Recent developments in IT & spring cleaning mean I can now publish this, from around 1977.


COW-WATCH SENSATION

Police in Nottingham are investigating the escape of a mad cow from the confines of her byre, which is believed to be in the local Girl's High School, into the public eye.

Our photographer braved the sadistic glint in the beast's eyes to bring our readers this exclusive picture.




Readers with daughters of a secondary-schooling age, or whose daughters are about to reach that age, are warned of the cow's particular and peculiar tricks. Despite her hooves, this cow is trained to lift skirts, smack legs and wield a bamboo cane, though she is not necessarily able to perform all three together.

There are warrants out on the beast in respect of alleged offences of impersonating a human being and from the RSPCA regarding bringing bovines into disrepute.

Anyone with further information about the beast should contact their local abbatoir to make a prior appointment.






Sorry to say, I've bottled out of naming the old moo, in case it's still alive somewhere. I'd hate to get the forum closed down for libel!!


Teresa

Hi Teresa,

Curiosity gets the better of me! The NGHS doesn't seem to have a list of former Headmistresses and dates anywhere on the web so I can't check there, and I can't recognise her for sure from the picture. However, I suspect I may have encountered your bęte noire many years before you did. It wasn't Miss M*****d by any chance was it? If so I'm amazed she was still head in 1977!

Regards,

Another_Lurker

Typical teacher. All smiles,goodness and light to the public and parents. A miserable sadistic cow to the inmates.

Streuth Mate, that's got to be one frighteningly ugly Sheila if ever I seen one. Looks worse than my my Beryl when she takes her falsies (that's teeth to youse folks in the mother land) or when the beer's ran out and I've sobered up. Streuth, that's one ugly Sheila!

I'll bet she was the fastest draw in the west with a slipper and she probably has a picture book of bashed bums somewhere. Cripes mate, she's that frightening that when the cat saw her picture on the computer it buggered off at a hundred miles an hour out the door. Even faster than when Beryl foots it up the kyber pass.

And the kids all got a fright and ran for the hills! I just want to know one thing mate. When she haunts houses, does she charge by the room or the whole shack?

Peabody Fashionable Camberwell


Peabody Cow

Ah, well spotted, Big John MOI! Why didn't I think to look at the name of the image?

However, I'm still puzzled. I'd thought from Treesortees's (Teresa's) fourth posting on 17 June 2008 about a third of the way down the smacked legs thread that Ms Peabody was the alternatively persuasioned French Mistress whom Teresa suggested should be summoned when the question of disrobing for punishment appeared imminent, thus provoking the headmistress to even greater ire!

Clearly my critical faculties are becoming dimmed with old age. Maybe I'll stick to technical manuals in future and avoid the complexity of the learned and intricate discourses in this estimable forum. Or then again, maybe not!

A-L

Peabody was indeed Teresa's gym mistress, rather than bovine headmistress.

Unfortunately, Camberwell, where I was born, & other parts of South London were also full of Peabody buildings. I can't for the life of me remember who Peabody was, but will post here if I find it.

The amazing thing is that your standard 3=bedroom council flat therein is now worth around Ł200,000!!

Hopefully, Teresa will reveal her head's name!


Steve

That grin looks exactly like Derek the mo Skinners'!

the bouffant hairdo is remiscent of Myra Hindley!

Thanks for your confirmation Steve, I'd really begun to wonder if I was cracking up!

I think you readers are being very unkind. Obviously this is a very dedicated and caring women. I find it hard to believe all these stories of raised skirts, smacked legs and bottoms. Surely you are all telling porkies.

Where and when did all these alleged events actually occur? Was this an actual secondary girl's school or a fantasy school? Can anybody give one credible account of any girl being dealt with harshly by this women?

Having survived my own DRAGON, call it female intuition, anyone else see the resemblance of this poor women to a FERRET rather than that of a bovine species Someone should be getting their legs ,smacked hard, and well deserved.

Ketta

Well, I’ll be buggered!

If I read this right, Ketta is telling us that Steve M, Treesortees, Cow Features and the Black Ferret are one and the same person. It is this sort of behaviour that stops me from posting here very often. I do, however, still go to munchies especially those organised by that miserable woman and are held in Guildford.

