Has Google Ever Came Up Trumps For You?

Just don't type "come up Trumps" into google though...

It did help me find one of my grandad's favourite monologues... an amusing take on Longfellows "Excelsior"

It's called "Up'ards"

UP'ARDS
by
Marriott Edgar

'Twere getting dusk, one winter's night,
When up the clough there came in sight,
A lad who carried through the snow,
A banner with this 'ere motto...
'Up'ards'

His face was glum as he did pass,
His eyes were shiny... just like glass,
And as he went upon his way,
He nobbut this 'ere word did say...
'Up'ards'

And people sitting down to tea,
They heard him plan, as plain can be,
They thowt 'twere final football score,
As this 'ere word rang out once more...
'Up'ards'

A policeman on his lonely beat,
He stopped the lad up t' end of t' street,
He said, "Where't going wi' that theer?"
The lad just whispered in his ear...
'Up'ards'

"Don't go down t' clough." the policeman said,
"It's mucky road for thee to tread,
Canal's at bottom... deep and wide."
"That's not my road." the lad replied,
It's... 'Up'ards'

A young lass stopped him further up,
She said "Come in wi' me, and sup."
He said, "I'm takin none o' yon,
Besides... I must be getting on...
'Up'ards'"

Next day some lads had just begun,
To tak' their whippets for a run,
When dogs got scratching in the snow,
And found flag with this 'ere motto...
'Up'ards'

That set them digging all around,
And 'twasn't long before they found,
A lad whose name they never learned,
Whose face was white, whose toes had turned...
'Up'ards'

'Twas very plain for to behold,
The lad had ta'en his death o' cold,
He'd got his feet wet early on,
And from his feet the cold had gone...
'Up'ards'

This story only goes to show,
That when the fields is white wi' snow,
It's inadvisable to go...
'Up'ards'

 

Googled indicator problem triumph speedmaster a while back and found this forum
Result eh?
For me and for you lot

 

I once got asked to fit a kitchen. How hard can it be ? So Googled and watched a few hours worth of video's and taught myself how to. Being a woodwork teacher did help, but amazing the stuff you can learn on-line.

I remember when I was at Uni in the early 90's and thinking this internet is useless, why are the geeks getting excited about it ????

How wrong was I !!!

 

Google really came up trumps for me when they produced/mass marketed the Chrome OS operating system.

I now run a Chromebook now and it is, without doubt, the best piece of technology I've ever used. No more Microsoft bullshit for me - Google all the way

 

I bought some second hand curtains for 15 quid, lined,green nice, anyway they were to long so got a sewing machine from Gumtree for 20 pounds and after a year, finally got around to taking them up.
The machine was knackered.
In the past that would have been that.
Now, I went on Google found a vid ,sorted the machine in 10 minutes, and away you go, curtains that fit.
Ive got 200 hundred pound curtains and a sewing machine for 35 quid

 

When I was a student, I just used a stapler to turn up my curtains. My then girlfriend came along and was disgusted I had done this. So she took them down, sew'd them and then decided to them away and give them a wash.

Lovely pair of clean curtains - that were now 2" short - FFS

They were fine with the staples !!!!