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Old 13-11-2007, 16:12   #16
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Hmmm . . . do Adam and Eve count? LOL Oh, someone a bit more recent . . . okay, how 'bout Noah and his loverly wife?

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Hmmm . . . do Adam and Eve count? LOL Oh, someone a bit more recent . . . okay, how 'bout Noah and his loverly wife?

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Strange that, I have them in my family tree. We must be long lost cousins
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Old 13-11-2007, 23:03   #19
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Not a personal one, this, but I used to work with a chap named Bond. His dad was called James Bond and his dad's sister (married name) was Elizabeth Taylor. They witnessed a car accident and had to give their names to the police who almost arrested them for wasting police time.
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Not a personal one, this, but I used to work with a chap named Bond. His dad was called James Bond and his dad's sister (married name) was Elizabeth Taylor. They witnessed a car accident and had to give their names to the police who almost arrested them for wasting police time.
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.
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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.
Am I being a bit slow? I don't get that one, Margaret.
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Am I being a bit slow? I don't get that one, Margaret.
The policeman couldn't spell - it was a long time ago (when I was a child in Ossy, and it 'went the rounds')
Mr Eccles is now deceased and perhaps policemen are better at spelling nowadays
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Am I being a bit slow? I don't get that one, Margaret.
the dummy probably couldn,t spell that gobfull lily.oops ya beat me margaret lol
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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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Lol.

That may have been when he crashed into my Dad's new sports car, which he did in 1962.
It was earlier than that -- he had glasses like pint glass bottoms and got stopped fairly often. I don't think he would pass a test by todays rules
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I remember Emeric Eccles. My dad knew him well and it wasn't until I heard him, one day, refer to "Emeric" that I realised what his real name was. Up to the age of 10, I though he was called Emery Kettles.
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