Ellen and B&Q

[Wholley]

From what I saw Ellen will be made a Dame of The British Empire.
Brenda has agreed so,
Onyers Ellen(I did meet Sir Francis Chichester once.He said,And I quote"Hello")The old guy shook my hand,now I have a firm handshake but he could have beaten me anytime.Tough guy.

[Wholley]

I suppose all the yaughting types

Trev, all the Yaughting types moved to Fort Lauderdale years ago.
You must mean"Yotting Types"You know ,The ones who put yer boat trailer up on bricks.

[Guest]

The one that upset me most came from that fat cow Vanessa Phelps. What the hell does she know, she probably gets a taxi to cross the road.

I`m not saying she`s fat, but she fell in the Shark infested oggin, the sharks threw her back out saying, " we can`t eat that much"

Trev, all the Yaughting types moved to Fort Lauderdale years ago.
You must mean"Yotting Types"You know ,The ones who put yer boat trailer up on bricks.

Paul, thats em, the varmits, thought you`d have moved to Lauderdale seeing as you were of the tall ships

[Mike]

Adverse comment. ....w@#k the lot of em.......That little lady is one hell of a Bird......I hope she continues to doo the bizz
Aye
Mike

[harry hackedoff]

That little lady is one hell of a Bird

You`re starting to sound like Rob, with this "little wimmin" fetish of your`n
The flottila which accompanied her home brought a lump to my throat but it was only phlegm
Dame Ellen made all the news here today and the shots of the homecoming did make me lie back and think of England, as Mrs Aitch wanted a go in the driver`s seat

Well done Ellen

[DelD]

I can see it is a great achievement, even though I know nowt about sailing, but being made a Dame for it at 28? I think that is perhaps going too far.


Dr Michael Foale has been an active astronaut for 17 years, holds the record for the longest accumulated time in space of any astronaut, has been on an amazing total of 6 missions, and has commanded the ISS, all despite coming from a country that does not have a manned space program, and he had to wait until this year to get a lesser award.

Then again Mick Jagger and Elton John got knighthoods, so I take it back, well done Ellen.

[El Prez]

Del, Mike has been American since 1982. Good luck to him.
Ellen has been working bloody hard since she was a brat to get on the water, living in a portakabin on a quayside while building her fist boat. She has climbed the mast of Kingfisher and B&Q in conditions which would cause me to fill my pampers! Falmouth was locked in yesterday, all day. She deserves every little bit of credit she receives, what a joy to have Sky News publishing a happy story instead of NI and the Mid East.
Basically the twats who have bad-mouthed her have not got the imagination to understand where she has been, both physically and mentally.
5' 2" of pure guts and determination.

[Gazza85]

I remember seeing a show on the telly years ago about a woman in her early 20's having ambitions of sailing. Never realised it was her until you mentioned the portakabin, she gave a tour took only 5 seconds

[DelD]

I am not taking anything away from Ellen, amazing dedication, toughness and skill, just commenting on the fairness or lack of it in the honours system.

Mike Foale is indeed a US citizen, but he always had joint nationality I believe due to an American mother, but the main point is he had no choice, as our government does not contribute to any manned space program. That makes his achievement all the greater in my book.

His accomplishments are easliy equal to Steve Redgrave's etc, and far in excess of the Jaggers and Johns of this world. He should be a national hero and a household name here, sadly he is not.

Maybe it suits our government, after all who wants to answer awkward questions when the public see a clearly British gentleman in space with the US flag on his arm instead of the Union Flag, and then when they have given the standard boring answer, to face the further question of if that is the case why he is with a French astronaut, or a German, or Italian, or Spanish, or Dutch for Gods sake.(with no disrespect to the Netherlands, or "Holland" as the BBC still persist in calling it)

Anyway thread hijack over, and well done Ellen and God speed Piers Sellars

[Skiffle]

copy of actual e-mail received by B&Q customer services:

Dear Sir/Madam

My congratulations to you on getting a yacht to leave the UKon 28th
November 2004, sail 27,354 miles around the world and arrive back 72
days later.

Could you please let me know when the I'M A SCAMMER SPAMMER!!! I ordered 96 days ago
will be arriving from your warehouse 13 miles away?

Yours Sincerley
John Roberts

[harry hackedoff]

Basically the twats who have bad-mouthed her have not got the imagination to understand where she has been, both physically and mentally.

I HOPE YOU DON`T INCLUDE ME IN THAT STATEMENT
Does she know the Vatican gig is up for grabs, btw, or Mother Theresa`s?
Plucky hey? Plucky.

She made all the papers here again, today, and all the news on telly/radio. Aussies were full of it, comparisons with the Americas Cup, etc. To sail single handedly round the world is an achievement, of course. To break the record, doubly so.

Of slightly more importance to me is the situation in Aceh.

The most corrupt province in the most corrupt state in SE Asia. The violent suppression of the Acinese by the Indonesian Army hasn`t stopped since the Tsunami and the official number of Acinese "rebels" killed since Boxing Day stands at over two hundred. How much of the billions promised to Indonesia will end up lining the pockets of the corrupt politicians is something Oxfam can`t even begin to estimate. Meanwhile, thousands who lost everything still starve in towns in Aceh that still look exactly the same as they did the day after the waves.

So yes mate, you`re right, well done Ellen.

[Wholley]

Paul, thats em, the varmits, thought you`d have moved to Lauderdale seeing as you were of the tall ships

Trev,I did!!
No Tall Ships just StinkPots and Strippers.
I lived by the 17th.St.Causeway.R Donuts was the place to be seen for breakfast.TOPLESS DONUT STORE?Tits and a donut,just what you need after a long night at the"Pink Pussycat"
I really did date one of the err....ladies from there,can't think of her name now but she had a body to die for!!!
Thems were the days
Sorry,Back to Dame Ellen

[El Prez]

Quote:
Basically the twats who have bad-mouthed her have not got the imagination to understand where she has been, both physically and mentally.


I HOPE YOU DON`T INCLUDE ME IN THAT STATEMENT

No Bert, not at all, if I couldn't take a joke etc.
However a bunch of mindless dicks were given airtime by the BBC to tell everybody what they thought about Ellen, Chris Bonnington and Ranulph Fiennes. I know who I would allow to reproduce, and it wouldn't be the tit wearing three T shirts and jeans with the crutch banging against their ankles.


All sweetness and light now.

[harry hackedoff]

Booty, has Fiennsey got any toes left?
Seems he can`t pop down the pub without losing a couple, very careless

[owdun]

Trev,Nonuts probing new frontiers?? From what H lets drop now and then, the buggers never awake, and when he is he can't use the phone, new frontiers, Pah.!



Aye Frank.