Would Your Schoolmates Still Recognise You?

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:53 pm

they have a lot of fans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/python/pyth ... ure6.shtml

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:19 pm

they also like bashing two bricks together and saying " well,I fink that..."

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:13 pm

so what you are all telling me is a load of Boll ox???

none of you really know what a gumby is - it seems to be anything from a giant made of clay to an orc with a hanky on it's head to a cartoon figure

AND YOU WONDER WHY I AM CONFUSED?????????

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:20 am

Can't they touch their nose with their lower lip as well?????

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:29 am

Sorry - just remembered that's a gurner I think - not a gumby.
Gumbies may indeed have that additional life skill - but it's not what makes them gumbies.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:15 pm

the ancient art of Gurning is the ability to contort your face without using your hands ideally into the most hideous sight possible - I believe they still have contests in the black country - up north....

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:07 am

good at geography were you Jude?

The Black Country is between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, North of Watford Gap I grant you, but hardly - up North.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:14 pm

englishangel wrote:good at geography were you Jude?

The Black Country is between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, North of Watford Gap I grant you, but hardly - up North.

Picky - Picky, Mary.

To us Surrey folk, it's definitely 'tup North !

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:19 pm

J.R. wrote:
englishangel wrote:good at geography were you Jude?

The Black Country is between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, North of Watford Gap I grant you, but hardly - up North.
Picky - Picky, Mary.

To us Surrey folk, it's definitely 'tup North !

Seconded - virtually everywhere is up north for me

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:33 pm

englishangel wrote:good at geography were you Jude?

The Black Country is between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, North of Watford Gap I grant you, but hardly - up North.

anything NORTH of the WATFORD GAP is NORTH! EA why are you bing so picky on me? It's north from me, and just about everyone in here bar the few who live in Scotland, North North Wales and beyond the Watford Gap.. And yes I was good a geography - had I been allowed to do A levels it is one I would have done... I got a B at O level - maybe not as good as you but for me anything I passed in was good!

cj · Post by cj » Sat May 27, 2006 6:24 pm

Vonny wrote:
J.R. wrote:
englishangel wrote:good at geography were you Jude?

The Black Country is between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, North of Watford Gap I grant you, but hardly - up North.
Picky - Picky, Mary.

To us Surrey folk, it's definitely 'tup North !
Seconded - virtually everywhere is up north for me

Ditto.

We once broke down (in the car - not a nervous breakdown. Well, that time anyway!) near Brighton and were asked by the AA control centre if we were east of Bristol. Could never work that one out.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:01 pm

I never know where the North starts, it all depends where you are, doesn't it? For some reason that I do not understand, West Wales always refers to ares of South West Wales never North West Wales. I can see the sea in Cardigan Bay as I type this, but if I told someone I lived in West Wales they would normally assume I was in Pembrokeshire or somewhere like that.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:33 pm

C'mon you folks in the North back up this southerner.

It's north of me too but still only the Midlands.

I don't know where DBTS originally comes from, but unless he was born in Cornwall I must be one of the most southerly on here.

Incidentally when I got married (to a Yorkshireman BTW) a friend of ours from Cumberland told my Dad (Sussex born and bred like me) that he had been down south before, when Dad asked him where he had been he said

"Swansea"

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:41 pm

englishangel wrote:C'mon you folks in the North back up this southerner.

It's north of me too but still only the Midlands.

I don't know where DBTS originally comes from, but unless he was born in Cornwall I must be one of the most southerly on here.

EA it may ONLY be the Midlands to you - but where I live it's the blinking tv channel I get for my news - I should by rights get Points West - I infact get Midlands today - which goes up nearly as far as Manchester - and to be honest as most of the news it North of Birmingham and very rarely do we get a tiny weeny itstsy bit on Glos - and then it's NORTH Glos! So Sorry Mate - I was BORN in deepest North - Hexham, Northcumbria as it was in those days - now North Tynesdie I think, and was brought up for 6 years as a Jordie - anything from Durham down was south! The Lake District was South and west!

hence I have a very clear deffinition of what is North - anything beyond the Watford Gap ....

And when in Scotland - anything beyond Hadrians Wall is South

etc..

To DBTS I am North - to me he is SW - it is each to our own as to which we devise NSEW from where we are... As far as I am concerned I live in the South West - but even that can be contested!

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:32 pm

eloisec wrote:I was just finding Jude a gumby as she said we were all avoiding the issue.

englishangel wrote:they have a lot of fans.

Obviously! Otherwise like all little things they might over'eat