WORDPLAY

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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hiya,
Forfar four East Fife five.
thanks harry long retired.

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Wheel Nut:

Chris Webb:

marcus 22:
Heres one for you harry i bet when a driver has got to go to NO PLACE county durham they would get a bit suspicious, its not far from me and you.

thanks

mark

That’s a new one Mark,No Place. What about Wideopen and Pity Me up your end? How did Pity Me get it’s name?

Heck!

:smiley:
Tha means Great Heck Malc. :laughing:

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And what about Haltwhistle on the A69.I know the railway is still open so do the trains halt and whistle?

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yorkyjoy:
One of my mates saddly departed was once asked by a scottish driver at Ferry Bridge heading south from Scotland if he new where Kanaz A Baroo was. Normally called KNARESBOROUGH. :blush: :blush: :wink:

And I thought Lesmahagow was a mouthful ! :laughing:

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Chris Webb:

yorkyjoy:
One of my mates saddly departed was once asked by a scottish driver at Ferry Bridge heading south from Scotland if he new where Kanaz A Baroo was. Normally called KNARESBOROUGH. :blush: :blush: :wink:

And I thought Lesmahagow was a mouthful ! :laughing:

What about Cockermouth ?

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When I first started with my first motor I used to pick up all kinds of stuff in London back up to what was then Westmorland,Furness and Lancaster areas.I always remember being in a traffic office in the East end and when asked I said Westmorland!and this old cockney says West–mor—lend never heard of it----where the farks that then?Scotland? Then I says Kendal! Bingo! ever after that he called me “Kendull” Bewick.

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Hiya…i was loading at Lancro nr Eccles in 1974 the load was for Redruth. been smart and not looking in the index(i was only a whiper snapper)
i looked all around hereford and ross /monmoth area and could.nt find this redruth. i gave up and looked in the index. wow!! page 2 that was
before i,d looked on the map. Hell that was a long way the M5 stopped nr Bridgewater and i can,nt remember any dualcarriage way south of
exeter.
John

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In the late '60’s, and my first trip to France, i use to think that I.C.I had a lot of factories, the lengh and breath of the country. There were large bill boards and signs with ICI everywhere you looked. Ummmmmmmm ( For non-French speakers, “ICI” means " here" ) :blush:

And…in all the towns and villages I went through, there were big buildings with “Hotel-de-Ville” l, thought they always looked a nice place to stay…till I found out they were the local administration centers ( county council offices ) :blush:

When I was shunting in Southampton, the night trunk, ex Stockton, brought down 20 ton of steel plate for R.E Smith of Whitchurch. When I get there ( very small, narrow, village) and get directions up a back street, sure enough there is R.E.Smith…the local Butchers shop… Delivery notes should have read Whitchurch …Shropshire. :unamused:

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On my way north i would phone home from top side of newcastle, there was a handy phone box at the side of the A1. It alway’s amused me to here the operator telling my wife That she had a call from a" Wide open "call box and asking her if she would accept the charges. regards Jamie

A Scot Lost in the Valley’s.

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My mate Conrad Lagan - owner of Lagan Transport Ireland told me these couple of amusing “word plays”;

As a kid his dad told him that T.I.R meant Tipping In Rungis :laughing: And IRL meant Irish Run Legal :laughing: :laughing:

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You can always change your HODSOCK just north of Worksop :wink:

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The transport manager at Hepworth and Grandage in Bradford couldnt drive but was always giving advice out to drivers. One day after I had loaded he asked me for my route. On telling him he got his atlas out studied it for a while then asked why I didnt go this particular way? On looking at his proposed route I said Arthur I cannt go that way because its a canal.

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best one i heard for T.I.R. was “taters in rear”

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We had a driver who once booked off at Soft Verges.Honest. :confused:

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I was talking to a Turk in Dover one trip and I asked him where he was going. He told me " Briminkhum and Legister !!
GS

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I asked a driver from Dudley on the cb were he was going and he told me "I’m a goin to omel ompsted me mon " , a cockney driver shouted back where the f is that?
twas of course Hemel Hempsted !

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Prince Charles was talking to his Mum and she asked him what he wanted for his birthday. I would quite like a new titfer mummy, to keep my big ears warm.

Later when he checked his royal appointments he discovered that he had to go up to Manchester later that week. Meanwhile the Queen and Prince Philip went shopping to Harrods and found this beautiful hat with a soft fur lining. She put it on her royal account and went off for a tea party at home.

Later that evening Charles visited with his new wife and collected his presents, him and his father were discussing the weeks appointments and divvying them up.

The Queen asked Andrew where he was going, he replied Kew Gardens mum, ooh nice I like it there, pity about the weather replied the Queen.

Anne was going to open a Supermarket in Chelsea and picking the kids up from boarding school. Oh lovely said the Queen, and where are you going Charles?

Manchester Mum, and on my birthday too.

Wear the fox hat she said.

Dunno Mother, somewhere up North

That is wordplay :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wheel Nut
Thats a cracker !!!
That really is wordplay.

Anyway something else just came to mind. In Turkey the first two numbers on the registration plate indicate the town where the vehicle is registered. So 34 = Istanbul, 06 = Ankara, 01 = Adana etc etc…and guess what ? in a town near the Syrian border called Reyhanli, the prefix is 31. 31 in Turkish is Otuz Bir. Otuz Bir in Turkish means W@n#er !!! How about that then ■■ I always had a laugh when I saw an Otuz Bir. I have some pics of Otuz Bir trucks somewhere, how fitting.
Here are two that I found.

Ha Ha… :laughing: :laughing: :smiling_imp:

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GS OVERLAND:
Wheel Nut
Thats a cracker !!!
That really is wordplay.

Anyway something else just came to mind. In Turkey the first two numbers on the registration plate indicate the town where the vehicle is registered. So 34 = Istanbul, 06 = Ankara, 01 = Adana etc etc…and guess what ? in a town near the Syrian border called Reyhanli, the prefix is 31. 31 in Turkish is Otuz Bir. Otuz Bir in Turkish means [zb] !!! How about that then ■■ I always had a laugh when I saw an Otuz Bir. I have some pics of Otuz Bir trucks somewhere, how fitting.
Ha Ha… :laughing: :laughing: :smiling_imp:

:laughing: :laughing:
Put them on if you find them GS.
I remember seeing an Inter County Express artic,later TNT I think,with the reg PEN 141S and always wondered if PEN 1S was ever issued?

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Chris Webb:

GS OVERLAND:
Wheel Nut
Thats a cracker !!!
That really is wordplay.

Anyway something else just came to mind. In Turkey the first two numbers on the registration plate indicate the town where the vehicle is registered. So 34 = Istanbul, 06 = Ankara, 01 = Adana etc etc…and guess what ? in a town near the Syrian border called Reyhanli, the prefix is 31. 31 in Turkish is Otuz Bir. Otuz Bir in Turkish means [zb] !!! How about that then ■■ I always had a laugh when I saw an Otuz Bir. I have some pics of Otuz Bir trucks somewhere, how fitting.
Ha Ha… :laughing: :laughing: :smiling_imp:

:laughing: :laughing:
Put them on if you find them GS.
I remember seeing an Inter County Express artic,later TNT I think,with the reg PEN 141S and always wondered if PEN 1S was ever issued?

Hi Chris,
Steve Parrish the motercycle racer and then truck racer had it on a car,but I think DVLA took it off him.
Cheers Dave.