>>>>>>>The French Navy are running a recruitment drive, with a new motto: "To the water - it is the hour!".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>In French this is: "A l'eau - c'est l'heure!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"To the water - it is time!"
>>>>>
>>>>>"It is the hour (to do this thing)" as in "now is the time". Anyway, that's not important. Think of how the expression is pronounced (and how it sounds in English). As a francophone you probably don't get the play on words.
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>>>>Oh, you mean it sounds like "allo sailor". I must admit I didn't catch your originally intended obective.
>>>>
>>>>cheers (I guess still workless?... if so, not so much 'cheers')
>>>
>>>I'm not so down at the mo. I've been building a big allotment shed, for our new allotment, out of all the driftwood off the beach. Really solid it'll be - made from inch thick floorboards on a stalwart frame. really enjoying this (been drying the wood out for 3 weeks) but now I've got it all cut up and in kit form for assembly on the allotment.
>>
>>Good.
>>I got news Friday that 180 of us across 4 deparments are to be "RightSourced" to India by July 1, 2008. It was the most arrogantly written letters I have ever received.
>
>Now they even sack you in management-speak!!! I hope you will be OK (or if you wanted to keep working for such a callous shower).
so is your shed made of wood from that wreck
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