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Newsletter 23 -

Andy Salmon, Nutley 36. Damn glad to meet you.

I'm sure a few of you bad boys (& girls!) have recently been on these driving courses for exceeding the speed limit. Mine was 36mph in a 30mph limit in a sleepy East Sussex village called Nutley (gutted it doesn't begin with M - one of my all-time heroes). In fact, Mutley would certainly be on my top table along with Oliver Hardy, Phil Silvers, Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes), The Hooded Claw, Tom Watson, Jessica Rabbit, Billy Waggledagger (work it out), Errol Flynn and yours truly. Heaven. Anyway, when I turned up at this course last Saturday morning, there were 10 other irritated people sitting around with ants in their pants and I strode in putting my hand out introducing myself by saying Nutley 36. Then they all piped up with Brighton 35, Haywards Heath 36, Eastbourne 34 . It's as if we were 007 ordering a bottle of vintage bubbles. All of us were between 34 & 36 i.e The 34 to 36 Club . It cost us £105 for 5 hours which was a hoot and I actually learnt something. Now, as my friends can verify, taking a tip from me about driving is like taking some advice from Gordon Ramsay on how to finish a Marathon (not the Snickers variety) or Gordon Brown on how to win an election or from Gordon on how not to be a moron. However, this is a goodie......whenever you see a speed limit, put your gear into the first number i.e 3rd if it's 30, 4th if it's 40 or 5th if it's 50. This maybe an oldie but it's a new one on me. It stops you going any faster. I'll be troubling the local plod, no more. Anyone who breaks 40mph goes on a two day course where they bring in the police and a paramedic to highlight the grave consequences of the offence. It gets v heavy. So what in God's name is on the course if you break 50....... a two week course in Bridlington run by Arthur Scargill?? Nutley is a fine name but it doesn't threaten my podium of The Mumbles, Snodland & The Wallops. You just can't argue. Apropos of nowt......I know I said this last year but it's always a great feeling hiking up my favourite Eric Morecambe shorts for the first time each Spring before cutting the grass. The smell of freshly cut grass, sizzling bacon or fresh bread? Hmm, that one could run for years......

Update

Sir Linkalot's school bus is chugging along quite nicely visiting all sorts of institutions far and wide. I'm off to a pre-prep in Sloane Square this afternoon which will include pitching to 4 year olds! Poor mites, they don't stand a chance. They'll be sitting on the floor gawping thinking.....'I bet you David Attenborough hasn't seen this specimen before!! Linking is great for learning all sorts of facts but it's coming into its own with foreign languages. Here are a couple of recent rib-ticklers. A Classics teacher cane up to me and said.....'Check these bad boys out (well, in Mr Chips speak). The Latin for Ubi is both Where and When.....he gargled and then sang Ubi Ubi doo, where are you! Outstanding. Then he dared to follow this with a potential dust cart but left us wanting more with the stellar link.....Ubi When Kenubi . He then scuttled off with a big fat Cheshire grin on his face. There is one recent French jobbie that has hit the back of the net which is worth mentioning in dispatches. It's for the meaning and the spelling of the French for Water, Eau. This is what we call in the trade a double link. Eau water beautiful morning...(there's a link on the site for the spelling of Beautiful if required). Marvy parvy.

Your chance to get involved

The site is a meeting-place for linkers & learners alike. So if you have a link for anything, absolutely anything, regardless of how bizarre it is, then submit it and let's see what the punters think. If it's a yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa link then it'll go in the book (as will your name).

Feedback

I would love to get your thoughts and observations on the site, good or bad. This has been a passion of mine since 1995 and it's finally come to fruition which is hugely exciting. However, it's all new territory for me. So any guidance or tips on what does and doesn't work will be warmly received - please let me know at andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk

Competition

Congratulations to Kalli Manley who wins 100 sovereigns for getting the 4 answers correct which were...

1. Waterloo 2. Charles Darwin 3. Nepal 4. Scott

Here is the next competition....

www.thinkalink.co.uk/content/competitions/competitions/competition-24-april-10-open

Email the answers to andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk and you will be entered into the draw for 100 of the Queen's finest pounds.

......and finally

Please let me know if you would prefer me not to contact you in this way and I will take you off my newsletter circulation list. If that is the case, please accept my apologies.

As always, let's end today's proceedings with some links that should register quite nicely on your respective chuckleometers....

The international airport for Kolkata (prev Calcutta) is the splendidly named Dum Dum....Cole Cutter: Dum Dum Cheryl's hairdresser.

Chicago won Best Film Oscar in '02.......Is 'Chicago - The Musical' on at the O2?

25 celsius of 77 fahrenheit.....The Queen's Silver Jubilee (25 years) was in '77

Force = MA (Mass x Acceleration).....May the force be with you.

Veterinary can be a pig of a word to spell......Is there an ER in a veterinary hospital?

Linking's an illness which I pray I never recover from.

Until the next time. It's been emotional.

Regards

Sir Linkalot

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