Woody.v8
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Woody.v8
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What size is it, Pz 23?
jack-daniels
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I've got one of those, here it is next to my 3 x D cell torch! (No mug handy).
Parm
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I feel left out now
addjunkie
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Why because you dont have Penny Mourdant fantasies, or a big tool!
Farside
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I don't want to see the massive screw.
Other Daniel
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I harbour fantasies about Liz Truss. 
jack-daniels
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Found my massive Snap On Mug too (45 gallon). 
Onoff
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Other Daniel
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What about old Seaweed then?
Who ?
redlig
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Talking of mugs who paid how much ?
redlig
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There is more than one type of fantasyI harbour fantasies about Liz Truss.
arther dailey
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£250 was mentioned
graffian
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Curtains need a clean?
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When I were a lad in the mid Seventies, before I got my apprenticeship, I had a couple of fill in jobs, one of which was in a factory. I'm sure a lot of you will have been sent off to get the Long Stand, Tartan paint, Box of assorted clearances, Metric adjustable spanners, etc.
A new school leaver was sent round to the assembly shop (exclusively wimmin then) to see Doris (cant remember her name) to ask for a pair of greased nuts.
He got them. Luckily I had avoided this, by being forewarned by my friends sister who worked there. Anyway, poor guy was, apart from being greasy, vey embarrassed, but he got over it.
Nowadays this would be serious abuse and would probably end in sackings and a court case.
A new school leaver was sent round to the assembly shop (exclusively wimmin then) to see Doris (cant remember her name) to ask for a pair of greased nuts.
He got them. Luckily I had avoided this, by being forewarned by my friends sister who worked there. Anyway, poor guy was, apart from being greasy, vey embarrassed, but he got over it.
Nowadays this would be serious abuse and would probably end in sackings and a court case.
Onoff
In the land of the unfinished project I am King!
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Doris got the sack then!
Smallfry
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In the late Sixties, up the road at the Post Office on the wall outside was a Wrigleys chewing gum machine. It would randomly dispense either Spearmint (white) Doublemint (green) or Juicyfruit (yellow) packets. You had to put a pre decimal 1/2d in to get I packet.
Along came decimalisation, and it now became 2 New Pence. Four times the price overnight. My friend Jason had compared the coin size, and he had a large jar of old 1/2d coins, so one evening we went to the machine and found it worked ! So we completely emptied the machine and ran off happily with our loot. We had 126 packets of gum. How my jaw ached !
Two days later though, his Mum found the bag in his bedroom, and his Dad marched him back to the shop to give them back !
Along came decimalisation, and it now became 2 New Pence. Four times the price overnight. My friend Jason had compared the coin size, and he had a large jar of old 1/2d coins, so one evening we went to the machine and found it worked ! So we completely emptied the machine and ran off happily with our loot. We had 126 packets of gum. How my jaw ached !
Two days later though, his Mum found the bag in his bedroom, and his Dad marched him back to the shop to give them back !
Arc Tourist
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When I was in Junior High School (grade 7), the teacher in my metal shop class made a button collet for the lathe, so the students could machine off half the thickness of a Penny. Two headed or two tailed coins could then be made by soldering the pieces together. Looking back in retrospect, Mr. Smith could have been in big legal trouble for the defacing of coins; as kids, we didn't know any better.
James1979
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We made a magic trick in metal work. Teacher had done the same as yours.
I can’t remember how it worked but it was a pound coin machined to take a penny on one face.
I think it was something to do with an appearing/ disappearing penny.
That was 30 years ago, thinking about it!
