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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37876

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    I understand that enthusiasts flocked to Kings Cross and prevented the Skying Flotsam from leaving.

    More to find out on the lunchtime news.

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    • gurnemanz
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7417

      To combine three "forgottens" - Flying Scotsman, Pathé News, Bob Danvers-Walker

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20576

        I presume tax discs have been mentioned?

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37876

          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          I presume tax discs have been mentioned?
          But did not the start of this very thread itself predate the phasing out of tax discs?

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          • ahinton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 16123

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            I understand that enthusiasts flocked to Kings Cross and prevented the Skying Flotsam from leaving.
            ...thereby providing the rail network with yet another new excuse for late and delayed trains, namely flocks on the line; so, what's new?!...

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            More to find out on the lunchtime news.
            Given the anticipate average speed of today's journey - 45mph as I understood it - it might seem more like the Crawling Scotsman were it not for the fact that it's only going to York...

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            • ahinton
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 16123

              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
              But did not the start of this very thread itself predate the phasing out of tax discs?
              Hardly! 16 January this year?...

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              • subcontrabass
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 2780

                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                I presume tax discs have been mentioned?
                Possibly a little too recent - you still see some on display.

                Related and much older were the green lamps that had to be displayed on the front of motor vehicles owned by undergraduates at Oxford University. They were replaced by paper permits (shaped like tax discs) in 1967, apparently after a student had been stopped by police somewhere in Europe (possibly Austria) for displaying a light of an illegal colour.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26575

                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  I understand that enthusiasts flocked to Kings Cross and prevented the Skying Flotsam from leaving.

                  More to find out on the lunchtime news.
                  No - twas nutters in the Fenlands http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...-inaugural-run
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37876

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Ah - thanks Cali.

                    (No Fens meant)

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30527

                      Did anyone else have Little Miss Muffet junket for pudding?

                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • Globaltruth
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 4304



                        it has been conclusively proven that one does not need to be a gentleman to eat this.


                        (apologies it this has already been featured)

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12968

                          Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post


                          it has been conclusively proven that one does not need to be a gentleman to eat this.

                          ...ah, but sir seems to have to hand one of the modern, ahem, "plastic" containers for the Relish, which, sadly, have replaced the original glass receptacles. I believe the glass ones are reserved for the Gentlemen....

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                          • jean
                            Late member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7100

                            A friend has one of these:



                            It has been the source of much speculation as to what a Flacker might be.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by jean View Post
                              It has been the source of much speculation as to what a Flacker might be.
                              According to the OED, it's an obsolete word for "flapper" - as in "bird", so it might just be a colloquialism for "bird shooting". It was also used to mean "to flail", so may have had something to do with shooting at birds after the beaters have got them airbourne?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • ahinton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 16123

                                Originally posted by jean View Post
                                A friend has one of these:



                                It has been the source of much speculation as to what a Flacker might be.


                                However, Henry Alken (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Alken ) is clearly not to be confused with Charles-Valentin Alkan, who lived at Square d'Orléans, not St. James's...

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