Chappaquiddick Ted dead

Quick, get me a beer.

Is there any real reason why this thread survives on page 1. Oh yeah, cos I just bumped it.

Colour me stupid, but what is bumping?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1NK85Z_uiU

Look and learn....

Nerky it's too late and I'm not even going to think of asking what that clip has to do with anything outside the Kennedy assassination, and that's a stretch.

He's trying to tell you what a f*cking bump is!!!!!!

A bump is when a thread has dropped down the list and someone wants it brought back to attention - so they usually don't post anything of value, just that their post brings the thread back to the top of the pile.

On C4 the Tas-NSW Pura Cup Final (2007?) stayed on P1 for at least 18 months, and might have still been there at the very end (when the lunatics finally burned the asyluim down).

Well I'm an IT moron and just figured you could reply to a post on a thread and it would turn up at the top. Sorry for living.

bash

Bradman wrote:Duck egg blue is Rugby old chap. Winchester had a reputation as being the worst, and it did produce Douglas Jardine. Probably the origin of his emnity with Plum.

Rugby back then was a finshing school for rich layabouts. I only went there because my Grandfather threatened to cut me out of his will if i didn't.

Apologies once again, Bradders, for my faux pas. I hope you or your folks got Grandad to cough up the fees too. I see Giles Clarke went to Rugby along with Neville Chamberlain and the bloke who surrendered Singapore along with 200,000 British and Commonwealth troops to the tender mercies of the Japanese in 1942 without virtually firing a shot. Says it all, really.

Any Test players? Nearest I can find is Ian Bell who went to Princethorpe, the Catholic equivalent of Rugby.

Re James Bond. Wiki (for what it's worth) has the following:

Later, he briefly attends Eton College at "12 or thereabouts" (13 in Young Bond), but is removed after four halves because of girl trouble with a maid. He reminisces about losing his virginity at sixteen, on a first visit to Paris, in the short story "From a View to a Kill". Bond is removed from Eton and sent to Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland, his father's school. Per Pearson's James Bond: The Authorised Biography and an allusion in From Russia with Love, Bond briefly attended the University of Geneva. Some of Bond's education is based on Fleming's own, both having attended Eton, and the University of Geneva.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(character)

Fettes, known as "the Scottish Eton", was the school attended, inter alii, by Tony Blair. Fleming's wife had a longstanding affair with Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party Leader 1955-63, an Old Wykehamist (he went to Winchester).

Bradman wrote:
Rugby back then was a finshing school for rich layabouts. I only went there because my Grandfather threatened to cut me out of his will if i didn't.

It seems to have worked a treat

Plum was an old boy. And Singapore wasn't exactly a shining example of Australian commander's integrity. At least Percival didn't run away.

G.Wood wrote:

Bradman wrote:
Rugby back then was a finshing school for rich layabouts. I only went there because my Grandfather threatened to cut me out of his will if i didn't.

It seems to have worked a treat

I don't apologise for being rich. At least I earned it the old fashioned way. I inherited most of it.

Bradman wrote:

G.Wood wrote:

Bradman wrote:
Rugby back then was a finshing school for rich layabouts. I only went there because my Grandfather threatened to cut me out of his will if i didn't.

It seems to have worked a treat

I don't apologise for being rich. At least I earned it the old fashioned way. I inherited most of it.

It is funny that you took umbridge at the rich part rather than the layabout part. Chippies are strange.

(I don't have an issue with either quality)

Me neither which is why I mentioned it. And I wasn't sure which quality you were alluding too though. Being rich is precondition for being a layabout, unless you're one of these idiots who think too much is never enough. I can't believe James Packer or Rupert Murdoch still work. How many Gulfstreams can you fly at one time?

It was a compliment actually - you do the rich layabout thing exceptionally well.

And aye re the rest - always beenmy desire to acquire enough money to do nothing. Defeats the purpose to have shed loads and then continue to work.
I'll just have to be content with being paid to do nothing

Bradman wrote:And a drunk, a three pack a day man and a misogynist. Metinks you don't have to go too far past the author to find the inspiration for Bond.

Fleming worked for naval intelligence during the war, where he got to see and draw up plans for espionage but never got out from behind the desk.

Fleming created Bond in order to fictionally live out his dreams of being a field agent.

I don't think there was ever a "real James Bond" out there who contributed more to the character's personality than Fleming himself.

Aye. I think Dieppe was his idea. Well his and a bunch of other fools including Mountbatten. Though I thought Fleming served as field spook in NYC during WW11.

Not exactly a hardship posting.....but?