[Tom White]

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?

[Tom White]

Cut up silk parachutes make great sill cloths!?

[Londoner]

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.

[G Griffin]

 I bet Dazmond would have been on about going wfp, even back then  .

 What about an I`m going to start smoking thread. Because it`s good for you.

[Tom White]

Or a window cleaning pin up post:

[G Griffin]

 Squeaky moaning about the Yanks nicking all the burds.   

[YWCS]

I say old chap, do you think trad is better than wfp.

[YWCS]

do you like my new logo?

[Tom White]

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'.

[Elginn]

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.

[Ross G]

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.

[amayze]

Pre-fab builders clean .......how much should I charge etc,etc.

[BORBRYCE]

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.

[YWCS]

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.

[Pj]

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.

[martinsadie]

i wouldnt be cleaning windows ,i would have been off fighting Hitlers boys,JW s like Gold would have still been cleaning 

[YWCS]

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 

[mci services]

tosh you missed out 1939 :

[mci services]

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

[Ross G]

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 (?)