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Slowly, slowly, catchee fish
30 March 2009
Letters. You well two of you write them. We publish them. Its what makes the World go round. If the wait to Town's next game seems long, its not the tension of wondering if we'll still be supporting a league team in August. It is the very slow rotation of the Earth caused by just two people writing us letters.Help them out it will make the time fly by.
Another entry for the Grimsby Grimmo Dictionary
Derivation of kaylie, folks: Comes from Arabic, orignally, and signifies soda, as in al-kali How's that for boring? Wot about 'goodies'?
from David Field
Letters Ed responds: My fingers are hovering over some feeble pun based on the name of a well known Australian singer and former soap actor, but the style guide forbids it. Think yourselves lucky, lucky lucky lucky...
Sourcing plastic fish
Does anyone know where I can purchase Harry Haddock from? Hopefully this time without an air leak, which in part, added to the ruination of the British economy.
How?
I'd bought Harry H for my youngest and he proudly carried under his arm as we walked to an away game at Wednesday on a Tuesday night (Do keep up.) I'm not sure of the year, but it was the game where the two Wednesday Italians couldn't work out the off side trap when taking a short corner. Yes, that the game.
My mate said he knew a car park in the area, and by the time we walked a half hour from car park to Hillsborough, I figured we parked in Rotherham.
So my son, decided that HH needed some more air but unfortunately the valve was, anatomically speaking, where the sun don't shine, much to the merriment of a bunch of Yorkies outside a chippy. You can imagine the comments. My son went red, and I noticed that HH disappeared never to be seen again.
Fast forward a decade and a half or so and he works at one of the major banks which brought the country to its knees. You see, you can blame Yorkies for everything if you try hard enough! But I digress...
So if there's somebody who can help procurement of HH, I can start teaching my granddaughter the chants whilst waving HH about. She's well into all the kiddy songs, like "The wheels on the bus" , "Head Shoulder Knees and Toes" and her favourite, "In the Yorkshire Slums".
And finally a message for Mr. Chris Parrot. The test of a great surname is not the Consonant to Vowel ratio, but a more scientific approach: points scored at Scrabble! Mine would score a hefty 35 points. That must be Premiership division you have to admit. Parrot, well, that's a 9 pointer. Mmmmmmmm... Conference league?
from Jan Przeniczny
Letters Ed responds: ... and couldn't a revival of the inflatables at football fad be the way to reverse the collapse of the British economy? Pumping out 7,000 haddocks will soon get the wheels of industry turning.
David and Jan have made up in quality what we were lacking in quantity this fortnight, but lets have a bit of both next time around, eh? Get writing