Happy Birthday Yamin

[yamin]

LOL! Bless you Joce! You're too kind - Its 'Spot the Drug Rep' time!! :roll:

 

[DaveBrigg]

Happy birthday!

 

[Flyfisher]

 

[FamilyWiggs]

FF

Took me a while.... "Say what you see" as the Catchphrase catchphrase goes!

 

[Pford75]

Happy Birthday.

Perhaps one of the most compelling demonstrations of why I have never joined FB :wink:

I try to keep a relatively low virtual profile.......... 8)

 

[Penners]

Took me a while.... "Say what you see" as the Catchphrase catchphrase goes!

Ah - now I understand.

So it's "Hippopotamus, chick, sheep" to Yamin.

Doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it?

 

[yamin]

I was struggling with this, being a bear of very little brain - I got Hippo and Bird, but was wondering how to get 'Day' from the sheep. When I pressed 'quote' to reply and confess my ignorance, it said in the quoted bit 'hippo-birdie-two-ewes'........ah, now I see! Though how you can be sure those two are ewes I don't know! My eyesight is not that good! :lol:

 

[yamin]

Though how you can be sure those two are ewes I don't know! My eyesight is not that good! :lol:

Looking again, maybe a certain lack is fairly indicative!

 

[Flyfisher]

So it's "Hippopotamus, chick, sheep" to Yamin.

Doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it?

Oh. I thought the world was ready for a new birthday song but that's as far as I've got.
Do you think it would help to use 'Tweetie Pie' instead of 'chick'?

OK, fair enough. I'll go back to fixing the mower.

PS: Our Swifts were back this morning and are busily screeching around the sky. As far as I'm concerned, that means summer has arrived.

 

[yamin]

Our Swifts were back this morning and are busily screeching around the sky. As far as I'm concerned, that means summer has arrived.

How lovely, what a cheerful ode to summer!

Do you think it would help to use 'Tweetie Pie' instead of 'chick'?

No, let me keep the 'chick', my days of being referred to as a chick are now well and truly over, so I take comfort where I can..... :roll:

 

[Penners]

I'll go back to fixing the mower.

If you need any practice, I can provide a suitable subject.

Bloody thing..... :evil:

 

[Flyfisher]

I get more than enough practice with my own mower thankyou, but it's a kind thought. :wink:

Mine is physically broken - a broken cast-iron pulley on the cutter deck. Unfortunately I can no longer get a spare part (it's a 1988 mower) so I'm trying to repair this one. Fortunately it's not completely broken, only the central section that attaches to the cutter shaft actually broke off. So, I've bored out a new hole on the lathe and a friend is machining a new insert for me. I then need to build up the cutter shaft with a bit of welding (it had been badly worn during the run-up to the eventual failure), then turn it down again to the correct diameter. Then bolt the new insert to what's left of the original pulley, reassemble the whole pulley/cutter-shaft assembly, weld together rather large crack in the cutter-deck, fit a new belt to replace the one that was shredded when the pulley broke and then . . . . hope that it all holds together long enough to get the grass cut!

Still, it makes a change from plumbing.

 

[yamin]

I get more than enough practice with my own mower thankyou, but it's a kind thought. :wink:

Mine is physically broken - a broken cast-iron pulley on the cutter deck. Unfortunately I can no longer get a spare part (it's a 1988 mower) so I'm trying to repair this one. Fortunately it's not completely broken, only the central section that attaches to the cutter shaft actually broke off. So, I've bored out a new hole on the lathe and a friend is machining a new insert for me. I then need to build up the cutter shaft with a bit of welding (it had been badly worn during the run-up to the eventual failure), then turn it down again to the correct diameter. Then bolt the new insert to what's left of the original pulley, reassemble the whole pulley/cutter-shaft assembly, weld together rather large crack in the cutter-deck, fit a new belt to replace the one that was shredded when the pulley broke and then . . . . hope that it all holds together long enough to get the grass cut!

You wrote all this FF. Here is what I understood.