For those who are determined to give ferrets a bad name, here are some examples of the compliments slips that go out with my e-bay sales.

The more astute amongst you will indeed realise that Steve M & the Blackferret are indeed one and the same & neither of them have claimed any different in 5 years of E-bay sales.






As you'll see, more life-enhancing with their comic nature than life-threatening, like Teresa's Headmistress.

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Steve M

Hi Mr Lurker

No, it was Lettie, or Let-me-cane you!

And her surname is not that far from the Lewis part of the John Lewis shopping list, especially if you replace the -is with -enz!


Regards


Teresa

Thank you Teresa, clearly not the headmistress I was thinking of.

It would appear that the person with whom you had your disagreements was still on the scene in 2006 - see a photograph here taken at a party held at the school on 23 May of that year to celebrate the retirement of the then chairman of the governors.

I am sure you will recognise the lady in question, but if not she is on the left of the photograph.

I can confirm that picture of Peabody/cow or whatever, is
authentic.
How do I know, because she dusted my girlfriend's knicker's
in 1973 or 74.
I'd recognize a face so grotesque anywhere.
The school was Nottingham Girls H S!
One point though, the eyes don't match a cow, maybe a hog.

I actually find her quite sexy. Bet she is a right goer....

Mr Lurker

Age hasn't improved her,then! Can't say the others in the pic look much fresher, either-all on their 2nd time on Earth, as someone once sang(Steve M might know who??)


Mr Mimi

I thought compliant younger women were your forte? If I wasn't happily catered for, you might be getting me coming after your iron discipline, specially with your French connections!!


Mr Lucky

Glad to hear I'm not the only sufferer left on Earth-hope your girl didn't get the cane from her. Bet she hasn't forgotten her, either!!


Teresa

TERESA

You were about 1 year old when that line was out in the hit parade!!!!

Clinton Ford-Fanlight Fanny(The Frowsy Nightclub Queen)on Piccadilly label in 1962.

Peaked at number 22 in its' 10-week chart run.


Steve

My foible is females around my own age. I did however cane and spank 24 and a 28 year old a couple of years back during a mutually enjoyable role play eession.

Re: An answer for you. Steve, that is truly amazing! As someone who has difficulty remembering what happened yesterday unless it is related to computers I am extremely envious of anyone who can recall that sort of detail over 46 years!

Lucky Jim: As a 'local' I find your revelation above regarding NGHS, and those by Treesortees (Teresa) in the 'smacked legs' thread here, most interesting. As a very academic girls' school it is probably the least likely place locally for corporal punishment to linger on into the 70's that I can imagine. This estimable forum does accept second-hand accounts if the original is not available. Is there any chance you might enlighten us as to what befell your then girl-friend in 1973/74 and the circumstances appertaining thereto?

Treesortees: Teresa, sorry to try your patience, but I'm still confused.

1. Is the person in your photograph in the first post of this thread the same person as in the picture I've linked above, i.e. the headmistress from 1967 to 1984?
   
   
2. If so, why is your picture called 'peabody' and who or what is or was 'peabody'?
   
   
3. Are you part of some deep conspiracy also involving Big John MOI and Steve M, both of whom seem to have links with Fashionable Camberwell and thus with some mysterious entity called 'Peabody'?

The latter question is of course tongue in cheek - I think!

A - L
your'e talking of my girlfriend in past tense terms, when in
fact she's my present day girlfriend.
Then you talk of the school in the 70s as in the present tense!
What other inaccuracies have you stated.
The school photo my girlfriend once showed me was from over thirty
years ago, people do alter.
My girlfriend also found out in her time at the school that the
French Teacher and The Gym Mistress were very fond of each other.
Incidentally she'd been spanked by both of them. for larking about.

Lucky Jim.

Blimey, more messages!!

Now, Mr Lurker, I'm going to show you why there's a tees in my name!


Answer to some of your questions:-

I wouldn't know Big John or Steve M from George Clooney-well, I would, but I'm sure that's only because they're both better looking!!

The original Peabody was in a book called How to Be Topp by Nigel Molesworth,written about 1954 by Ronald Searle(or illustrated by him). My dad chuckled over this at school & this is how I got the name.

