My 'puter is broken.

Then you better put some lead in your pencil, or some ink in your pen and entertain yourself the old fashioned way.

My 'puter is broken.

Then you better put some lead in your pencil, or some ink in your pen and entertain yourself the old fashioned way.

Poor PING.

Borra mine when I getz dere dis Saturday.

Catchez moi, matey.

Happens when you visit all those xrated sites I guess.

Right now there is a freaking tropical rainstorm here......

RED IS IN 'DA HOUSE!!!!!! :D

Het dude, missed you pal.... What's happening fella.....?

Yo Red, my man, how the he11 are you? Haven't seen you for ages...

Haha, well my good man, I am well. I trust you're keeping out of mischief.....?

redrus

As ever mate, as ever...

Don't know whether to believe you or not...

Just as a note for you guys in this part of TV. We're going to be in SEA from the 15th of December to the 14th of January and, have set up tentative meetings with Mr Bojangles and ThaiPauly. Be nice to know who else is around too, while we're on our travels. We fly into KL, then to Bali then back to KL to work our way up from there. I know its not always possible or easy but it'd be nice.............

redrus

Norman Painting, who played Philip Archer in the much-loved radio show The Archers since its trial run in 1950, has died aged 85, the BBC said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandra...chers-dies.html

NIGEL JOHNSON-HILL, PARKFARM, MILLAND, LIPHOOK GU30 7JT

Rt Hon David Miliband MP

Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),

Nobel House

17 Smith Square

London

SW1P 3JR

16 July 2009

Dear Secretary of State,

My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque

for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs.. I would now like to join the “not rearing pigs” business.

In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to rear pigs on, and which is the best breed of pigs not to rear? I want to be sure I approach this endeavour in keeping with all government policies, as dictated by the EU under the Common Agricultural Policy.

I would prefer not to rear bacon pigs, but if this is not the type you want not rearing, I will just as gladly not rear porkers. Are there any advantages in not rearing rare breeds such as Saddlebacks or

Gloucester Old Spots, or are there too many people already not rearing these?

As I see it, the hardest part of this programme will be keeping an accurate record of how many pigs I haven’t reared. Are there any Government or Local Authority courses on this?

My friend is very satisfied with this business. He has been rearing pigs for forty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in 1968. That is - until this year, when he received a cheque

for not rearing any.

If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 pigs not raised, which will mean about

£240,000 for the first year. As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious, perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not reared in my second year, for which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department.. Incidentally, I wonder if I would be eligible to receive tradable carbon credits for all these pigs not producing harmful and polluting methane gases?

Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tonnes of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops. Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to

not feed the pigs I don’t rear?

I am also considering the “not milking cows” business, so please send any information you have on that too. Please could you also include the current Defra advice on set aside fields? Can this be done on an e-commerce basis with virtual fields (of which I seem to have several thousand hectares)?

In view of the above you will realise that I will be totally unemployed, and will therefore qualify for unemployment benefits. I shall of course be voting for your party at the next general election.

Yours faithfully,

Nigel Johnson-Hill

:D :D

Fantastic!!

Check this Tigs! Hogshead at the Empress

that's a cool link. He's so cute...

I agree, the pig is cool too!

juzzz wents to the sevens and see the girl, hairy arms agains. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

Burp.....

Did you sleep well Alex?

In the arms of Morpheus ......... there is no spoon.

:sheesy:

Is this the creative thoughts thread?

Calliope?

cellotape ?

Cantaloupe

Did you sleep well Alex?

Yeah, sort of.

Dunno what it is it is just sort of ya know.

Who did that....

On This Day

1814 - Adolphe (Antoine) Sax, the inventor of the saxophone and saxotromba, was born.

1854 - Composer & inventor of the sousaphone John Philip Sousa was born.

..bu I don't know when micro, vibra & tele were born.

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On This Day

1814 - Adolphe (Antoine) Sax, the inventor of the saxophone and saxotromba, was born.

Happy birthday oh genius.

Weird that. I haven't been on this thread for ages but something drawn me to it just now

I call my girlfriend Hinges

cos she's something to a door......

..and on that note..

You're a knob Ken.

knobbly bits.

It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing every time you gave them shelter...

Why, Tigs, do you make me revisit my past? It's been over three years since I did that stuff.

I still miss it.

I have nothing to say, so I thought I would randomly throw in this post to make an even 7,000.

I'll throw this post in to check how many I've got.

When checking for the number, don't forget to cough.