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On 08/07/2016 21:38, John Rumm wrote:
On 08/07/2016 18:51, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:41:11 +0100, John Rumm wrote:


Rather like describing an old common rail diesel engine as sounding like
a "wardrobe falling down the stairs".


I'd have guessed that a better simile might be:

a "wardrobe full of spanners falling down the stairs". :-)


Or the way of describing someone not particularly attractive as having a
"face like a bag of spanners".


Or a welders bench. Or a robbers dog.


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