In the book, the school gurlie is Fotheringham-Thomas & he has a sister called Arabella & this is her school song:

Ho for bat Ho for ball
Ho for hockey and lax and all
miss dennis is strict,
miss hamilton fair
But miss peabody (gym) is both strict and tall.

Our French teacher and our gym teacher were both strict, but only Lezbee Avenue en effet was aussi haute, or tall, as I'd normally say. So, that's why she was always Peabody to me.

The gym teacher & her-CHRIST! I wasn't even aware of that,so Mr Lucky's brought a new angle up, if that's the right phrase. Bloody hell-her face would stop a train-like a dog's bum with a hat on it, as Spike Milligan used to say!

And now, Mr Lurker, a question for you. Do you know what's missing from either of the Cowographs on this posting? It definitely oughta be there in mine & I don't know where it is & a replacement one would have been in order by the time of yours??


Teresa

Hi Teresa
I must confess I didn't know the answer to this, but why would I,
unfortunately I never attended the school.
There would be a few irate father's around if I had, not to
mention Steve M's department after me.
Teresa, I had to ask my girlfriend and it took her seconds
to inform me it was That Dog.

Lucky Jim.

I offer this information in reply to a question asked by Kelly who wrote the following: I offer the following Without Prejudice.

Kelly wrote:
I think you readers are being very unkind. Obviously this is a very dedicated and caring women. I find it hard to believe all these stories of raised skirts, smacked legs and bottoms. Surely you are all telling porkies.

Where and when did all these alleged events actually occur? Was this an actual secondary girl's school or a fantasy school? Can anybody give one credible account of any girl being dealt with harshly by this women?

__________________________

Please refer to the falling information:

Although the original post was a humorous post the information below is fact.

The lady in the photo was a genuine teacher.

Miss T (Suriname initial only) was the Assistant Headmistress of a secondary school in Wolverhampton. (Please note the name and location have been supplied)

The above was supplied to me from a friend I have in Wolverhampton some 12 months ago. He did not post her photo on the thread and nor did I. This friend supplied me with other information I have listed below. I thank him for his help.

I have another source who has told me she was a student at the same school back in the late sixties. There appears to be a lot of similarities in the stories I was told by both parties which relate to the use of CP given by MT and a punishment book she used to record details into. I cannot confirm skirts were lifted, but the punishment was applied to the girls bottom in the form of two to three strokes of the slipper.

My second source is a lady who migrated her 25 years ago works in my building. She stated that she and her older sister had been on the receiving end of CP from MT on different occasions. My friend laughs about it all now and isn't embarrassed to talk about her CP meetings with MT.

From the information I have at hand, MT took up another post at a newly built school in Wolverhampton not far from her former school. The former school is no longer a school, but is used for community purposes. There are three people I know of who have had CP experiences involving MT so I feel this is proof enough to me that MT was a dedicated disciplinarian.

On another note in regard to MT being a caring person, I have information she was involved in Community Choirs and played the organ at concerts for the elderly etc. You have heard the expression "An iron hand in a velvet glove" I think this best describes MT. She was a compassionate person on one hand, and a firm disciplinarian on the other when the situation arose.

I do not think it would be difficult for those who want to know the name of the school to check the facts I have supplied along with the dates. My UK friend did not tell me not to name the school, this is something I am doing off my own bat.

Kelly, you may find it difficult to accept that certain practices like leg smacking occurred in schools, especially if you weren't at school in that era. I sometimes have trouble in believing some posts myself, however, things like leg smacking were not figments of people's imaginations, nor was this practice exclusive to the UK.

Anyone who went to a Catholic school will tell you similar stories from all over the planet. I spoke to a friend of mine who was educated in New Zealand last Friday night and he told my wife and I just how cruel the Nuns were at his school. He went on to say that the Brothers were not any better in the same regard. He said the strap was used daily in the classroom by the Nuns. I experienced similar so I know he wasn't making things up.

Kelly, I am only pointing out that not all your suspicions are fully correct and I mean you no disrespect by saying this. The kids of today have no concept of what we went through in the 50's and 60's and you had to live in that period to know that what most people are saying here on this forum was true.

