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Penbwlch
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   Posted: 12 March 2010 at 7:51am |
This what you are looking for, M?:
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I used to be conceited. Now I'm Perfect 
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M&MBM
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Posted: 12 March 2010 at 7:59am |
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Yes, that's the sort of thing I was after. Reassuring they're still made
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MOP, Joker & reformed character. Honest.  I moderate with purple prose
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croberon
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Posted: 12 March 2010 at 9:56am |
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Bic Yellow ballpoint Pens
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Spiders are the most successful terrestrial predators on earth.
One minute your crawling along; next minute splat!
cosmophasis umbratica fluoresce
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Bouncer
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Posted: 13 March 2010 at 10:33pm |
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Davey Crocket hats.
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Retired and loving every minute of it.
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M&MBM
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Posted: 13 March 2010 at 11:13pm |
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Fur coats
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MOP, Joker & reformed character. Honest. I moderate with purple prose
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croberon
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Posted: 14 March 2010 at 2:52am |
Originally posted by M&MBM
Fur coats
You need to visit in January. People still wear them here. I have my mother's mink double breasted but need to get it fitted so I can wear it.
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Spiders are the most successful terrestrial predators on earth.
One minute your crawling along; next minute splat!
cosmophasis umbratica fluoresce
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Maverick22
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Posted: 14 March 2010 at 6:04am |
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I found a sweet shop in St Nicholas Market, in Bristol, that has almost every sweet you could think of, ones that I bought in the 50's and 60's that I didn't think existed anymore. You couldn't move for customers, it took me twenty minutes to get my Sherbert Dips, Liquorice Torpedos and Army/Navy sweets. Well worth a vist if you are in the area.
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Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright, until they open their mouths. A Chicken crossing the road, poultry in motion. .
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M&MBM
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Posted: 14 March 2010 at 7:14am |
Originally posted by croberon
Originally posted by M&MBMFur coats
You need to visit in January. People still wear them here. I have my mother's mink double breasted but need to get it fitted so I can wear it.
We've been make to feel guilty about fur coats by the RSPCA etc.
I'm not sure I like wild trapped furs, nor do I think I'd wear a mink fur, but perst fur like fox or squirrel, or rabbits which can be eaten too, why not?
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BIkerider
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Posted: 14 March 2010 at 9:59am |
Originally posted by Bouncer
Davey Crocket hats. WOT! No stray tabby cats about?
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Kingy from Tyneside
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off - Michael Caine in the original 'Italian Job'
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Bouncer
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Posted: 14 March 2010 at 4:32pm |
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Being somewhat poor, my dad made my Davey Crocket hat by sewing a squidgel tail to a benny hat!
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Retired and loving every minute of it.
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Astinomikos
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Posted: 14 March 2010 at 10:53pm |
Raindrops on roses and
whiskers on kittens.
Coppers on point duty (sometimes traffic lights failed) wearing white cotton gloves.
etc etc
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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BIkerider
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Posted: 16 March 2010 at 3:37pm |
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I am going out on a limb here but what is apparently missing from some senior officers - Common sense!
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Kingy from Tyneside
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off - Michael Caine in the original 'Italian Job'
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Maverick22
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Posted: 17 March 2010 at 9:36am |
Originally posted by BIkerider
I am going out on a limb here but what is apparently missing from some senior officers - Common sense! Not just senior officers BR - alot of PC's don't seem to have much.
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Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright, until they open their mouths. A Chicken crossing the road, poultry in motion. .
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Misery Guts
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Posted: 17 March 2010 at 10:03am |
Kraft Cheesy Pasta............. hmmmmmmmmmm 
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"Nobody Tells Me Nothin!"
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OldAfricaHand
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Posted: 17 March 2010 at 12:09pm |
Originally posted by Maverick22
Originally posted by BIkerider
I am going out on a limb here but what is apparently missing from some senior officers - Common sense! Not just senior officers BR - alot of PC's don't seem to have much.
In fact, along with "a sense of proportion" it's such a rare commodity these days in all walks of life .......... it cannot be taught and the lack of it amongst "leaders' effectively means it will diminish completely in the not-too-distant future!
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Brian - I used to be indecisive, now I'm just not sure!
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Bouncer
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Posted: 19 March 2010 at 10:04pm |
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Kraft has become a very dirty word for Cadbury workers. The longer their stuff is missing, the better.
Edited by Bouncer - 19 March 2010 at 10:05pm
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Uncle Vanya
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Posted: 21 March 2010 at 10:51pm |
'Green Shield Stamps' at filling stations.... But I guess those have been replaced by superstore Loyalty Cards nowadays.........
Free Whiskey and Drinking Glasses when buying 5 gallons of petrol.... a promotional gimick from the 1970s. My brother still has one lonely glass left from those days. In the early years of his marriage, he and his wife collected about a dozen drinking glasses... the passage of time and tide has taken its toll...!!  |
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"Me, I'm just an ordinary Geezer!!"
"Hero & Warrior of This Nation" (so it was alleged during the 1960s & 1970s)
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Bouncer
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Posted: 22 March 2010 at 9:08pm |
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Ah yes, the good old petrol freebies. I never collected the football medals and such like, but had a good set of veteran/vintage car pics and 1970s F1 car pics. Jet seemed to me to give out the best stuff, and I also still have one glass of the bird tumbler glasses sets.
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BIkerider
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Posted: 22 March 2010 at 10:24pm |
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I cashed in my last stash of Green Shield stamps in 1976 just before I headed off the Germany on my last posing abroad. Good job I did because they were defunct when I got back.
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Kingy from Tyneside
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off - Michael Caine in the original 'Italian Job'
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exflic
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Posted: 23 March 2010 at 8:09pm |
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What used to be popular but we don't have any more?/
How about Coal Mines
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I read a book about the evils of drinking and there and then I decided to give up reading
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