What's this component called?

[The Medway Handyman]

Don't forget I live in the posh south east..............

Farmers here even have green wellies with straps.

[Tim Lamb]

Nah! It's baler twine.

I have a half formed theory that the circumference of the Earth has grown due to the extra space taken up by lynch pins missing from bits of agricultural equipment.

regards

[Owain]

This would only apply if you measured the circumference passing through Wales and New Zealand.

Owain

[Bob Martin]

Yes, and the odd thing is that it works better in a proportional font than in a monospaced font.

[Guy King]

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For that matter, why aren't we ankle deep in Lego?

[Andy McKenzie]

Perhaps you have wondered where oil comes from - actually the hydrocarbons in the oil we use today are derived from the breakdown of the plastic Lego bricks originally used by dinosaurs in the Cretaceous. Over millennia, lost bricks, especially the strange shaped one that is the vital final component in the 'H*gw*rts Castle with actual working trap door and live trolls', were washed down to the sea and buried in the primeval ooze, where pressure and temperature liberated the oil.

Incidentally some scientists now think that dinosaurs were actually wiped out by a freak accident involving unsafe agricultural machinery.

Andy (definitely not speaking for my employer)

[kimble]

Pingfuckit.

Kim.

[Rob Morley]

That's just the ones you don't grip firmly with pliers.

[Guy King]

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Definitely this year's best word.

[Chris Bacon]

Dah-link, it's *almost* last century....

[Guy King]

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Doesn't mean it can't make a comeback. Look at some of the posters round here...

[keith_765]

CUT

Now that's not as daft as it sounds. How come that Time Team are always digging down to find out what all those Saxon and Roman DIYers where doing

900 years ago. Not much of it on the surface. So is the Earth getting bigger? Who buried all the trees that turned to coal ( For the younger ones, COAL Black rock that ignites and burns and produces heat)

[John Cartmell]

Some bits are getting buried and other bits are being washed or blown away. The only bits that are left to be discovered are those that are buried. See also Charles Darwin's last book on earthworms.

[Andy Dingley]

They train earwigs to do it

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Guy King writes

Who are you calling a geriatric?

regards

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