Invasion

[John Gill]

May seem to some like Little Britain, but the Cornish are amongst the true peoples of these Sceptre Isles:

No wonder Ireland was asked to be given back to the Irish by Sir Paul M. Scot's want independence, Wales will be revolting - joke: Honest / Banter ?

Some were disgusted by TV'S: Little Britain ? Take your pick, have a laugh or worry, be afraid, very afraid ?

K.

Did you spell septic wrong Keith?

[Ivan Cloherty]

#81 I recall touring the west country in the 70's with my family and they do indeed refer to visitors as grockles. In neighbouring Devon they are referred to (in the same derogatory fashion) as 'emmets', which is a term for ants. During a conversation with a local, I suggested the two counties should get together and refer to all the sources of income they enjoy, as a combination of both terms- grockles + emmets= grommets.

John, here in Devon yes we do call visitors grokels, but we don't wear T-Shirts saying 'Go Home Grokels' (have never seen any personally), because we welcome them, our towns and villages well being relies upon them and we are even building new roads so that they get here even easier and hopefully in increasing numbers, private enterprise is building new hotels and expanding current ones. We don't have many industries in this area, but we do have high technology centres exporting sophisticated equipment around the world, high production market garden produce, a vibrant fishing industry, which would be better if the French and Spanish were not given our quotas by the EU. Yes the grokels are welcomed by the locals they keep us going during the summer (and beyond) so that we can survive the sparse winter months, but even these traditionally slow months are starting to pick up with increased facilities being offered. This part of the country is well visited by French/Dutch/German/Japanese and films like 'War Horse' have made people aware that it is a nice part of the country with good food and local produce. All I ask is please don't sit in my deckchair!!

[Ivan Cloherty]

#81 I recall touring the west country in the 70's with my family and they do indeed refer to visitors as grockles. In neighbouring Devon they are referred to (in the same derogatory fashion) as 'emmets', which is a term for ants. During a conversation with a local, I suggested the two counties should get together and refer to all the sources of income they enjoy, as a combination of both terms- grockles + emmets= grommets.

John, here in Devon yes we do call visitors grokels, but we don't wear T-Shirts saying 'Go Home Grokels' (have never seen any personally), because we welcome them, our towns and villages well being relies upon them and we are even building new roads so that they get here even easier and hopefully in increasing numbers, private enterprise is building new hotels and expanding current ones. We don't have many industries in this area, but we do have high technology centres exporting sophisticated equipment around the world, high production market garden produce, a vibrant fishing industry, which would be better if the French and Spanish were not given our quotas by the EU. Yes the grokels are welcomed by the locals they keep us going during the summer (and beyond) so that we can survive the sparse winter months, but even these traditionally slow months are starting to pick up with increased facilities being offered. This part of the country is well visited by French/Dutch/German/Japanese and films like 'War Horse' have made people aware that it is a nice part of the country with good food and local produce. All I ask is please don't sit in my deckchair!!

[John Gill]

John, here in Devon yes we do call visitors grokels, but we don't wear T-Shirts saying 'Go Home Grokels' (have never seen any personally), because we welcome them, our towns and villages well being relies upon them and we are even building new roads so that they get here even easier and hopefully in increasing numbers, private enterprise is building new hotels and expanding current ones. We don't have many industries in this area, but we do have high technology centres exporting sophisticated equipment around the world, high production market garden produce, a vibrant fishing industry, which would be better if the French and Spanish were not given our quotas by the EU. Yes the grokels are welcomed by the locals they keep us going during the summer (and beyond) so that we can survive the sparse winter months, but even these traditionally slow months are starting to pick up with increased facilities being offered. This part of the country is well visited by French/Dutch/German/Japanese and films like 'War Horse' have made people aware that it is a nice part of the country with good food and local produce. All I ask is please don't sit in my deckchair!!

Your deckchair would be quite safe with me Ivan- I've never yet fathomed out the tecnique of their assembly. They seem to have a life of their own.

[cappy]

Your deckchair would be quite safe with me Ivan- I've never yet fathomed out the tecnique of their assembly. They seem to have a life of their own.

#####on shields beach you had to pay a shilling deposit for your deck chair there was three diferent dispersal and return sites ...we would watch the day trippers come as soon as they put there deck chairs up they would run down to the sea ...we would grab the deck chairs and getthe shillings back......enogh for fish and chips ....happy days

[Louis the fly]

I think Ivan is the P.R. man for Faulty Towers.

[cappy]

I think Ivan is the P.R. man for Faulty Towers.

or farty towels

[cappy]

#####on shields beach you had to pay a shilling deposit for your deck chair there was three diferent dispersal and return sites ...we would watch the day trippers come as soon as they put there deck chairs up they would run down to the sea ...we would grab the deck chairs and getthe shillings back......enogh for fish and chips ....happy days

####looking back i suppose that was my 1st businness venture

[John Gill]

re #89- or, flowery twats-(to the Blue Pencil Weilder, that really is an anagram).

[happy daze john in oz]

####looking back i suppose that was my 1st businness venture

And if you continued like that and got caught, your last!