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Thread ID: 41380	2004-01-09 03:27:00	WFTWE #84...Brummagem...Pity about Beagle! Wonder if they called the RSPCA?	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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206216	2004-01-09 03:27:00	Brummagem Making an imposing display but with little of worth to show for it; showy but useless. I feel sorry for the poms, they tried hard to get there ahead of the US this time, and as the days of silence from Mars went went by, no doubt there was much catarolysis in their camp (cursing to let off steam) and a great deal of hadeharia (constant use of the word 'hell'). When the team has to appear before their masters to explain this ignominious failure, no doubt there will be copious maschalephidrosis involved (massive sweating of the armpits). Cheers Billy 8-{) :| Yes folks, it's a quadruple dip weekend. :D Talk about value for money!	Billy T (70)
206217	2004-01-09 03:49:00	Oh dear, and all these years I thought it was Midlands for Birmingham, so have many millions of other Brummies :) Now I really dont know where I came from :(	Terry Porritt (14)
206218	2004-01-09 07:12:00	Ah-ha, now my brain cells are beginning to work. Brummagem is also the slang for, or derived from the cheap goods, enamel ware, broaches, beads and other stuff that was used for conning the natives out of their pearls, gold and other valuables in outlandish places. Quote from John Masefield: ........ Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting up the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rail, pig-lead, Firewood, ironware and cheap tin trays. (made in Brummagem of course) Brass ware, cannon, enamelled broaches, buttons & whathave you were made in Brum. Not forgetting the motorbikes of course.	Terry Porritt (14)
206219	2004-01-09 07:58:00	Hey I see they have found the Mars Beagle2 sitting pretty much where they expected it to be... Mars Beagle2 (sal.neoburn.net) Cheers, Babe.	Babe Ruth (416)
206220	2004-01-09 08:00:00	Ah, yes, well! It is an old name for Birmingham Terry, but unfortunately the background to that sobriquet is closely related to the meaning of this week's word. No offence intended of course, I am sure Birmingham had very little to do with the Silence of the Beagle. Cheers Billy 8-{) :) Maybe one day they will make a film of this disaster, with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role as a seriously disturbed space scientist who cannibalised the guidance system for his own pet project! :D	Billy T (70)
206221	2004-01-09 08:02:00	> Hey I see they have found the Mars Beagle2 sitting > pretty much where they expected it to be... > > Mars Beagle2 (sal.neoburn.net > e.jpg) LOL! hehehe :D :D	stu140103 (137)
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