Category Archives: True stories

The Year of the…..WHAT??!!

Posted on 2 February, 2014 by jb

Germany being Germany (and a country where prostitution is legal) you end up with some strange stories. This friend of mine lives in a village and his next door neighbour is a hooker. Fairly common knowledge in the road and … Continue reading →

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Posterolateral myocardial WHAT…..?

Posted on 25 January, 2014 by jb

This friend of mine – as my mate Houghton is wont to say – has been having trouble with his ticker. Occasionally got sudden chest pains that extended to his arm, shoulder-blade and neck. Looked it up on the interwebs … Continue reading →

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This is not a music collection…..

Posted on 9 January, 2014 by jb

Years ago, I flew to Miami on Lauda Air* next to a guy called Fritz Egner who had a TV program on the national networks. (Called “Dingsda” – Thingamabob and they got really young kids to explain a word … Continue reading →

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And Australia won…..

Posted on 6 January, 2014 by jb

On the 9th of August, 1796, a cricket match was played by eleven Greenwich pensioners with one leg, against eleven with one arm, for one thousand guineas, at the new cricket ground, Montpelier gardens, Walworth. At nine o’clock the men … Continue reading →

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Signing off

Posted on 11 December, 2013 by jb

Appears that the official signer was a tad challenged in his skill set. Someone wrote: This is obviously bad and shocking and terrible, but hilarious in its complete crap-ness. Maybe he was doing it in dialect? Or txting, even

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Back to the drawing board….

Posted on 10 December, 2013 by jb

Oh. It appears that the speed was..er.. terminal…

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But you seem so NICE……

Posted on 26 September, 2013 by jb

An English friend (retired electrical engineer) tells the story of working with a client in Texas in the 1980s. He was based there for quite a while and getting on well with the guys he was working to the extent … Continue reading →

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“I was wondering….”

Posted on 4 July, 2013 by jb

This is a true story. My uncle told me, so it must be true. He was sitting in a commuter train to London opposite a female punk with a technicoloured spiky Mohawk hairdo. It’s not the sort of thing you … Continue reading →

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Time flies an arrow…

Posted on 29 May, 2013 by jb

…fruit flies like a banana Driving behind a battered old van on the winding road up to Gordes this afternoon. Absolutely crawling along ….40….up to 50…down to 35. On the straight bits. Parked next to him on the square and … Continue reading →

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