Culvert operations in Ambridge - discuss The Archers here. It's not his baby by the way.

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Is Ed's wedding very soon?

Bore, I love your storyline. Perhaps we could get it up and running as a rival to TA (crowd funding?) with DIO, as opposed to DIY, storylines.

Then we could have a thread about it, and argue about characterisation and the direction it's going in...?

DDD Several months ago you commented to the effect that I had been correct to write "damp squib". I took that to mean you were referring to the widespread incorrect usage of "damp squid" on MN and elsewhere, as when people write "upmost" instead of "utmost", for example.

Since then I have written "damp squid" ironically - but I would only do so on a TA thread! Fishy references became a bit of a theme here during Rob's tuna aversion I think.

In other words, you started it!

(Neal Stephenson has a new book out this month BTW.)

The bird watching is going to be a damp squid methinks.

A squid is definitely not a bird.

I think it's more likely to be a damp squab.

at squab.

enoch - do you really expect me to remember conversations I had previously on MN? I've clearly revealed myself as a "damp squib" bore.

Anyway, I think we should all use "damp squab" from now on as another TA in-joke to baffle newcomers... (just don't abbreviate it to DS as that would be confusing).

Damp squids were a long time feature of the now deceased BBC boards - it adds a fishy layer to the desperate expression of disappointment as promising story lines build up a long hoped-for expectation of something good, only to fizzle out into bland nothingness, immediately ignored and forgotten by the characters, until someone suddenly remembers ten years later.

So Charlie doesn't know that Rob knows that David knows what Ed knows (that the culvert was blocked with all sorts of crap, possibly deliberately)..

And Rob doesn't know that David knows what Tall Rachel knows (that the culvert was definitely clear in November)....

BUT Charlie does know that there was something that he didn't want Ed to talk about (which must have been some dodgy culvert blocking as DI Enoch pointed out upthread)....

Now, if David talks to Adam about it - which would be likely - will Adam tell Charlie what he knows? Will Charlie discipline Knob and will Knob unleash his secret snogging blackmail weapon?

And will Charlie just laugh in his face? Hope so, I'm really starting to quite like old Charlie Boy.

I think "damp squid" has reached our official glossary, hasn't it, along with explanations of terms like JD, Knob, HWMNBN, SATTC, the Dopeys etc.

So far I must say the whole birdwatching thing seems like a damp squid even before it starts. So I really do hope Lynda or Robert end up taking a really incriminating photo to brighten it up. As it's Friday and the SWs may want a climax, we can only hope.

Incriminating photo, eh? Is that when they call for PC Plot in his squad car?
I was wondering how I could shoehorn that in.

TeenyfTroon crowd-funding?

There used to be some absolutely wonderful 'alternative' SLs on the old BBC boards

I did think of making Carol Toboggan the one who communicates with the Hell Hound of Ambridge, but decided against it - at some stage she is going to cross Lynda, who will then set the HHoA on her...

So now I know that squeaver thinks that Charlie doesn't know that Rob knows that David knows what Ed - ^^

I think this needs a spreadsheet...

I love 'damp squid', 'spreadshit' et al.

It reminds me of a friend whose work colleague years ago provided a wonderful new compendium of slightly wrong common expressions. Such as 'I wish I could remember - it's on the tip of my head', 'it's as easy as falling off the back of a boat' and 'he really gets on my goat'.

I've used all those and more ever since, but anyone overhearing would have to conduct an anguished DDD-style inner-dialogue as they debated whether to put me right...

A song for DadDadDad - your post made me think of it and now I can't get it out of my head, so only fair to share

Meant to say for DDD and Squeaver

Birdwatching saga yawn yawn (snoozes)
Have heard Sunday's and yesterday's and about 22 minutes of 28 was about that it seemed.
Only interesting bit was Ed not saying to Charlie "after what Rob said to me.... "

So a love triangle between Carol, Jim and Auntie Cardboard is about to commence. Or is Jim asexual?

Brilliant song Bore - loved urgent rhyming with detergent!

That's brilliant, bore.

Also: this

Love bore's storyline because I have my own real life hellhound at home

'it's as easy as falling off the back of a boat'
I'd much rather do that than fall off a log.

Love the 'damb squab'.

Jim will be watching Robert like a hawk - they've really been bittern by competitive bird watching....

Yes, well whoever wins, I expect we will be heron all it about it, as they'll have something to crow about, and the loser will find that hard to swallow.

The winner will be puffin himself up, while the loser will have (r)egrets. If Robert doesn't win with that big lens he'll feel like a great tit. I wonder if there will be a booby prize?

Won't the loser just be ostrich-sized?

It's all just meant to be a lark.

I wonder if the winner gets a cormorantive plaque? The presentation might be aukward if there are hard feelings.

How much of an arse is Kenton? Deevid throws out an olive branch and he turns a flamethrower on it.