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😂A SENSE OF HUMUS😂

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  • I've just come back from holiday - a self-catering cottage on the border of East and West Sussex.
    As is usual with these places, they provide a phone number to call in the event of an an emergency, or problem.
    Great!
    There was no mobile phone signal in the immediate area. 
    🙄
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why is there an S in T.S. Eliot?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited September 2023
    Because that's the initial of his middle name!!

    Stearns

    or is there a catch here?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Nope. Think cryptic clues. Shall I tell you or do you want to guess it? @rowlandscastle444
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • @B3
    I was trying to think cryptic. Always used to enjoy the Daily Telegraph crossword.

    I suppose it has something to do with avoiding toilet humour.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well you wouldn't go far wrong there @rowlandscastle444 !
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    I can see what the reverse spelling is, but can't work out the connection is.
    West Yorkshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Remove the S
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Slightly similar, (military) tanks got to be called tanks for a similar reason. This is from Wikipedia 

    “ The word tank was first applied to British "landships" in 1915 to keep their nature secret before they entered service.[3]

    Origins

    On 24 December 1915, a meeting took place of the Inter-Departmental Conference (including representatives of the Director of Naval Construction's Committee, the Admiralty, the Ministry of Munitions, and the War Office). Its purpose was to discuss the progress of the plans for what were described as "Caterpillar Machine Gun Destroyers or Land Cruisers." In his autobiography, Albert Gerald Stern (Secretary to the Landship Committee, later head of the Mechanical Warfare Supply Department) says that at that meeting:

    Mr. (Thomas J.) Macnamara (M.P., and Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty) then suggested, for secrecy's sake, to change the title of the Landship Committee. Mr. d'Eyncourt agreed that it was very desirable to retain secrecy by all means, and proposed to refer to the vessel as a "Water Carrier". In Government offices, committees and departments are always known by their initials. For this reason I, as Secretary, considered the proposed title totally unsuitable.[a] In our search for a synonymous term, we changed the word "Water Carrier" to "Tank," and became the "Tank Supply" or "T.S." Committee. That is how these weapons came to be called Tanks.”

    Rutland, England
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