Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Tom White on May 15, 2010, 01:50:27 pm
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I was just thinking what this forum would've been like during the Second World War, if we had computers back then, and what some of the posts would've been like. There's a few posters here, such as PJ, Gold, Stan-the-Man, and Paul Coleman who were 'real shiners' back then, so maybe they could help; but what sort of thing do you think would've been posted?
Examples:
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Aaaaahhhhrrrrr West Ham has been flattened in the Blitz and that was where my round was, how best can I canvass some new work?
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I'm also guessing the word association thread would look a bit dull:
Egg
Powdered
Egg
Dried
Milk
Luxury
Egg
Powdered
Milk
Luxury
Egg
Etc...
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Can you lot think of other window cleaning posts would be relevant during WW2?
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Cut up silk parachutes make great sill cloths!?
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Vince - Two more of my flippin' customers got bombed last week.
Tosh - How do you clean windows with all that tape over them anyway?
Squeeky - The houses here in Burma haven't got windows
Stan - Neither have half the houses in our street after last Thursday night.
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I bet Dazmond would have been on about going wfp, even back then ;D.
What about an I`m going to start smoking thread. Because it`s good for you.
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Or a window cleaning pin up post:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v737/tosh0987/betty-grable1.jpg)
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Squeaky moaning about the Yanks nicking all the burds.
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I say old chap, do you think trad is better than wfp.
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do you like my new logo?
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very good, YWCS and G Griffin; though I think Squeaks would say the Yanks just get all the 'mingers' and he gets all the 'fit burds'.
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Not today thanks all me windows av been blow out. (any excuse)
Can ya get that shrapnel out of me guttering before it lands on someones ed.
Me kids are stuck in the anderson shelter can we borrow your ladder.
Were you getting your water from Mr Windy our mains was blown up last week and they still ain't fixed it.
ARP to Tosh....We need to borrow your cart Mr windy the busses can't get up Clarence Street after the bombings last night and Mrs Squeeky is cooking dinner for the whole street, we Just need to deliver this broth to everyone.
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Don't you just hate these wingin Jocks they're almost as bad as the huns, why the Clydebank blitz was no where near as bad as the London or Coventry one.
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Pre-fab builders clean .......how much should I charge etc,etc.
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Hi, I am all trad at the moment (newspaper & vinegar) but have been saving up by selling pages of my ration book and am thinking of changing over to scrimm and shammy. Where is the best place to buy from. Also, what is the best way
to get commercial work during the war? Should I just just send a postcard to the line managers of the big tank and plane factories or do you think it would be better to get hold of someone with a typewriter and ask them to send a letter?
Also, do any of you ever work when it's bombing?I have lost quite a few custies due to this. Custies should realize there is a war on and it bombs all the time and I would not be able to be regular if I didn't work when it's bombing.
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Hi, I am all trad at the moment (newspaper & vinegar) but have been saving up by selling pages of my ration book and am thinking of changing over to scrimm and shammy. Where is the best place to buy from. Also, what is the best way
to get commercial work during the war? Should I just just send a postcard to the line managers of the big tank and plane factories or do you think it would be better to get hold of someone with a typwriter and ask them to send a letter?
Also, do any of you ever work when it's bombing?I have lost quite a few custies due to this. Custies should realize there is a war on and it bombs all the time and I would not be able to be regular if I didn't work when it's bombing.
only work during gun fire and light bombing, when those doodle bugs start its best to sit by the cart and wait it out.
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I'm getting fed up pushing my old ladder cart around on these pram wheels.
anyone got any spare ones with tyres on?
I'll pay good money, say, tuppence ha'penny? I'm willing to travel to collect - anywhere up to 4 mile radius.
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i wouldnt be cleaning windows ,i would have been off fighting Hitlers boys,JW s like Gold would have still been cleaning ;)
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i wouldnt be cleaning windows ,i would have been off fighting Hitlers Laddermonkee and his boys,JW s like Gold would have still been cleaning ;)
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tosh you missed out 1939 ::)
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but back on topic, ive just had my call up papers through do you think my customers will stay loyal till i get back. or is there anyway i can get out of enlisting being self employed and all that. when i suggested that to my wife she said i would lose all my customers for being a coward so i might as well go enlist, but i think that me be more because a us camp has just opened in the area and she has been flirting away and she just wants me gone :o
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I know a chap Corporal Dazmond who says he's changing over to scrim and shammy when he's demobbed says he's going to buy an old ambulance and kit it out, he's thouroughly researched all the ins and outs of window cleaning ops.
