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The 'Off Topic' Topic
Posted by James Blast on 13 July 2009 - 7:23pm.
I have been thoroughly enjoying several threads of recent and was most taken by the way they can wander in unexpected directions, so I thought I'd try this:
I thought Ken might say rotary
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Ken
- not a v R'n'R name is it? Although I thought Kenny Morris was a very innovative drummer. Did he do anything after running out on Siouxsie and Severin?
Was Happy made up?
?
Wankel
it's still a puzzel?
The Wankel Rotary Engine
Always the Top of Top Trumps at my school, and the cause of much schoolboy sniggering. Happy days.
I had a Wankel a few years ago
Had to get rid - too expensive.
When Felix Wankel began work...
... on his eponymous engine, he initially measured its output in Erdeelches.
This unit of measurement describes the speed at which the mythical Earth Elk of Germanic folklore, draws the Sun King's chariot across the heavens. It was in common usage in Germany right up until the early 20th century.
Yeah right
Chinny chinny reck-on Jimmy Hill, etc.
Wankel on a RX-8
Uses too much oil and makes the car a pain to own
Yep and
20 mpg. No wonder it didn't have a trip computer.
And your bird can sink
five pints of Clan Dew
*but*
But how will we know if we are off-topic here ?
Is it not more entertaining when topics on Classic Rock end up discussing Morris Dancing or Punk Rock pubs in Glasgow ?
So - what's your favourite Richard Thompson album ?
Seabrooks
Chicken & Sweet Corn
<i>really ? </i>
I prefer Wasabi overall
Wasabi overalls?
Cool. Or rather hot.
and extremely claggy around the gusset
Too hard to choose
Hard to beat 1000 Years of Popular Music but then Rumor and Sigh has the best song about sex ed ever in Read About Love.
I'd vote for Counting Out Time
off The Lamb Lies Down in the 'best song about sex' category
Although Whitesnake's 'Lie Down (I Think I Love You)' had a certain direct charm
If it's directness you seek
how about Sensational Alex Harvey Band's 'Swampsnake'?
Ahem
I think this was raised as "sex Ed song" not "sex song".
don'tcha mean
Snakebite?
Have we passed
Mornington Crescent yet?
oops
Ken Morse
on rostrum camera.
It's always Ken Morse
on Rostrum Camera. Are there no other Rostrum Camerapersons?
Must be Ken
Anyone else would be against the code.
It's not so much a code...
...more a set of highly regulated BBC guidelines.
What?
Morse Highly Regulated BBC Guidelines?
and edited by
Mykola Pawluk.
Ken Morse has a parrot
Off to watch Wallander
On Beeb4
Hey!!
I watched Wallander on BBC4 - only not the episode broadcast tonight, but one recorded last weekend.
Spooky or not spooky? The thread demands not just an answer but a Swahili translation.
<i>does that give me italics then<i>
apparently not.
<b>doesn't care</b>
I didn't really think it would, but I knew that some would get the joke.
They don't seem
to work in titles, but they do down here. Or that's my theory, anyway.
Wahey!
Badart, Señor Malo, I owe the two of you a big vote of thanks!
Any more tips?
*Edit* No, I didn't get the joke, but, more importantly, I've learned something.
Expect to see a lot more of this before I tire of it. (Writes a child who's just been given the keys to a sweetshop.)
*dunno*
I think
any old tosh between the s'sthis works.(There must be some HTML guide on the internet, Shirley ?)
And gracias for the inflection, Señor
De nada
And stop calling me Shirley.
So that's what HTML means. (Writes a computing ignoramus.)
NB I like the crossing out. Hmm? Hmm?
As we learned from Spiderman :
"With great powers come great responsibility".
You already have unleashed the powers of bold and italic.
Are you ready to wrangle
any more fancinessstrikethrough as well ?With a humble heart I hope
to find out, oh Master.
(I can already alliterate...)
<s>like this</s> like that
like thislike that.Hoo were the Humble Heart Hitmakers ?
What?
Like
this?Cool.
NB I had no idea this song existed. Truly, Google is our friend...
I can add that
to my ability to post just titles. 18 months in and my HTML is at 2.
I can do just titles, too, Lee! Counting paras mine now = 4
<u>will underline your text</u>
if I'm reading this correctly - ah yes, it doesn't work with titles.
*None* of this stuff
seems to work with titles.
Chiz.
But many thanks, oh my other master.
Well, logically
underlines
italicisesstrikes throughI am on a voyage of discovery.
Go on, Lee,
spill.
Normal rules i.e. <> to
Normal rules i.e. <> to start and one with a / to end.
u for underline
i for italics
s for strike through
center for centred (damn you yanks for your logical spelling)
blockquote for the quote stuff
pre for the pre formatted text
Admit I looked the last two up.
So
Woah
Next you'll be putting hyperlinks in to your posts, like this one which takes you back to the blogs.
Then we'll all really be
going slowly insaneimpressed!Joe,
it's not about
You think that's post-modern and self-referential?
Try this!
It may not be about impressing people,
but I'm very impressed.
Margaret Thatcher
Anyone further to the right?
Tony Blair
better ask
Frazier he's the el Supremo from the room at the bottom of the stairs
this probably won't work because Planet Rock are pretty Mickey Mouse about their website, it's allas breaking down but there's an interview with Walt Becker here - http://www.planetrock.com/presenter_rob.htm
it does work...
...but it takes you to the Rob Birnie home page. which has spooked me as I used to work with him donkeys years ago. nice bloke.
Direct Link To Interview Below
http://planetrock.radica.com/walter_becker.html
I have a pet honey bee
Should I let it go?
Just had to...
http://open.spotify.com/track/6WZT2ApmAJUSVXvPHTm9bD
I've just let one go
Sorry...
So this is not about The Beatles then?
Now I´m confused. Hur ska jag nu veta när fikat är klart för jämrans bövlar?
Now
most of us are confused, Ola.
is it
on the trolley?
As long as you´re not dazed.
I´m cooking pasta - Jag kokar pasta. All right?
grapes/sofa again?
do you never learn man!
Where is Beatle band?
Evenin' Samuel
And Ken Morse
on Rotary Wankel
Who is...
Howard Ungerleider?
Herns
That's who he is
The Hit-Man
Herns?
And that's when he said...
"I don't even like asparagus"
Which was nice
Anyone ..
think that Glen Campbell is the new Johnny Cash ?
Off Topic?
No I can never go off Topics; reliably delicious if always a little small compared to Snickers.
you do know the squirrel joke
don'tcha?
What's got a hazelnut in every bite?
ahhh, it's a classic of the genre