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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 13:15:04 GMT
Reminds me of an old newspaper report about a jailbreak or similar where "a trusty was shot in the excitement" Or the even better headline from an American paper about rape in a laundry ... 'Nut Screws Washers and Bolts' I'm pretty sure this one is apocryphal . |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 24, 2024 13:16:14 GMT
Sounds not unlike...
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 13:43:24 GMT
If that doesn't make you chuckle you are probably dead.  |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 24, 2024 16:55:42 GMT
Or the even better headline from an American paper about rape in a laundry ... 'Nut Screws Washers and Bolts' I'm pretty sure this one is apocryphal . As apocryphal as the purported headline on a story about a former Labour Party leader chosen to chair a group looking into disarmament, said to have been in The Times in the mid 1980s but untraced in print. ("Foot heads arms body") |
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Post by swanarcadian on Sept 24, 2024 17:25:06 GMT
I'm pretty sure this one is apocryphal . As apocryphal as the purported headline on a story about a former Labour Party leader chosen to chair a group looking into disarmament, said to have been in The Times in the mid 1980s but untraced in print. ("Foot heads arms body") Hopefully that will appear in the British Newspaper Archive some day. |
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 24, 2024 17:28:20 GMT
“excuse me, is this great headlines of our times?”
“no mate, this is defections, you wan’t down the corrodor”
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Post by cathyc on Sept 24, 2024 18:55:28 GMT
Reminds me of an old newspaper report about a jailbreak or similar where "a trusty was shot in the excitement" Or the even better headline from an American paper about rape in a laundry ... 'Nut Screws Washers and Bolts' Wasn't there a "Allies Push Bottles Up Germans"? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 24, 2024 19:08:17 GMT
Or the even better headline from an American paper about rape in a laundry ... 'Nut Screws Washers and Bolts' Wasn't there a "Allies Push Bottles Up Germans"? Usually quoted as "8th Army Push Bottles up Germans" but apocryphal. Likewise "MacArthur Flies Back to Front". But "Dr Fuchs Off to South Ice" is apparently genuine. |
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Post by islington on Sept 24, 2024 19:22:45 GMT
Wasn't there a "Allies Push Bottles Up Germans"? Usually quoted as "8th Army Push Bottles up Germans" but apocryphal. Likewise "MacArthur Flies Back to Front". But "Dr Fuchs Off to South Ice" is apparently genuine. As I believe is "Shell found on beach". |
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Post by iang on Sept 24, 2024 19:39:42 GMT
I remember a Private Eye Colemanballs reading "Three battered in fish shop" (of an assault)
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 19:50:46 GMT
I remember a Private Eye Colemanballs reading "Three battered in fish shop" (of an assault) "Lost sheep found in Cardigan" |
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 19:54:59 GMT
Wasn't there a "Allies Push Bottles Up Germans"? Usually quoted as "8th Army Push Bottles up Germans" but apocryphal. Likewise "MacArthur Flies Back to Front". But "Dr Fuchs Off to South Ice" is apparently genuine.Not quite - but the truth if anything is even funnier
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 19:57:42 GMT
Usually quoted as "8th Army Push Bottles up Germans" but apocryphal. Likewise "MacArthur Flies Back to Front". But "Dr Fuchs Off to South Ice" is apparently genuine. As I believe is "Shell found on beach". Stand up and take a bow, the Coventry Evening Telegraph of Monday 27th June, 1955.
And the Daily Herald of Wednesday 10th April 1935 went seven better with "Eight Shells Found on Beach".
The Hull Daily Mail of the 26th of July 1966 contributed "More Shells found on Beach Near Atwick"
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Post by uthacalthing on Sept 24, 2024 20:02:37 GMT
Coventry is 2 hrs drive from the nearest beach at Burnham on Sea
Local news my absolute actual arse
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 20:05:06 GMT
Coventry is 2 hrs drive from the nearest beach at Burnham on Sea Local news my absolute actual arse The shell in question was found at Croy in Ayrshire.
The sub editors must have been on something that day in Coventry as the paragraph below is headed "Cannon Ball in Wall".
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Post by uthacalthing on Sept 24, 2024 20:14:19 GMT
Croy in Ayrshire is fake Croy.
Croy in North Lanarkshire is the real McCroy, a Fenian stronghold that leveraged a Gloop of public money to replace the legendary Croy Miners Welfare Club which promptly went into receivership, and nobody knows where the money went.
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 24, 2024 20:17:37 GMT
Croy in Ayrshire is fake Croy. Croy in North Lanarkshire is real Croy, a Fenian stronghold that leveraged a Gloop of public money to replace the legendary Croy Miners Welfare Club which promptly went into receivership, and nobody knows where the money went. I think we can make an educated guess.
You'd have thought the Coventry Evening Telegraph would have consulted the office atlas but i suspect a lunchtime visit to the pub.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 24, 2024 23:43:54 GMT
Coventry is 2 hrs drive from the nearest beach at Burnham on Sea Local news my absolute actual arse The accents heard on the Esplanade during the summer are the leading cause of bleeding ears among locals at Love Lane doctors' surgery. |
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Post by Sandy on Sept 25, 2024 7:59:54 GMT
Croy in Ayrshire is fake Croy. Croy in North Lanarkshire is the real McCroy, a Fenian stronghold that leveraged a Gloop of public money to replace the legendary Croy Miners Welfare Club which promptly went into receivership, and nobody knows where the money went. Here was me thinking Croy in Inverness was the only one :/ |
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 25, 2024 8:50:12 GMT
incroyable
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