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

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JackyB Thu 20-Apr-17 22:26:56

grin Who's going to pick me up off the floor? I'm having hysterics here.

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Luckygirl Thu 20-Apr-17 22:03:27

Funny you should say this phoenix - the first school I went to was a CofE school run by nuns. It was all girls, except in the kindergarten, where there were also boys. The nuns used to advertise the school in the local paper as "School for girls with small boys part."

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Katek Thu 20-Apr-17 21:46:05

Was that a Higgs Boson Phoenix? grin

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phoenix Thu 20-Apr-17 19:57:58

Damn auto thingy!

I sent an email today to a student coming from Italy, when I looked at it later, it had changed to "if you are coming in to stagnate.." heaven knows what he must have thought until I re sent it in the correct version "If you are coming in to Stansted"

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merlotgran Thu 20-Apr-17 19:51:53

Bison??

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Ana Thu 20-Apr-17 19:50:48

If they all had Volvos, what were they doing on a train? grin

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Ana Thu 20-Apr-17 19:49:43

Don't worry Phoenix, I missed the 'l' out of public on another thread not long ago...blush

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merlotgran Thu 20-Apr-17 19:48:11

Surely they would have been Volvos?

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phoenix Thu 20-Apr-17 19:47:21

Oh no, not the dreaded bosons again! confusedblush

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Ana Thu 20-Apr-17 19:45:14

But neither he nor the reporter could possibly have examined all 3,000 women to see whether they had vulvas, surely?

(And aren't bosons something to do with ships...?)

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phoenix Thu 20-Apr-17 19:40:48

Perhaps they were, merlot they might have had beards, which could qualify them as "manly", but if they had bosons and vulvas as well, then I suppose they would be "mainly" women confused

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merlotgran Thu 20-Apr-17 19:27:04

I had to look twice. I thought you said 3,000 manly women.

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Galen Thu 20-Apr-17 19:22:31

No!

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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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