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Title: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 01:56:19
(http://www.deskpicture.com/DPs/Miscellaneous/spam.jpg)
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 17, 2007, 02:03:40
Spam!

Another great British invention to enjoy alongside Marmite.

Thanks Fred! And well done.

Stu
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 02:07:02
Spam & Marmite..  that's no combination!..   Ugh I should have known!  * slaps forehead *

 ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 17, 2007, 02:08:01
Spam & Marmite..  that's no combination!..   Ugh I should have known!  * slaps forehead *

 ;D
Just relax... Have a Marmite and Spam sandwich... You'll feel better.

Stu
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 02:09:53
Sigh, if you can't beat them, join them.. I guess..  ;D

Black pudding, anyone?

(now thát, I do love)
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 17, 2007, 02:13:31
Sigh, if you can't beat them, join them.. I guess..  ;D

Black pudding, anyone?

(now thát, I do love)

The congealed blood of cattle, mixed with whatever sludge happens to be lying about? Now I know what they do with the sludge they pump out the bilges of ferries!

Stu
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 02:15:11
Ours is a bit different to the (yorkshire isnt it?) black pudding you have. But same sorta sludge, for sure.  Love it.  ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 17, 2007, 02:16:24
Ours is a bit different to the (yorkshire isnt it?) black pudding you have. But same sorta sludge, for sure.  Love it.  ;D

Scottish, actually. Try fruit pudding instead. Much nicer (actually edible).

Having said that, black pudding dipped in Marmite could work, I suppose  :-\
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: mvsmith on December 17, 2007, 02:17:17
I’ll stick to Pemmican.

Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 02:17:50
* tries to find the smiley with the green cheeks and the troubled look *  

dang, that's just nasty  ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 17, 2007, 02:20:28
NOTE

I'm off to bed now as I have to be in the office in 5 hours and even I need some sleep.

I say this just so you know that if I don't reply to your next outrageous comment about Marmite, it isn't that you're getting the last word... But that I'm knackered and need sle....zzz.zzz.zzz.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 02:21:44
Good night mate!

Oh, talking about sleep.. I had a dream about Marmite the other night..

At first I didn't understand why, but then I saw that the cat had been sick on the duvet... ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: saltydog on December 17, 2007, 09:58:51
can't help but think of that great Monty Python sketch about spam... ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Mad_Fred on December 17, 2007, 10:14:00
 ;D

I'm a big MP fan. And that spam sketch is hilarious. hehe
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: dharl on December 17, 2007, 10:36:52
The congealed blood of cattle, mixed with whatever sludge happens to be lying about? Now I know what they do with the sludge they pump out the bilges of ferries!

Stu

Yes Stu, thats how they make Marmite!  ;D AND some people think they mine it!    Thats only pot noodles!
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Sam on December 17, 2007, 19:10:19
Oh well,

I allready was saying "I have again Marmite in my mailbox"

But I think I could start saying again "I have again spam in my mailbox" thanks to this topic!  ;D


Thank you Mad_Fred for bringing my old vocabulary back ;) :P
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 18, 2007, 00:22:08
Good night mate!

Oh, talking about sleep.. I had a dream about Marmite the other night..

At first I didn't understand why, but then I saw that the cat had been sick on the duvet... ;D

In fairness, cats don't generally like Marmite... So that is understandable... Dogs like it.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 18, 2007, 01:00:36
Now for my evening's marmite & haggis sandwich. Topped off with two slices of spam and creosote. Not sure which I like the best.

Mind you.... oh-oh. Must go. The cat's just eaten the marmite and haggis. Mad Fred, it's your dream come true  ;D

Night, all.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: JHB on December 18, 2007, 01:59:03
(http://virtualships.org/images/marmite.jpg)

Now we got both images to show some protest... ;) ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Saphire on December 21, 2007, 08:47:28
A bit like spam but better! :D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 21, 2007, 09:53:58
A bit like spam but better! :D

That's Lurvely (sic) on a butty with some brown sauce ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: dharl on December 21, 2007, 11:27:42
and some onion!   Corned beef and onion sarnie!   Now thats something to look fwd to on a middle watch.... ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Saphire on December 21, 2007, 13:42:40
That's Lurvely (sic) on a butty with some brown sauce ;D

Definitly.

*Drools in keyboard*
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 22, 2007, 00:01:20
That's Lurvely (sic) on a butty with some brown sauce ;D


Look, I'm FED UP with the off topic posts. Kindly refrain from mentioning ANY foodstuff except Marmite (and the anti-Marmite opposite) but any discussion of non-Marmite will result in this total waste of forum resources being reported to the admin.

Thankyou.

(This is dry wit humour, by the way)  :P

Stu
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 22, 2007, 00:02:52
(This is dry wit humour, by the way)  :P

Please tell us when to laugh then :P :P :D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 22, 2007, 01:09:42
Stu, the anti-Marmite opposite is Marmite.

But as they say, two wrongs don't make a right.

"Anti-Marmite". Is that a leptonic particle? In truth, there is strangeness and beauty. Perhaps marmiteness is the undiscovered property of leptons.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: mvsmith on December 22, 2007, 01:12:12
(This is dry wit humour, by the way)  :P

Stu
Imagine what Stu might be capable of after a pint or two, or a few Scotches!
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: mvsmith on December 22, 2007, 01:19:20
Perhaps marmiteness is the undiscovered property of leptons.
It’s like Spin, only at right angles to the axis. Something like precession for those who cannot visualize in five dimensions.
Also completely lacking Charm.
Marty


Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 22, 2007, 01:23:23
"Also completely lacking Charm."

