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Old 08-27-2008, 09:46 PM
Mungo \Two Sheds\ Toadfoot
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Default Re: Things I learned today

BGN wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:20:03 +0100, "Mungo \"Two Sheds\" Toadfoot"
> <eastREMOVEkent@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> On the way out of Dover on the A20, up the steep and very windy
>>>>> hill don't go belting (which I think is a term for filtering at
>>>>> excessive speed) in between two articulated lorries as when the
>>>>> one to your left gets blown towards the one to your right one may
>>>>> need to purchase new underwear.

>> You ok there old chap?

>
> I am, but I think I'll be thinking twice before filtering between
> vehicles of the articulated kind in the future, I knew it was a bad
> idea at the time but I was being impatient.


Gets surprisingly steep up there, doesn't it? The kind of steep that makes
you think there's an engine problem, like that road coming away from
Kearsney Abbey back to Thanet, the number of which escapes me. The furrin
lorry drivers coming out of the port don't GAF about anything else on wheels
either.

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Si - XV535



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