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Old Mar 30th 2012, 9:28 am
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
That's right. Thanks.
Maybe eighteen months at a pinch. Fashionably late, not that WW1 showing up at the last minute crap ...

(tongues, cheeks and all that, for those of you who aren't Sally and Eb and can't recognise a bit of a joke)

Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
Maybe their invitation got lost in the post. It happens to me all the time.
It was nice of Hirohito to at least try to drop it off for them, even if he did lose points for his methods
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Maybe eighteen months at a pinch. Fashionably late, not that WW1 showing up at the last minute crap ...

(tongues, cheeks and all that, for those of you who aren't Sally and Eb and can't recognise a bit of a joke)



It was nice of Hirohito to at least try to drop it off for them, even if he did lose points for his methods
Just like those bloody Nips to crash the party, eh?
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
Just like those bloody Nips to crash the party, eh?
Ironic, that because usually when nips appear, the party starts to get interesting ...
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Ironic, that because usually when nips appear, the party starts to get interesting ...

Isolationism usually stops anyway.
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Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Isolationism usually stops anyway.
This is true. Nips, for example, like to travel in pairs.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
Just like those bloody Nips to crash the party, eh?

I am now reliably informed that it was not a party.

Who knew, eh?
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Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
I am now reliably informed that it was not a party.

Who knew, eh?
I think your informant is in error - it was a bona fide bun fight, from what I've been told.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
I think your informant is in error - it was a bona fide bun fight, from what I've been told.

According to my father there were never enough buns in the desert. That was one thing he liked about the American troops, they had buns. Actually, more to the point, they had whisky.
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Wow racially charged, against "nips." I guess that is OK.

Are you advocating violence against Asians?????

That is so 1940's.
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Originally Posted by SATX John
Wow racially charged, against "nips." I guess that is OK.

Are you advocating violence against Asians?????

That is so 1940's.
Most of the time I was talking about nipples ...
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Most of the time I was talking about nipples ...

1940's nipples?
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Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
1940's nipples?
Yes, pointy ones.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Yes, pointy ones.
As opposed to?
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Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
As opposed to?
Blunt ones

I overreached myself.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
This is true. Nips, for example, like to travel in pairs.
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Just like those bloody Nips to crash the party, eh?
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Blunt ones

I overreached myself.
Back peddle much????
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