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31-08-2012, 22:28
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Resting In Peace
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by garinda
I've only been to Bacup once.
I felt a little uneasy.
I think it was brought on by being relatively close to both Mad-chester, and Yorkshireville at the same time.
I left before the cast of The League of Gentlemen started dancing down the streets, clutching their hairy nuts.
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Ha ha I've only been once too, only recently, to see the nutters. But they came to Accy, when I was at the High School, to dance for us there, have no idea why! Seen them all over the place since then but not on their home turf till recently.
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31-08-2012, 22:30
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by garinda
If I'm asked to dress tripe it will be in haute couture, with beautifully tiny pin-truck detailing.
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Indeed!
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31-08-2012, 22:31
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley
It is definitely a Christmas present type book. A friend told me she was buying one for a mate of hers who hated local history books, just so she could see his face when he opened it. I wish I knew what she meant.
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My nutter really is a nutter.
The book will have to go through quite a few security checks, before it gets through to their secured ward.
You have to post really early, like next week, to ensure they get things for Christmas.
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31-08-2012, 22:38
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by susie123
Ha ha I've only been once too, only recently, to see the nutters. But they came to Accy, when I was at the High School, to dance for us there, have no idea why! Seen them all over the place since then but not on their home turf till recently.
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They do say once you've gone black, there's no going back.
I don't know where though.
Perhaps it's Ramsbottom?
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31-08-2012, 22:44
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Coffin Dodger.
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Re: The Men In White
Have enjoyed this thread immensely, me dad always used to send me fer "Fatty Tripe Off Seam" when i was a nipper. was never my bag at all, but he loved it.
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31-08-2012, 22:59
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Re: The Men In White
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Oh that is bad.
I think I'll move to Texas, become a lesbian, and get heavily into sci-fi.
My only excuse is that I'm one finger typing, with my non-dominant hand, whilst laid on my side on a sofa, in a darkened room.
Ok, I'll get my passport.
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31-08-2012, 23:10
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Re: The Men In White
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I should have just bluffed my way out of that, and said pin-trucking was a now little used industry term for using small rivets, to fashion a frock.
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01-09-2012, 06:23
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Re: The Men In White
Of course, there's a long tradition of making dresses out of tripe in the north west, garinda.
During the war when fabrics were scarce, women would make clothes from tripe
and throughout Lancashire there arose large numbers of tripe dressers (often
back-room businesses) who dressed women in the finest garments made of
tripe.
Probably the first to dress in this way was Lady Ha Ha, wife of the notorious
traitor Lord Ha Ha, who caused a sensation when she wore a magnificent
off the shoulder white dress made from the finest Lancashire tripe at the opening
ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
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01-09-2012, 07:04
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Re: The Men In White
Congratulations Derek and also to Bill as well.
I see that Bill happens to own the Tripe marketing boards website here,
TripeMarketingBoard.co.uk - Tripe Marketing Board
As well as promoting it on his blog
Very clever viral marketing campaign.
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01-09-2012, 07:45
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley
Of course, there's a long tradition of making dresses out of tripe in the north west, garinda.
During the war when fabrics were scarce, women would make clothes from tripe
and throughout Lancashire there arose large numbers of tripe dressers (often
back-room businesses) who dressed women in the finest garments made of
tripe.
Probably the first to dress in this way was Lady Ha Ha, wife of the notorious
traitor Lord Ha Ha, who caused a sensation when she wore a magnificent
off the shoulder white dress made from the finest Lancashire tripe at the opening
ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
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I tried to coax Lady Gaga into wearing a tripe frock, at the MTV awards the other year.
The mad cow wouldn't, and ended up looking really offal.
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01-09-2012, 07:50
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley
Of course, there's a long tradition of making dresses out of tripe in the north west, garinda.
During the war when fabrics were scarce, women would make clothes from tripe
and throughout Lancashire there arose large numbers of tripe dressers (often
back-room businesses) who dressed women in the finest garments made of
tripe.
Probably the first to dress in this way was Lady Ha Ha, wife of the notorious
traitor Lord Ha Ha, who caused a sensation when she wore a magnificent
off the shoulder white dress made from the finest Lancashire tripe at the opening
ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
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You're as daft as me.
I might like your book after all.
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01-09-2012, 08:07
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
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'Those doughty folk at The Tripe Marketing Board managed to wheedle their way in to the City Diary on the Times, yesterday...'
Bill Blunt
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01-09-2012, 08:09
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
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According to my own research, Boeing Guy, that Bill Blunt chap has been in the pay of the Tripe Marketing Board for at least 5 years...
Anyway, I imagine that there are plenty of industries out there who would kill to have a supposedly imaginary marketing board that could double sales of their product in a single week!
I just wish they'd spend a fraction of their budget on plugging my book.
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01-09-2012, 08:13
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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by garinda
I tried to coax Lady Gaga into wearing a tripe frock, at the MTV awards the other year.
The mad cow wouldn't, and ended up looking really offal.
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Lady Gaga as a poster girl for tripe? That would be fantastic!
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