My wife was smacked around the legs when she was at secondary school in Adelaide in the seventies. I don't believe my wife would make up a story like that just to entertain people and the only reason I knew about it is because I overheard her telling one of her girlfriends about it once. She is not a person who likes to talk about such things. Lorraine, my work colleague is more open and laughs about the things she got upto at school.

I have named schools and teachers in former posts because I have nothing to be concerned about but there are some people who don't share my feelings and we must respect them for that.

Kelly, if everyone had nothing to be concerned about, be ashamed of or had anything to hide, then they would be posting their photo's along with their details on the forum but they don't. Would you? Probably not, I think this may also answer some of your questions too.

One of my friends on this board (And I have a few of them I am in contact with)worries he may be identified by someone he may have gone to school with or lives near. This is the very reason he is hesitant to post a lot here. He's not worried about the idiots who want to discredit every post on the forum, he is worried his privacy will be invaded.

I don't think he's alone feeling that.

I apologise for any incorrect spelling in my post. For some reason my computer is going heywire-something I have experienced before.

I had put the document through my sspell checker and assumed it had corrected any mistakes. What I found was that it had changed words to something completely different from was had been written.

As they say in the classics...Sorry about that!

Is computer homocide a goalable offence? I know one that needs to be shot!

Lucky Jim: I seem to have offended you, which was certainly not my intention, and for which I am sorry. I try very hard to keep my postings in line with the "Happy Circle" concept so often propounded by the powers that be within this estimable forum. At the risk of boring you, and indeed anyone else reading the post, I'll answer your complaints:

1. The personage in the 1977 photograph posted by Teresa has changed her appearance considerably since then. As you said "I'd recognize a face so grotesque anywhere" it seemed probable that you had seen her more or less around the time the picture was taken, possibly pointed out by your girl-friend at the time of the incident you mentioned. I therefore, not unreasonably I think, referred to "your then girl-friend". Let me assure you that no dichotomy between your girl-friend then, now, or at any other time in your life was implicit in my posting.
   
   
2. "The school in the 70s" you refer to is still very much in existence. I therefore placed my comments on it in the present - "is" - rather than in the past - "was".
   
   
3. You say "What other inaccuracies have you stated". The answer, very simply, is none, I hope!

Hi, Mike from Oz. I said here that I was finding this thread somewhat baffling, and now you are adding to my confusion!

Despite several subsequent posts Treesortees (Teresa), the originator of the thread and the poster of the opening picture, has done nothing to contradict my frequently stated presumption that that picture is of the headmistress of NGHS from 1967 to 1984. Indeed, when I posted a link to a current picture of said headmistress here Teresa responded "Age hasn't improved her,then!", which would certainly seem to confirm her agreement as to the identity of the person in her opening picture.

Teresa has said in this thread, and the web readily confirms, that the initials of that headmistress were LL. Now however you are referring to her as MT! Further you say that she was the assistant headmistress opf a school (or schools) in Wolverhampton. Curiously, LL appears to have been headmistress of a school at Birmingham (not a thousand miles from Wolverhampton) before taking up the post at NGHS!

Can you, or possibly Teresa (if her housework permits her time to read this ), please sort out this confusion of identities once and for all! Is the photograph in the initial post of this thread of Ms LL or Ms MT or neither of them!

Re your malfunctioning computer, Mike. I recommend showing it who's boss. Kneel before it and place your hands together as if in prayer. Then utter the magic words "Please computer, I acknowledge your absolute omnipotence. Your servant humbly requests that if possible you carry out your mysterious and magical processes in such a way as to assist me to achieve my worthless objectives despite the far more important internal tasks you have on hand". Never fails - and I've been dealing with the brutes for over 40 years now!

Sorry to bore everyone with the above identity query, but many years ago in an annual review my then boss said "M***, your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness. Once you've got your teeth into something you don't let go!" Nothing has changed in the intervening 30 odd years!

Another Lurker, it's up to you, but evidence doesn't lie. Look at the facts. Two people confirm the same details. The picture tells its own story as well. The age of the woman at the time and the date the pic was taken. That should give you a hint in itself. Would she be still working in the eighties? Don't think so.