I'm sure he'll get over his fears of changing over. I think the shellshock is partly to blame.
But i'm not sure he wants to be putting his new logo on the van as i'm sure it's already patented, better go with Scrim-shammy rather than the big black SS he was going to use, what do you chaps think??
hey no offence Dazmond by the way and i know you spell shammy ,chamois (????) ;D
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Lets be honest we're all coining it while those mugs are away fighting.I earn in a day what a squadiee gets in a month, not that i'm bragging mind. One of my custies was saying that after the war the health service will be free but some of us might have to start paying tax, even more worrying than that have you heard this rubbish about smokeless zones? If people don't have smokey chimeneys to make their windies nice and mucky what are we going to do?
Got a good add on, i offer to clean the outside bog, tanner a pop.
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hahaha class ;D ;D
but really get that bloody hi vis coat of you're making jerries life easy mate
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I had a lucky escape today lads
typical im away fighting and your on my patch ;)
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I had a lucky escape today lads
Does any of your custies complain when you clean when it's bombing mate?
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Charged 3 Woodbinds fAgs for a full house clean and Mrs Applegarth said I was expensive as there was shapnill markes on her windows afterwards.
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I had a lucky escape today lads
Does any of your custies complain when you clean when it's bombing mate?
ronnie i offer a bombing campaign guarantee, where if there is any complaints because of bombing i return and re clean for free. ive only had one call back
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corporal dazmond here ive got an old ambulance for transport but sod the window cleaning!them wooden ladders are too heavy!i decided due to "not at homes buried under the rubble"customers not payin me i thought id dig the bodies out and take their jewellery!lets be honest their not gonna need it!all the tools i need is a pair of pliers(for gettin the gold teeth out!)and a swag bag for looting!!
see ya you window cleaning suckers!!!YEEEHHAAAAAAAAAR!!!!!!! :D :D :D
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Corporal Daz, It's cowboys like you that give us windies a bad name. I have a sign written cart and use only the best vinegar. You should go back to chimney sweeping cos thats all your good for and leave us pro's to get on with it.
When I have a custie that pops their glogs due to a blitz, I do the next clean half price for the spouse and not raid their pockets and gums for the scrap. >:( >:(
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tosh you missed out 1939 ::)
That's because I'm a Geordie thick! ;D
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I had a lucky escape today lads
Does any of your custies complain when you clean when it's bombing mate?
ronnie i offer a bombing campaign guarantee, where if there is any complaints because of bombing i return and re clean for free. ive only had one call back
I tried that Stuart, but no one could find a phone box that worked.
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I had a lucky escape today lads
Does any of your custies complain when you clean when it's bombing mate?
ronnie i offer a bombing campaign guarantee, where if there is any complaints because of bombing i return and re clean for free. ive only had one call back
I tried that Stuart, but no one could find a phone box that worked.
;D ;D maybe why i havent had any complaints then ::)
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i heard a rumour the other day a chap at the minestry of defence called prof Gardeners says he's inventing a new wonder device similair to a submarines periscope that'll change the way we clean windows forever, i know this sounds far fetched but he says you will not need vinegar or ladders :o :o
what next Poles flying spitfires i ask you
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i heard a rumour the other day a chap at the minestry of defence called prof Gardeners says he's inventing a new wonder device similair to a submarines periscope that'll change the way we clean windows forever, i know this sounds far fetched but he says you will not need vinegar or ladders :o :o
what next Poles flying spitfires i ask you
That Prof Gardiner has really been at it.
Look here :-
http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Plastic_Goosenecks.html
He's even selling doodlebugs :)
(4th and 5th items down)
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Can anyone help me? I wish to bid for the window cleaning of some MOD sites. Has anyone got a map or a list of all military installations?
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Can anyone help me? I wish to bid for the window cleaning of some MOD sites. Has anyone got a map or a list of all military installations?
DONT TELL HIM he is a german spy :o ban him from the forum now ;D
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This country is full - jam packed with foreigners - we've got Indians everywhere here in Chepstow, stinking the place up with curry.
I blame this guy:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v737/tosh0987/g6857_u3848_sir_winston_churchill.jpg)
Look at him and the rude gesture he's giving us!!!! >:(
Sir Oswald Mosley wouldn't stand for all these Curry Eaters invading the country; why don't they just go back to India?
