Chancel Liability

[AMc]

It appears I have given a bit more information about where I live than is perhaps sensible on a public forum. In the process of editing my original post I seem to have left a trailing "and" So now it's up to you to fill in the blanks.

And another thing, don't you just hate it when

 

[Flyfisher]

Only if

 

[Penners]

Funnily enough, I was once surprised in the act of

 

[Moo]

but in the nick of time, I

 

[Feltwell]

Next day, the magistrate said "

 

[Moo]

Really, this thread is

 

[Flyfisher]

. . . like one of those ISIHAC games. Come back Humph, we need a chairman.

 

[Penners]

Mornington Crescent.



(I win)

 

[MdB]

Now just explain the rules to me again will you Penners...

 

[Nemesis]

http://www.mornington-crescent-rule.fsnet.co.uk/mornington-crescent-rules.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3795816

 

[Flyfisher]

It's all very well Penners using Tobermory's Stratagem for a quick victory but he wouldn't have found it so easy if we'd been playing strictly to the Burlington Original Rules. Still, fair play for seizing the initiative.

http://www.isihac.co.uk/games/mcvariations/index.html

 

[Penners]

Now just explain the rules to me again will you Penners...

The rules can be summed up in one well-turned phrase:

Bulls**t baffles brains.

Although the Back-Double Initiative, which ruled on the inclusion of no-through-roads south of Wimbledon Common, made a nonsense of the whole thing, if you ask me.

 

[Nemesis]

Guardian Monday:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/08/church-of-england

 

[Penners]

£1bn deficit, eh? Interesting how, these days, deficits are always in billions.

I suppose a mere million or so doesn't even make it on to the radar.

 

[Flyfisher]

These homeowners are called lay rectors, and they are liable for keeping the chancel - the space around the altar at the liturgical east end of the building - wind-proofed and water-tight.

I'd suggest a decent tarpaulin would keep the chancel wind-proofed and water-tight. Liability discharged!