The Running of the Colours

[Merlyn]

Not for control room dwellers but those who get out and about. This could be a triple for me?

[JK]

Never heard round referred to as that. I preferred a nice monochrome set of rounds with no red showing.

[Merlyn]

But what colour should have been the one in your toolbox. I know you have one because you told me so?

[Big Pete]

Prussian Blue/ Micrometer Blue / Engineer's Blue.
Red Lead ( & Tallow),
Hylomar Blue,
Whiting,

[Merlyn]

Well I am not sure about this, thought it would be a difficult one maybe but I have to own up, the colour I refer to is blue, but what am I referring to? Running on a high here with a possible two winners and was hoping to make it a hat trick ie three. Have already put in an application for my Stomper Medal of the Decade and now am faced with you saying blue. Can't believe it. Here's hoping anyway.

[Merlyn]

Any takers yet?

[Merlyn]

Come on BP you're halfway there, don't stop now.

[Big Pete]

Blue Nun?

[Merlyn]

That's slurpy fluid, ie wine, you don't keep that in your toolbox do you? This is tool you sometimes work with, and if the job goes ok then you slurp the vino collapso to celebrate.

[JK]

You have wine in a bag over ther, do you? My favourite.

[Merlyn]

Don't know J.K. as we always get the 45 gallon drum version being hardened marine engineers over here, think maybe the Scotch folk do them in a bag though, they call them bagpipes I think.

[JollyJack]

I was sure I answered this one? Has it been deleted?

[Merlyn]

The wine or the chisel? Big difference you know.

[JK]

No J J, you must have been in the boxed stuff

[JollyJack]

Running the colours refers to tempering steel, a chisel is tempered when blue runs off the end of the polished edge.