#48423
11/21/2001 9:43 PM
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Heard on BBC2 radio while driving to work this morning: "...and traffic on the M69 is nose to tail."
Just about caused an accident on the M6 laughing!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#48424
11/21/2001 9:52 PM
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You see what happens? Where's a good Gutter Cop when ya really need one?! 
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#48425
11/22/2001 2:46 AM
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"...and traffic on the M69 is nose to tail."
Just about caused an accident on the M6 laughing! I'm sure it took a dogged effort...
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#48426
11/22/2001 8:54 PM
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I'm sure it took a dogged effort...... and I'm sure you've missed the point ... 
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#48427
11/22/2001 9:29 PM
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I've seen many a brown-nosed doggie.
Nose-to-tail also conjures up images of Barnum and Bailey's opening parade of hephalumps thrumping around the three rings to the cadence of a circus band.
Nose-to-tail could also be a snake with its tail in its mouth, but that would be a traffic circle of the tightest dimensions...
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#48428
11/22/2001 9:30 PM
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Are you baiting my poor, sweet Jackie, CapK? I had to read it twice, before I got it and I have a mind that goes there!
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#48429
11/22/2001 10:02 PM
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In Boston the radio traffic people are more refined, and say "bumper to bumper".
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#48430
11/23/2001 3:48 AM
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#48431
11/23/2001 3:52 AM
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(I hereby claim the record for "Briefest Post".)
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#48432
11/23/2001 4:20 AM
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I think the two posts should be counted as one.
And I also think I shouldn't have bothered to write this.
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#48433
11/23/2001 2:33 PM
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I am not prone to laughing at your being prostrate in traffic, CK! I'm not sure why, but this reminded me of something that should be in TEd's thread on history, but it fits here too: In the 1936 book, Boners, a schoolboy is quoted as saying, "Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks." 
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#48434
11/23/2001 6:42 PM
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"Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks."
And this may have been very true given the reported proclivities of some of the monks ...
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#48435
11/23/2001 6:50 PM
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Consuelo admitted and I have a mind that goes there!But clearly not as quickly as mine does ... When I posted it, I thought most people would at least get the point of it. It was quite clear, though, that the announcer hadn't spotted it. She never even paused or hesitated. Of course, if you're on the M69 you're being sent to (or from) Coventry, so maybe that's got something to do with it. Incidentally, Mary Whitehouse, the ultimate British gutter policething and the bane of the BBC's existence, died today aged 91. I guess she .knows by now whether she was on the side of the angels or not!
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#48436
11/23/2001 7:22 PM
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I still like Whitty's comment, "Where's the gutter cops when you need 'em?" (or something like that...)
...instant vision of Jackie in a cop car, speeding toward the radio station.
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#48437
11/24/2001 4:09 PM
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#48438
11/24/2001 9:11 PM
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Oh, very illuminating, I must say. Well done, my son!
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