Someone who understands my jokes! WOW! I thought that no-one would see that one. I salute you Sir, and eat marmite at you.

You are hereby awarded access to the kindom of marmiteness under the seventh layer of bovril.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: mvsmith on December 22, 2007, 01:33:52
Someone who understands my jokes!
A product of a misspent youth—9 years—in the UCLA Cyclotron Lab.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: mvsmith on December 22, 2007, 07:08:07
Terry,
It appears that ******* has a very short half-life. Any idea what the decay products are? Photons, I suppose, If it’s an anti-particle.

Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 22, 2007, 10:09:49
Being an Oxford man myself (Keeble), we have are using the particle accelerator here to determine that. So far we have sat watching it for 27 minutes and are still waiting.  I'll let you know if something happens.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 22, 2007, 23:56:37
Please tell us when to laugh then :P :P :D

That is one of the biggest problems with having subtle humour.

Stu
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 22, 2007, 23:58:17
Marmite...

I suspect this above word will be replaced by asterisks... Looks like someone is getting clever.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: Stuart2007 on December 23, 2007, 00:15:43
It was.

How pathetic. Totally pathetic.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 23, 2007, 10:54:30
Now that the leptonic particle has been assigned a new name of *******, we men of Oxford have devised a new symbol for it: *^7.

From this day hence let it be known!

We took a vote, and the common name for it will be "brown gooey stuff". We're still working on the Latin name.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: Nathanael on December 23, 2007, 11:22:30
Hello, I noticed that all the posts which have marmite in it have the word crossed out to stars. Why is that?
Cheers Nathanael
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against *******!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 23, 2007, 11:34:24
I suspect that someone "in charge" was worried that the manufacturers of *^7 would take offence when people were saying they didn't like it. Probably he/she/they/it was worried about possible legal consequences.

So they programmed the software for this forum to automatically replace the word with asterisks.

Actually, the entire basis of advertising for *^7 is that people love it or hate it. The TV ads show people running in terror when offered free samples. So I think that changing it to ******* may have been a bit paranoid.

Oh well.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Wout on December 23, 2007, 12:03:23
Oh, come on, is it forbidden nowadays to have a bit of humour? The word is unbanned by the way, it took you all long enough to notice it :)
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 23, 2007, 12:08:00
It's just a pity that it's not April 1st Wout, you'd be crowned Champion right about now :D

Regards.

DJM.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: saltydog on December 23, 2007, 12:27:23
I don't see the problem, we're in small talk, the topic is Marmite.
We can all let our hair down so to speak.. :D

Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 23, 2007, 12:28:06
I don't see the problem, we're in small talk, the topic is Marmite.
We can all let our hair down so to speak.. :D



Except me, running rapidly out of that 'novelty' :D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: saltydog on December 23, 2007, 12:29:13
sorry djm, I meant that figuratively.. ;D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 23, 2007, 12:29:53
Hehe ;D

I am serious though, ignoring my Avatar ::) :o
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 23, 2007, 12:40:32
Letting your hair down in marmite? ugh!

Now that the latin name has been considered it is undergoing the pier review process. The meeting will be held at Ryde, so programming a hvercraft mission for it right now.

Ryde... Pier... Get it? No? Oh well.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: dharl on December 23, 2007, 12:42:30
Ryde... Pier... Get it? No? Oh well.

collective groan from the world of shipping....  :D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 23, 2007, 12:43:48
Hi Wout.

Actually, I think people noticed straight away, but they were too polite to say anything.

Now, I'm off to frighten people with a plate of sandwiches. Power-crazed? Me? I'm not bovriled by it at all.

May the marmite be with you.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 23, 2007, 12:44:59
Now, I'm off to frighten people with a plate of sandwiches. Power-crazed? Me? I'm not bovriled by it at all.

May the marmite be with you.

/me remains quiet


Except that ^ :D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 23, 2007, 12:47:02
The vote has no wbeen taken. The new Latin name is:

Brownus Goous Stinkum Notniceatallus
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 23, 2007, 12:48:41
The vote has no wbeen taken. The new Latin name is:

Brownus Goous Stinkum Notniceatallus

The Stinkum bit I definitely agree with :P :D
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: TerryRussell on December 23, 2007, 12:51:52
Back to the grind now.

I was creating mission number 2 in the series, but I think Mission Editor sank in mid Atlantic. As fast as I added Way Points, it deleted ships from the mission. It might just be editorialising of course. Perhaps it smelled my marmite sandwiches.
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: [RWP]DJM on December 23, 2007, 12:57:13
If I tried to put Marmite anywhere near my PC, it would 'give up the ghost' permanently ;D

Like my TV, it starts crying if any of my family call, and they want to watch a Soap Opera ;)
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: Traddles on December 23, 2007, 15:56:30
I'm glad to see common sense has prevailed, in this rotten world we live in a bit of light hearted banter makes things much more bearable. Lets face it, the Marmite thread turned out to be the biggest and longest lasting one on the Small Talk forum, surely that tells it's own story? Lets all let a bit of Good Cheer into things and have a jolly good belly laugh for Christmas. ;D ;D ::) And if any more youngsters keep crashing into my ship in Multiplayer I'll give them a good laugh.!!!!! >:( :-*
Title: Re: Skippers Protest Against Marmite!
Post by: mvsmith on December 23, 2007, 17:27:25
Thanks a lot, Wout.
I spent all day yesterday reformatting and rebuilding my system because I thought I’d caught the anti-Marmite virus!
Merry Christmas,
Marty