He appears to be laying cable for a fibre-optic network.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
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They both look like pervs to me.
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It helps to know that back in the days, Gabbitas & Thring was the name of the leading UK teacher-recruitment company.
Now they're Gabbitas, Truman & Thring and they call themselves "educational consultants", which somehow isn't so funny.
See, here's the deal with this whole...
Hang on. My gabbitas is thringing....
Will get moose and squirrel this time!
I'm beginning to fear that the forest is like a small hadron collider, and while Thring creeps around one way and Gabbitas creeps around the other, Gabbitas was actually an anti-Thring and when they eventually collided the annihilated in a burst of pure nincompoopery so powerful it rendered our hosts unable to function, hence the rather static nature of Riddled HQ these days....
a burst of pure nincompoopery so powerful it rendered our hosts unable to function
It can't have been the akvavit!
Mikey should know from noncompoopery.
Indeed, I did my postdoc studies in nimcompoopery, focusing primarily on it's cosmological manifestations and impact on stellar lifecycles.
'Cause those interstellar exercise bikes are awesome!
Apropos of the illustration, thanks for the unexpected burst of Ronald Searle: I've got a marvellous novel from the 1950s illustrated by him, and he manages to sum up and ridicule the genteel englishman wonderfully well.
Inspired by the recent celebration of his 90th birthday.
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