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Sky Hooks etc...

Hello all,


I know most of the shops are now closed BUT, I need some sky hooks and green and yellow paint... I don't mind paying a bit more for these item's so... any ideas, please!?


regards

  • John Peckham:

    Tom


    I think you will find the sky hooks are on the shelf just above the skirting ladder and to the right of the tins of painters colic.


    In a former life we had a delightful admin assistant in our office, with the name of Tracy, who would search around and order up parts and equipment for us. At that time we had not grasped firmly the thorny branch of political correctness. She would often be asked to order up all the usual daft things that apprentices were asked to find. One of the tasks for my merry men was to maintain all the commercial catering equipment in the large 24 hour kitchen a lot of which was gas appliances plus other gas consuming plant. A lot of controls on the gas had tapered plug cocks to control the gas. These cocks would go sticky and leak from time to time. To rectify this the cocks were taken apart and cleaned out and re-greased with a special grease for use on gas. Tracy flatly refused to order up a couple of tins of "cock grease" when asked to do so. She was even more red faced when shown the empty tin and asked why she would not order some more. Tracy left some time after to work for the Abbey National Building Society.




    Haha, it's a great world... as long as you keep smiling! ?


    AH! I think I met her once, in the Abbey National, (now known as 'Santander'), and I wondered why she wasn't very bright!


    What my foremen did to ME, hahaha, when I was an apprentice would now be an arrestable offence/s, hahaha, wake up and smell the coffee, haha!


    regards... 

     

  • Oh well, it's past midday now so, I best own up, hahaha, it was a JOKE, (as if you lot were fooled, haha), as it's... Valentines day! ?


    regards...
  • engineers blue on your testing tickles Tom?

  • ebee:

    engineers blue on your testing tickles Tom?




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  • Back in the good old days, of proper trains with a paraffin tail lamp, It was common practice to send railway apprentices for "red oil for a tail lamp" this being a different material to the ordinary paraffin used in hand lamps and in the mess room heater.

  • ebee:

    engineers blue on your testing tickles Tom?




    I have heard tell that in parts of the world when the innocence of maidens is highly prized, a gentleman on his wedding night might paint his tackle blue. If she asks, "Are all gentlemen blue down below?" all well and good; but if she asks "Why the hell have you painted your todger?" ... ?

  • I have 10 Gallons of tartan paint if you want it oh also 50cwt of unicorn food
  • I heard once about a fitter who sent his apprentice to the store for a glass hammer. The storeman said, "I'm out of stock of those at the moment but I'll try to get one for Monday." The apprentice went back on Monday and was issued with a glass hammer, which he duly presented to the somewhat-amazed fitter.


    (The storeman had a friend who was a glass blower.)
  • Just to confuse that one even more there was a hammer with a sort of orange/yellow faces of perspex type stuff on the heads used for gentle taps in engineering workshops and it`s nickname was a glass hammer. but i prefer your glass hammer of actual glass, priceless!


  • Hi all,


    I'm ok for tartan paint, thank you very much, you see - my wife was half, (I never did find out what half of her was Scottish, damn), Scottish so that's coolio!


    I think the idea of a glass hammer is smashing!!


    I did look for a skirting ladder but, I think you're pulling my leg, (the left one), on this SO... what I do actually need is some cock grease, (sorry Lisa! ?), so I must bid you all fair well, for the mo!

     

    Don't forget to wash your hands, after reading these posts'! ?


    regards...