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| mossy | what is it with thease kids in leyland and there fashion sense.have you seen em in ther tracky bottoms tuked in to there white socks with there rockports on.silly little baseball caps (allways creame or white coloured ones)the base ball cap as to be on an angle so that its pointing up.are they of the deluded view that they think they look cool cos they don,t .do they think they live in the hood or something.its scouse fashion thats what it is.thought i would get it of my chest as this is one of my pet hates 
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| Martin | I'm sure some fashion house is making a killing selling all this stuff to the kids. Or should I say their parents are forking out a fortune for it.
When I was at school, there wasn't as much of it around, Adidas is the only one I remember and it wasn't that important.
At least in twenty years time they can look back and see how silly it all was (or is that me and my flairs?)
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
At least in twenty years time they can look back and see how silly it all was (or is that me and my flairs?)
Martin
In The Pink
Hey, Martin, the fashion of our youth (you and I being of similar age) is back again - leastways for girls! I was in Top Shop with my daughter and found myself looking at the selfsame styles I wore in the 70's! Apparently Laura Ashley is big again, with vintage originals in demand. Hmmmmm and all my originals were wrecked in the dressing up box years ago!
Son is not into trackie bottoms and baseball caps. He wants to look distinct from the crowd (hence current haircut strike!) - we have to trek to Affleck's Palace in Manchester for suitably wide pants! Oh for the days when you were cool if you had Dunlop Green Flash trainers..... or pumps as we called them back then! 
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| JohnH | ... perhaps Fred Perry will make a come back! ... now where did I leave my pump bag?
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
... now where did I leave my pump bag?
JohnH
Ah, pumps bags! With your name embroidered on by yer mum? Sigh! Those were the days!.......
(It's only a matter of time now before someone brings up Spangles!!)
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| JohnH | ... spangles ! sounds familiar! Was it a kind of sweet or something to tie up your hair with?
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
... spangles ! sounds familiar! Was it a kind of sweet or something to tie up your hair with?
JohnH
Square boiled sweet - came in a roll of different flavours, each sweet individually wrapped. Olde Englishe was the best flavour - was that the black wrapper?
Isn't it a scrunchie to tie hair up?
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| JohnH | ______________________________________
... - was that the black wrapper?
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Was the same as blackjacks? They used to make you teeth and mouth black.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Was the same as blackjacks?
JohnH
No - Blackjacks were chewy, Spangles were hard!
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| Martin | I remember spangles, we used to live in a shop.
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| mossy | what about mojo,s and fruit salads
any how , how come my topic as turned into a debate about confectionary
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| Martin | They'll be talking about chocolate next, then we've had it.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
what about mojo,s and fruit salads
any how , how come my topic as turned into a debate about confectionary
Cos nostalgia (in this case for the clothes of our youth) always seems to end up with a discussion of Spangles on message boards! One of life's mysteries! <g>
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| Lady Griffin | Oh dear,
What happened to the tin filled with cocoa and a dash of sugar if you were lucky.
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| noel | quote:
what about mojo,s and fruit salads
any how , how come my topic as turned into a debate about confectionary
Interesting observation Mossy What about those edible flying saucers full of sherbert that stuck to the pallet of your mouth.
Gob Stoppers that changed colour. Pendleton's Twicers, Uncle Joe's Mintballs ( unwrapped of course, all stuck together in the paper bag).
Ahhh those were the days my friend. ( we thought they'd never end)- "ok Marianne, belt up now!! "
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| Lady Griffin | You were lucky Wiganer.They forced us to sew our names on our own Pump bags.
Did you have to sit on the hall floor once a week or so for an inspection of said pump bags and their contents?There was much passing around of gear from row to row.My those teachers must have been blind.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Oh dear,
What happened to the tin filled with cocoa and a dash of sugar if you were lucky.
Tried to reply to this on Thursday, but kept getting an error message and couldn't post :-(
What I *had* intended to say was :
Affluence, Lady G, affluence! Each generation seems to expect more. When I was little, a packet of Spangles or a colour-changing gob-stopper was a big treat. We only got sweets on a Saturday (unless we went to the shops with Grandma cos she loved to treat her grandkids) so it was a big deal what you chose. These days kids would look at you sideways if you gave them a handful of boiled sweets and expected to think it was something grand!
