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by The Mouse
Wed Jan 08, 2014 5:45 pm
Forum: Monkey Forum
Topic: Put smiles on faces - a daily joke...
Replies: 10
Views: 16394

Re: Put smiles on faces - a daily joke...

These are a bit late but I only just heard them. If you didn't get a pressie this year, don't worry, you haven't been bad, Santa used Google maps. There will be no Christmas presents this year, the Americans have arrested the Three Wise Men as suspected terrorists. (Hispanic countries hand out the p...
by The Mouse
Wed Jan 08, 2014 5:27 pm
Forum: Introductions & Welcome Messages
Topic: Greetings from cold, wet, miserable Spain
Replies: 7
Views: 3278

Re: Greetings from cold, wet, miserable Spain

Thanks, people. Yes, 80€. There are a lot of service agents around here, builders, plumbers, electrical, motoring etc. that take the P out of foreigners who've got more money than sense, don't speak the language and don't understand the currency (how about 200€ to put up a ceiling fan?). Added to wh...
by The Mouse
Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:29 pm
Forum: Introductions & Welcome Messages
Topic: Greetings from cold, wet, miserable Spain
Replies: 7
Views: 3278

Re: Greetings from cold, wet, miserable Spain

Thank you for your prompt replies. I'm afraid I will never have that virtue. So, need to find undertray. Don't know about this car but once I forgot to put it back on the Spider and noticed the drag immediately. Just looked at the invoices and he paid 80€ for a replacement pollen filter last March! ...
by The Mouse
Fri Jan 03, 2014 6:42 pm
Forum: Introductions & Welcome Messages
Topic: Greetings from cold, wet, miserable Spain
Replies: 7
Views: 3278

Greetings from cold, wet, miserable Spain

Just bought 2006 1.6 Roland Garros from a man who proudly told me he never opened the bonnet; left all that to the local Peugeot service agent. When I pointed out the missing bonnet sound insulation, the leaky manifold gasket and the engine oil and brake fluid that looks like dilute marmite, he show...