What's In A Name?

From Facebook Archives

31 May 2019 at 13:38 ·

According to the good doctor the houses across the road are not 10,12, 14 and 16 but "Ponderosa #2, 

The Sisters, Mrs Robinson’s and 

The Ponderosa".

This despite the fact both the sisters and Mrs Robinson are dead and she wasn't called Mrs Robinson in the first place.

Fortunately these are the only ones he can see from the office window.

 

If You Sprinkle ...

From Facebook Archives

30 May 2009 at 09.48

The upstairs toilet seat is broken

Squireen  ha ha

Miss Fiddle  Who did it?

Bentonbag  The hinge at the back has corroded and snapped.   

I blame Fester and Ferretfingers. Fester blames Ferretfingers "spraying around".   

We know it wasn't Thunderthighs because he will only use the downstairs toilet.

I'm not sure why males have to put the seat up anyway.  It doesn't make the space to aim for that much bigger (and most men manage to fit it into far smaller apertures than that).

Thunderthighs always follows the maxim "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat."

Miss Fiddle  Not all males are as polite as Thunderthighs - you'd soon notice if Ferretfingers and Fester didn't lift the seat up!

Bentonbag  They had little Mabel Lucie Atwell type signs on top of the cisterns in Woodlawn infants and he learnt from them.  All boys’ loos should have one.

 

Fond Memories?

Henffrind and Ben 197?

On 9 May 2015 Henffrind’s mother passed away.   

I naturally went down for the funeral, stayed with her, and her partner and child, and went to the funeral with them.   

There were a few sideways looks when I sat down next to her in the front pew.

From Facebook Archives

29 May 2015

So yesterday I am at the funeral of a very old and dear family friend and explaining to one of her nephews 

(who I haven't seen since we were teenagers) who I am.  

The penny drops, a light comes into his eyes and he says "Oh THAT Ben". 

Which is not the sort of thing one wants to hear ...

Drummerman  Some of us know what he meant ... 

(Not necessarily bad).

Bentonbag  It was the sly grin and the follow up of "You and Henffrind …  mischief" which was, if anything, even more worrying.

Mrs Lasagne  So he remembered you fondly Ben xxx

This blogpost explains things a bit more 

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/05/coincidences.html