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
You were lucky Wiganer.They forced us to sew our names on our own Pump bags.
I couldn't do chain stitch when I was four! Mums were expected to do our secondary school bags too. I think I was around in much more liberal times (at primary school in the 60's!!) so we didn't get games kit inspections. However, woe betide you if you didn't have the right kit in school for the lesson - Miss Cartwright was a tartar!
My two kids went to primary school with hand-sewn pump bags with their names embroidered on. (Nostalgia strikes again!) I think most of their friends have/had those plastic pump bags you write the child's name on. My youngest moves up to high school this year. The thought of sewing in all those name tapes into uniform is giving me palpitations!
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| Lady Griffin | Am trying desperately Wiganer to find the right place in these forums.Keep getting lost and had forgotten about this one.Even had to mail for my password as couldn't get on to the site.My brain cells are rusting away.No wonder.
Quite right about the affluence and expectations.
I mean to say my granchildren laugh raucously when I tell them about the orange and nuts at the bottom of the sock for Christmas and how grateful we were.Can't think why they find it hilarious!!!After all they got DVD players for Xmas this year.Not from me I may add.
And what about walking a mile to school in the snow drifts with the white stuff getting inside your wellies and the chillblains and playing marbles in the ice ruts to keep your spirits up.My they never walk anywhere.Mum takes them everywhere in the car.
My grandson who is 11 wanted one of those headband thingies with the brand name of something I'd never heard of.50 dollars if you please
49 dollars for the name and 1 dollar for the band.And it would only get pinched at school.
At least I can say no as I'm their grandmother.They know I'm not a soft touch.Not much anyway.
17 and 18 year olds in Christchurch are causing havoc by burning rubber on the streets in their souped up cars.Souped is probably the wrong word.Anyway they are called boy racers and got upset poor dears last week when the police moved in and issued huge fines and the next step they lose their cars.Well said one I'll only go and buy another.
To think how long I waited for my sit up and beg bicycle.
Well somewhere there I got in scroat fashion.These topics do follow strange paths.
I think you have some of our export rugby players playing League in Wigan.Inga Tuigamala went there but have lost track of him.Also the Paul brothers are on English soil.
Dunedin I believe is a bit calmer but the sheep and cattle have had a rough time of it.
Have just found the "Religious" topic.What a laugh!I keep finding pearls everywhere.
Cheers from Godzone
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| noel | Lady G one way to keep up with the postings is click onto active topics at the top of the page. It takes you into any new messages since you left. I do agree it's a bit messy going from subject to subject. Tiga Ingamal by the way plays Rugby Union now for Newcastle I think , a lot of League players have swapped codes. Even Henry Paul plays RU for one of the top English teams.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
I think you have some of our export rugby players playing League in Wigan.Inga Tuigamala went there but have lost track of him.
I don't follow rugby myself, Lady G, but I *think* Inga the Winger appeared in a recent James Bond film as one of the baddies! My NZ cousins are rugby mad - I must seem very boring to them, living in the heart of rugby league country and never watching a match! LOL!
Don't fret over where to post, Lady G. Threads in message boards seem to take on a life of their own, but Martin's an easy-going chap and won't smack our wrists for inappropriate posting..... I hope!
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| LDunlop76 | PS My kids STILL get a tangerine and a shiny penny at the toe of their Christmas stockings! Course, they get a lot of other stuff too..... electric guitar last year :-(
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| Lady Griffin | Most New Zealanders are rugby mad.It's the national religion.The rugby field -paddock here -is the Pleasure Dome in the Xanadu of life.
For me the ball is the wrong shape and there is only a series of scrums where unspeakable things happen.I heard that from a reliable source.
I should have put this in the Religion topic but the debate there got a bit too heated and developed from a reasoned argument to a Bring back the Crusades call.
And it was said that Religion is the opiate of the masses!!!
As Miss Pink would say-Love and Light.
