A blatant attempt to get your attention!
In the early 1960's, I came across an advert in Exchange and Mart which read as follows. "Mauger for sale. Fully fencible version available if required". There was a phone number from which we could never get a reply.
I have spent the thick end of forty years wondering what a mauger was and just what one had to do to make it fully fencible!
Can anyone put me out of my misery?
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
You've reminded me to buy our local Loot type ad mag called Quids In. The mispellings in it are what you pay the pound for. I wish I could remember some of them, but maybe tonight after I have read it.
I can imagine poor Tracey, fresh out of phonetic spelling school, on the phone trying to type a message from a heavily accented Welsh farmer or Scouse builder about stuff she's never heard of. The number of variations on Bamford woofter (Wuffler - hay turner), Forduson Dextra Track terr or wacker plate is quite amazing. (You can tell which bits I read). Jeni enjoys the livestock section, which has many unheard of breeds of poultry (6 Cockeralls free to good home £5, springs to mind) .
No very useful suggestions on your puzzle. Mauger? Manger maybe ? Auger for making fence post holes?
Regards, Arthur G
Our local rag carried an advert some time ago
"For sale Ford Escort deluxe saloon First registered October 1791 Owner deceased"
I jest not.
John
In the local paper of a large national capital city in another hemisphere from me, there were once some classic mis-spellings of tractor names, like Matthew Ferguson, and Alice Chalmers. I guess for the majority of the readers of that paper it didn't matter one little bit.
I think Arthur has it about right, a typesetting error with the "n" inverted to make a "u", should have been manger.
N is one of those letters whose upper and lower case appearances don't agree with each other, like "a" and "r" for example.
Peter
Peter
There was one mauger of note - the speedway star of the '60s and '70s Ivan Mauger (pronounced major).
Christopher W.
Thanks Peter - and a fully fencible Manger is a - wot? ;o))
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
"Peter A Forbes" wrote
A manger with a provision for a fence ? :-))
Kind regards,
Peter
Peter Forbes Prepair Ltd Luton, UK email: snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk home: snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk
Reminds me of the famous ad for a "Rusting Hornsby" - still makes me smile :-)
In message , Arthur Griffin writes
Peter, that is in-de-fencible
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... and there I was saying that the puns on the model engineering newsgroup were getting bad! :-))
Peter
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