"Smudger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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I knew people that sat exams for friends and even one that sat a driving test posing as somebody else (they were sussed). Riding TTs for other people could be a lucrative business for a fast man. There must be loads of people wanting a decent time so they can get into events.
Or people not willing to get up at the crack of dawn to ride weekend TTs. I seem to have slipped into that category these days, not being much of a "mornings person" at weekends any more. Partly responsible for my switch to cyclo-cross and its nice afternoon starts!
While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway [email hidden] typed:
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"Ben Tansley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Coming from Manchester, I'm sure it's got to be Birmingham. You'll note
that
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over-sensitivity and a refusal to confront the facts are not Mancunian qualities.
Definitely a Brummy screwdriver - much too unsubtle for use on the looms & spinning machines of the cotton industry - but ideal in the home of metal bashing 🙂
My Dad (a Brummy and proud of it) calls a hammer a Yankie screwdriver. When being polite, he refers to one as an American screwdriver.
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