Mine is fysiek gebroken - een gebroken gietijzeren katrol op het maaiwerk. Helaas kan ik niet meer krijgen een onderdeel (het is een maaier 1988) dus ik probeer om dit een te repareren. Gelukkig is het niet helemaal gebroken, alleen het centraal gedeelte dat hecht aan de cutter as daadwerkelijk afgebroken. Dus, ik verveel een nieuw gat op de draaibank en een vriend is een nieuw bewerkingscentrum inzetstuk voor mij. Vervolgens heb ik nodig voor de opbouw van het mes met een beetje as van lassen (het was slecht gedragen tijdens de aanloop naar de uiteindelijke falen), zet hem vervolgens weer naar beneden naar de juiste diameter. Dan bout de nieuwe bijsluiter voor wat er links van de oorspronkelijke katrol, monteer de hele schijf / cutter-as assemblage, lassen vrij grote scheur in de cutter-dek, past een nieuwe riem om de een die werd versnipperd, wanneer de katrol brak en vervang vervolgens. . . . hoop dat het allemaal bij elkaar houdt lang genoeg om het gras te maaien!

Think that would be (Double) Dutch

My head hurts! :roll:

 

[JoceAndChris]

You speak Double Dutch as well as all the other accomplishments? 8)

(Go on, tell us how you did that!)

 

[Flyfisher]

My head hurts! :roll:

My apologies. I did think it was a bit OTT, but I was on a roll.
But I wouldn't want people to think I was some nerdy type who spends all his time fixing old houses. :wink:

 

[yamin]

But I wouldn't want people to think I was some nerdy type who spends all his time fixing old houses. :wink:

Oh, heaven forbid! :lol:

Joce, do you doubt my ability to speak several different languages???

Joce, siz mənim qabiliyyəti müxtəlif dillərdə danışa şübhə edirsiniz??


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

(http://translate.google.com)

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Not wishing to be a pedant Yamin - but that was Dutch. To get Double Dutch, you need to put the Dutch back into Google Translate and return it to English. And then take that output and put it back into Google Translate (are you still following me??!!) and turn it back into Dutch - hence Double Dutch.

Hers is FF's words in Double Dutch:

Mine is fysiek gebroken - een gebroken gietijzeren katrol op de maaier. Helaas kan ik niet krijgt een deel (het is een maaier 1988) dus ik probeer om dit een te repareren. Gelukkig is het niet helemaal gebroken, alleen het centraal gedeelte dat hecht aan de frees as is in feite gebroken. Dus, ik boorde een nieuw gat op de draaibank en een vriend is een nieuw bewerkingscentrum inzetstuk voor mij. Vervolgens heb ik nodig voor de opbouw van het mes met een beetje lassen as (was slecht gedragen tijdens de aanloop naar de uiteindelijke mislukking draaien), zet hem vervolgens weer naar beneden om de juiste diameter. Dan bout de nieuwe bijsluiter voor wat er overblijft van de oorspronkelijke katrol, de hele schijf mount / snijplotter as assemblage, lassen in plaats van grote barst in het maaiwerk, toepassing van een nieuwe riem een iegelijk, die werd versnipperd, wanneer de katrol brak en vervolgens te vervangen. . . . hoop dat het allemaal bij elkaar houdt, lang genoeg om het gras te maaien!

My wife is right - I have waaaaaaaay too much time on my hands! :roll:

 

[yamin]

איר טאַקע דאַרפֿן צו באַקומען אויס מער, ליב ראָבין

:wink:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Air Taaka Darafne order Abakomen Lewis nudity, Leib Ravin ???

Think it loses something in the translation! :lol:

 

[Feltwell]

Mrs F, who (prior to being a full time Mum) was a languages teacher, used to regularly get kids handing in work that had clearly been done by a Internet translation site.

She put a passage of her own into one such site one day, just to try it out - English to Japanese. It didn't work very well, in particular it translated her name as "spinning machine" - which puzzled us for a moment. Her name is Jenny.

She didn't appreciate my response once we'd worked that out either - "At least it didn't say female donkey".