Geneva might have its Geyser but look what we've got..

• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  13 June 2008     15:192838
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  I know...exciting isnt it. Oh Right, and you are just dying for another view..steady
  

  

  
  
  Wow !! Wot a Gusher!!
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 640

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  13 June 2008     15:242839
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  And now for an outbreak of yellow fever
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  There must be some sort of new Health & Safety legislation that requires this nice new bilious coloured yellow netting apprearing everywhere. different companies using it too..oh joy!!
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  13 June 2008     16:152840
  #3      
  Is it a submarine thats missed parking in the old pens?
  
  Maybe the yellow netting keeps the pigeons at bay...you might as welll nick some and give it a try PaulB...hehe
  
  
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 640

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  13 June 2008     19:132843
  #4      
  Ah good one Marek re the yellow netting. Never thought of it. The colour alone would drive the pigeons into nauseous fits
  email: dover7@msn.com
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  13 June 2008     19:292847
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  i heard that the old customs house was undergoing a renovation.
  until recently i thought it was derelict, but there are companies operating in there.
  
  i understand that once it was a beautiful hotel, that our own mr churchill once stayed.
  
  i wonder if that is where he learned the two fingered salute?
• Guest 645

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  13 June 2008     20:562851
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  The rude version of a two fingered salute derives from the English Longbowmen. The index finger and middle finger were the two digits used to pull back the string on the bow.If an archer was captured the French often chopped those 2 fingers off therefore ensuring that they could never draw a bow string again.After battles the English bowmen would often stand on top of the hill giving the 'v' gesture to the French indicating that they still had their 2 fingers in good working order.Hence the Harvey Smith gesture entered into our folklore.
  
  
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  13 June 2008     21:172852
  #7      
  Good idea re the yellow netting warding off the birds!
  
  Speaking of 2 fingers, in a cemetery an angel monument holding up 2 fingers donates a member of the clergy buried beneath.
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• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  13 June 2008     21:272853
  #8      
  I have nothing to say.................
• Guest 651

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  13 June 2008     21:472854
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  Yes, the former Lord Warden Hotel - Queen Victoria, Dickens and Napoleon III have all been inmates there
  
  The new exit road is coming on fast now...
  Been nice knowing you :)
• handyman

  • Location: gascony
  14 June 2008     09:012862
  #10      
  That yellow netting has been put right in front of the Dover webcam as well ! I can't see whats going on now.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/webcams/live/dover.jpg
• Guest 656

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  15 June 2008     22:152921
  #11      
  A far cry from the spectacular 475 feet height that erupts from Lake Geneva but you've got to start somewhere
  
  Well now PaulB as a self professed 60 year old Geezer it may be time for you to check out the one in Geneva again
  
  I'm not too fond of the jaundiced look either, lets go back to orange, at least the future's bright with orange'