Another piece of information I have is that Miss T was asked why she was leaving the school. She stated she was disillusioned in regards to the female students there. Sounds to me that Miss T was about to burn out making it very unlikely that she would continuse to teach for another 12 years or so.

Hi, Mike from Oz. Normally I wouldn't doubt your veracity as regards the data in your possession. Your posting record in this estimable forum is largely exemplary as far as I can see. However, I do seem to recall an elaborate and well planned practical joke involving yourself and certain accomplices here in Blighty regarding the punishment book of a rural Scottish school and nefarious goings on with regard to corporal punishment for cash! I half suspect something similar here - or have I got the wrong man? If I have my apologies.

The fact remains that Treesortees aka Teresa, the person who posted the picture as a follow up to her revelations regarding corporal punishment at a very well known establishment belonging to the Girls' Day School Trust in the 'smacked legs' thread here, says quite clearly with regard to the said picture:

1. Recent developments in IT & spring cleaning mean I can now publish this, from around 1977. Note the date!
   
   
2. Police in Nottingham are investigating the escape of a mad cow from the confines of her byre, which is believed to be in the local Girl's High School, into the public eye. Note the location and the school!

I rest my case, m'lud! Unless Teresa choses to tell us otherwise!

For the benefit of lurkers everywhere:-(especially those of "another" persuasion!)


I went to NGHS as well. I remember Teresa & her flipping tartan minis, too!!


I can confirm the sort of things Teresa refers to did happen. Trust schools don't get inspected as often as state schools, so they obviously "trusted" teachers, it seems!


Teresa is married to Steve-the-not-Steve-M-of-this-forum type. Steve's sister is me, which is how Teresa had the cow photo from 1977, and of course how I know & remember her.


Steve's first cousin is Lucky Jim, who I know & his lady, who suffered a slippering at NGHS in 1974, because I was tanned straight after her, for a completely different offence.


The cow also migrated to Wolverhampton for alleged teaching experience for one term in 2 out of 3 years, and she took her unsavoury habits with her. It was here that the cow gored or rather slippered the good lady wife of an august forum member, and had a number of rubbery such encounters with another unfortunate girl known to Mike From Oz.

I'm not related to Mike or the AFM, but I do know the AFM & the AFM's wife, as I accompanied the cow to Wolverhampton on a school-swap visit for a fortnight & was unwittingly warned about her habits by AFM's W, as a result of HER slippering. We've stayed friends since. The AFM's W remembers the girl who's know in Australia, but I never met her, only heard about her several slipperings.

Sorry this is so complicated, but I trust not for erudite lurkers!


LIZ

Hi, Longliz,

Thank you for your very cogent explanation of the antecedents and significance of the mystery photograph.

I am indebted to you, as no doubt will be the lurker(s) of "another" persuasion that you mention, whoever he, she or they may be.

Just one small point though. I've seen your email address, tint‡‡mine2@tis‡‡cali.co.uk^{Note 1} before, and the associated nom de plume certainly wasn't Longliz! I seem to recall a connection with dark coloured Mustela putorius furo and an eBay feedback of nearly 4000, but of course I could be wrong.

No names, no pack drill, but in future why not use a different ISP and a different email address to post under a different name, like what I do not that I'd ever do anything so underhand!

Note 1: The ‡ characters are added to your email address to protect you from having it harvested by spam bots - not that you deserve it!

To Another Lurker: I do not suffer fools gladly. I'm beginning to wonder if you are who you say you are or this is another elaborate hoax by a fellow member I know quite well. I wouldn't put it past the little devil. Every little Breeze - seems to whisper Terese!

I might have to get DS Bob, the Spanking Detective on the case.

And if your cat has kittens, don't blame me...I don't live there!

Hi Mike from Oz,

You say "I do not suffer fools gladly". Nor do I - tends to go with the name - all this being like the lord can go to one's head, at least, that's what I find!

I assure you that I'm genuine, but you are right about the feline connection. Which one of his cats are you expecting to be in the family way?

A-L


To be fair to Long Liz, whoever she be, a previous misadventure with photobucket left my e-mail address up on screen for some while on this forum.

