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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:29 pm    Post subject: Who remembers……………..

some of the threads there used to be in the “olden days” on the CH4 TTF? What about …………….that one which was a bit “risque” and I cant remember what it was called? Tonys helmet? The poetry thread – I used to love that one…… what others can you remember or liked?_________________Corinne Mills

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Who remembers……………..

the terrible fish puns one

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:13 pm    Post subject:

Ah! The poetry thread. I’ve still got the stuff I wrote specially for it.

My all-time favourite though was the Fortune thread. I printed the lot out. 55 pages of mad satire and invention.

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:13 pm    Post subject:

Oi!

(Sorry Jean, not you )

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:17 pm    Post subject:

at least you found a proper fish icon !!

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:17 pm    Post subject:

The All-Out-War thread. What was it called now? Seahenge?_________________

John

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:25 pm    Post subject:

How about the thread where we all told each other what the waether had been in our particular area that day??

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:28 pm    Post subject:

Blimey Valerie! You’ve been north of the border that long you’re spelling with an accent! “Waether”

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:31 pm    Post subject:

Touche – teach me to pull you up on your spelling!

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:41 pm    Post subject:

Now…. Is the whale a fish or a mammal ?

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:43 pm    Post subject:

Technically a mammal as it breathes air whereas a fish has gills…..or is this a trick question

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:01 pm    Post subject:

No, no the question was whether a shark is a fish

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:04 pm    Post subject:

Yes it is, as it has gills.

Unless you’re on about Loan Sharks

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:08 pm    Post subject:

Wrong!

There was a very long argument between Mandy – who works at the Natural History Museum and presumably knows a thing or two about taxonomy – who said sharks were a category of their own and could not be classified as fish – and Eddie Mallet who said exactly what you said

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:14 pm    Post subject:

To a layman a shark is classed as a fish, just as a butterfly is an insect. All different species can be classified into various categories within their ‘type’. Mammals Reptiles Insects Fish Birds

etc

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:19 pm    Post subject:

Go argue with Mandy – see how far you get

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:22 pm    Post subject:

Too late for that – I know I’m right
Ahem…

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:24 pm    Post subject:

It took Eddie about three weeks before he gave in!!

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:32 pm    Post subject:

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:50 pm    Post subject:

Correction – Eddie never gave in, just gave up arguing!

Mandy woz rite – Sharks are not fish! If you want an argument and can follow cladistics – argue away!

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:59 pm    Post subject:

Hmmm, cladistics….. Is that the system where you can succesfully argue that a banana is a fish? (See Discworld books for comic asides about this)_________________

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:45 pm    Post subject:

That argument between Mandy and Eddie was one of the funniest things I have ever read. Saying that it wasnt an argument, more of a lesson. The stuff about Seahenge was monsterous.

Lesley, does Mandy know of this place? Most of thre urls I posted were removed.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:01 pm    Post subject:

Missed that one, but I do remember Mandy’s tour de force when she had to stand up and defend TT (virtually single-handedly) against the rather aggressive postings of some of the tree-hugging community – when a certain major discovery on the North Norfolk coast was featured in a TT Special. It actually became unlucky to mention it by name ever after! (a bit like ‘The Scottish Play’). And whatever happened to Mangelworzel Moonbeam?_________________

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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:21 pm    Post subject:

Valerie wrote:

No, no the question was whether a shark is a fish

Yep sorry, my mistake

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:11 pm    Post subject:

A shark is a fish.