Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#1
At Tesco's. So I hear. Aldi was packed just now and the town is busier than usual.
Mind you yesterday a Comet employee was worried that I might have planted a bomb there, disguised as a CD cassette player. Incredibly it was actually a CD cassette player, which I had left on the then-unmanned customer service counter for two minutes while I nipped off to look at new ones. Good job we're not all totally paranoid in our loveable multicultural society!
Maybe's the Tesco furore was all about a stack of pomegranates which someone thought might be going for 80 virgins in the afterlife.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
"Maybe's the Tesco furore was all about a stack of pomegranates which someone thought might be going for 80 virgins in the afterlife"
Ironically the image of the pomegranate was adopted by the early Christian church as a symbol of eternal life and the resurrection so you could be on to something there. The pomegranate tree was seen as synonymous with the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, probably something to do with its hundreds of life-bearing seeds.
(I don't what I've just written has to do with the price of fish, it's frightening what useless stuff one picks up over the years.)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
There was an outcry on the news this week when somewhere in the world some artist left some carrots with wires in them and they were reported as bombs !
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#4
Well well. Many a true word etc. I originally wrote 'banana' but quickly realised that could be misinterpreted, given the context...
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
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#5
I passed about 5.15 p.m. and heard that some bright spark had scattered some kind of white powder down the aisles. There was an ambulance and police in attendance. They were taking no chances in case it was something sinister. That is why they were closed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
the lengths that s*********lds will go to, to gain more custom alec.
#7
I have a wide and roving vocabulary, Howard, which has been known to burn the wallpaper off at times of stress, but I haven't yet worked out your expletive. I will keep trying.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#8
It's not an expletive Bern, it's "Somerfields".
Roger
#9
That probably counts as an expletive! Not as bad as Tesco, obviously.................
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#10
Have you ever been in tescos when there fire alarm goes off?
they get public to leave building and they all stand outside main building
if it were a bad firee/bomb
the glass blowing up would kill many more
they should re think evacuation
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
that sounds par for the course at all businesses keith.
i remember back when those irish chaps were planting bombs all over london in the sixties and seventies, we all had to assemble about 3 feet from the building.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Ah yes Howard
I remember those days. All the curtains had weights in the bottom so that should a bomb go off the glass would be absorbed by the net curtains.Bomb drills were held monthly. Our assembly point was opposite Manchester Crown Court which just happened to be close to a very nice boozer called The Stanneylands..so you can imagine where I took the roll call for our floor..there were only 4 of us.....unfortunately it wasn't long afterwards that Manchester was devasted by an IRA bomb..
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)