Bock The Robber

Word Puzzle

Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008

If the B mt put:

If the B.

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15 Responses to “Word Puzzle”

  1. Grandad
    August 24th, 2008

    Would that apply to Newcastle in winter? ;)

  2. Never mind the bollix
    August 24th, 2008

    “If the grate be empty, put coal on.
    If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.

    Don’t put coal on a high fender
    You’d be a jack asterisk it.”

  3. Grandad
    August 24th, 2008

    So much for that. Good try, Bock.

  4. Bock
    August 24th, 2008

    Bollix — Too many words, but you have it in there all right.

    Grandad — Well, fuck it anyway

  5. Never mind the bollix
    August 24th, 2008

    Total uneducated guess here, Bock…

    If the B mt, put :
    If the B. putting :
    Don’t put : a - der
    You’d be a jack* it.

  6. Bock
    August 24th, 2008

    If the grate be full stop.

  7. Never mind the bollix
    August 24th, 2008

    Ahhh.. now I get it. Thanks.

  8. Kate
    August 24th, 2008

    Hi Bock - Apologies, I should have realized that it was right for me to credit you with all the details - mea culpa !
    won’t do it again - Honest !
    Cheers Kate x.

    P.S. Jock sounds a right maddie (in a good way I mean)… would love to have met him..

  9. Jimmy Page's Trousers
    August 25th, 2008

    What the fuck?
    How about a sudoku, Bock?

  10. Grandad
    August 25th, 2008

    7 2 6
    9 8 3
    4 1 5

  11. Bock
    August 25th, 2008

    Hmm.

  12. snookertony
    August 25th, 2008

    Sorry lads, I’m from oz.

    If the B mt, put : [translates to me as]
    If the be empty, put coal on.

    I don’t see the GRATE

    Please…

  13. Bock
    August 26th, 2008

    Great B

  14. snookertony
    August 26th, 2008

    Great B…

    Great B…

    …it must lose something in the translation.
    (Don’t explain, I see it - it’s just that I don’t believe it.)

    4 / 10

  15. Bock
    August 26th, 2008

    It’s archaic terminology, once quite common but now no longer in use.

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