What's the first thing to come to your mind?

[Steve Boyd]

Donna

[gadjo_dilo]

Donnarumma

[Steve Boyd]

Doner Kebab

[gadjo_dilo]

Fast Food

[Steve Boyd]

Dinner on Concorde

[gadjo_dilo]

Plastic cutlery

[Steve Boyd]

Not on Concorde!

[gadjo_dilo]

Out of Concorde

[Steve Boyd]

Concorde - Sir Lancelot's horse in Monty Python & the Holy Grail

[gadjo_dilo]

Place de la Concorde

[Steve Boyd]

Obelisk

[gadjo_dilo]

Carolina

[Steve Boyd]

First thought was - North or South?
but that's USA not Cluj-Napoca . . . . .

[gadjo_dilo]

And the second thought?

[Steve Boyd]

LPL - CLJ direct with Wizz!

[gadjo_dilo]

He, he.....Definitely your 2000 km WIZZ flight from Liverpool to Cluj would take less time than my 500 km journey by train from Book-a-Rest to Cluj (been there last month - 9h15' :p).


Back to the game: CFR
P.S. 2 options again depending on what's on your mind: railways or football.

[Steve Boyd]

Railways
LPL - CLJ by train is around 40 hours and the ticket for the bit from Liverpool to London costs more than the Wizzair flight. If I ever go to Transylvania, I'm flying!

Football
0 - 0 away in the first leg isn't a bad result!

[gadjo_dilo]

.....the ticket for the bit from Liverpool to London costs more than the Wizzair flight.
Wow.....So, it's true! ......:eek:
The other day a guy wrote on fb that a train ticket from Manchester to London is about 300 E and I thought he was exaggerating.
B -Cj is "only" 20 E.

Back to topic: choice

[Steve Boyd]

A standard class open return ticket (out & back on any train) with Avanti from Manchester to London is £369.40 for the 315 km (2h 10m) journey. You can do it for £150 if you book in advance for specific off-peak trains, but you can't change the train you're booked on for a different one. There are other operators that are cheaper but you're looking at 4+ hours & two trains each way. Liverpool to London has the same operators and roughly the same prices.

Back to topic:
Hobson's
(Hobson's choice is a peculiar English expression - you may need to Google it to find the meaning, if you haven't heard it before)

[gadjo_dilo]

Gypsy vegetables/fruits seller in absurdistani markets.:laugh:

( Hobson's choice- he doesn't allow you to pick up stuff, you'll buy only what he puts in your bag - usually a lot of rotten stuff )

[Steve Boyd]

Supermarket On-Line Delivery
(half the order is substitue brands, the rest is use by tomorrow)

[gadjo_dilo]

Mega-Image

[Steve Boyd]

There's one in London but they won't deliver to Liverpool!

[gadjo_dilo]

Restriction

[Steve Boyd]

Limiting

[gadjo_dilo]

Boundery

[Steve Boyd]

4 or 6?

[gadjo_dilo]

Question

[Steve Boyd]

Answer

[gadjo_dilo]

Wrong

[airshifter]

right!

[gadjo_dilo]

Left

[Steve Boyd]

Field

[gadjo_dilo]

Sally

[Steve Boyd]

Forth

[gadjo_dilo]

Fourth

[Steve Boyd]

May - Star Wars Day

[gadjo_dilo]

April

[Steve Boyd]

Showers

[gadjo_dilo]

Bathroom

[Steve Boyd]

Window
(Beatles & Joe Cocker)

[gadjo_dilo]

Glass

[airshifter]

Glass Animals

[gadjo_dilo]

Glass fish

( the multicoloured glass fish stategically placed on a crocheted decoration on a tv set was a sort of trademark of the absurdistani homes in the communist era. Nobody knows why this typical kitsch was so popular :laugh: )https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220815/b39d8afb965468bb45f7ef64e7680219.jpg

[Steve Boyd]

Ceramic ducks
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/55/19/245519f2c58ab9d38236a54933299534.jpg
popular in UK in the 1950's. No idea why!!

[gadjo_dilo]

Kitsch

[Steve Boyd]

Antwacky
(Liverpool expression meaning out of date or unfashionable. A corruption of antique)

[gadjo_dilo]

Speechless

[Steve Boyd]

Dumbfounded

[gadjo_dilo]

Astonished

[Steve Boyd]

Amazed

[gadjo_dilo]

Amazon

[Steve Boyd]

Volvo

[gadjo_dilo]

Car

[Steve Boyd]

Driving

[gadjo_dilo]

Crazy

[Steve Boyd]

Horses

[gadjo_dilo]

Dan
( a guy who used to play the song Crazy Horses on his tape-recorder :laugh: )

[Steve Boyd]

Dan Dare
("Pilot of the Future" from the Eagle comic)

[gadjo_dilo]

Dare Waffers
( my favs )

[Steve Boyd]

Mr Creosote
(Finally Monsieur, a wafer thin mint . . . .)

