The Framers Forum

osgood wrote:
We also know you will not succeed when you try due to the fact that your country is no longer a world power as it once was a long time ago, and besides, we would kick your butts as we do in so many other fields of endeavour.

We don't have butts over here. We have good old British arses.

Any more talk like that and we will have no alternative than to send Rolf Harris back. Be afraid.........

prospero wrote: Any more talk like that and we will have no alternative than to send Rolf Harris back. Be afraid.........

No, no, no............... not Rolf, please, please keep him!!!

prospero wrote:Any more talk like that and we will have no alternative than to send Rolf Harris back...

While you're at it, Prospero, for good measure why not bundle in Dame Edna Everage?

Moglet wrote: While you're at it, Prospero, for good measure why not bundle in Dame Edna Everage?

That's OK, we welcome Dame Edna with open arms!

This topic is rapidly becoming a mini-series. Don't all you guys ever sleep?

I think deporting Dame Edna is a bit strong. It surely must be against the Geneva Convention or something.



btw. osgood. Love your bloody good screws....... I swear by 'em.

prospero wrote:Don't all you guys ever sleep?

Eventually!

'Nite possums!

prospero wrote:Don't all you guys ever sleep?

Not at work during mid morning!

prospero wrote: btw. osgood. Love your bloody good screws....... I swear by 'em.

Thanks for that, but this is probably not the place for vulgarity!

Wow the JGF Club is going from strength to strength.
New Members:-
Moglet #3
Osgood #4 (our first international member from New South Wales, near Merthyr Tydfil I think)
Kaptain Kopter #5

I also have some bad news…
Our annual ‘Dinner and Dance Award and pat each other on the back but only for a small clicky group evening out’ has been cancelled.
Sorry to disappoint.

Keep up the Jolly Good work
John

Hi John

we'd like to join your club as member number 6.

Being from Yorkshire we naturally like value for money and think your joining fee is a fair price!

We feel that being a member and displaying your logo will encourage confidence in our abilities as framers, cos they'll actually understand what it means.

Vix (aka John.....but only to my most intimate friends)

ps. does this mean I can give myself a pay rise now I have initials after my name and a pie crust framed certificate to hang in the john.

Hi John (Vix)

I am glad you would like to join our Jolly Club.
You are now member #6… Congratulations on passing the rigours selection process.
You can now call yourself John (Vix) JGF

I am also glad to see the JGF logo being used on web sites…

Keep up the Jolly Good work

John JGF

Can I plzzzzzzzz be #007. Liecensed to use MDF?

Hi Prospero

Thank you for joining up
You are now member #007…
Unfortunately we don’t issue licenses but you are more than welcome to give your self a license.
Well done on being licensed to use MDF.
And no flirting with Miss Money-Penny on the way out.

Keep up the jolly good work

John JGF

Getting my submission in early for the JGF Annual Pie Crust Competition...



Seán JGF (#3!!)

Moglet wrote:Getting my submission in early for the JGF Annual Pie Crust Competition...

Very tasty entry, now we need a few flaky ones.
Remember the JGF maxim;

" if the customer doesn't like it. they can eat it! "

daviddeer wrote:.... " if the customer doesn't like it. they can eat it! "

Perhaps we could have a special concession on the slogan to be used by French framers:

"Let them eat snotwood!"

I have just realised it is probably not in the best British tradition to join an association that has it's members interests at heart, let alone not have a committee. We could actually start a trend here.
(sound of wheels of progress creaking off stage-left)

By the way the Christmas issue of the 'Jolly' (our in house magazine) will contain an article on how to knit woolly frame warmers for the festive season and seven ways to crimp a good moulding, with a pull out feature on baking mountboard and a yummy recipe for fillet stake.
All this for 7 Rupees.

Available online in two languages, English and Framespeak.

Come on you know you want to have a 'jolly' at Christmas, and it's tax deductable!

daviddeer wrote: By the way the Christmas issue of the 'Jolly' (our in house magazine) will contain an article on how to knit woolly frame warmers for the festive season and seven ways to crimp a good moulding, with a pull out feature on baking mountboard and a yummy recipe for fillet stake.
All this for 7 Rupees.

Available online in two languages, English and Framespeak.

Count me in for the mag.............it's a good thing I have a few rupees left over from my trip to India last year!

I don't have much use for frame warmers in my climate, but the crimping of good moulding is just what I need right now. There's just no way I will concede to crimping of crap moulding, no matter how much customers beg for it!

I would also prefer it if you would allow 'Strine' to be spoken too!

osgood wrote: I would also prefer it if you would allow 'Strine' to be spoken too!

Fair Dinkum, I wouldn't be such a Larrikin or nong as to create the furphy that we were too biased towards the UK. After all this magazine should be an open slather.
I can see you are a hard Yakker so half your luck mate!
Have a VB on me.

daviddeer wrote: I can see you are a hard Yakker so half your luck mate!
Have a VB on me.

Mmmmmmm....... not a bad attempt, but permit me to explain - 'hard yakka' = 'hard work'. People, however are not 'hard yakkers'! The whole thing begins and ends at 'hard yakka'.

Following is a perfect example of a very short 'strine' story, that includes the aforementioned expression:

I took a sickie the sarvo and got on the blower to ask me mate, I hadn't seen for 20 years, to drop in for a barbie. When he arrived he said "G’day, owyergoinmate, orright? What do you do for a crust?" When I told him I was a brickie, he looked like a stunned mullet, said "that's hard yakka for a bloke that wouldn’t work in a barrel of yeast."

"Jerwannadrink", I said offering him a tinny. "No wuckers", he said as took the tinny. "What about a snag, or a snag sanger?". He took a bite and said "thats crook tucker mate, tastes a bit dodgey". I said "pullyereddin mate, you'll go down in a screamin heap, spittin teeth like a machine gun if you keep that up!"

Later, me mate came out to have a dekko at me new ute. "Fair dinkum!, it's as rough as guts! Looks like its clapped out, carked completely, you're as mad as a cut snake for buying that ute. Wot’d that set ya back?"

I said "don't go off half cocked, if ya weren't half cut, you could give it a burl". Then he grabbed the door handle and it came off like a brides nightie. "Jeez, mate, you're a wanker, you'll come a gutser soon!"

osgood wrote:I took a sickie the sarvo and got on the blower to ask me mate, I hadn't seen for 20 years, to drop in for a barbie. When he arrived he said "G’day, owyergoinmate, orright? What do you do for a crust?" When I told him I was a brickie, he looked like a stunned mullet, said "that's hard yakka for a bloke that wouldn’t work in a barrel of yeast."

"Jerwannadrink", I said offering him a tinny. "No wuckers", he said as took the tinny. "What about a snag, or a snag sanger?". He took a bite and said "thats crook tucker mate, tastes a bit dodgey". I said "pullyereddin mate, you'll go down in a screamin heap, spittin teeth like a machine gun if you keep that up!"

Later, me mate came out to have a dekko at me new ute. "Fair dinkum!, it's as rough as guts! Looks like its clapped out, carked completely, you're as mad as a cut snake for buying that ute. Wot’d that set ya back?"

I said "don't go off half cocked, if ya weren't half cut, you could give it a burl". Then he grabbed the door handle and it came off like a brides nightie. "Jeez, mate, you're a wanker, you'll come a gutser soon!"

No... Didn't understand a word of that
I need to get my Australian/Suffolk - Suffolk/Australian phrase book out.
I think I left it next to my Framespeak phrase book.