Not difficult to just add a figure front or back to it & then you have a mail account of your own, without stealing anyone else's mail. Of course, purloining my artistic inspiration in coining it, is taking the mickey.

But I suppose imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery!!


Steve M

And can I please ask those who wish to cannibalise my e-mail address or publish the gist of it here,

please remember it makes a LOT of extra work to change it in financial areas like e-bay!!

Steve M

that mike frum oz dont no nuffink coz the girl in that song about them brezes that frenchie sung were louise like wot I am an not that there terese an who she anyway/ an that longliz dun no nuffink niether cos our uniform at NGHS wer blue not tartan like wot she say and it wernt mini or flipping niether cos they used 2 chek regular that it were corect like an yud get senter miz peabody if it wernt. they got it all wrong bout her anyway cos she never wacked nobody les they deservd it an the skirt liftin wos jus to save damige to the uniform cos it were xpensiv in them days an anyway nobody wot likes dogs can be all bad innit/ an why they atacking that mester lurker anyway wot is nice man an clever 2 wot wiv readin the daily torygraf an doin them colors and italiks an such/

Steve M: Steve, let me assure you that neither I, nor Longliz, whom I conclude from your posting was not your good self, has compromised your email address.

All email addresses linked with names, such as that provided by Longliz, are scrambled by Network54 using the Javascript document.write construct in such a way that they cannot be harvested by spam bots. I corrupted your address on-screen using the ‡ characters to prevent any such harvesting.

Let me also assure you that we have never dealt with each other on eBay. My references to ferrets and eBay were merely to point the finger in what I then thought to be the right direction without actually 'naming and shaming' you. (At last, something on-topic! ) I took the email address from that provided by Longliz. I thought I recalled seeing this address associated with your early postings in this forum.

If indeed you were not Longliz, I wonder who was. Possibly they may wear corks round the brim of their hat?

Regards,

A_L

leenside louise:

Dearest Louise,

I am a simple and unassuming fellow and am deeply touched to be in receipt of such unstinting feminine praise, particularly from someone like yourself whose delicate susceptibilities and tender nature are so obvious from her prose.

I note from your email address that we are probably resident in relative proximity. Perhaps we could get together for a tęte-ŕ-tęte? You could assist me with my research for an intended future posting in this estimable forum and in return I would be happy to give you some instruction in how to use what you so charmingly describe as 'them colors and italiks an such'.

I would not presume to violate your privacy by initially contacting you, but if you are agreeable to a meeting please email me by clicking here whereupon we will arrange a rendezvous.

I await your reply with eager anticipation.

Yours ever,

Another_Lurker

A-L Which cat you ask? Definitely not the Danno or Piggly kind. However I hope the Geelong variety get screwed come Grand Final time. I'm sure you've heard of them?

Hi Mike from Oz. No, never heard of the Geelong Cats, but they fill the first page if you Google them, so they must be quite well known!

Now there was a cyclist from Geelong called Russell Mockridge who was pretty hot stuff way back when I started off in cycling.

Regards,

A_L

Another_Lurker
I was intrigued by what your former boss said of you.
"Your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness".
When you get your teeth into something you never let go.
That can be likened to a bullterrier, not a feline creature.

You showed great initiative with your homework, displaying
a forum member's email address.
Congratulations are in order, or should I say out of order!!

A-L, Geelong is well known for other things of a dubious nature. In 1850 two English idiots who resided in Geelong bought out 2 pairs of Rabbits, a couple of Foxes and some Crows or Ravens as you gentile English folks refer to them as. They did this from some sporting activity.

Had the Rabbit population gone uncontrolled, Australia would have been a dust bowl by the early 1900's. These animals were not native to Australia but are now thanks to the Geelong idiots who had more money than sense.

For this reason, I am not a fan of those who live down in Sleepy Hollow. Now to give you an idea of what Gellong is like, it's the only place which allows footballers to travel on local transport free, have a free drink in the pubs and obtain free meals in restaurants. A practice I believe still happens on occasion down there.

