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Don’t Worry: Your Lost Traditions Are Nearly As Good On YouTube

Posted on | March 15, 2010 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

I love the smell of buzzkill on a Monday. It smells like . . . nanny-statery.

This year’s cheese-rolling was due to take place on May 31. But Richard Jefferies, of the event’s organising committee, said: ‘We have had to cancel on the advice of the police and local authorities.
‘Last year 15,000 spectators tried to come to the event, by far the most we have ever seen, and we just could not cope.
‘As well as concerns about the safety of the crowd and the competitors, landowners were worried by the amount of damage done by people climbing over fences and that sort of thing.’

Good job. Way to avoid selling tickets and using the proceeds to fund local improvements.

They really need to get some people out there on 31May and just do it up right, even sans publicity. Illegitimi non carborundum, and all.

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10 Responses to “Don’t Worry: Your Lost Traditions Are Nearly As Good On YouTube”

  1. proof
    March 15th, 2010 @ 5:43 pm

    When cheese is outlawed, only outlaws will have cheese!

  2. proof
    March 15th, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

    When cheese is outlawed, only outlaws will have cheese!

  3. rod stanton
    March 15th, 2010 @ 7:33 pm

    Smitty
    There’s an old Jarhead in your clan, right.
    But in the Old Corps we said it “Illigitimus non carbarundum”; as I recall.
    Admittedly it has been over 4 decades so my memory may be in error.

    S/F
    an old exJarhead
    Cerritos. Cal

  4. rod stanton
    March 15th, 2010 @ 2:33 pm

    Smitty
    There’s an old Jarhead in your clan, right.
    But in the Old Corps we said it “Illigitimus non carbarundum”; as I recall.
    Admittedly it has been over 4 decades so my memory may be in error.

    S/F
    an old exJarhead
    Cerritos. Cal

  5. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 16th, 2010 @ 12:59 am

    I guess in the Old Corps there was only one bastard. šŸ˜‰

  6. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 15th, 2010 @ 7:59 pm

    I guess in the Old Corps there was only one bastard. šŸ˜‰

  7. rod stanton
    March 16th, 2010 @ 1:40 am

    C.H>
    Yes. the one sticdking his bayonette into yhour face pr yhour chest~
    I dispatched both of those Sob to their Maker; one at a time. But AI do have some unseemly scars.
    Which only goes to shoe that this MF so of a Clet is one tough SOB who either:
    A, Kills his enemy
    or
    B. Dies tryin

    In the Old Corps Do or Die was how we lived.
    I’m not as handsome as I was 45 years ago – But I am above ground. A lot of bastar*s I faces have been pushing up daises for many decades. G d ‘e m all to H*ll! I hate not bein handsome.
    an old exJarhead

  8. rod stanton
    March 15th, 2010 @ 8:40 pm

    C.H>
    Yes. the one sticdking his bayonette into yhour face pr yhour chest~
    I dispatched both of those Sob to their Maker; one at a time. But AI do have some unseemly scars.
    Which only goes to shoe that this MF so of a Clet is one tough SOB who either:
    A, Kills his enemy
    or
    B. Dies tryin

    In the Old Corps Do or Die was how we lived.
    I’m not as handsome as I was 45 years ago – But I am above ground. A lot of bastar*s I faces have been pushing up daises for many decades. G d ‘e m all to H*ll! I hate not bein handsome.
    an old exJarhead

  9. rod stanton
    March 16th, 2010 @ 1:45 am

    Clet should be Celt

    You’ll have to forgive an old grunt

  10. rod stanton
    March 15th, 2010 @ 8:45 pm

    Clet should be Celt

    You’ll have to forgive an old grunt