Just for a laugh

[Osgood]

Just looking through some old photos and found two items that I hesitated purchasing and really wish I'd acquired at the time - too late now.

First is a very, very clever exercise in cutting and bending steel plate - a fire grate, I knew should have grabbed it when i saw it (perhaps I thought I'd make my own but as often always the case you never get around to it):




Secondly this item - so many uses this could have been put to, really really annoyed that I hesitated on the first visit:

 

[timbowales]

Just looking through some old photos and found two items that I hesitated purchasing and really wish I'd acquired at the time - too late now.

First is a very, very clever exercise in cutting and bending steel plate - a fire grate, I knew should have grabbed it when i saw it (perhaps I thought I'd make my own but as often always the case you never get around to it):

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Secondly this item - so many uses this could have been put to, really really annoyed that I hesitated on the first visit:





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Tony, that firegrate is amazing!

 

[jcm@gwr]

I know this is past it's appropriate date, but I think it's still funny!

 

[Osgood]

Tony, that firegrate is amazing!

Isn't it just, so clever yet so simple, wish I had that kind of brain!

I know this is past it's appropriate date, but I think it's still funny!
......

I recall a Dave Lee Travis BBC Radio phone-in competition sometime during 1990 before the tunnels from each end met (December).
The question was: What to do with the English side of the Channel tunnel if it was abandoned shortly before break-through?
Second best was somewhere to dump all the Free Mandela T shirts (he was freed in February), but the winner was:
somewhere to put all the chalk that had been dug out (must have been a local!).

Around the same time he ran a competition for ideas for a useful device that could replace the radio in a car dash - my favourite was:
a sandwich toaster.

 

[Fitzroy]

Personally I would have opted for a trouser press.