We All Make Mistakes ...

[sunny-dave]

... but when you make a howler, do you fess up once it's obvious you've been taken in by a fake news site, suffered a memory malfunction, or just got the wrong end of the stick?

I try to - it seems better in the long run to say "Sorry, I'm a Prat" than to try to bluff it out, or claim you were 'only joking', or blame increasing senility, or (as is at least one serial offender's modus operandi) just walk away from the thread with no further comment.

Actually my real pet hates are several repeat offenders in the PBM brigade - whenever they take a step too far across the line of civility (or accuracy) they are quick to post a thread asking for advice on their serious medical conditions ... just in case anyone has a finger hovering over the "you are a Previously Banned Member, goodbye" button ...

I will now wait for the grammar/spelling police to dissect this post and will prostrate myself at their feet ,whilst begging forgiveness ...

nervously sunny dave

[sunny-dave]

Best A... for fluff ...

[NoMercy]

Anne, do you like to stir clockwise or anti-clockwise?

[Peter Pedant]

when Clement Price Thomas took out George VI's lung
and he um died cured six weeks later from a PE Jan 52
Sir Clement as he then was by that time didnt say
oops my bad
did he ?

and the one who screwed up Edens gall bladder and hence the Suez campaign
he didnt say oops better keep my hand to myself in future did he?

[Mamyalynne]

'he died cured..' makes him sound like a side of bacon.

[Barmaid]

//prostrate myself at their feet ,whilst begging forgiveness//

Gness has trained you well, SD........ knew she would whip you into shape.........

[murraymints]

nowt 5 hail Marys, 2 Our Fathers and 4 glory bes can't fix !! ;0) xx

[Ellipsis]

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.

We shall never surrender!

[Sqad]

PP...George VIth died of a heart attack...a coronary thrombosis possibly associated with his smoking.

His gall bladder operation at Barts was a "balls up" the common bile duct was tied off instead of the bile duct by mistake. He had to go to the U.S to have it sorted.

[gness]

It was only a game, Barmaid....didn't think he was going to go this far with it........... and anyway......who told you about the whip?.... :-(