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Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: March 17, 2003 04:39PM

Anybody know where I can order my handcart from? I need to sort out some travel arrangements...



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 17, 2003 10:51PM

Please define handcart a bit more clearly.

Taken too literally, you shouldn't need something too big...., but then how would you pull it ? Or are you intending to transport other people's hands ?
Rather a specialist market, I would have thought.

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: March 18, 2003 12:01AM

Nope, we're all going...



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 18, 2003 12:31PM

We're all going on a summer holiday,
No more working for a week or two.

*Huge red bus driven by singing man runs over PSD pushing handcart. Singing man later prosecuted for careless driving*

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: March 18, 2003 12:40PM

I thought they went to Spain? We're all off to Norway...

(btw, see an explanation at the first URL to ever make me laugh out loud - [www.hell.no] or less amusingly [www.wikipedia.org])



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: Simon (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: March 18, 2003 01:12PM

George Bradshaw (the original creator of Bradshaw's Railway Guides) died while visiting Norway... Admittedly that was in 1859, and catching 'Asiatic Colera' there is probably less likely nowadays...

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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: March 18, 2003 01:14PM

Dunno - those lemmings could be carrying anything... And where have the little blighters hidden their hair dye of mass distraction? (Anybody missing Lemmings should try googling for flea circus - a copy cat java game that is mildly amusing for a while)



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 18, 2003 08:23PM

Cliff and friends went to Greece and I'm not ashamed of knowing it. However, I don't remember them meeting any lemmings on the way.

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: March 18, 2003 08:50PM

Anyway, I thought it was a handbasket one travelled to the underworld in?



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: March 18, 2003 09:39PM

Might be, for northern types.

You certainly won't get there by British Rail...



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: Skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 18, 2003 09:57PM

A friend of mine does IT stuff for a bank. He visited their Spanish website and tranlated it into English through Babelfish. For some reason, one financial word (investment, we think) was persistantly translated as 'bottom'. The headline offering advice on your 'Basket of Bottoms' was a particular favourite.

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 04:43PM

I would have thought the underworld was about the one place BR *could*
be relied on to get you to. Every single time.


Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 05:08PM

I've just taken my underwired bra off.
God, I feel better

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: March 19, 2003 05:33PM

errm, right. Well done that skiffle. It's always good to be comfy. I can't wait to get home and get this suit off.

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 05:42PM

*snaps immediately into professional mode*

Which style was it? Did you have the fastening on the right setting and the straps the right length? I won't ask if you're in the right size, because after all I measured you myself! :-)

Oh, and just to avoid frightening anyone, I promise not to remove any of my own clothing for the next three or four hours or so, with the possible exception of my jacket.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: March 19, 2003 06:18PM

underwire bras were obviously designed by a crazed sadistic male.
underwires are evil...PURE EVIL!!!

Of course, given my druthers, I'd run around without a bra at all. But parents of small children tend to complain when the kids flee in horror. There have been reports of repetetive nightmares.

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 07:48PM

I was much happier in the sports bra I bought; designed for plenty of support and no damn wires anywhere. Seem to have left it at Sarah's though.
Sarah; it's the purple bra. Sorry I can't be more technical, but it's upstairs and I can't be bothered to go check.

Re unsupported life. A quote from dreamy 70's sitcom 'Butterflies'.
Middle-aged heroine has tried going braless and comments that when she ran for the bus, she felt as if something had escaped.

Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 08:31PM

Surveys suggest 70%+ of women are in the wrong size bra. A wrong size underwire must be hell. So what do you do? You ask someone in a shop to fit you. Most of them have never been trained and don't have the faintest. You leave no better off and think it's your fault. Help is on the site ---

Two anecdotes.

A woman who worked for me (not Sarah) told me that she went to a chain store and asked for 'Something nice in 34AA'. The response was laughter, and the immortal line, 'What do you want a nice bra for? You've got nothing to put in it!' Women are so kind to each other about their bodies.

A 34G customer remarked on the range of large cup sizes in my shop. I asked if she had seen a comparable range anywhere else. 'The last shop I went to said they didn't stock things for fat people,' she replied. 34 is not fat, in fact 36 is more common these days. 'G' is often beyond the wearers' control. If women are going to be insulted on a personal level, why does the industry expect them to get fitted? Then there was the bra shop in Nottingham run by a lesbian ---

I suspect that if you havn't worn an underwire for a long time it takes some getting used to, and if you have ever unknowingly worn the wrong size for any length of time it disillusions you about underwires, but as I have no experience in this regard I'll leave that to Sarah.

This was a thread about handcarts, surely shome mishtake?


Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 08:54PM

If I'd known it was one of *those* sort of fforums I'd have worn something looser.

How much am I offered to shut up before I start talking about my underwear?



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Re: Handcart Suppliers...
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: March 19, 2003 09:10PM

*hurriedly rummages through pockets for change*

I've got 50p, will that do?

At least you're wearing underwear.... ;-)

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