h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Aha!! Yes, I'd forgotten how many members of the family "Disgusted" live in Tunbridge Wells For no particular reason, I am now totally UNABLE to cease re-playing in my head a 2 Ronnies sketch set in an Indian restaurant and including the immortal line "Dix gustings??? That's an awful lot of Gustings ..... "

Thank you, Ronnie Barker, and goodnight

Aha!! Yes, I'd forgotten how many members of the family "Disgusted" live in Tunbridge Wells For no particular reason, I am now totally UNABLE to cease re-playing in my head a 2 Ronnies sketch set in an Indian restaurant and including the immortal line "Dix gustings??? That's an awful lot of Gustings ..... "

Thank you, Ronnie Barker, and goodnight

Did something just occur Baggy, have we been revenged for casting a Slurr upon the good name of the Prols of West Kent?

(or triple)

Think it might be as a result of a 'Send' button with a mind of its own!

Let us see, Tunbridge Wells claims to fame, hmmmmmmmm..........

Regency New Spa Town founded on discovery of iron spring claimed by member of aristocracy (an obvious lie). Originaly a camp site for the drug taking rich and their whores to gamble on illicit horse racing. Royal patronage saw town grow to two seperate sites, which later merge into one. Two very poor quality Bath type crescents and a smattering of Decimus Burton properties including Church now local Habitat store.
The main tourist attraction is a lime tree lined regency colonade of shops, tea rooms and the dippers hall where the rusty water can be sampled for 50p a glass.

Local Council sold the towns natural water rights to neighbouring town council to pay for local swimming pool, then paid for water to fill it for ever after.

These people are stupid.

yes of course britain has gone mad it is like a mad house

Update to last entry.....

They have sold the property which houses the local Registry Offices to a Property developer for some money, who is then going to lease it back to them for a lot more money. Don't get down wind of a Conservative Councellor is all we have to say.....

Let me guess .... the former Registry Office is now set to be divided into two properties sharing the same building - possibly an IVF centre and an abortion clinic???
This would surely be conclusive proof of the madness which is affecting our once-proud British heritage .....

Or may'be it goes to show that we'd all be a lot better off if a certain Grocer had sold his daughter to the bloke with the camel instead of letting her go into politics.

... But wait!!! Wouldn't that simply have resulted in an earlier incarnation of Phoney Tony [or some indistinguishable clone of same ] being left in charge of the nuthouse instead??

May'be so, but then there would be several BRITISH communities still around instead of being ground into the dust and tax payers monies would have stayed tax payers money and not turned into huge bonus's in the pockets of the FAT CATS who rode on HER tailcoat.

Tony may be a blot on the landscape, but Mad Maggie was a blight. That's a whole heap worse, if your honest.

Wasn't it Napoleon who accused the British of being "A nation of shopkeepers"

Seems to me that by and large we've managed pretty well as a nation since his time ...

Perhaps Maggie (or someone else with a small businessman's knack for good bookkeeping?) was actually just what was NEEDED at the time - even if it turned into an 'overkill' situation before she was finished

Margaret Thatcher is a large part of the reason I no longer live in England. She began the process of a destruction of the fabric of English society that has lead to a comprehensive erosion of civil liberties, economic and social standards. If she was a necessary cure, I'd take the disease anytime.

The best bit was her manouvering "Little Willie into the leadership", What an own goal he was!

And why? because John Major wasn't the "Yes Maam, man she took him for"

At least JM was (according to reliable sources) enough of an ENGLISHMAN to have some skill as a cricketer ... instead of pretending to be 'sporty' enough to appear "cool" with PR stunts built around whichever sport happens to be headline news at any given moment in time. Tony Blair doesn't know the difference between a tennis racquet and a goal post!!!

HA,HA,good one!

Thanx - glad it made you

We know, and he isn't even a tiddlywinks player either. Ted could sail a yacht, play the piano and conduct an Orchestra, but that was because he was a statesman. JM had some dignity too, he only alluded to scapegoating single parent families for the woes of the economy. What an outstanding moral point, and to think he ran away from the circus too. Kissing General Pinoccio's butt was a bit beneath him though, but our Maggie loved every bit of it.