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Now, this might just be me......

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phoenix Thu 20-Apr-17 18:52:39

And if it is, feel free to say so (as if you wouldn't!)

I think that we have all seen the badly worded or spelled small ads, for example "chest of draws" or even "Black boys duffle coat" shock

But this was in an article in this week's North Devon Journal, under the heading "Photo ban handed to train traveller" :

"A court imposed the unusual ban after Edwin White took 3,000 photographs of mainly women on his mobile phone while on train journeys over a 10 month period"

Mainly women? What, they weren't entirely women? Just sort of partly women? Which parts?

OK, it's just me, isn't it.......blush

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Katek Mon 01-May-17 21:45:34

Posted this on another thread but thought you lot might like it. Choral performance at cathedral
this weekend advertised as Tedious Laudanam.......

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Leonora47 Tue 06-Jun-17 00:07:45

Thank God I have stumbled across this forum. I have just given up on AIBU?,where some rather nasty bickering has broken out; and how I rejoiced to find Which Tyler, and China bisons, or were they basins?
I shall return.

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Christinefrance Tue 06-Jun-17 08:23:33

Love that Katek , made me chuckle

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Auntieflo Tue 06-Jun-17 08:49:52

Like Leonora, I found this resurected thread this morning, and it has cheered me up. I almost fear to read Gransnet these days, as there has been a lot of nastiness recently. More please.

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Daisyanswerdo Tue 06-Jun-17 14:03:26

Didn't Churchill exclaim, at hearing somebody's name: "Bossom! Bossom? That's neither one thing nor the other!"

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AlexG Sat 17-Jun-17 09:26:35

This has really made me laugh. Thank you all for a cheerful moment

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sunseeker Sat 17-Jun-17 15:07:31

Never thought of myself as a pedant but the broadcaster on my local radio who reports on the traffic sends me demented when he insists on saying that roads are "slippy"!!!!!

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MontanaGal Sun 18-Jun-17 03:04:36

Today, in the Daily Mail Online, Princess Beatrice was described as being the seventh in line to the thrown.Journalist should re-read their copy before posting.
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Lillie Sun 18-Jun-17 07:09:49

"Daisy*, Churchill also said in French "'When I look at my bottom, I see it is divided into two parts," because he used the word derriere to mean his past/behind! (Quand je regarde mon derriere, je vois qu'il est divise en deux parties.)

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Cornishgirl777 Sun 18-Jun-17 13:33:42

"Cornwall's Queen's Birthday Honourees". This was a headline in the local paper yesterday. I'm all for careful grammar,but this struck me as clunky grammar!

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Crafting Sun 18-Jun-17 14:46:13

lillie grin. The British do love their 'bottom' jokes.

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Marydoll Sun 18-Jun-17 14:58:14

I love this "corner" of Gransnet. Gentle, humorous and nastiness free. smile

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Wheniwasyourage Sun 18-Jun-17 21:40:18

sunseeker, that was one which got my late DM fizzing!

In a local shop window:

FLAT TO LET
2 BEDROOMS
UNFURNISHED PHONE
01xxx xxx xxx

I suppose a furnished phone would have little curtains over the numbers for when it was asleep, and perhaps a little bed and a chair. Poor unfurnished one though. I can't help wondering if it gets cold in the winter...

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Chewbacca Sun 18-Jun-17 22:29:16

In our nearest town is a well known dry cleaners. They recently had, what looked like, a professionally done poster in the window. It read: "Clothes altered, zips replaced, trowsers shortened".

I had to cross the street whenever I passed the shop; it irritated me so much. And it was there for weeks!

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