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The plop-age chronicles! Oh bums I'll have no internerd connection for a bit

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  • Nominated for best thread ever!!!!!:j
    Tough times never last longer than tough people.
  • lawrie28
    lawrie28 Posts: 2,666 Forumite
    Xmas Saver!
    And my number 2 poem :)

    His house by the river should fill him with pleasure,
    but for Nelly his time is not only for leisure,
    the pipe in his garden runs with great haste,
    with number ones and twos of human waste,
    the site and the smell attract the wrong kind of creature,
    poor old Nelly did not want this water feature,
    So he got on the case, to find the supplier of this flow,
    All round the authorities and councils he did go,
    he put up a big fight to get rid of the site (silent h)
    of the effluent causing the probbie,
    all that stress for a wee little jobbie!!

    going to bed now, too much thinking
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    There once was a poster called Nelly
    Whose garden was horribly smelly
    A pipe full of poo
    from somebody's loo
    will get him on everyone's telly!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • nelly_2
    nelly_2 Posts: 17,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    both the above 10/10 ....brilliant :)
  • pania
    pania Posts: 8,258 Forumite
    nelly wrote: »
    I aint numb mate! I slung two litres of milk down both bogs and checked the flow it 100% aint me :)

    OK, get yourself invited to your neighbours for a cup of tea, one by one, with said milk carton concealed under your jacket, visit loo, pour milk, flush, make excuse of extremely dodgy explosive stomach, leg it back home and watch for milk....

    et voila!!! the culprit is revelaled!!!
    (may be more enviro friendly to use a few drops of food dye though...;) )
    debt @05/11/11 £12210.63!! slowly chipping away!!
    :heart2:impossible is nothing.:heart2:
  • red_bertie
    red_bertie Posts: 455 Forumite
    I think this thread should be renamed "The Plopage Chronicles".

    RB
  • pania wrote: »
    OK, get yourself invited to your neighbours for a cup of tea, one by one, with said milk carton concealed under your jacket, visit loo, pour milk, flush, make excuse of extremely dodgy explosive stomach, leg it back home and watch for milk....

    et voila!!! the culprit is revelaled!!!
    (may be more enviro friendly to use a few drops of food dye though...;) )

    Do you have a list of suspects?
    Maybe video the "plopage" for 48 hrs to see what comes out.
    Compare it to other surveillance data you could acumulate - Who's home when? Anyone have an indian takeaway delivery? Young married couple with no intention of having kids just yet? The clues are there.

    "Who's plopage is this? David, it's over to you"
    "Thanks and for those at home, here's whose poo it is."

    Sounds like a Ben Elton Novel in the making.
    "A goldfish left Lincoln logs in me sock drawer!"

    "That's the story of JESUS."
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,599 Ambassador
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    nelly wrote: »
    I am making 1 phone call full stop :)

    :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Our surveyor discovered a culvert at the bottom of our garden when we were buying our house.

    I started imagining decking, wooden bridges, fishing rods & gnomes (ok, maybe not the gnomes!), the surveyor suggested I think along the lines of open drains.

    Apparently we are responsible for maintaining the flow of water. One phone call to the Environment Agency who told me I would be responsible for removing any dead cattle that blocked the culvert on my land. When I explained that the back garden was enclosed by other gardens on all sides (so where would the cattle come from?), she said that I was still responsible and would have to arrange to airlift the cattle out if necessary!

    I doubt your one phone call will get you very far!
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  • pania
    pania Posts: 8,258 Forumite
    silvercar wrote: »
    :rotfl: :rotfl:
    Apparently we are responsible for maintaining the flow of water. One phone call to the Environment Agency who told me I would be responsible for removing any dead cattle that blocked the culvert on my land. When I explained that the back garden was enclosed by other gardens on all sides (so where would the cattle come from?), she said that I was still responsible and would have to arrange to airlift the cattle out if necessary!!


    She meant the minature cattle that live in culverts silly! don't you know that!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Me thinks lady wasn't au fait with the meaning of a culvert!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Thanks for giving me a giggle SC!:T
    debt @05/11/11 £12210.63!! slowly chipping away!!
    :heart2:impossible is nothing.:heart2:
  • Suzy_M
    Suzy_M Posts: 777 Forumite
    nelly wrote: »
    I aint numb mate! I slung two litres of milk down both bogs and checked the flow it 100% aint me :)

    I hate to tell you this but milk has the greatest pollutant effect on water courses (then whisky, then beer, then farm slurry I think) than the raw sewage.:eek:
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