[gadjo_dilo]

Huh?! :eek:

[Steve Boyd]

A wise man knows his limits!

[gadjo_dilo]

Modesty

[Steve Boyd]

Blaise

[gadjo_dilo]

Pascal

[Steve Boyd]

Unit of pressure

[gadjo_dilo]

My head

[Steve Boyd]

The place for your hat!

[gadjo_dilo]

Hat rack

[Steve Boyd]

Coat stand

[gadjo_dilo]

Wardrobe

[Steve Boyd]

Mistress

[gadjo_dilo]

Camilla

[Steve Boyd]

Mrs King
(married to the Monarch formerly known as Prince!)

[gadjo_dilo]

Billie Jean King

[Steve Boyd]

Martin Luther King

[gadjo_dilo]

The Lion King

[Steve Boyd]

B B King

[gadjo_dilo]

King Size

[Steve Boyd]

Out Size

[gadjo_dilo]

Oversized

[Steve Boyd]

Pistons & Rings

[gadjo_dilo]

Pat & Patachon

[Steve Boyd]

Patty cake . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-HhecZqjE

[gadjo_dilo]

Shakespeare -Longfellow
https://youtu.be/FfT9rxGSxP4

[Steve Boyd]

The "Scottish Play"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--HR7PWfp0

[gadjo_dilo]

Macbeth.

[Steve Boyd]

Trajedy.

[gadjo_dilo]

Bee Gees
( https://youtu.be/WJcozEOWgxI )

[Steve Boyd]

Douglas, Isle of Man
(https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/bee-gees-statue-unveiled-on-douglas-prom/)

[gadjo_dilo]

Douglas, Kirk.

[Steve Boyd]

I'm Spartacus!

[gadjo_dilo]

I'm Chip, I'm Dale......
https://youtu.be/c-E4eatxUAk

[Steve Boyd]

Chippendales

These:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Arm_chair%2C_Thomas_Chippendale%2C_c._1771%2C_wood %2C_yellow_Morocco_leather_-_Harewood_House_-_West_Yorkshire%2C_England_-_DSC01591.jpg/132px-Arm_chair%2C_Thomas_Chippendale%2C_c._1771%2C_wood %2C_yellow_Morocco_leather_-_Harewood_House_-_West_Yorkshire%2C_England_-_DSC01591.jpg

not these:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/ChippendalesLasVegas.jpg/375px-ChippendalesLasVegas.jpg

[gadjo_dilo]

Both

[Steve Boyd]

Greedy

[gadjo_dilo]

Scrooge

[Steve Boyd]

Charles Dickens

[gadjo_dilo]

The Great Expectations

[Steve Boyd]

Often lead to great disappointments!

[anfield5]

England at the World Cup

[gadjo_dilo]

Liverpool in Premier League

Anfield!.....where have you been? :eek:

[anfield5]

Started a degree, through to Masters a while back alongside work and didn’t have any free time to do normal human things ��

Champions

[gadjo_dilo]

League

[anfield5]

Gentlemen

[gadjo_dilo]

Agreement

[anfield5]

Contract

[Steve Boyd]

Expand

[anfield5]

Mr Creosote

[gadjo_dilo]

Mr Somebody

[anfield5]

Mr Mister

[Steve Boyd]

Broken Wings

[anfield5]

Can’t fly

[gadjo_dilo]

Pigs

[Steve Boyd]

Three Different Ones

[anfield5]

Split personality

[gadjo_dilo]

Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

[anfield5]

Gothic

[Steve Boyd]

Architecture

[anfield5]

Building

[gadjo_dilo]

Block

[anfield5]

Head

[Steve Boyd]

Tail

[anfield5]

Kangaroo

[gadjo_dilo]

Aussie

[anfield5]

convict

[gadjo_dilo]

Guilty

[Steve Boyd]

As charged.

[anfield5]

Bull

[Steve Boyd]

Red

[anfield5]

Stop

[gadjo_dilo]

Zebra

[anfield5]

Crossing

[Steve Boyd]

Level

[anfield5]

Headed

[gadjo_dilo]

Beheaded

[Steve Boyd]

Divorced, Beheaded, Died: Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
(the fates of Henry VIII six wives)

[anfield5]

Evil

[gadjo_dilo]

Devil

[anfield5]

Minions

[Steve Boyd]

Mischief

[anfield5]

Annoying

[gadjo_dilo]

Boring

[anfield5]

Rugby

[Steve Boyd]

League

[anfield5]

20,000

[gadjo_dilo]

......Leagues Under the Seas

[Steve Boyd]

Captain Nemo

[anfield5]

Clown fish

[gadjo_dilo]

Aquarium

[anfield5]

Fish

[Steve Boyd]

Chips

[anfield5]

California Highway Patrol

[Steve Boyd]

Gotta Wear Shades

[anfield5]

Bright Light

[Steve Boyd]

Train coming!