As for the cyclist Russell Mockridge, his cycling interest started when he got a job at the Geelong power station where he had to ride a bike inside a big wheel. The faster Russell cycled, the more electricity Geelong got. This is why Russell is known among his close friends as Hampster-a fact which is hard to find in his biography titled 'The Circles Of My Life.'The book shared a number one status for 3 months with another biographical book on the life of a Stockman titled, 20 Years in The Saddle by Major Bumsore.

Another fact iss that a lot of Geelong's population are English and there are a few Villages in England missing their Idiots. They need not worry because they are all alive and well living in Geelong!

So, in the words of the worlds greatest detective-Inspector Clusseau; "Don't dally with me Monsuer!"

Stone the Crows Mate! I knew Russell Mockridge. The bludger was having a few beers with me at the Old Broady and when it came his shout, he said he had to go for a snakes hiss. I didn't understand why he took his bar change, packet of Camels and his newpaper which if I reckon rightly was the Truth because Russ used to like to perv on the page three Sheila's picture. I waited till stumps and got swept out with the cigarette butts. Russell never came back. He did a runner on his shout mate.

I did recall him telling a tale that night about some joint he was workin in when they got a delivery of supplies. The driver was in a bit of a hurry cause the Pig and Wistle, or youse Poms who don't know, The Rose Shamrock and Thistle Pub in Preston also called Dodge City cause ya check ya guns when ya come in the front door were offereing a counterlunch of Bangers and Mash with a free Pot. That's a glass of beer mates!

Anyway, Russell notices that the bloke left his delivery sheets there and he would need them to know where to drop his next deliveries. Well old Russ being the Cobber he is Jumps on his Malvern Star (That's the brand name of a bike we used ta have here before the Yanks bought up everything)and Russ jumped on it so hard he broke the bloody pedal. Russ wasn't phased by this and off he goes like a bloke posessed. Streuth! He took off so fast that there were flames comin from the back tyre.

Long story short mate cause Beryl's just footed the cat up the kyber pass so it must be tea time and I hate it if me Lambs fry goes cold. Anyway, it took Russ half an hour and 15 miles to catch this bloke up but he did it before the driver got to the Pig an wistle for lunch. The driver bloke was so wrapped in what Russell did, he bought him a couple of pots as a "thanks for ya help Mate!"

Paul B, I am by nature a mild and, I hope, fairly kindly person. I try to make due allowance for other people's ignorance and I'm trying very hard to do so in your case. Please forgive me if what follows seems a little blunt, but you have succeeded in annoying me, which, unless you are a politician or a slow driver, is normally extremely difficult to do!

You clearly either haven't read, or haven't understood, my post above in response to Steve M - not that that post should have been necessary anyway, I posted it only as a courtesy to Steve, who, as he admits in his later posting, was perfectly well aware that his email address had previously been released in the forum.

I have not therefore, as you put it 'displayed a forum member's email address'. Steve displayed his email address himself when he associated it with his name on some of his early postings in this forum. Longliz - whoever he or she may be - displayed it again in connection with the latest post, which I was commenting on. Or hadn't you noticed that when you move your mouse over a poster's name which appears in underlined purple, or click on it, the associated email address is displayed, in your browser or in your email client respectively? Wake up and smell the coffee! This is the 21st century, we use things called personal computers. Personal computers behave (mostly) in predictable ways, and one of those ways is that when you use them on the web if an entity has a mailto associated with it the computer will display the relevant email address if the entity is moused or clicked!

There is nothing I could of done with regard to publicising this email address that hadn't already been done by either by Steve himself or by 'Longliz'. Further, from Steve's comments, I assume this may be the email address he uses for his eBay activities. In this very thread Steve makes reference to those activities and invites readers to visit his eBay page. It took me about 20 seconds to find that page. If that is the email address he uses on eBay, he's already publicised it nearly 4000 times on there!

And finally: Maybe Steve will enlighten us, maybe he won't, but reading between the lines of his post above I'm not sure this is actually his email address anyway! He refers to added numbers. I certainly recall the alpha bit of the address from his previous posts, I don't know if the 2 was there or not, and I haven't got the time or patience to wade through hundreds of old posts to find out!