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| Lady Griffin | Thanks Noel.I thought there must be an easier way to get to the right place.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
I should have put this in the Religion topic but the debate there got a bit too heated and developed from a reasoned argument to a Bring back the Crusades call.
And it was said that Religion is the opiate of the masses!!!
As Miss Pink would say-Love and Light.
Yeah, one light-hearted query from me about the quote beneath Cockney's signature and all hell breaks out! I hadn't realised it was such a sin to criticise football hooligans! Me and my big mouth!
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| Lady Griffin | Good one Wiganer.Keep socking it to them.You may not think it but L.G.is a very quiet type.Brought up in the era of 'Children are seen and not heard'and avoid confrontations at all costs.
Time the worm turned!!!!
L.G.
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| julie | Is`nt this post for fashion anyway still on sweets? When we use to spend the night at my grans she always gave us a piece of Bornville chocolate BEFORE we went to sleep AFTER we`d brushed our teeth and AS we where laying down on the pillow, never bothered us then of course chocolate any time was good especillay that which was nice and rich dark chocolate.Cant eat it now gives me migraine, just as well.o! i forgot before bedtime there was the SUGAR BUTTIES
no wonder we all ended up at Grundies Dentist
julie
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| LDunlop76 | My gran used to give us apple cut into segments and a saucer of sugar to dip the apple into! As you say, Julie, no wonder we ended up at the dentist's!
Sorry to hear about your migraines. Mine are triggered by stress, not food. The Doc gave me naratryptan for mine, which works really well. Course, not getting stressed works even better!!
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| JohnH | quote:
.... there was the SUGAR BUTTIES
Used to love the old sugar buttie, washed down with lashings of steaming hot egg milk! My kid's don't even want to know about all these delicasies!
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| Lady Griffin | My this is a strange thread of conversation leading from scroat fashion.
Sweet things are much more interesting.
Still like apple slices with sugar and sugar butties.Don't care much for ice cream as we had some horrible stuff during the war which went along with mock cream and butter made from sour milk.The ice cream am sure was made with flour and water.Put me off for life.
Do people still eat roly poly pudding steamed in a cloth and served with custard or spoon jam on the rice pudding!
Remember those thin pieces of chocolate you could get from a machine at railway stations.Was it Nestles? Cadburys?
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Do people still eat roly poly pudding steamed in a cloth and served with custard or spoon jam on the rice pudding!
I haven't made a rolypoly pudding in a good while, but we still have a spoonful of jam on rice pudding. The kids aren't keen, but every once in a while I make tapioca pudding too. Reminds me of Grandma's house - we used to call it eyeball pudding or frogspawn, but hers was always delicious! Tea at Grandma and Grandad's house was smashing - Grandad grew his own veg and salad crops (used to read the paper in his green house after he retired!) and Grandma was always baking something tasty - scones, cakes, pies and puddings. I hope I can live up to their standards if and when I get to be a granny!
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| noel | quote:
i forgot before bedtime there was the SUGAR BUTTIES
no wonder we all ended up at Grundies Dentist
julie
Jam butty fritters, that was a real treat. Glad it wasn't just me..
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| mossy | lets not forget strawberry bootlaces,sun lollys(champagne flavour)in my childhood mind i thought you could get drunk of them.mambo,s the best ice lolly/drink ever made.
10p mix,es from mrs waters shop on leyland lane.10p went a long way in 1978
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
10p went a long way in 1978
It went even further in 71, when it was my pocket money for the week! It was new currency then too!
I remember at primary school in the 60's a packet of "potato puffs" was 3d - I used to have a red purse on a strap to carry my threepenny bit!
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| noel | quote:
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10p went a long way in 1978
It went even further in 71, when it was my pocket money for the week! It was new currency then too!
I remember at primary school in the 60's a packet of "potato puffs" was 3d - I used to have a red purse on a strap to carry my threepenny bit!
