Marmite Closes M1 ...

[kernelbogey]

As children in the fifties we often had peanut butter and marmite on bread or toast. I think this was a legacy of the wartime diet when butter was rationed - and perhaps peanuts from the colonies plentiful.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well Marmite closed the M1; i shudder to think what a new groundnut scheme might achieve .... covering the North of England in groundnut plantations would produce a surplus that would offer compensation and pensions to the workers in the absence of the ready cash though eh .... such a scheme might want for a sufficiency of redcurrant jelly .....

[Anna]

Why does nobody know about St. Andrew? We all dance at jig for St. Patrick and St. David's Day almost closes Wales down, but Andrew? Do the Scots really celebrate their Saint?

[scottycelt]

Why does nobody know about St. Andrew? We all dance at jig for St. Patrick and St. David's Day almost closes Wales down, but Andrew? Do the Scots really celebrate their Saint?

No, Anna, the Greeks do it quite well enough for us already, kilts and bagpipes included ...

Anyway, unlike those other raucous Celts, we are a shy, retiring (sometimes even retired) lot and we never like to offend the neighbours.

[ahinton]

No, Anna, the Greeks do it quite well enough for us already, kilts and bagpipes included ...

Is that why they call one of those Greeks the Duke of Edinburgh?

Anyway, unlike those other raucous Celts, we are a shy, retiring (sometimes even retired) lot and we never like to offend the neighbours.

To which "raucous Celts" might you be referring, scotty? You might inadvertently (or even maybe advertently) be starting a war here...

[ahinton]

Why does nobody know about St. Andrew? We all dance at jig for St. Patrick and St. David's Day almost closes Wales down, but Andrew? Do the Scots really celebrate their Saint?

Some of those who've heard of him do so - or so I'm told; on the other hand, I did once hear a Scotsman suggest that St. Andrew's the splendid fellow who presents CD Review every Saturday morning without fail...

[scottycelt]

To which "raucous Celts" might you be referring, scotty? You might inadvertently (or even maybe advertently) be starting a war here...

No, on the contrary, if you really wished me to answer your question it would be your very goodself who would be responsible for starting any war here (advertantly or inadvertantly), ahinton ...

[ahinton]

No, on the contrary, if you really wished me to answer your question it would be your very goodself who would be responsible for starting any war here (advertantly or inadvertantly), ahinton ...

That's not the kind of Scottish logic up with which I woz brung before emigrating from Scotland! - and remember that I did use the word "might"! You don't have to answer that question in any case, but the suggestion that you appear to make as to who'd possibly be starting such a war as a consequence of your answering said question seems to me to be broadly analogous to implying (not that you are doing) that taxpayers are responsible for the wars already fought in Iraq and Afghanistan because they're paying for them! Thank you, scotty!

[scottycelt]

You are so right, as ever, ahinton!

[Norfolk Born]

I'd always assumed your patron saint was named after Birmingham City's home ground.

[ahinton]

I'd always assumed your patron saint was named after Birmingham City's home ground.

That just goes to show how misguided some assumptions can be, does it not? I've heard of Birmingham, Alabama but never yet encountered Birmingham, Scotland (although I suppose that, if one actually existed, Spaghetti Junction would be located somewhere around Valvona & Crolla)...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it is clear that Hadrian's Wall lacked an adequate moat ...perhaps a stream of marmite

[ahinton]

it is clear that Hadrian's Wall lacked an adequate moat ...perhaps a stream of marmite

Well, I'd not say that it was clear, actually but, had there been one such, I imagine that it would have done much to separate the Scots from those south of the border, which would not have been a good thing; it would also have meant that I'd have had to cross the Marmite frontier when I emigrated and I would then have felt most embarrassed had my first action on English soil been to soil it by throwing up all over it!

[scottycelt]

... it would haver done much ..!

Goodness, I have never had you marked down as one likely to haver, ahinton ...

[amateur51]

Goodness, I have never had you marked down as one likely to haver, ahinton ...