PS As noted above, you really should pay a little more attention when reading posts. The cat theme is not a reference to me. It arises in banter between myself and Mike from Oz and is a reference to Steve, who is a cat lover, having several cats himself, which he has sometimes mentioned in this forum, and having been instrumental in getting Basil and Skraggs of Plymouth (cats, in case you didn't know), admitted as Honorary Life Members of this estimable forum. Having said that, I like both cats and bull terriers, both admirable creatures in the right environment, so you are welcome to liken me to whichever you chose!

Hi Mike from Oz and Bill from Broady. I am indebted to you for your anecdotes regarding Russell Mockridge, both of which bear the unmistakable stamp of truth! I'm sure all that powering power stations and chasing beer lorries stood him in good stead when as an amateur he hammered our world professional sprint champion Reg Harris in the 1952 Paris Grand Prix, and won two golds in the Olympics the same year.

Of course, given that Russell Mockridge died in 1958, you, Bill, must be even older than me to have been drinking with him - unless the alcohol age limit is a lot lower there than it is here!

A-L
I wasn't refering to you personally as being like a bull terrier,
I was refering to the vice tight grip a bull terrier has. They also
never let go once they get their teeth into something. The feline
creature was a bit of humour that you appear to be sadly lacking.

Paul B, I perceived you as attacking me for something of which I was not guilty, and reacted in anger, which I should not have done. Thank you for displaying the measured response I so conspicuously failed to exercise.

Apologies to all concerned.

Especially Steve!

I have brought CD's from him & loved his e-mail address so much, I had to plagarize it a bit! Hope you'll still sell to me,Steve!!

You could come up & spank me, Steve, but my husband might object!


Liz

Another_Lurker
I owe you an apology, I have since found what you said of the
email address was in fact true.
My computer eventually did open up the said address and what you
said was true.
It is very irritating when your computer doesn't respond to
what it should, so I hope you accept my apology.
I would have reacted as you did if someone had attacked me,
in fact I would have blown up even more.
Like you slow driver's annoy me, but what annoys me the most
is driver's sitting at traffic lights without moving when the
lights are on green.
By the way wasn't Longliz one of Jack the Ripper's victims,
Long Liz Stride?

Mange tout if eet gets more pally we vill all be svapping zee spit in zee showers. As Clint Eastwood said in Heartbreak Ridge.
How nice that zee 'appy circle est maintenant soo polite.

Paul b, absolutely no apology expected or required. I'm in total agreement with you regarding the green light laggards, especially when they sit with their foot on the brake pedal, blinding you with their brake lights! I still have my suspicions about Longliz. In view of your information I shall now watch to see if any of the suspects accidentally lets slip a detailed knowledge of Jack the Ripper!

Mimi, the motto of one of the schools I attended was 'Manners Maketh Man' and I do my best to live up to that. Sadly, I don't always succeed! The motto of the other one was 'Lauda Finem'. I was never sure what end we were supposed to be praising, and why!

My lurking friend-sorry, forgot to say, I had no idea Steve M was on this forum when I brought stuff from him.

In fact, I didn't even know about it until Trees's e-mail to me!

And was Fausto Coppi the first non-Frenchman to win Le tour?


LIZ

Hi, Liz. No, that would have been Francois Faber, a Luxembourger, who won the 1909 Tour.

That was in the days when stages often lasted 15 hours or more, and riders carried their own spare tyres and refreshments and were expected to carry out any necessary repairs to their own bikes using whatever facilities they could find in blacksmiths' shops along the route. Oh, and they had to find their own accommodation at the end of the stage as well!

Sorry for the delay in replying, I hope you didn't need the information for an urgent competition entry!

Hi


Thanks. I was just curious, as my dad was always on about Reg Harris & I thought he was contemporary with Fausto Coppi.

Once I remembered(thanks to your post)Reg was the cyclist and Johnny Leach the table-tennis man;Johnny Haynes the slightly-later football star.

My idol was Ian Botham, closely followed by Brian Clough. Neither of whom went near a bike, unlike Kevin Keegan in Super Stars, in later life & probably for the better.


Liz

We were told David Pleat liked riding bikes.
When he was Spurs manager.

Feck that, what about Padraig Harington!!!!!