What A Coincidence

[stewey]

On a thread yesterday I made a joking comment about a Swiss army knife. (Actually, I think that the person I made the comment to was upset by it...Oh well) Anyway, today I received notice in the mail that I had won a Swiss Force 140 piece tool kit in a hospital lottery! It's value is about $100. Why couldn't it have been lots of cash, or a house, or car, or a trip to Blackpool?...Better than nothing I guess.

[lady-janine]

be thankful. i've got a small one in my handbag - just in case you understand.

[stewey]

Yes indeed I do, Ma'am:)

[craft1948]

The daughter bought her boyfriend a swiss army knife for Xmas............he thinks it's brilliant.

[stewey]

I'll be spending a great deal of time searching for a horse with a stone stuck in its shoe.

[Buenchico]

>>>or a trip to Blackpool?...Better than nothing I guess

Anything's better than a trip to Blackpool!

[stewey]

How about Rhyl, then?

[Buenchico]

OK, I admit it. Rhyl's a dump. However I've still got a lot of affection for the place. (Perhaps it's because it's the only place where I've been propositioned by a nymphomaniac in a pub?). But at least Rhyl is cheap and tawdry, whereas Blackpool is bloody expensive and tawdry!

[berniecuddles]

i must be thick stewey who did you upset last night i just read the thread again??

[stewey]

I vaguely remember going to those places as a kid, and also Llandudno (sp). Is the sand at Blackpool black in places?...I seem to recall it being so.

[HansUrbancka]

Hi stewey......I doubt that the value of the prize ($100) would have been enough to get you as far as Blackpool.

Anyway, whilst I know what is a Swiss Army Knife, I would be interested to know if a Swiss Force 140 piece tool kit is similar; or is it a collection of Operating Theatre Instruments from the Hospital that held the Lottery.

Cheers...Hans.

[stewey]

I could be wrong, Bernie, but the response to my joke seemed a little "tight". Anyway, it's not really important...What's of importance is Mrs stewey's not too impressed with a tool kit. Actually, I'm looking forward to checking it out.

[berniecuddles]

stewey life's to short ,if we cant have a laugh mate,we may as well give up now

[stewey]

I've Googled "Swiss Force 140 Piece Tool Kit" and found nothing. There are lots of other Swiss Force products, but I can't find any reference to a 140 piece kit.

[wolf63]

I went to Blackpool in 1980.

First trip away from home, a bus trip with Wallace Arnold (I think) bus tours. I went with my pal and it was good fun.

I didn't get drunk, didn't flash my boobs in the middle of the town or sleep with different guys a night (as on those 18-30 holiday programmes).

We ate ice cream and went to the pleasure beach and acted like kids. We were all grown up ~ we were 16.

It might have changed since then.

[anneasquith]

does blackpool still have black sand ?.............no that's sewage :)

[Peter Pedant]

First I have to share with you that Rhyl was the alibi offered by James Hanratty in the famous A6 murder case in 1958.

Now that the pawn shop Smeaton's in Rhyl has closed there is nothing of interest there.


and Stewey in terms of the coincidence \i thought you were gonna say there was a knock at the door and a Terminator dressed as Swiss army trooper tried to take you out ( that would be kill you ) armed with only a German Arnie voice - I kill you now ! - and the said Swiss army knife !

The reality I feel is an anti-climax.

[stewey]

"Take me out"? I'd deck him with my Black and Decker from the other tool kit!

[mikey4444]

Strange coincidence stewey !

[HansUrbancka]

Perhaps I should refrain from commenting further in this thread which is confusing me.

stewey can now have a new tool kit but his better half is already disinterested in his tool kit. However he would like to go to Blackpool because that is where Buenchicho was propositioned for a tool kit. Whereas wolf63 went to Blackpool and rejected all tools. Furthermore, Peter Pendant has said that Smeaton the three balled man in Rhyl has gone.

I really have got old...........Hans.

[stewey]

That's for sure, mikey. Hans, the thread does sort of have a Lewis Carollish twist to it:)