I'd rather not answer this direct question but if I'm truthful most of the material in the quiz is way above my knowledge base.
I hope you're happy at exposing my vulnerabilities, the Gentry on the website will now treat me as a mere equal.

Or in my case it is reminiscent of the famous sketch with Ronnie, Ronnie and John Cleese;
I know my place….

"I hope you're happy at exposing my vulnerabilities"

Makes a change from what Lord Varley exposes.

:)

A mere equal? Have you enough sleeve for that braid?

(The winter makes it rather uncomfortable to reveal my vulnerables. Makes'em difficult to find, too).

So Manxman don't have three legs?

You should see him doing his Tripod impressions.

You should see him doing his Tripod impressions.

Indeed, he was a hoot at the Ramsey Young Conservatives Charades Night. Lady Peel thought a tripod had something to do with a Menage a troi and the evening took a turn for the better.

Lady Peel was heard to remark "is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me"?

Hi Varley..I thought i had seen you somewhere before, was you a film extra in one flew over the cuckoo's nest?

I am much flattered but the good ladies would be disappointed. (I offer my Finish credentials in support).

It is not the cuckoos or boatistas that overfly the Sceptered isle that one should watch for but the ill-intentioned ones who seek asylum in our already overcrowded nest. Worse still the cuckoo does it in order to breed. A practice that regardless of aerobatic prowess in the parent should be better controlled.

Does that mean you were in the film or not?

Obviously not. The only extra quality I have is a little subcutaneous adiposity about the middle. Otherwise I am all star material.

Its a beer gut.

Ey up in Yorkshire it's a fat lad.

Perhaps a Fat Bass Tad in Hull?

Perhaps a wooden fat Bass Tad in Dublin.

I am passing through Dublin tomorrow (5.30 am) will i catch last orders, i am on route to Ballinamore. for the fishing.

Alas I fear Mr Varley is just being modest, he IS a big star, its just the movies that got smaller. :applause:

You're going to be caught in the Holy Hour, that time between late pubs closing and early pubs opening. But the airport is a law unto itself.

I hope you have good fishing and return the pike, not like our European friends who keep them and eat them. Jolly unsporting. Good luck on Lake Garadice.

A law unto itself? A traveller would have hoped the writ of some sort of CAA, heathen or otherwise would run there. I suppose for the observer independence might sound more fun but the flyer might not consider that end as highly as some more formal arrangement of air traffic control.

Ey up. No airports for me,i went by Stena special guest free bed free drink free grub,and on time.....The fish i catch will be too big to fit in my van so i will put them all back.

you should have seen the one that got away...HIC!

This morning there was a one armed man fishing the Ballinamore canal, i said to him have you caught any off any size, he stuck out his one arm and said, i caught one around this big ha ha ha .

:applause::applause:

I know Ballinamore is on a canal but we'll never get GD2 up that far. May I suggest we berth in Limerick Docks and Rusty puts his wee van on an old Guinness barge and sails (drifts) down the broad, majestic Shannon. He can be stulchened aboard and we can set sail for Spurn Head, pronto.

Dont let me drive, i once crashed a carrick craft boat big time into the wall at boyle canal, what a mess.

(wonder if they still hire out boats on the Shannon. Would love to spend a week on one cruising).(got to be less crowded than the Norfolk Broads) ??

Norfolk Broads; is that a palindrome? or perhaps an anagram or even a caricature? GCSE English was not lost on you.

If you are going to put up GD for hire then will we offer accommodation too? Had you used the less lubberly term for such a venture we could have advertised charter parties. We better get a Hamworthy man out to check over the Trident - wouldn't want the drinkers of Guinness or Bothiebathjuice to get the slightest tincture of alimentary-brown with their daily rations.

(Be careful with difficult words. If our Western cousins hear we have sighted a palindrome they will probably want to shoot it down).

Balloon sighted over Ireland
 

Balloon sighted over Ireland

Tmax would have caught it had he not run out of petrol.

Hope they don't shoot it down over the town of Navan.

They wouldn't risk hitting a mine would they?

I've loaded manys a ship with ore from Boliden Tara Mines near Navan and all dispatched to Kokkola in Finland.

I wonder if similar geology to Laxey. Same products.

(Some bowdlerizing woke bastard has now relabelled me as enormous).

Was it me?.....it is not relabelling is it, come on.

No Woke here you fat fucker.

OK I'll take 10 days suspension.

Chased that bloody thing for miles, gave up and went to the pub :jester:

When I first read that I thought you had misspelt the second word and had two letters wrong :balloon:

Oh dear the "wokery" will chastise you my lad, you should have used BUFF and maybe got away with it :wink: