it) than me letting off steam at Small (who is now stacking zeds downstairs).

Night, night,

John.

Computers eh? Can't live with 'em...can't live without 'em....

Take a group of people, the first person whispers a statement in the ear of the second, the second repeats it to the third, and it goes around until the last person tells the group what he heard.

Something as simple as "Joe's grass is very green" comes around to the end as "Joe's a$$ is completely obscene."

Ah! Chinese whispers!

[Edit - or isn't that PC now?]

Never heard that term before. Here in New York where I grew up we called it telephone.

Never knew the name of that game, but played it once a looooooong time ago. When I saw "telephone", I thought of this.

Aha! John. That brings us back to Ghengis Khan again??????

Mongolian, Chinese............same bone...........AH............Mah Jong

Well it obviously doesn't work to keep threads on topic....

I say, old chap, that's a bit uncalled for!

Uncalled for? YES!

Funny? YES, YES, YES!

Sorry about that John, it was either that one or this one!!!!!!

The other one just seemed more apt!!!!!!!

I wonder why off-topics are more than good answers..... i guess the time has come to debit the good answers of members with OFF topics they have created...and some of us will have -(minus) 214 good answers....

OK...it is lock for bicycles....(to be specific).

I just learned that, replying to OFF topic post is an OFF topic post to begin with....i am not going to do it again...