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  1. OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    ...d

    One winter a young lad moves to a new Scottish town, far away from his place
    of birth. The snow falls, the skies are grey.

    As spring comes the weather begins to warm up. The rain falls the skies are
    grey.

    Easter comes. It's raining. Easter goes. It's still raining.

    April passes. The floods rise.

    May passes along with the showers.
    And our young chap is getting a bit sad [*]

    So at the beginning of June he finds his neighbour, an old chap, and asks
    him "when does summer come around here".

    The old chap thinks for a while before answering:

    "Och, it's nae so simple. Last year for example, it was on a Tuesday"

    [*] Seasonal Affective Disorder. remedied by taking lots of cod liver oil

  2. David Martin said:

    OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    Uhm...

    would it be improper of me to point out that in Italy we tell the same
    joke about England?

    "Only two seasons, the 15th of August and winter"

    🙂

  3. David Martin said:

    OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    Yesterday, I went out first thing when it was nice and sunny and
    promising to be a fine day. Within minutes of me getting home, it had
    started to pour down.

    Today, /exactly/ the same thing happened. OK, so I got caught by a brief
    shower while I was out, but it's only started to rain properly since I
    got home.

    d.

  4. David Martin ([email hidden]) wrote:
    : OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    According to 'The Courier' (local Dundee paper) that 5 min monsoon at
    teatime on monday produced more rainfall than the whole of august 2003!

    Blair.

  5. (B.G. Finlay IT Services) said:

    David Martin ([email hidden]) wrote:
    : OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    Quoted message said:

    According to 'The Courier' (local Dundee paper) that 5 min monsoon at
    teatime on monday produced more rainfall than the whole of august 2003!

    Today is more of a quiet steady rain with the occasional burst of serious
    downpour. Non-stop since I woke up so far.
    Nobody warned me that Dundee has monsoons 🙁

    Roos

  6. On 18/8/04 1:41 pm, in article [email hidden],

    Roos Eisma said:
    (B.G. Finlay IT Services) said:

    David Martin ([email hidden]) wrote:
    : OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    Quoted message said:

    According to 'The Courier' (local Dundee paper) that 5 min monsoon at
    teatime on monday produced more rainfall than the whole of august 2003!

    Today is more of a quiet steady rain with the occasional burst of serious
    downpour. Non-stop since I woke up so far.
    Nobody warned me that Dundee has monsoons 🙁

    And this is where we discover that the drains do not have the capacity to
    take all the water coming off the roof in our bit of the world. We had water
    everywhere on Monday and now have a supply of sandbags to divert future
    floods. Hi-tech protection for the Mass Specs.

    We were literally shoving water out of the fire escape with anything that
    could come to hand. The water had backed up through an old drain at floor
    level and ripped the cover plate through the lino floor.

    Splish splosh..

    ...d

  7. David Martin <[email hidden]> wrote in news:BD491050.1D8FE%
    [email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    And this is where we discover that the drains do not have the capacity to
    take all the water coming off the roof in our bit of the world.

    It's like the here in Australia, only I think they've given up trying to
    cope. Many houses don't have down pipes from the gutters, they have plastic
    chains. They guide the occasional trickle absolutely fine, but when the
    skies really open (as they're doing a lot this week) they're much better
    than pipes which just couldn't cope with the flow. They often don't even
    have drains at the bottom of them, the water just flows onto the
    path/garden and does a good job of washing it away :-O

    Graeme

  8. in message <[email hidden]>, Eugenio

    Mastroviti (') said:
    David Martin said:

    OK a weather joke as it is still raining felines and canines.

    Uhm...

    would it be improper of me to point out that in Italy we tell the same
    joke about England?

    "Only two seasons, the 15th of August and winter"

    Ah, well then, Scotland's different. Here we have four seasons: Winter,
    Winter 2, Son of Winter, and Winter: The Prequel.

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    'You cannot put "The Internet" into the Recycle Bin.'

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