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| steamyman |
toothbrush comes in handy to clean tricky bits of engines...with brasso or sugar soap-I proved this on wkend just passed- my mum seemed a bit when i showed her my blackened brush. 
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| Stilldrillin |
Make sure you give it a good rinse, before you brush your teeth tonight!  
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| Les |
You do have a spare one, or was it one of your parents ones you used.
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| Wallace |
Great tip clinton | ||||
| Les |
Cotton buds come in handy. | ||||
| mc_mc |
And if you're lazy then buy a cheap electric brush and use that.
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| Reid |
An electric toothbrush of the Oral B Crossaction type (about $6 in the USA) is what I'm always using to scrub non-delicate things. Nothing is better for rubbing tiny glossy piece down to satin than, say Bon Ami, water and toothbrush---and electric does the work Brick rubbed from super gloss black to dull using the toothbrush and rubbing paste of Bon Ami. Next after I did the toy feedwater pump to match. Toothbrushes rule! 
the fake brick had just been installed and japaned = very glossy. |
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| jamespetts |
I have recently bought a cheap toothbrush for cleaning the soot off the watertubes of my boiler. | ||||
| johnreid |
I use Q Tips also for engine cleaning, they are quite absorbent and can get into tight spaces to sop up water and oil. | ||||
| Mamodman123 |
Cotton buds! 
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| johnreid |
Well although we speak the same language, some things have different names here and there. | ||||
| Mamodman123 |
Catsup? Ketchup?
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| johnreid |
Catsup? Ketchup? Chili Sauce? 
In fact Catsup and Ketchup are both accepted over here as being the same thing, but some people call it Chili Sauce. |
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| mc_mc |
Do you put chillies in the ketchup over there then?
I personally call it "Tomato Sauce".
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| Reid |
Buds here means "buddies". So they are all packed tight in the box so the swabs had better be happy with that, and with the knowing that half will go into ears, and the others, knowses: Verse for Mamod Man English speak the mother tongue and though they do it's sometime wrung like muslin through a mangle: dry (observe our MM to see why). He keeps a cheeky budgie (blue) with hints of green and white-- though true, in the USA our gay
birds will ROY G BIV array. Did I just insult his bird in sounding out that English word? Gay means happy on the hoof or MMs budgie: perfect proof... ...not that I should cast, asperse, although this is a rhyming verse and as such it's seen suspect: a nose bud cross the internet. 
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| MooseMan |
Clever swine! |
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| Reid |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens Verse for Odilon Relatively speaking now not as a pig nor as a cow but only in bent couplet form which for bad poesy is the norm. I'd beg to re-mind all our group of a member and his coup relating himself as he did to Christian Huygens (who is dead). Huygens lives on in the blood of Odilon, who's wont to brood (notice how that rhyme inflects what no-one hears today) Injects of pounding pressures heard! High blood press...? No! MM's bird! I swear that budgie get around and swings to Pen-du-lum Man's sound. Enough of that and of this verse (as doggerel it can't get worse). So now to close, yet most to say --to cherish Moose in Time today. |
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| mogogear |
Most of us Yanks will call things by the First brand name that started a product here- Q-Tip was the brand of Cotton buds we grew up seeing adverts for
Same for Crescent wrench + adjustable end wrench and a million others Madison Avenue has re-programed our minds...
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| johnreid |
My Crescent wrench is Metric.
I use a Stanley knife and my Linemans pliers are Kliens Channel Locks are great when you dont have the correct Monkey Wrench |
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| Nick |
Vise-grip. | ||||
| Reid |
Vaseline, a.k.a. "rod wax"
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/vaseline.asp http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/BOOK/VASELINE.html |
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| MooseMan |
That's a keeper - thanks Reid! I'll email it to my mum's sister, who still has the Huygens surname. | ||||
| Reid |
OH, but Moose, it's awful bad and requires her to see the MM verse to even make a bit of sense!
And "rhyming" coup to group, oh mannnn! 
Although I will compliment myself for putting "did" against "dead".
Glad if it made you laugh and also if it made you feel beloved as he was too, a gentleman who crossed over and won English hearts by his native charm. Read aloud http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sound280xt5.swf |
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| alan2525 |
A discussion of Mamod on internet
Words of wisdom interject Unexpected meter and rhyming couplet Interspersed with other subject We thank Reid for his lines Witticisms and other rhymes Amongst praise for spirit methylated Poetry so highly rated Inside threads about Q-Tips Subtle verse and merry quips |
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| Mamodman123 |
that is quality! Budgies rule 
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| Reid |
Ha ha!, Yes, budgies and bad rhymings rule and so do weird coincidences.
Just now I thought to google "history of the cotton swab". This was found. Geez....
And it gets weirder: the timeline tell that later on that the Vaseline makers bought out Baby Gays.  It's all pretty unsettling.
POLL Where do you find Baby Gays the most? 1) in your nose 2) in your ear 3) in your anus Second Poll Question Which style of Baby Gay is most trusted? 1) hollow pink plastic shaft 2) solid wood pick that sometimes splinters 3) bendable paper stick 4) straight
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| alan2525 |
I'm not sure if it's relevant but my old nan when alive used to say:
"never put anything in your ear bigger than your elbow" Possibly after a misshap with a cotton bud becoming permanently trapped in there or something! Makes ya think though doesn't it? |