tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post4743563218359026960..comments2023-10-28T19:42:01.039+01:00Comments on Going fast, getting nowhere: Barry Sheerman - plonkerRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-42971813969295661682011-11-14T23:59:29.262+00:002011-11-14T23:59:29.262+00:00Widowmaker is the nickname of the Suzuki TL100S wi...Widowmaker is the nickname of the Suzuki TL100S with the scary rear rotary type damper. And what would he know about civilised society.Rippernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-5004765427264423082010-03-30T23:49:45.264+01:002010-03-30T23:49:45.264+01:00The word 'widowmaker' always makes me thin...The word 'widowmaker' always makes me think of Kipling's <i>Harp Song of the Dane Women</i>. But that's just me.<br /><br /><i>What is a woman that you forsake her<br />And the hearth-fire and the home acre<br />To go with the old grey widowmaker?</i><br /><br />I have never named bikes - or cars, for that matter. That doesn't stop me giving the XT a pat on the bum when she has been especially good, though.<br /><br />I thought Mr Wolfgang behaved shockingly at the conference. Breaking that nice guard's fingernails with his lapels, and creasing his suit by resisting being thrown in a police van. Shameful.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-12754769725276896162010-03-30T21:45:23.726+01:002010-03-30T21:45:23.726+01:00Huddersfield's Martin Bangemann strikes.
Spea...Huddersfield's Martin Bangemann strikes.<br /><br />Speaking of making widows and orphans, wonder if he voted for Iraq and Afghanistan?<br /><br />Apropos of that, I did have a bike nicknamed "The Widowmaker" once: a mad on/off GSXR750 that could well have had me appreciating hospital food if someone hadn't stolen it first. I wasn't married at the time, though. (It was followed by "Anathema", the world's least reliable VFR750. I don't usually name bikes, but those were exceptional...<br /><br />Gotta say, though: those two look like troublemakers. So does the dog. No excuses for being elderly: remember how that nasty Mr Wolfgang, aged 82, had to be arrested under anti-terrorism laws for heckling A. Blair esq at the Labour conference a few years back? It's true, kids, the Labour party only has your best interests at heart...endemoniada_88noreply@blogger.com