The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Old Grumpy]

Thanks OG.... Did you copy the text from somewhere, or (if it is your own) are you in estate agency? The tone of those two paragraphs is note-perfect!

I'll take that as an insult!!

It comes from the Gentoo website

OG

[Nick Armstrong]

I'll take that as an insult!!

I was only checking!

[Nick Armstrong]

If they must have a puzzle on the 'show' why is is delivered in the slow distinct tones of a nurse in a secure institution talking to inmates with a mental age of 3???

(Not to mention the imbecilic simplicity of the question today)

[Paul Sherratt]

What was that question ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Conducting... fortune... laxatives.... acerbic wit... mainstay of British music....



(just realised this is the wrong thread!)

[Anna]

Conducting... fortune... laxatives.... acerbic wit... mainstay of British music....

But, did you hear, after the first clue 'family fortune founded on laxatives' someone tweeted in that the answer was Scheidt !! (Sorry, I thought that was funny .......)

[Paul Sherratt]

Was the irony lost on the team ?

[Nick Armstrong]

But, did you hear, after the first clue 'family fortune founded on laxatives' someone tweeted in that the answer was Scheidt !! (Sorry, I thought that was funny .......)

Yes! And good on Rob for reading it out (I took it as a shout of resistance from both the listener and him!)

[Anna]

Yes! And good on Rob for reading it out (I took it as a shout of resistance from both the listener and him!)

That's how I took it as well ......

[cloughie]

But, did you hear, after the first clue 'family fortune founded on laxatives' someone tweeted in that the answer was Scheidt !! (Sorry, I thought that was funny .......)

Play it again Sam!

[JFLL]

Anyone who lives in Rochester, Kent is bound to have the right ideas. As someone from Sidcup, Kent, being dragged into Greater London, I agree with your post. .

True, Saly. I regard myself as an adopted 'Kentish Man' of the Hundred of Blackheath, even though we're said to have been in London since 1888. Vivat Cantium.

[salymap]

True, Saly. I regard myself as an adopted 'Kentish Man' of the Hundred of Blackheath, even though we're said to have been in London since 1888. Vivat Cantium.

Funny how places move. When my parents moved here it was in Chislehurst & Sidcup UDC and there were notices about not letting horses graze in the little park across the road. Now we're dragged into LB of Bexley and we haven't moved an inch.

What was all that funny stuff earlier?? Was the answer Beecham ??

[Serial_Apologist]

Funny how places move. When my parents moved here it was in Chislehurst & Sidcup UDC and there were notices about not letting horses graze in the little park across the road. Now we're dragged into LB of Bexley and we haven't moved an inch.

What was all that funny stuff earlier?? Was the answer Beecham ??

On a 1963 OS map, Kent and Surrey started just up the road! Penge in KENT!!! Can you imagine it???

I still find it hard to figure how the good people of Richmond on Thames think of themselves as Surreyites. Much too good to be Londoners, one assumes

Mind you, in me granddad's day, Essex started at the River Lea, and it was all fields north of Ally Pally, as it would have been here...

Old maps are just wonderful.

[JFLL]

On a 1963 OS map, Kent and Surrey started just up the road! Penge in KENT!!! Can you imagine it???

I still find it hard to figure how the good people of Richmond on Thames think of themselves as Surreyites. Much too good to be Londoners, one assumes

Mind you, in me granddad's day, Essex started at the River Lea, and it was all fields north of Ally Pally, as it would have been here...

Old maps are just wonderful.

They certainly are, SA. Do you know this splendid site, which has a good run of maps from the mid-19th century on?

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

[salymap]

S-A and who could imagine the Courtaulds moving into Eltham as it is now, but that was Ken t years ago I'm told.

And the great Estates of Danson,Hall Place ans Sidcup Place were all there was until the hoi polloi like us moved in in the 1930s with our semi-detatched rabbit hutches.