My comment was not directed at you sir..

Now try googling "risible and ridiculous allegations" (in quotes).

A "panjandrum" is a contraption rather like a big catherine wheel about a dozen feet across which was festooned with explosives and a fuse. The idea of course was that you propelled it with rockets across a battlefield towards your enemy's fortifications and hoped it would blow them to bits.

Sometimes of course it would refuse to budge or keel over on its side, and blow up in your own ranks.

Edited by chateauferret (07 Dec 2017 8.00am)

============
The Ferret
============

Somehow, perusing the BBS in bygone days and being entertained (And educated) by some terminology by a certain person is misinterpreted as being the originator who somehow decided to switch allegiance to HOL and appear under a different guise instead of using the same name which appears to have garnered some notoriety and levity.Dear me, rather baffling.

That said, I am sure I read a dictum on here by the hierarchy to keep to the subject matter and NOT turn this into a WILLO thread.Maybe I have dreamed this.I am more than happy to oblige but just had to counter the allegation. No more on this matter - I shall only pass comment on the topic under discussion and ignore all the slurs which are designed to discredit myself and at the same time undermines HOL.Maybe others will do the same.

Edited by Willo (07 Dec 2017 9.59am)

I think the bit abput keeling over and blowing up your own camp was what he meant!

Yes, originally the Panjandrum was s nosense word coined by Foote (1775) and poularised in The Great Panjandrum Himself (Caldecott, 1885) as a character of that sort. The military version dates from the Second World War but was never used in anger because tests showed it to be s***e.

Edited by chateauferret (07 Dec 2017 11.42am)

============
The Ferret
============

So, Wayne Hennessey is a panjandrum?

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.