View Single Post
  #3   Report Post  
Old July 28th 13, 08:28 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
John Hall John Hall is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by Weather-Banter: Nov 2003
Posts: 6,314
Default Wall's sausages and the UKMO forecast

In article ,
Richard Dixon writes:
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:27:59 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Yesterday my wife pointed out to me that on the packet of said sausages
was a competition to predict the temperature at 2pm in your local area.


I stopped using their sausages ever since I heard that Wall's have ears.

*insert cymbal crash*

I take not credit for the above joke that belongs to Victor Lewis-
Smith from about 1991.

Richard


I think it's far older than that, though I can't recall when I heard it
first.
--
John Hall
"Sir, I have found you an argument;
but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)