General Chat

Adam & Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden just for nicking an apple. A slithering slimey snake was involved too.

This mother snake had three baby snakes living in a pit. She wanted to go out shopping one day & she didn’t want to take the baby snakes with her to the shops. So, she asked them if they wouldn’t mind hissing around their pit until she returned home.

Yes, hissing around the pit - well, they are snakes; snakes do hiss & they live in a pit. They agreed. She said if she were late returning from the shops, they were to go over to Mrs Pots’ pit & hiss there to await the mother’s arrival. Mrs Pots was a neighbouring snake widow with no baby snakes of her own. So, they said fair enough. This is what we will do like you said: “We’ll hiss around our pit till you get home & if you are late, we will go over to Mrs Pots’ pit & hiss there till you turn up”.

So, she went off to the shops & the baby snakes hissed around their own pit. And right enough, the mother snake was late home. So, the baby snakes decided to stop hissing around their own pit & went over to Mrs Pots’ pit to hiss, as instructed.

Now, they were hissing around Mrs Potts pit for a long time when Mrs Pots came out of her pit & let out a fierce roar. She frightened the baby snakes & they were upset. She scolded them for the noise they made. “You cannot hiss around here. Go back to your own pit & hiss there“. So, they stopped hissing around Mrs Pots’ pit & went back home to hiss around their own pit again. There they were hissing & crying at the same time when their mother snake arrived home. And she asked them why they were crying & they told her the full story.

The mother snake was enraged. “Mrs Pots has a nerve - she really has a bloody nerve. I remember Mrs Pots when she didn’t even have a pit to hiss in herself”.

Seems no-one wanted my gg uncle. In 1851, aged 18, he tried to de-rail a train - with the intent of robbing it. Didn't even seem to consider the fate of the passengers - so attempted manslaughter could have been added!!
However, the train was going 'fast' (40mph) so pushed the debris on the line out of the way
All he got was 2 years with hard labour in Aylesbury :-S

such minor offences for the vast majority - it was mainly a ploy by the British government to populate Australia

Wasn't the carpenter transported for cross dressing?

My great grandfatherx4 was transported to Oz for 7 years for stealing a carpenter's apron. Mind you, he had been inside for poaching before then!

mine was transported for stealing a plank,he got 7years

one of my rellies was transported to Oz in 1832 for writing a threatening letter to his employer

1705 poor. William Sands aged 24 was hanged for stealing a horse,,,,,

:-(,

and today they think they are hard done by,,,,, :-).


mind we were a cruel lot,,,,,,,,,

transported aged 7,for 20 years,!!! wonder if he survived the trip.

even a pickpocket could be hanged, :-(

oh blimey!

I have got Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado going over and over in my head now.

looking at a website for convicts sent to Oz from Ireland I found one who was sent there "for being a Frenchman" !!!!

Blimey.
Wonder what he actually stole.
& months solitary seems a bit harsh on its own without the whippings.

1791 snippet.

Wm H....Convicted of petty Larceny--To be immediately publicily whipped at K*** aforesaid and recommited to the House of Correction at G******* in the said parts of Hull and to remain there in Solitarty Confinement for 6 months and then to be publicily whipped on the aforesaid on the market day on his discharge,

:-D.

poor man, bet he didnt look forward to his release ,,,,mind I bet he behaved himself after that,

bring back the good old days. eh.:-D.