Motoring Discussion > Stranger than fiction	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Mike Hannon	Replies: 42

Sat 23 Nov 13 13:40   Stranger than fiction - Mike Hannon

A strange thing happened to me today - an old motoring joke came true. We were driving home from the weekly market and not far from home a car came towards us on the wrong side of the road (not that unusual in France, I know). I flashed my high intensity headlights (which do tend to annoy people) at the woman driver. She moved over and as she came past she shouted ‘cochon’ (pig) at me. I glared back at her and drove on round the corner - to find some pigs in the road. I swear I am not making this up... Reply to this message | Report message       3

Sat 23 Nov 13 13:49   Stranger than fiction - Manatee

Excellent. Was there a laughing cow looking over the fence? Reply to this message | Report message       1

Sat 23 Nov 13 14:08   Stranger than fiction - Roger.

Sure it wasn't a TV advert for Boursin being filmed? Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 14:11   Stranger than fiction - R.P.

Sure it wasn't "Caution" ? Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 14:38   Stranger than fiction - Robin O'Reliant

She saved your bacon there. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 15:00   Stranger than fiction - Runfer D'Hills

Would've given me the trots. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 15:25   Stranger than fiction - Zero

trust you to ham it up. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 15:36   Stranger than fiction - henry k

>> Sure it wasn't "Caution" ? >> or worse "Black spots ahead!" Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 15:42   Stranger than fiction - Manatee

That could easily have gone belly up. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 15:43   Stranger than fiction - Robin O'Reliant

Should have used the horn, oink oink. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 15:56   Stranger than fiction - swiss tony

Why do I think Mike is telling porkies? Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 16:01   Stranger than fiction - Zero

Don't tell us you were rolling a snout at the same time. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 16:13   Stranger than fiction - R.P.

www.flickr.com/photos/67389469@N02/11011769434 This was in my Photo Stream taken in Flanders in September (36 degrees that day) I nicked the mat to tease my wife.. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 17:04   Stranger than fiction - Dog

- - Why do I think Mike is telling porkies? He's been cured of that. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 18:12   Stranger than fiction - Manatee

>> - - Why do I think Mike is telling porkies? >> >> He's been cured of that. Yes I'm sure he's not loin. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 16:56   Stranger than fiction - Clk Sec

Sure she didn't think you were making a pig's ear of your driving? Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 17:08   Stranger than fiction - crocks

Or maybe a bit of a road hog? Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 17:26   Stranger than fiction - Zero

Waiting for BBD to make some reference to "Lardon" Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 17:42   Stranger than fiction - Runfer D'Hills

The farmhand who let them escape will be for the chop. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 17:47   Stranger than fiction - R.P.

Enough of this er...ribbing. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 18:29   Stranger than fiction - Robin O'Reliant

A mate hit a pig once and wrote his car off. The copper asked him why he hadn't seen it. He replied it was because he had a sty in his eye. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 19:04   Stranger than fiction - swiss tony

I do love a story with a twist in the tail... Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 19:32   Stranger than fiction - Armel Coussine

>> because he had a sty in his eye. ... which he had inflamed with repeated scratchings. I must say some of the posts here display more than a bit of side. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 21:20   Stranger than fiction - Zero

>> Enough of this er...ribbing. or we will all go spare... Reply to this message | Report message       4

Sat 23 Nov 13 19:53   Stranger than fiction - Armel Coussine

>> a car came towards us on the wrong side of the road I had that job once, wrong side with main beams on, slowing the northbound traffic on the A29 in front of a flock of several hundred sheep. It was great fun. A friend hitching in France many years ago tried to draw the attention of a passing driver to a very deflated tyre by gesticulating and shouting: 'Pneu! Pneu!' It isn't an easy word to shout and even to a Frenchman would sound like the shapeless bawling of a half-wit. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 21:40   Stranger than fiction - Runfer D'Hills

There's something about all this which makes me think it isn't kosher. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 22:05   Stranger than fiction - Zero

>> There's something about all this which makes me think it isn't kosher. Shut up Porky.... Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 22:16   Stranger than fiction - Runfer D'Hills

Burger off. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 22:37   Stranger than fiction - Robin O'Reliant

It's unlikely to happen again, God swilling. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 23 Nov 13 22:37   Stranger than fiction - R.P.

My motorcycling friend an I got rather the worse for the local brew in a town called Realf on the Furkastrasse, Switzerland...bravely, with me as a pillion, we rode back perfectly well to the nearby campsite. Some foreign buffoon in a Mini crashed into the crash-barrier as we approached him - anyone would have thought we were on the the incorrect side of the road....(hic). Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 24 Nov 13 10:34   Stranger than fiction - Mike Hannon

Thank you all for brightening a dull and dismal, snow-threatened Saturday. Interestingly, I know where the pigs came from, and I'll be getting to know at least one of them rather more closely in about April. As will SWMBO, who has never let her tribal history get in the way of a nice tenderloin... Last edited by: Mike Hannon on Sun 24 Nov 13 at 10:36 Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 24 Nov 13 11:16   Stranger than fiction - Roger.

I have a nice tapa recipe for solomillo in tomato, which we quite often expand into a main meal! Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 24 Nov 13 15:35   Stranger than fiction - Mike Hannon

Very nice. I once ordered solomillo something when in Segovia in Spain and got half of a little piglet. I'll never forget. It must be my weekend for animal experiences. We were driving along a back road we'd never used before, not far from Oradour and in the middle of nowhere, with no-one and no dwelling in sight, we saw a baby llama looking over the hedge. I thought I was dreaming but you can't mistake a llama's eyelashes. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 24 Nov 13 16:34   Stranger than fiction - Ted

Poor quality L (l) ama joke... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlIrI80og8c Ted Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 24 Nov 13 18:27   Stranger than fiction - Roger.

>> I thought I was dreaming but you can't mistake a llama's eyelashes. >> Oh, I don't know have you seen Joan Collins or Katie Price? Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 24 Nov 13 18:51   Stranger than fiction - Manatee

I'm a bit worried that Mike might be hallucinating. If he sees a unicorn, that will clinch it. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 10:33   Stranger than fiction - Mike Hannon

I may go back today with a camera... Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 11:07   Stranger than fiction - Jetski

One of your rasher decisions. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 11:12   Stranger than fiction - Runfer D'Hills

Pig of a journey. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 11:17   Stranger than fiction - Zero

>> I may go back today with a camera... Back to the bacon? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 12:52   Stranger than fiction - VxFan

>> I may go back today with a camera... Off you trot. edit - don't get hambushed on the way. Hope you're going to let us have a butchers at the photos? Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 25 Nov 13 at 13:00 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 14:17   Stranger than fiction - Mike Hannon

Haha. And here he/she is! I knew I hadn't dreamed it. Sorry it's not a good photo but I couldn't talk 'it' into standing still... www.flickr.com/photos/64660965@N03/11049404535/ Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 25 Nov 13 14:35   Stranger than fiction - Manatee

What a relief. Alpaca bag and come to see it. Reply to this message | Report message