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Howard Brown
Chief Inspector
Username: Howard
Post Number: 554
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 1:11 am: | 
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First they messed with gasoline and made it unleaded....then they took the pre-eminence of the guitar out of music...now this.
When's it gonna stop,folks ?
The end of the Loo.... in Britain ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/696115.stm
HowBrown
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Phil Hill
Chief Inspector
Username: Phil
Post Number: 641
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 1:50 am: |
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It was inevitable.
Under EU regulations shortly to be announced it will be illegal for any one to go to the toilet (without prior approval form four-fifths of member states at Interior Minister level).
EU Directive 05/Flusing/9/87/654/32/1
The rules will apply incontinentally.
Personally, I'm off for a hot flush.
Cya
Phil |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 1835
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 5:11 am: |
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Hi How, Phil,
As with Thomas Crapper, I am always coming across people who have coincidentally appropriate names for their profession.
An expert on tidal waves who appeared on tv this year was called Waverly Person - I kid you not.
Anyone found any others?
Love,
Caz
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Maria Giordano
Inspector
Username: Mariag
Post Number: 423
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 9:26 pm: |
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In the States we switched to those low flush monstrosities many years ago and I'm here to tell ya-- go out and stockpile the big tank loos while you can. These new babies just don't do the job and I fail to see why having to flush 2 or three times is saving any water.
In my neck of the woods people do a brisk trade in contraband toilets from Canada, where they are much saner (at least in this area).
Mags
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Gareth W
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 9:26 am: |
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Caroline,
Some of my favourites - all genuine - are as follows:
Dr William Dement, Stanford psychobiologist
Rosetta Magnavacca (pig-Latin, "big pink cow"), traffic warden
Swindell & Phibbs, a firm of lawyers (in Ireland, IIRC)
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4539
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 10:23 am: |
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Not only do these new doll's house loos not do the job, but they get blocked too. I always use the downstairs one - older and more powerful.
If we have these ridiculous things imposed on us, I'm sure plucky little Britain will put up a sign : "Business as usual."
Robert |
David O'Flaherty
Chief Inspector
Username: Oberlin
Post Number: 927
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 11:24 am: |
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Robert,
Why not be a mover and shaker and take your case to The World Toilet Organization? This year's World Toilet Summit is to be in Belfast, you ought to protest. Get seven friends and you can call yourselves the T8 (T for Toilet).
Dave |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4540
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 11:37 am: |
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Good heavens! We could stage a sit-down protest, Dave - that should make a splash.
But if we fail to get on a roll I could just wash my hands of the whole affair! 
Robert |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 1851
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 5:09 am: |
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Hi Gareth,
I work for a firm of solicitors, and another one we sometimes have dealings with is called Wright Hassell.
I thought it was a wind-up when I first heard the name over the phone, but correspondence confirmed it.
Would you want a Wright Hassell every time you needed a solicitor's advice?
Hi Robert,
I've noticed there are no loos on the Casebook. From Inspector to Assistant Commissioner, none of us has anything to go on.
We need some sort of cistern before we can go through the motions.
Ballcocks alone won't help.
Love,
Caz
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4542
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 6:33 am: |
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Well Caz, I suppose you would say that the majority of us here on Casebook are men - fine upstanding men no doubt, but all too often we miss the target.
 Robert |
Jennifer D. Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 2559
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 7:14 am: |
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help us!!
the tones been lowered, as long as you didnt lower the lid before..
anyway ,
cant beat em join em!
"be just and fear not"
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4544
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 7:54 am: |
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Are these toilet fascists going to come round and rip out all our old loos? Are they going to disembowl us?
Robert |
Kelly Robinson
Inspector
Username: Kelly
Post Number: 159
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 11:39 am: |
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Hi Caroline,
my fave example of a person named well for their occupation comes from right here on th casebook site: computer guy and Ripperologist John Hacker. His name works for both!
-K
"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner
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Howard Brown
Chief Inspector
Username: Howard
Post Number: 580
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 8:11 pm: |
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....and speaking of Britain..
Whats this I hear about Brits having to pay to drive or at least discussion along these lines?
Don't you have tollroads [ like we do,where you have to pay to drive on Interstate highways...also called turnpikes] ???
I could understand paying to access a State [ like Pennsylvania or Florida ] road. However, if one didn't use that road, why would the average Brit have to pay for driving,in general, if they didn't use a road such as this?
Youse guys ain't Commies,are yez? Maybe I missed something on television....and if thats the case....then,
...tell me it ain't so...Comrade Pegg and Comrade Caz...and Comrade Coram !?!
I'd bet that all this pinko socialism started in Leicester,didn't it?
HowBrown
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Jane Coram
Inspector
Username: Jcoram
Post Number: 450
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 8:42 pm: |
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HI All,
On the subject of funny names, my rheumatologist is called Dr Walker Bone.......and she's brilliant!
Love Jane
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John Savage
Inspector
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 415
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 9:13 pm: |
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Brother Brown,
Of course we are not all commies here!
This idea for road tolls is just another silly weaze thought up by the capitalist running dogs who presently run the country, in order to squeaze more money out of our pockets.
Whilst we have but one toll road, and a few toll bridges/tunnels, we currently pay something called Road Tax, about £150 pounds a year, for the privelege of using the roads, and this is topped up with duty on fuel currently about £.90 per litre (USD1.62).
This latest daft idea, would see every car being fitted with a GPS system and mileage charged on a sliding scale according to how busy the road is. In return they offer a reduction of the other taxes. The government would then somehow have to collect this money!
I am at the moment working on drawings to turn my VW into something more like a stealth bomber in the hope that this would be invisible to their electronic wizadry.
Yours under the radar,
John |
Howard Brown
Chief Inspector
Username: Howard
Post Number: 582
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 10:26 pm: |
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Sir Gory....
$ 1.62 a gallon? I pay close to $ 2.75 and we don't kiss OPEC ass....we bury our face in it !
Yeah...the world's a mess. I have a 26 year old daughter,who along with her 26 year old husband,pay almost $3,500 a year for insurance. Thats no big deal,either. I know of single cats who pay as much.
We're getting it big time,John,right up the keister....and they don't even bother to give us a kiss.
Thats why I favor Lee Harvey Wescott's modus driverandus....a horse.
...and it ain't getting any better.
Where's my Clash T-shirt?
HowBrown
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4549
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 4:22 am: |
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Howard
Like everything else emanating from the authorities, it's a scam to raise money.
They've been preparing the ground for some time now for a tax on fatty foods - purely for our own good, of course.
They'll end up finding fat in lettuce.
Robert
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John Savage
Inspector
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 416
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 6:46 am: |
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No Howard,
$1.62 per LITRE. That works out nearer $7 a gallon.
Rgds
John |
c.d.
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:31 am: |
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And of course we can't forget the law firm made famous by The Three Stooges in their movies - Dewey, Cheatam and Howe. |
MalcolmLittle
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, June 27, 2005 - 7:49 am: |
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The loo thing was an april first joke wasn't it? hope so.... |