[anfield5]

It British Rail, so it will be late :)

[gadjo_dilo]

C.f.r.

[anfield5]

Freight

[gadjo_dilo]

Cargo

[anfield5]

Pants

[Steve Boyd]

Breathless

[anfield5]

Oxygen debt

[gadjo_dilo]

Deficit

[Steve Boyd]

Balance of payments

[anfield5]

Corruption

[gadjo_dilo]

Government

[anfield5]

Can’t be trusted

[Steve Boyd]

Ever!

[anfield5]

Never

[gadjo_dilo]

Walk alone :p

[anfield5]

Rogers and Hammerstein

[Steve Boyd]

Musicals

[anfield5]

Ears are bleeding

[Steve Boyd]

Severe concussion

[anfield5]

Beating my head against a wall

[gadjo_dilo]

Desperate

[Steve Boyd]

Dan

(Non-British forum members - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Dan)

[anfield5]

Cow Pie

[Steve Boyd]

Horns

[anfield5]

Rhinoceros

[gadjo_dilo]

Eugene Ionesco
(Author of the play " Rhinoceros". Absurd theatre from an absurdistan author :p )

[Steve Boyd]

Careful with that axe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HYayT1vwg

[gadjo_dilo]

Vaslui

[anfield5]

Western Moldavia

[gadjo_dilo]

Eastern Absurdistan

[Steve Boyd]

Just a WizzAir flight away

[gadjo_dilo]

Low-cost

[Steve Boyd]

Plus extras
(boarding, seat, food, bag &c :rolleyes:

[anfield5]

Big pants with pockets

[gadjo_dilo]

Budigai
(Knickers " with sleeves" )

[Steve Boyd]

Blanket with sleeves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQwC07m67Q0

[gadjo_dilo]

Accessory

[anfield5]

After the fact

[Steve Boyd]

Assisting an offender

[anfield5]

Crooked lawyer

[Steve Boyd]

Anything for a fee

[anfield5]

Henry Windsor

[gadjo_dilo]

Cry baby

[Steve Boyd]

Fake tears

[anfield5]

Crocodile

[Steve Boyd]

Shoes

[anfield5]

Socks

[Steve Boyd]

For Christmas - Again!
:rolleyes:

[anfield5]

Brussel Sprouts

[gadjo_dilo]

Cabbage

[Steve Boyd]

Brassica

[anfield5]

Rabbit food

[gadjo_dilo]

Carrot

[anfield5]

Red head

[Steve Boyd]

Ginger

[anfield5]

Ninja

[Steve Boyd]

Turtle

[anfield5]

Up side down

[Steve Boyd]

Frank

(Many years ago I met a rally driver who years before had slid off the road and finished on the roof in a ditch. As he revved the engine trying to get it to go his co-driver said "It's upside-down Frank" and from then on whenever he was intoduced the conversation would be something like - Who's this? - "It's upside-down Frank" so he was always known to his mates as "Upside-down Frank")

[anfield5]

Frank

(Many years ago I met a rally driver who years before had slid off the road and finished on the roof in a ditch. As he revved the engine trying to get it to go his co-driver said "It's upside-down Frank" and from then on whenever he was intoduced the conversation would be something like - Who's this? - "It's upside-down Frank" so he was always known to his mates as "Upside-down Frank")
:)

[anfield5]

Furter

[gadjo_dilo]

Who? :eek:

[anfield5]

Who? :eek:

Frankfurter

[anfield5]

what?

[Steve Boyd]

Where?

[anfield5]

When

[gadjo_dilo]

Ever

[anfield5]

Eternal

[Steve Boyd]

Flame

[anfield5]

Pyre

[gadjo_dilo]

Game

[Steve Boyd]

Hunting

[anfield5]

Duck

[Steve Boyd]

Quack

[anfield5]

Dodgy Doctor

[Steve Boyd]

Harold Shipman

[anfield5]

Serial Killer

[gadjo_dilo]

Rimaru
( the most famous serial killer of Absurdistan )

[Steve Boyd]

Jack the Ripper

[anfield5]

Jack the Ripper

Victorian London

[Steve Boyd]

Pea soup fog

[anfield5]

Asthmatic

[Steve Boyd]

I prefer a manual!

[anfield5]

You prefer Manuel?

[gadjo_dilo]

I prefer Mariano :cool:

[anfield5]

Over-rated footballer at Real Madrid

[gadjo_dilo]

Penaldo. :p

[anfield5]

Ego Maniac

[Steve Boyd]

Ego Manc - before he left in a huff!

[anfield5]

Re-living past glories

[gadjo_dilo]

Nostalgic

[Steve Boyd]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!

[anfield5]

Some jokes are older than others :)