Amusing advert, March 2017 Waterways World

[Joe the plumber]

If anyone has a copy, have a look at the 'Featured Boat Sales' from Wincham Wharf Boat Sales on page 93.

 

The first boat has an 'overplayed' baseplate, amusing enough, but it's the third one that gets me.

 

Can anyone enlighten me please as to what a 'Pompous toilet' is...?!

[cereal tiller]

If anyone has a copy, have a look at the 'Featured Boat Sales' from Wincham Wharf Boat Sales on page 93.

 

The first boat has an 'overplayed' baseplate, amusing enough, but it's the third one that gets me.

 

Can anyone enlighten me please as to what a 'Pompous toilet' is...?!

Those Toilets are standard on Hudsons?

 

CT

[Chewbacka]

They are 18 inches higher than normal allowing one to look down on the crew.

[cereal tiller]

They are 18 inches higher than normal allowing one to look down on the crew.

And not a standard Toilet Roll Holder,the Sheets of tissue are folded like Napkins and kept in an adjacent display Cabinet

 

CT

[ditchcrawler]

We laugh at the general press getting it wrong but our waterway press try their hardest to compete with them, they also had an article with a boat that had a 32 foot draft. In their cruising guide they suggest stopping at the Science Park on the Bridgewater, here are the signs all the way along there

[pearley]

We laugh at the general press getting it wrong but our waterway press try their hardest to compete with them, they also had an article with a boat that had a 32 foot draft. In their cruising guide they suggest stopping at the Science Park on the Bridgewater, here are the signs all the way along there

Even at the layby with the mooring rings.

[ditchcrawler]

Even at the layby with the mooring rings.

Yes

[Laurie Booth]

Can anyone enlighten me please as to what a 'Pompous toilet' is...?!

Invented by Pompous Pilot the famous Roman chappy

[Mac of Cygnet]

 

 

 

 

Can anyone enlighten me please as to what a 'Pompous toilet' is...?!

 

It's the canal boat version of a big head on a ship.

Edited February 7, 2017 by Mac of Cygnet

[WotEver]

Invented by Pompous Pilot the famous Roman chappy

Any relation to Biggus Dickus?

[MoominPapa]

We laugh at the general press getting it wrong but our waterway press try their hardest to compete with them, they also had an article with a boat that had a 32 foot draft. In their cruising guide they suggest stopping at the Science Park on the Bridgewater, here are the signs all the way along there

 

To be fair, those signs are on the offside, nice mooring towpath-side all along there.

 

MP.

[carlt]

..... In their cruising guide they suggest stopping at the Science Park on the Bridgewater, here are the signs all the way along there

 

 

Are those posts planted deep enough to tie on to or will I need my sledgehammer?

[Cheshire cat]

I think the science park has changed hands since the guide was written. It used to be Daresbury Labs but all the scientists got moved down to Cambridge.

Edited February 7, 2017 by Cheshire cat

[Laurie Booth]

Any relation to Biggus Dickus?

[ditchcrawler]

 

To be fair, those signs are on the offside, nice mooring towpath-side all along there.

 

MP.

To be fair it said moor outside the cafe. The guide is new enough to have the 7 in 28 days for the Bridgewater.

[Bewildered]

[ditchcrawler]

Yes

This is the mooring layby with a sign in the middle and the canteen.

[stegra]

Any relation to Biggus Dickus?

 

Perhaps the guy who posted this advert is, if the reason for selling is true:

 

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/8203-is-this-the-most-bizarre-bristol-advert-you-have-seen-on-facebook/story-30115482-detail/story.html

[WotEver]

 

Perhaps the guy who posted this advert is, if the reason for selling is true:

 

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/8203-is-this-the-most-bizarre-bristol-advert-you-have-seen-on-facebook/story-30115482-detail/story.html

That reminds me of the line from Alien Nation: "And it fits?"

[ditchcrawler]

I think the science park has changed hands since the guide was written. It used to be Daresbury Labs but all the scientists got moved down to Cambridge.

This could be the answer, it looks as if the guide was basically lifted from one written in 2010 lots of it word for word.

[Athy]

A pompous toilet? Surely one that's full of sh......you know what.

[cuthound]

A pompous toilet? Surely one that's full of sh......you know what.

Reminds me of a time when I was queuing for a lock. A really short boat came past the queue to join another one short boat already in the lock. The owner of the boat in front of me complained loudly to the owner of the short boat as it passed about "queue jumpers".

 

We were still queuing when the owner of the short boat walked past carrying a full cassette towards the sanitary station, causing the irate boat owner in front of me to kick off again about "queue jumpers".

 

" you, my friend, are just like this cassette " said the owner of the short boat, "full of sh...."

 

Laugh, there were tears rolling down my legs.