Hey up Wiganer I can go further back than that. We used to buy Mars Bars for 3d it seemed like the end of the world when it went up to 4d back in 1954 . Used to get a 4d mixture from the chippy Fish were 8d
I'm almost tempted to do the Monty Python thing " we used to go out with a pound in our pockets, have 8 pints of Boddies and a fish supper , get a taxi home and still have enough to watch North End the following day". But I won't.
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| Martin | quote:
I'm almost tempted to do the Monty Python thing
You mean it was you living in that shoe box in t'middle of t'road?
Martin
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| Lady Griffin | quote:
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Do people still eat roly poly pudding steamed in a cloth and served with custard or spoon jam on the rice pudding!
I haven't made a rolypoly pudding in a good while, but we still have a spoonful of jam on rice pudding. The kids aren't keen, but every once in a while I make tapioca pudding too. Reminds me of Grandma's house - we used to call it eyeball pudding or frogspawn, but hers was always delicious! Tea at Grandma and Grandad's house was smashing - Grandad grew his own veg and salad crops (used to read the paper in his green house after he retired!) and Grandma was always baking something tasty - scones, cakes, pies and puddings. I hope I can live up to their standards if and when I get to be a granny!
Edited by - LDunlop76 on 05 Jun 2002 00:39:26
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| Lady Griffin | Did all Grandads escape to sit in Greenhouses .Mine did too and watched his tomatoes grow.I used to be allowed to pick the baby ones to eat and go round dusting the tomato flowers with a feather duster.He had a huge tank of degging mixure for the garden which I was allowed to stir.Smelled revolting.
As for tapioca and semolina no thanks.
Reminds me of school dinners.At Balshaws there used to be this Head Sharang dinner lady who stood in the middle of the kitchen maniacally waving a wooden spoon as all the underlings ran round in circles producing stewed figs etc and semolina which was in a solid block cut in squares.
Sorry can't get the hang of quoting yet.
This scroat fashion is a popular topic!!
How long can we go on about aniseed balls and arrowroot sticks and the like!
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| Lady Griffin | Noel I don't think you would get even a Primary kid to carry a red purse these days.
They all have these huge back packs here at all ages.
At least they don't get a permanent list from carrying those heavy leather bags on the shoulder.
Is Boddingtons still popular?
I have two tokens for free pints of the stuff from 1958 at the Pleasant.
Maybe I can still claim them.
Am gabbing on as am going walkabout for a week.Sighs of relief all round!!
When I get back I shall get a packed lunch, sit in front of the computer and catch up with all the postings.
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| noel | quote:
Noel I don't think you would get even a Primary kid to carry a red purse these days.
They all have these huge back packs here at all ages.
At least they don't get a permanent list from carrying those heavy leather bags on the shoulder.
Is Boddingtons still popular?
Oh absolutely Lady G Boddingtons is the drink with street cred, and The Pleasant still serves it. You can buy it draught in cans which seems a bit of an oxymoron.
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| LDunlop76 | Lady G - you too? I used to be allowed to pick the baby tomatoes in my Grandad's greenhouse and fertilise the flowers with a feather - though not the feather duster!
Kids here wear huge packpacks too - don't know how my 11 year old lifts hers some days!
Have a good time on your walkabout - see you when you get back!
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| Lady Griffin | Hi folks,
The griffin has landed ,ready to fly off at a tangent or two.I guess you are all transfixed by the soccer and it will be some time before the posts come fast and furious.
Thought I would start in the scroat fashion forum seeing it's so popular or are we still on Gobstoppers.Girls here are sporting bare midriffs a la Madonna.Obviously they haven't realised it's winter yet.
Have just returned from the Garden city Christchurch- the city most like England where Anglicans settled when the first ships arrived in the 1840s.It's on the Mainland (South Island)and has a river the Avon flowing through the centre lined with willow trees.I believe the original cuttings came from Stratford UK.
They have their own Wizard in ChCh who has his soapbox in the Square and a regular time slot.
Pleased to be home though.My cat missed me.
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| Lady Griffin | Hi folks,
The griffin has landed ,ready to fly off at a tangent or two.I guess you are all transfixed by the soccer and it will be some time before the posts come fast and furious.
