Most 'exotic' roadkill?

hyweldavies wrote on 20/03/2007 22:11 +0100:

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Mind you a
friend's dad supposedly ran into a lathe sat on the motorway but I
can't vouch for the latter story!

Are you sure it was a lathe and not a car that was turning?

IGMC

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Tony

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wildly inaccurate..."
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hyweldavies said:

Mind you a
friend's dad supposedly ran into a lathe sat on the motorway but I
can't vouch for the latter story! Quite a thing to lose off the back
of your lorry - .

My Uncle (who was know to embelish a story) claimed that on his army lorry
drivers training course, he once was being followed very closely by a police
car down a narrow lane. The instructor told him to ignore the police car
until he got to a passing place where the police car could get past. Round
the next bend my uncle saw an engine block lying in the middle or the road,
he looked to the instructor but was told "we've got plenty of ground
clearance, we'll go over that"

They did, but the police car didn't.

Tom
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somewhat off the original question, in that I wasn't cycling, and it
wasn't quite a "kill", but there was a bathtub sat in the fast lane of
the M5 last week. People were being quite sensible and managing to
avoid it, but could have been quite impressive if someone had hit it.
Think it was plastic rather than Victorian cast iron. Mind you a
friend's dad supposedly ran into a lathe sat on the motorway but I
can't vouch for the latter story! Quite a thing to lose off the back
of your lorry - .

Came close to scoring a double mattress at the bottom of the M11 a few years
ago; the spare wheel from a Citroen BX detached itself from its parent
motorcar as I followed it up the A1 and as a small Mr Larrington, with Mrs
Larrington (decd.) at the wheel, a Phenomenal Avoidance ensued when a Thing
resembling a six-foot diameter Brillo pad dropped off the back of a lorry
exiting a roundabout near High Wycombe.

Phixer Phil Chadwick encountered a sofa on the M4 last week, but it was that
motorised one :-)

When I were a lad, we once entered spaghetti junction with a Mirror
dinghy on the roof of he car. By the time we left, of was no longer
there. I reckon there is a Birmingham Triangle as when I was there as a
student things were always disappearing.

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the coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend himself. (Tom
Waits)

On 12 Mar 2007 23:24:40 GMT, Mark Thompson

pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com said:

What's the most exotic (or unexpected) roadkill you've seen on your bicycle
travels?

If cycling through Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris at 4am on 31
August 1997 you may have seen a dead princess.

Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 20:58 +0100:

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On 12 Mar 2007 23:24:40 GMT, Mark Thompson

pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com said:

What's the most exotic (or unexpected) roadkill you've seen on your bicycle
travels?

If cycling through Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris at 4am on 31
August 1997 you may have seen a dead princess.

<pedant>

a nearly dead princess

</pedant>

--
Tony

"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least
wildly inaccurate..."
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Tom Crispin said:

On 12 Mar 2007 23:24:40 GMT, Mark Thompson

pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com said:

What's the most exotic (or unexpected) roadkill you've seen on your bicycle
travels?

If cycling through Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris at 4am on 31
August 1997 you may have seen a dead princess.

I hardly think that's funny.

I was cycling round there at that time on a nice white bike I had (I'd
borrowed the paint from a mate who was doing up a Fiat Uno), and this
bloody armoured Mercedes bumped into me going 130mph. Of course, it was
the merest of small bumps, and I was only knocked a bit off course by it
because <Alan Holmes>I was riding at 90mph</Alan Holmes> myself.

A

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:16:08 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

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Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 20:58 +0100:

Quoted message said:

On 12 Mar 2007 23:24:40 GMT, Mark Thompson

pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com said:

What's the most exotic (or unexpected) roadkill you've seen on your bicycle
travels?

If cycling through Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris at 4am on 31
August 1997 you may have seen a dead princess.

<pedant>

a nearly dead princess

</pedant>

Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 21:48 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tony Raven said:

<pedant>

a nearly dead princess

</pedant>

Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

I was going to say no because the OED defines it as:

"a. The killing of an animal by a vehicle on a road; also, an animal
killed in this way."

but then I spotted a second line of the definition and decided the
answer was definitely yes:

"b. A person or thing that is useless or moribund".

--
Tony

"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least
wildly inaccurate..."
Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Tom Crispin said:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:16:08 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 20:58 +0100:

Quoted message said:

On 12 Mar 2007 23:24:40 GMT, Mark Thompson
<pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com> wrote:

> What's the most exotic (or unexpected) roadkill you've seen on your bicycle
> travels?

If cycling through Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris at 4am on 31
August 1997 you may have seen a dead princess.

<pedant>

a nearly dead princess

</pedant>

Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

Or taken out by alcohol-fuelled ex-government hit men in the employ of the Daily
Express?

IGMC before this becomes too bad taste.

John B

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us:

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When I were a lad, we once entered spaghetti junction with a Mirror
dinghy on the roof of he car. By the time we left, of was no longer
there. I reckon there is a Birmingham Triangle as when I was there as
a student things were always disappearing.

Ex-Chairman Dave (Cormie) once contrived to lose an entire fully-faired
recumbent trike from the roof of his motorcar while travelling with some
despatch down the A1. The cause, however, was not hard to determine - the
wind had got underneath the nose of the beast (which was sticking out ahead
of the windscreen) and ripped the machine, and the roof-rack to which it was
securely strapped, clean off the car. Much Scottish Swearing ensued.

