General Chat

I posted on 2 threads and the one I posted on first is nearer the top than the one I posted on 2nd and nobody else has posted.Not the first time I noticed this recently. Unless there is a supersonic phantom nudger about

Nope they are totally out of sync - have been all day lol The threads are not moving up as they get added to .........

It's been like that for a while. It's getting worse. I wish it was a supersonic phantom nudger lol

so its not just me cracking up then lol

Nope lol

starting to get confused what have I read? what havent I read? what have I added to? what havent I added to? if they stayed in order I would know where I am

LLC, try going to bed, say your preys and hope that tomorrow brings normality to the threads. xxx

Phantom nudger's or Ghost writers? (quietly ponders and wonders if this will appear on page 15 of the Trying to Find board?)

wouldnt mind being on page 3 myself

My OH said I used to possess the body of a Greek God and the brains of a Greek Goat. But only one of those adages applies these days. Wonder which one she means ?

-100 or there aboot

lol so what is the IQ of a greek goat?

100 ono ! That much! Rushes off to tell the Domestic Operative Goddess the good news.

BTW that was 100 below zero! evererage human IQ is 100 above zero!! (says the girl with the variable IQ!) Just be glad she never said the body of a greek goat and the mind of a greek G_d, you'd be cursing us all and setting mythacal creatures after us.

Also a lot of the times within threads are out of order too! Wonder exactly what work they're doing on the site to cause this??!! Mandy :)

Lunar, Dinnae panic hen, I'll no be unleashing of the beasts of Hades roond here. Sleep well ma dear.

Hi Mandy, Nice to see a fellow Moonraker on here. I was born in Devizes and bread off the Coop but am now living in exile on the South Coast. Barry

Hi Barry That's so funny - it's the second time I've heard that phrase in two days on here, and I'd never heard it before! Sadly, I'm not a true moonraker. I'm a Devonshire Dumpling originally, exiled in Cider Country for the last 17 years. Just moved over the border and we like it here very much. Mandy :)

Hi Barry Having not heard the expression before yesterday, I googled and got a similar story but the place was different. Can't remember it at this time of night, so I'll just go and find the other thread and then come back lol! Mandy :) PS: One of my son's friends lives in Devizes. UPDATE: Just checked and it said Bishops Canning. Now I'll have to go look on Multimap to see where that is :))

Hi Mandy, The expression Moonraker derives from the legend of a group of alleged smugglers dressed as farmhands(the smocks and large wooden rakes etc) hid there contraband in the Crammer ( a large pond) opposite St James' Church in Devizes. When they were in the process of recovering the contraband by raking under the water, they were challenge by the local police/customs officers as to what they were up to in the middle of the night? Seeing the reflection of the moon on the surface of the water they replied that they were after the big round cheese in the water! The authorities called them daft so and so's and went on there merry way. Subsequently the 'smugglers retrieved their contraband. Ever since Wiltshire folk in general and more so the residents of Devizes have been known as Moonrakers. Then there's Ruth Pearce, who's sudden and sad demise is commemorated on the Market Cross in the Market Place as a warning to all who take the Lord's name in vain. But that's another story...............