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Dh just unearthed this - I thought it might amuse some of you!

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Witzend Mon 08-Aug-22 12:38:16

He’s going through a mass of old photos. It was taken decades ago, when we lived in Oman and passed the shop so many times on our way to the beach.

Eventually I remembered to take a photo of it and send it to Private Eye, for their ‘I-Spy’ spot, and they used it.

More than one fellow Brit later told me that they’d seen it in Private Eye and had often meant to do the same.

Yoginimeisje Fri 19-Aug-22 09:01:15

When we lived in Africa, my H & I got a new job in Victoria Falls, we went to meet the Directors and was told we would first have to travel to Wankie to get some documentation. We couldn't stop laughing and the director couldn't understand what was so funny.

When we lived in South Africa the Afrikaners had some very rude surnames!

Last year there was someone complaining about seeing a van with Keep a safe distance, blind man driving It was of course a blinds company.

Notthecatsmother Fri 12-Aug-22 22:52:03

We found these on holiday in Austria

NannieDeb Fri 12-Aug-22 19:20:06

We saw this in Cyprus 3 years ago

GrandmasueUK Fri 12-Aug-22 15:04:29

grin

MissAdventure Fri 12-Aug-22 13:59:08

I can only eat light meals in this heat.

MissAdventure Fri 12-Aug-22 13:58:06

grin

GrandmasueUK Fri 12-Aug-22 13:53:18

Debated on whether or not to get this. In the end I didn’t ?

Aveline Fri 12-Aug-22 12:00:42

?

Pittcity Fri 12-Aug-22 11:32:56

I love this one...

Witzend Fri 12-Aug-22 10:49:09

MissAdventure

I think I know what flavour the BumBums are...

??

Tizliz Fri 12-Aug-22 09:51:08

saw this on Facebook

Aveline Wed 10-Aug-22 21:41:48

???

MissAdventure Wed 10-Aug-22 20:51:31

I think I know what flavour the BumBums are...

4allweknow Wed 10-Aug-22 19:53:18

Great bit of fun.

Witzend Wed 10-Aug-22 19:40:26

I shall tell my Gds (6) later that you can get BumBum ice cream in Germany. He will be highly amused I’m sure!

Pity he can read well enough now that it won’t be any use telling him that the vanilla ice cream in the freezer is BumBum, wot a shame.

MickyD Wed 10-Aug-22 19:33:03

So funny all of them!
I once bought a pack of sausages that said ‘Thick Irish Sausages’.
Also on another pack it said ‘field bred sausages’, I didn’t know you could breed sausages ?

Witzend Wed 10-Aug-22 18:21:27

GrandmasueUK

I enjoyed this sign on the door to a book barn.

Ha, that reminded me of a sign outside a small shop somewhere,
‘Unaccompanied Children Will Be Sold As Slaves.’ ?

Milest0ne Wed 10-Aug-22 18:18:46

A bakers I pass often has painted on the window. "Crafstmen baked on the premises". I always wonder if they are tasty

MissAdventure Wed 10-Aug-22 17:44:53

Or, alternatively...
How about this for dessert?

MissAdventure Wed 10-Aug-22 17:30:34

grin

Aveline Wed 10-Aug-22 17:17:59

Yum. Ideal meal for me 'Soup for Sluts' and a nice 'Bumbum' for pudding.

Lindy56 Wed 10-Aug-22 17:12:43

Enjoyed these?

MissAdventure Wed 10-Aug-22 16:33:37

Soup, anyone?

Esspee Wed 10-Aug-22 16:31:28

In Trinidad our pediatrician was called Dr Bratt.

missdeke Wed 10-Aug-22 16:30:31

on a holiday in Sweden I sent my son to buy a pack of toilet rolls from the local shop. He duly came back with a pack of 2 called Dubbelbums.