--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
The best way to confuse a Daily Mail reader is to tell it that
paedophiles form the staple diet of asylum seekers.

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Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 21:48 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tony Raven said:

<pedant>

a nearly dead princess

</pedant>

Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

I was going to say no because the OED defines it as:

"a. The killing of an animal by a vehicle on a road; also, an animal
killed in this way."

but then I spotted a second line of the definition and decided the
answer was definitely yes:

"b. A person or thing that is useless or moribund".

So are you saying that The People's Princess(tm) was:

a. useless, or
b. moribund, or
c. both

;-)

I hope no-one on the staff of the D++ly +xpr+ss reads this froup.

--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
The best way to confuse a Daily Mail reader is to tell it that
paedophiles form the staple diet of asylum seekers.

Dave Larrington wrote on 22/03/2007 08:33 +0100:

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Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 21:48 +0100:

Quoted message said:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:16:08 +0000, Tony Raven
<[email hidden]> wrote:
> <pedant>
>
> a nearly dead princess
>
> </pedant>
Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

I was going to say no because the OED defines it as:

"a. The killing of an animal by a vehicle on a road; also, an animal
killed in this way."

but then I spotted a second line of the definition and decided the
answer was definitely yes:

"b. A person or thing that is useless or moribund".

So are you saying that The People's Princess(tm) was:

a. useless, or
b. moribund, or
c. both

;-)

Cue Francis Urquhart.

--
Tony

"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least
wildly inaccurate..."
Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dave Larrington said:

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Tony Raven <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:

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Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 21:48 +0100:

Quoted message said:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:16:08 +0000, Tony Raven
<[email hidden]> wrote:
> <pedant>
>
> a nearly dead princess
>
> </pedant>

Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

I was going to say no because the OED defines it as:

"a. The killing of an animal by a vehicle on a road; also, an animal
killed in this way."

but then I spotted a second line of the definition and decided the
answer was definitely yes:

"b. A person or thing that is useless or moribund".

So are you saying that The People's Princess(tm) was:

a. useless, or
b. moribund, or
c. both

This all reminds me of the way a ten year old pupil of mine started a
story, set in Victorian times:

Emily was an orphan. Her parents had died in a cart crash when she
was just four...

Tom Crispin said:

This all reminds me of the way a ten year old pupil of mine started a
story, set in Victorian times:

Emily was an orphan. Her parents had died in a cart crash when she
was just four...

That's what nearly happens in Pickwick. It seemed that the book was
caught by an unconstrained outbreak of slapstick
--
A

echidna

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Tom Crispin said:

This all reminds me of the way a ten year old pupil of mine started a
story, set in Victorian times:

Emily was an orphan. Her parents had died in a cart crash when she
was just four...

That's what nearly happens in Pickwick. It seemed that the book was
caught by an unconstrained outbreak of slapstick

There's also a dreadful Hollywood film, set in England in the 1700s,
where the hero, played by some over-paid American actor, guides some
distressed maiden to the nearest road by spotting kestrels hovering
over hapless roadkill crushed under the wheels of the Royal Post
Office carriage.

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In news:[email hidden],
Don Whybrow <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to
tell Ex-Chairman Dave (Cormie) once contrived to lose an entire
fully-faired recumbent trike from the roof of his motorcar while
travelling with some despatch down the A1. The cause, however, was not
hard to determine - the wind had got underneath the nose of the beast
(which was sticking out ahead of the windscreen) and ripped the machine,
and the roof-rack to which it was securely strapped, clean off the car.
Much Scottish Swearing ensued.

Once lost a small lift car roof off my roof rack at J40 M1 at 05.00 in the
morning.

Picked it up from lane 3, a bit damaged and installed it later that day in
Buckingham Palace.

'tis true - honestly.

John Clayton
www.calder-clarion.co.uk

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Tom Crispin wrote on 21/03/2007 21:48 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Tony Raven said:

<pedant>

a nearly dead princess

</pedant>

Does nearly dead count as roadkill?

I was going to say no because the OED defines it as:

"a. The killing of an animal by a vehicle on a road; also, an animal
killed in this way."

but then I spotted a second line of the definition and decided the answer
was definitely yes:

"b. A person or thing that is useless or moribund".

You talking about me again?

Alan

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Martin Dann <[email hidden]> whizzed past me shouting

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Mark Thompson said:

Vernon's inclusion of an "exotica" roadkill category had me thinking.
What kind of exotica is out on our roads?
What's the most exotic (or unexpected) roadkill you've seen on your
bicycle travels?

I am not sure if this is regarded as exotic, but I have killed several
insects after accidentally ingesting them.

I've found a stag beetle, squashed but clearly recognisable.
A grass snake.
A turkey (the amount of feathers was simply unbelieveable)

If you think that was a lot, you should see how many feathers are on a
pigeon, I ran over one once and when I looked in the mirror, the cloud of
feathers was the width of the road and about 15 feet high, I couldn't
believe it.

Alan

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If you think that was a lot, you should see how many feathers are on a
pigeon, I ran over one once and when I looked in the mirror, the cloud of
feathers was the width of the road and about 15 feet high, I couldn't
believe it.

Alan

Thanks for the laugh Alan. I really enjoyed that!
John
www.calder-clarion.co.uk