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Rip Thread

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Rushjob, Mar 14, 2012.

  1. Old school irreplaceable charm.RIP
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  2. 90 years is a fantastic age when you look at the oil on him there !!! Tough men !
     
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  3. Good human genes also helps,plus a very inquisitive mind set for driving him forward in life.
     
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  4. A wonderful life, of an honourable gentleman who achieved so much! From Goodwood FOS 2015. RIP Stirling Moss.jpg
     
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  5. In the days of courage and immense bravery a true gentleman shone, RIP Sir Stirling ...

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  6. Loved the show, RIP Tim
     
  7. Most of the Uxbridge English Dictionary was created by Tim B-T:

    Acoustic = A Scottish cattle prod

    Acropolis = A Polite Greek haircut

    Advent = Man shouting about his hatred of Xmas commercials.

    Aerofoil = A chocolate wrapper

    Aperitif = Dentures

    Avoidable = What a bullfighter tries to do

    Behemoth = Insect which eats holes in your jumpers, then fills them with honey

    Biassed = Having four buttocks

    Blemish = The official language of Belgium

    Boing = Maker of rubber aeroplanes

    Buccaneer = Fee American pirates pay for their piercings

    Bumbling = Jewellery for the buttocks

    Bungee = Next one after buneff

    Canary = Hirsute can

    Celery = Bit like a cellar

    Coffee = Person on whom one coughs

    Collier = Like a collie but more so

    Canopy = A tin of urine

    Cashew = Bank teller with a cold

    Cherish = Rather like a chair

    Chestnuts = The result of choosing a bad plastic surgeon.

    Crimbo = Presents wrapped by a prisoner

    Dandelion = A fashionably dressed big cat

    Decoration = Speech by one half of Ant & Dec.

    Deduce = Squeeze de lemon

    Dogmatic = A dog with a torque converter

    Dreadlocks = Phobia of canals

    Eczema = Mother you gave away

    Egalitarian = One who only eats birds of prey

    Legend = A foot

    Emanuel = Little book explaining how to work your E-present

    Erection = Japanese way of choosing a parliament

    Ethics = County near Suthics

    Farage = Garage that won’t fix French or German cars

    Frankincense = To really infuriate someone called Frank

    Gastric = Raising energy prices without telling anybody

    Gladiator = Unrepentant cannibal

    Grating = Jamaican elephant

    Gringo = Mexican traffic lights

    Heehaw = A male prostitute

    Himalayas = Hermaphrodite chickens

    Hindsight = Builder’s cleavage

    Inferno = Assume not

    Information = How geese fly

    Inflate = Her Majesty’s plane has taken orf

    Innuendoes = Italian suppositories

    Insolent = Fallen off the Isle of Wight ferry

    Lambada = Young sheep with tin legs

    Lancelot = Doctor working on a plague of boils

    Longitude = You need to cut it up more

    Menacing = A male voice choir

    Mystical = Daughter of Mr Tickle

    O'clock = An Irish clock

    Pensive = Thing you can write with while you are draining the veg

    Polygamy = Ancient Japanese art of wife-folding

    Po-pourri = Aroma of dried Teletubby

    Purgatory = To slip a laxative into David Cameron’s coffee

    Pyromaniac = Obsessed with glass oven dishes

    Relief = What trees do in Spring

    Robin = What the bloke down the pub you bought that dirt cheap phone off was doing yesterday

    Roulette = A tiny rule

    Shire = Downpour in the home counties

    Sluicegate = Somerset for ‘This gate belongs to Lou’

    Smirk = Somerset for ‘It’s a Mercedes’

    Spectator = Short-sighted potato

    Splinter = Chinese 100 metre runner

    Stylist = Pig farmer’s inventory

    Symbolic = Prosthetic testicle

    Tamper = Container for a Yorkshire picnic

    Tinker = Thoughtful Irishman

    Trifle = Yorkshire gun

    Trouble = Yorkshire building waste

    Twerk = What they do in Yorkshire between 9 and 5

    Twig = Yorkshireman's toupee

    Warbling = Jewellery worn in combat

    Wifi = The eye of a wife

    Yule log = The inevitable effects of too much Xmas dinner.

    Whiskey = Bit like a whisk
     
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  8. The Brooke-taylor family came from Buxton , his brother had a solicitors practice in Bakewell, my wife worked for Tim's brother years ago.
    Sad loss.
    Steve
     
  9. A test of a true sportsman.
     
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  10. Let's hope they make a truly wonderful 2/3 hour documentary in honour of this great man.
     
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  11. Unfortunately probably not anytime soon I’ll guess during this lockdown
     
  12. Yes a video link with other drivers,just won't cut it for me.
     
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  13. Fab story above... I was privileged to race with him at the UK BOTT meets..

    My 900SS at the time me at Snett.jpg ....
     
    #1796 quantuman, Apr 13, 2020
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  14. The word Legend is often misused but not in this case.
    A true legend and a real gentleman. Such a sad loss.
     
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  15. One of the true greatest of greats.

    Rex
     
  16. IIRC he couldn't pass the UK driving test despite several attempts.
     
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