Question Will there be a Takeover announcement next week (commencing Monday 10th July 23), and if so, when.

[Leeboy]

Announcement today 3pm

keep saying it and at some point it may come true! :o)

 

[Smiffy]

Think you need to change it to what day this month @RHB

 

[Richard Hearn]

It was Stu Francis who used to say 'oh I could crush a grape' sadly I am sure Stu died a few years back .

As to the origin or originator of the phrase in "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Woodhouse (first published in 1938), Stiffy Byng tells Bertram Wooster "I'm so happy I could bite a grape" but the term may well have been in use before then.

 

[RHB]

Think you need to change it to what day this month @RHB

You may well be right @Smiffy. The most obvious date now would be 3.57pm on 21st June I think.

 

[OldWilliam]

Wasn’t that the programme that gave the phrase ‘ooh I could crush a grape’ to the World?

Reading that back though perhaps I’ve got mixed up as it looks more like something you’d expect John Inman or Larry Grayson to say!

No wonder us kids of the 70s were such a weird lot…

Ooh I could test drive a Tonka

 

[Mad Cyril]

I am going to say no.

 

[Mick]

It was Stu Francis who used to say 'oh I could crush a grape' sadly I am sure Stu died a few years back .

That will be news to the 75 year old Stu Francis.

 

[CaptainSmudger]

Friday's here and we are down to the 29.7% of us that think today could be the day. Pretty damn exciting eh?

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[Spaceman Spiff]

As to the origin or originator of the phrase in "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Woodhouse (first published in 1938), Stiffy Byng tells Bertram Wooster "I'm so happy I could bite a grape" but the term may well have been in use before then.

I think I’m right in saying that Bede made reference to it

 

[Richard Hearn]

I think I’m right in saying that Bede made reference to it

That would not surprise me, 7th Century Jarrow was replete with vineyards.

 

[LCBB72]

That will be news to the 75 year old Stu Francis.

My mistake , I was thinking of Duncan Norville and checking he is still alive .

 

[RHB]

Probably not today now.

 

[RHB]

But there again, you just never know!

 

[Barling Magna]

Still a good question, even if the answer is elusive.......

 

[hlane17]

Still a good question, even if the answer is elusive.......

Doubt anyone predicted over a month away...

 

[Rob Noxious]

But there again, you just never know!

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Love this - oh please please please let us get what we want soon.

 

[Barling Magna]

Mmmm...... not today by the smell of it....

 

[Shrimper]

Starting to think this is all a dark joke we're having played on us

 

[RHB]

Ok, I've re-set the poll and off we go again, only it's for next week now, starting Monday 10th July. Never a dull moment on the Zone eh?

 

[ms brush]

I think there will be further delays, because the whole thing is so complicated and we are dealing with some interesting narcissistic tendencies!