The boiler with a personality
Published:
March 23, 2010 at 1:21pm
Yesterday I was in Rabat when the power blew. Before long, people were out on their doorsteps and gathered at street corners, and the words ‘Boiler Number Seven’ drifted through the air.
I remembered this Boiler Number Seven. Wasn’t it the culprit the last time this happened?
Then I saw a comment posted by an acquaintance on timesofmalta.com:
“We must be the only population in the world to be on first-name terms with our power-station boilers.”
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Ah, but the only one to have seen Boiler Seven in the nude is Joe Grima…
P.S. I like the pale green colour scheme on the Taste Cooking School’s facade.
I came across this site:
http://www.christiandomesticdiscipline.com/home.html
U bil-barka tal-knisja dawn!
haha that’s nothing just go to ..
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm
and you will find the worst kind of anti-semitism. The protocols of the elders of zion. Normann Lowell (who had to serve 2 years prison for supposedly inciting racial hatred) is a beginner compared to the church when it comes to anti semitism, just remember how many times as a kid you’ve been told that jesus was betrayed by jewish priests and that it wasn’t Pilate’s fault.
Dan id-dokumentarju rajtuh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cphf5aJdH8s
This is the Daphne I love.
Stenbah l-iehor, il-KZT.
Kenneth, you will not find this type of entertainment in a Theatre with a Roof.
The one you don’t being …?
Sewwuh lil Johnny Cinque ghax se jisplodi kollox!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l30sOEv_JUc&feature=related
You can imagine them on the zuntier….. “Is-Seven kien ta! Boiler 7 – dak mhux bejn is-6 u l-8? Jew stenna, nahseb ma genb it-2 qieghed is-7. Niftakar li Challie iz zermuca kien teknixxin fuq it-2, il-5 u is-7. Nahseb hdejn xulxin dawk. Xi overload mit-3 dak – ittripja xi fjuz…ghax fluz ghal-maintenance mhemmx fl’Enemalta …”
Ejja nirradunaw crack team ta’ teknixxins halli nirrangaw dan il-famigerat boiler li ilbierah minhabba fih ma stajtx nisma t-tejps tal- Bananarama (li huma ghal-qalbi hafna).
Inti, Timmy, irrangalu l-wajers! Inti, Oreste, idhol fit-turbina u sir irmied. U inti, Serafin, xoghlok iddur maghna bil-clipboard b’ harsa inkwetata fuq wiccek.
Ippumpjati? GO TEAM!
Bananarama! L-eighties!
Ghandi idea isbah, Allan, biex insolvu l-Boiler Problem: Nitfghu lil Joe Grima fuq treadmill generator.
FEEL THE BURN! (Fast forward sal-minuta 9:12, H.P.)
http://video.filestube.com/watch,f6e67ce9c67124d603ea/Simpsons-Season-08-10-The-Springfield-Files.html
I hope it’s a controlled burn though, ’cause if it’s not there might soon be a mushroom cloud where this island used to be.
@H.P. Baxxter
Good idea, as long as the treadmill is made of unbreakable materials.
Stress testing would be handled by Malta Drydocks.
Malta Drydocks closes down this month.
@Tal-Muzew
“U bil-barka tal-knisja dawn!”
I very much doubt it. More likely the product of one of those weird, fringe “Christian” groups that mushroom all over the place (at least in the US).
Why are we talking about spanking spouses in Christian marriages beneath a post about a power station boiler?
Maybe they’ve been inspired by what they got up to in the dark last night.
Hope your cooking classes weren’t disrupted, Daphne. Heard they are doing well. Well done.
[Daphne – Yesterday evening’s sushi challenge for 20 had to be cancelled. Alas.]
I heard the figolli class was great fun. Marie Benoit wasn’t there.
Maybe not for the lesson, but don’t you think she drove up for a sneak peek. Marie’s figolla would be like her effigy, smeared with Nutella for a nice finishing touch.
Now THAT would be an inedible figolla – wahda b’ idejha fuq il-hips u b’ritratt ta’ Marie flok il-wicc pprintjat tas-soltu. Naghmillek wahda ghal-Ghid, Daphne? With REAL almonds, naturally.
Jokes apart, I heard that the class was fun, relaxing, and with delicious figolli to boot.
I thought that stuff was raw – well I suppose this shows my knowledge of the subject.
[Daphne – The rice isn’t. And the whole thing has to be assembled.]
Until later, chaps.
A rare (say once-in-a-year) case of Boiler tantrums.
How many boilers are there? At least seven I assume. So is it one tantrum per boiler, or does each boiler have has “15 minutes”?
Hilarious!
For a moment there, I thought this post was another one about the old boiler Musumeci lives with.
For Glenn Dangerfield’s benefit: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=old%20boiler
Keep this dictionary link handy. It may prove useful to translate some exotic (or should I say erotic?) terms published henceforth in Leader and More Leader on maltastar.com.
Yesterday made me remember the Labour government in the 70s and 80s when the power used to be cut not because of a fault at the power station but to save money on alternate days. Ghax il-pajjiz tghidx kemm kien miexi l-quddiem. Eh bilhaqq u anke l-ilma kienu jaqtghu darba ive u ohra le. Dak kien riklam ghat-turizmu! Kemm hu ikrah id-dlam!
– Boilerseven kien, hux?
– Mela, hu kien.
– Ili nghid jien, dan Boilerseven hlief inkwiet m’ghandniex minnu!
– Rajtx hux…? X’kull wahda wkoll, dan Boilerseven…
– Imma nghid jien, ma wasalx ghall-pensjoni dat-tali?
– Jien hekk smajt, ha nghidlek. Imma ma tafx int? Dan ikolli nghid bazuzlu… U taf int, bil-qaddisin titla’ s-sema…
– U hallina! Mela dak il-magistrat, int, nghid jien?
– Il-magistrat? Il-magistrat u Boilerseven… x’affarijiet dawn, jewwilla!
– Fid-dinja ma tistax tghid. Ili nisma’ tahwid fuq dil-magistrat, u huha, u s-Sinku li qieghda mieghu – il-Perit, u huh tal-kejbil, u Julia taz-Zurrieq, u Jason Micallef u certu Ronnie, u l-Kummissjoni, u gideb fil-qorti u xarabankijiet minn wara… u issa dan Boilerseven…
– Ara l-veru spiccajna. Pajjiz tal-mickey mouse –
– Eh, kos, u hemm John Bundy…
– Mela! U sejrin… Kemm ahna sbieh min –
– Jaf jarana! Hallejtek ara, ghax se tfurli l-borma…
– Mur hi, ghax jien ukoll irrid immur… Ghall-blowdraj…
– Ghalxejn ta, ghax meta Boilerseven ma jahdimx, Malta bla dawl…
– Iiii kos, x’wahda din… bla blowdraj il-lum…
Ma naghmlux mod li ma kienx hawn dawl ghax Boilerseven mar Singapore mal-magistrat hux?
Tista’ tghid il-lum il-gurnata x’jaghmlu dawn? Qisha taghhom gabuha Malta…