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(I'd better explain that we had many foreign troops from all over the Commonwealth here in the UK and Chepstow 'hosted' an Indian artillery battalion who were billeted at the Racecourse).
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Ruddy Lino cleaners, lazy work-shy gits, sat at home watching their 9 inch TVs all day.
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i wouldnt be cleaning windows ,i would have been off fighting Hitlers boys,
Stan, you wouldn't pass the medical with your rickets.
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Brilliant thread Tosh.
I'm writing this from Horfield Prison.
February 1941
In court I told the beak I'd do coal mining, the merchant navy, ambulance driving, or collecting the wounded in no-man's land or with my ladder experience I'd be good on the fire engines. He said I don't want "conchies" like you dragging down morale so it's off to prison for you.
Anyway I got tarred and feathered while out tarmacadaming a farm track on the chain gang yesterday so I'm in a lot of pain and feeling pretty miserable really. Still at least I haven't been thrown to the lions or nailed up on a pole or cross!
My parents have disowned me and told me not to darken their doorstep again and my window cleaning round has been taken over by the local spiv. :'(
Had a nice chat with a Quaker this evening while slopping out but that got cut short by an air raid. Fortunately those Dorniers don't carry too many bombs and we got off lightly.
Will write soon.
Bye for now.
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losing customers help
i have a round in the gorbals glasgow, and since conscription has come into effect more and more of my customers of irish decent are moving out in their droves and moving back to ireland. is this happening all over or is it just here
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It is in Liverpool.
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Do any of you have any outside interests?
I like playing the washboard and ferreting, and of course of a friday night i take the wheel barrow down to the local ready for the wife to take me home in later.
This religous belief thing you put me onto sounded a good dodge but i reckon some of your info is wrong. I went to my local temple to sign up but my branch do circumsicion. Stuff that.
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my outside interests see me in my vegetable plot growing carrots and such like i'm eating lots more carrots as they say that they help you see in the dark which is just as well as i'm going blind due to the fact that the missus is to knackred for any hanky panky due to her shifts in the munitions factory
Dig for victory ;)
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Wor Lass - not me honest - wants to know what's the correct ratio, water to Bisto, for fake tanning your legs? I think it's 3:1, but I'm not sure.
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I went to my local temple to sign up but my branch do circumsicion.
Actually, I've been thinking a lot about God 'n' stuff, and I've come to the conclusion that the Jews have got it right, so I'm going to change religions to Jewish.
Do you think this is a wise move?
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I've had a really gay day today! ;D
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Is that the same as an Enola Gay Day
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went round collecting again . nobody in all the light were out ;D
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I've found the best time to go collecting is during an air raid, pop down the air raid shelter and the buggers can't hide behind the curtains down there can they.
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I was down the pub and a bloke says the yanks have a big bomb coming out. It's called a new clear bomb and works by splitting apples and then mixing them with some secret chemicals and this is very explosive
It interferes with radios so its not perfect, but if it helps beat Gerry then that's good.
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i wouldnt be cleaning windows ,i would have been off fighting Hitlers boys,JW s like Gold would have still been cleaning ;)
Hurrah for the Home Guard! Keep up the good work Stan.
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was in the pub last night and got talking to an RAF chap he says that they're being bought out and being turned into a franchise and they're gonna name all thier bombers after him can't be Wellington any ideas ?? ;)
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was in the pub last night and got talking to an RAF chap he says that they're being bought out and being turned into a franchise and they're gonna name all thier bombers after him can't be Wellington any ideas ?? ;)
Stirling?
Halifax?
Hamden?
Battle?
Mosquito?
Manchester?
Blenheim?
Beaufort?
Beaufighter?
Sunderland?
Nope, doesn't ring any bells - I can't think of any British WW2 bomber named after a northern city in Lancashire called Ian (with 4 engines and a top speed of 287 mph.) ;)
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never mind ;) by the way was the short Stirling the same as a Stirling or were there two diff types ?
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I had a really compact round until one of those doodle bugs blew all the bleeding windows out.
Tip, that parachute cord is great for tying shammy mops, it's made from summat called nylon and don't rot.
[We were actually using parachute cord for this in the late 1950's, it was a job for when we were rained off. The boss gave us a bag of shammy bits, a packing needle, and a length of para cord, and it did rot eventually]
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never mind ;) by the way was the short Stirling the same as a Stirling or were there two diff types ?
Same thing. Short being the manufacturer and Stirling the model. Like Avro Lancaster or Supermarine Spitfire.