Thought I would start in the scroat fashion forum seeing it's so popular or are we still on Gobstoppers.Girls here are sporting bare midriffs a la Madonna.Obviously they haven't realised it's winter yet.
Have just returned from the Garden city Christchurch- the city most like England where Anglicans settled when the first ships arrived in the 1840s.It's on the Mainland (South Island)and has a river the Avon flowing through the centre lined with willow trees.I believe the original cuttings came from Stratford UK.
They have their own Wizard in ChCh who has his soapbox in the Square and a regular time slot.
Pleased to be home though.My cat missed me.
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| Lady Griffin | Good news about Boddingtons Noel.Maybe I'll be able to get those free pints yet.
When we first arrived in Godzone the pubs closed at 6pm after a period called the six o'clock swill when the men would rush in from work and the beer was all ready poured for "the drink all you can in an hour session."
There was a choice of beer -Lion or DB mainly .It's much more civilised now with a good source of imported stuff.
Many's the time when the locals used to stand in the pub yard while the local bobby did his check.Of course he did the decent thing and rang first.
My husband used to work for T.L Robinsons Brewery in Preston.Collecting bulk Guiness from the Docks and delivering the bottled stuff all around the Manchester area to Chesters houses.Now that was fighting beer.I used to go with him as far afield as Glossop.Great stuff.
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| Lady Griffin | Good news about Boddingtons Noel.Maybe I'll be able to get those free pints yet.
When we first arrived in Godzone the pubs closed at 6pm after a period called the six o'clock swill when the men would rush in from work and the beer was all ready poured for "the drink all you can in an hour session."
There was a choice of beer -Lion or DB mainly .It's much more civilised now with a good source of imported stuff.
Many's the time when the locals used to stand in the pub yard while the local bobby did his check.Of course he did the decent thing and rang first.
My husband used to work for T.L Robinsons Brewery in Preston.Collecting bulk Guiness from the Docks and delivering the bottled stuff all around the Manchester area to Chesters houses.Now that was fighting beer.I used to go with him as far afield as Glossop.Great stuff.
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| rocketmanjohn | Believe it or not, I can get Boddingtons at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Most Friday nights will find me propping up the bar. There was a delivery problem last month, so I contacted the brewery via E-Mail. Now back on tap. Saved again.
John
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| Lady Griffin | Boddingtons is available here in cans but it does cost the earth.After all it does have to travel a long way from Strangeways.For all that it has that not to be forgotten moment when you open the can. The creamy froth bubbles up into a vision of delight tempting the taste buds.Am drinking one right now.
Cheers.
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| Lady Griffin | By the way Noel that tannery which was behind my Grandfathers house on Farington(Croston)Rd is evidently Lonsdale Close now.It probably smells a lot nicer these days.
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| noel | quote:
Boddingtons is available here in cans but it does cost the earth.After all it does have to travel a long way from Strangeways.For all that it has that not to be forgotten moment when you open the can. The creamy froth bubbles up into a vision of delight tempting the taste buds.Am drinking one right now.
Cheers.
Crikey Lady G you could do a great TV advert.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Crikey Lady G you could do a great TV advert.
Couldn't she just!! I almost wanted a can and I don't like beer!!
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| Lady Griffin | Comes of watching the box too much!
Have just been on a day trip to Lion Breweries with other 'seniors.'
There are one or two smaller brewers but Lion and DB have a monopoly.
It was amazing looking round the brewing and canning/bottling plant.This place used to employ a huge workforce.
Now one man appeared to be on hand in case there was a glitch.So mechanised.
No wonder there is a yearning in UK to cherish real ale.
They did give us free samples though so can't be churlish.
Was amazed on looking at Web Sites to see how many brews there are.
Saw that Senegal won again.However good luck from the land of the oval ball.I don't want to see Becks cry again.
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| noel | quote:
Comes of watching the box too much!
Now you're supposed to wipe the creamy froth off your mouth and say "by eck you look gaaaargeous tonight petal"
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Now you're supposed to wipe the creamy froth off your mouth and say "by eck you look gaaaargeous tonight petal"
LOL!!! Loved those adverts!
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