The Leveson Inquiry

[Lateralthinking1]

Excellent!

From my perspective, his has been the least convincing performance in this saga by several country miles.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a take on Leveson from over the pond

[ahinton]

It's neither Welsh nor Cornish: it's Italian

Back on topic now please?

I know that, of course; it was meant to be a joke...

[amateur51]

I know that, of course; it was meant to be a joke...

Ah sorry ahinton - you can never be certain once scotty's involved

These saucy little emoticons do help to avoid misapprehensions such as this but some folk feel that I use them too often

[ahinton]

Ah sorry ahinton - you can never be certain once scotty's involved

These saucy little emoticons do help to avoid misapprehensions such as this but some folk feel that I use them too often

I don't use them at all!

[scottycelt]

Ah sorry ahinton - you can never be certain once scotty's involved

These saucy little emoticons do help to avoid misapprehensions such as this but some folk feel that I use them too often

Nothing wrong with these entirely innocent little emoticons ... they can be great fun.

For the record, my response was to ahinton's post, not to yours, amsey ... and it was not I who veered wildly off-topic by suddenly revealing how apparently easy it is for a gentleman to wee on his pants in a toilet on a Pendolino ... now, I wonder who that could possibly have been? ... just for the record, you understand ..

[amateur51]

Nothing wrong with these entirely innocent little emoticons ... they can be great fun.

For the record, my response was to ahinton's post, not to yours, amsey ... and it was not I who veered wildly off-topic by suddenly revealing how apparently easy it is for a gentleman to wee on his pants in a toilet on a Pendolino ... now, I wonder who that could possibly have been? ... just for the record, you understand ..

Ah but I was countering your Blue Sky assertion that all was OK in Choo-Choo Land post-privatisation, scotty

[scottycelt]

Ah but I was countering your Blue Sky assertion that all was OK in Choo-Choo Land post-privatisation, scotty

Did I post that? Not aware that I ever did, amsey old chap ...

Anyway, your alter-ego desperately wants to get back on topic, so it's maybe due a turn, eh ...?

[amateur51]

Did I post that? Not aware that I ever did, amsey old chap ...

Anyway, your alter-ego desperately wants to get back on topic, so it's maybe due a turn, eh ...?

Yes my little butter bean, in message 444

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Italian and Corno-Welsh aren't that remote when it comes to the use of "pen": the name of the Apennine mountains is thought to be derived from the same Celtic origins that gave us the Prythonic "pen" ( = "Head"/"hill") which survives in Penrith and Pen-y-ghent (in England) as well as the fine Welsh single malt whisky, Penderyn.


Not a lot of people know that ...

[scottycelt]

Italian and Corno-Welsh aren't that remote when it comes to the use of "pen": the name of the Apennine mountains is thought to be derived from the same Celtic origins that gave us the Prythonic "pen" ( = "Head"/"hill") which survives in Penrith and Pen-y-ghent (in England) as well as the fine Welsh single malt whisky, Penderyn.


Not a lot of people know that ...

Funny who should say that, ferney ...

I have significant Italian blood in me (nota bene, amsey!) and on some travels to Northern Italy it has often struck me just how alike the Appennine hills are to the Pennines, stretching the spine of much of the country, and I've long had this idea that the name 'Pennine' was probably first used by the invading Romans.

Now you've just gone and shattered that illusion and revealed that quite the opposite may well have been the case ...

Still, as long as both ranges remain firmly in the EU, eh ... ?

[scottycelt]

Yes my little butter bean, in message 444

Is your alleged statement of mine perhaps cunningly contained in a hidden file of some sort in #444, amsey ... ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've long had this idea that the name 'Pennine' was probably first used by the invading Romans.

This was what I was actually "taught" at my (Pennine) Primary School, scotty. Turns out that the word "Pennines" wasn't used until a book of very dubious origins* was published in the late 18th Century!

Still, as long as both ranges remain firmly in the EU, eh ... ?

EDIT: * = A bit more than "dubious", it seems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Situ_Britanniae

[amateur51]

Is your alleged statement of mine perhaps cunningly contained in a hidden file of some sort in #444, amsey ... ?

Scotty msg 444 "For one who often travels on trains, and vividly remembers the appallingly clapped-out, strike-ridden, State-run British Rail, there may well have been grossly unhappier episodes in one's life, jean ..." refers

[amateur51]

Funny who should say that, ferney ...

I have significant Italian blood in me (nota bene, amsey!)

Not surprised at all scotty, with your faithfulness to the Vatican City franchise