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I was down the pub and a bloke says the yanks have a big bomb coming out. It's called a new clear bomb and works by splitting apples and then mixing them with some secret chemicals and this is very explosive
It interferes with radios so its not perfect, but if it helps beat Gerry then that's good.
Nice one, Ronnie ;)
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I've been 'avin some problems with mi water feezin' but a pal of mine has given me this stuff to slap on the tank supposed to be a really good insulator, asbestos or summat, dunt 'arf block yer nose up tho when ya put it on.
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I've been 'avin some problems with mi water feezin' but a pal of mine has given me this stuff to slap on the tank supposed to be a really good insulator, asbestos or summat, dunt 'arf block yer nose up tho when ya put it on.
;D
I heard it clears your nostrils out good and proper! Bit like those craven-A ciggies - good for a sore throat.
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Hey malc please read the topic
Eh?
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Eh?
You wipe your feet on them, it's subversive, they had one in ancient rome, and it's about you.
what are you on about
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I apologise for going off topic, just having a joke.
I'm sure it's funny but I don't understand it. ???
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Well if it's not understood it's not funny.No worries forget i spoke.
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I apologise for going off topic, just having a joke.
I'm sure it's funny but I don't understand it. ???
Try using your Enigma code breaker thingy
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I apologise for going off topic, just having a joke.
I'm sure it's funny but I don't understand it. ???
Try using your Enigma code breaker thingy
shhhhhs thats a secret
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now now Herr I mean mr mac you can be telling me all about ziss enema code ja i men aye ?
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Here's a picture of my new dog!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v737/tosh0987/black-dog-names-3.jpg)
I want to call him Magpie but Wor Lass likes the name Nigger better.
What do you guys think? Magpie or Nigger?
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Was Dambuster Guy Gibsons dog not called that name, not Magpie the other one ?
alternativley you could come to a compromise Tosh and add an S to the name, Sn****r it sounds like a variation on what Dick Dasterdly's Muttley did
am I allowed to say Dick ??? ::)
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I must say old chaps, this forum isn't as good as it used to be.
(Repeat every six months for the next 65 years till 2010 and then keep on repeating every six months).
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I must say old chaps, this forum isn't as good as it used to be. And it's so slow. Has Jerry been bombing the interweb servers again with his sneaky Doodlebugs?
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There are a few posters on this thread who are no longer with us. Slumpbuster was shot for being a spy, always had my doubts about him, but what happened to the others
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There are a few posters on this thread who are no longer with us. Slumpbuster was shot for being a spy, always had my doubts about him, but what happened to the others
Spivs mostly, old bean, and those terrible conshies; the JWs. Locked up for shirking.
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There are a few posters on this thread who are no longer with us. Slumpbuster was shot for being a spy, always had my doubts about him, but what happened to the others
Hehe, like it!
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I've just got this big contract off the MOD
What pole is best for the barrage balloons 8)
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I've just got this big contract off the MOD
What pole is best for the barrage balloons 8)
The one called Yan.
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thats the best thing that could happen to west ham football ground bombed pity they rebuilt it
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Oh Hi Tosh!
You out of internment yet? As in the film "Bad Day At Black Rock", starring Spencer Tracey?
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Makes you proud to be English...chocks away!!!
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News paper and vinager VS shammy leather
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bomb and replace with two!
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Seems to be a lot of SPAM around these days
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Here's some topic subjects:
Thinking of going mobile and strapping me ladder to a pushbike - anyone recommend the best type of string and anyone lend me a pushbike?
Hitler - do you think he uses a windy or does 'em himself?
Anyone out cleaning today during the bombing?
Leafleting - thinking of using Air Raid Wardens - opinions please
No metal to repair me squeegy - what do I make do and mend with ffs?
All me custies in one street bombed and killed - Stiff upper lip required urgently
Tosser at corner shop now rationing mint imperials - swap to sherbet lemons?
All new custies quoted at one off price now just in case house bombed before next visit - good idea or not?
Call from client to quote for conny, soffits and fascias clean - any ideas what they are?
Is it possible to darn a scrim?
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There are a few posters on this thread who are no longer with us. Slumpbuster was shot for being a spy, always had my doubts about him, but what happened to the others
Laddermonkee went sausage-side and in 1941 was preparing to goosestep his way to Moscow.
When it all went pear-shaped in 1945 he drove the dettol lorry to Belsen to help those poor infected Jewish people.