Just for a laugh - No AI please !

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DavidB

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paulc said:
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You must be too young!

It was a Spike Milligan comedy series on BBC2 at the end of the 1960s - The World of Beachcomber. As you would expect from Spike Milligan, it was 'off the wall' but contained some different, funny items including spoof advertisements, one of which was for 'Threadgold Thoroughgrip Garterettes' which I think Frank Thornton did. Another was for 'Snibbo', a washing soap done by Juian Orchard (another great name from the past).

The line-up of comedians reads like a Who's Who of British comedy for the time.

See: The World of Beachcomber. Note the tabs at the top of the page. Unfortunately, it seems tapes of the TV shows were wiped, so there is no record, except for audio on YouTube and an audio cassette (remember them a well?).
 
simond

simond

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For completeness, I should point out that the UK regulations for cabbages does run to 24 pages. I don’t have access to a version of Adobe that would give me a word count, and I simply could not face the boredom of counting them, but should you be insomniac, you’ll find the relevant document here. Do let us know how you get on.


and do spare a moment for the poor …..s that have to write, read and apply this, all so we can enjoy our bubble and squeak.
 
Oz7mm

Oz7mm

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The bent banana myth started courtesy of Boris I believe. The idea was to have an EU wide consistent way to define banana grades across all countries in the EU. Thus a buyer in one country would know what they were getting when specifying grade 1, grade 2 etc. One criterion was the amount they were curved. The EU did not specify how bent or otherwise bananas should be, it was simply creating a common definition. Such is the mischief of certain people.

John
 
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Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

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simond said:
For completeness, I should point out that the UK regulations for cabbages does run to 24 27 pages. I don’t have access to a version of Adobe that would give me a word count, and I simply could not face the boredom of counting them, but should you be insomniac, you’ll find the relevant document here. Do let us know how you get on.


and do spare a moment for the poor …..s that have to write, read and apply this, all so we can enjoy our bubble and squeak.
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Well according to MS Word it has 8228 words, - Yes I am so sad that I downloaded it and checked...

But of course at the only 400 words or so longer than the US constitution it wouldn't have been half as funny as the exaggerated version was at first glance.
 
Peter Insole

Peter Insole

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I find just the mention of cabbages, bent bananas, Boris and the US Constitution, by association in the same thread fairly amusing anyway!

Which I suppose is much like children laughing about bottom burps?!

Pete.
 
simond

simond

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Yes, it poses a philosophical problem, one may criticise our American cousins for electing Mr Trump, but we have no one to blame but ourselves for certain recent political “characters” on this side of the pond.

I suppose the moral is “be careful who you vote for” but glib chancers have fleeced the public since time immemorial.
 
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DavidB

Western Thunderer
A little girl asks her mother if she can take Mollie, their dog, for a walk round the block.
"No", says the mother, "because she's in season."
"Please", says the girl.
"Ask your father. He is in the garage".
Father is tinkering with the car when his daughter comes in.
He rubs the dog's bum with some petrol.
"Alright", says father, "but only round the block, no further."
The girl goes off and a short while later comes home alone, without the dog.
"Where's Mollie?" ask her parents.
"We got half way round and Mollie ran out of petrol. Another dog is pushing her home."
 
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