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Old 13-11-2007, 22:27   #24
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Re: Famous Names In Your Family

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Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f View Post
That's a good one -- I remember another true story which happened to a local.
When stopped for a motoring offence and asked for his name etc, he replied ---

"Emeric Eccles, pharmacutical chemist of Oswaldtwistle"

The policeman sighed and put away his notebook.
Lol.

That may have been when he crashed into my Dad's new sports car, which he did in 1962.
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