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    captain clutterbuck reacted to Pearl's post in the thread Clocks with Haha Haha.
    When I was a kid the neighbours had one on the landing adjacent to our landing wall flaming thing was going off 24/7 you'd hear it all through the night, I think that's why I hate clocks especially ticking, chiming or cuckoo clocks. My...
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to maltrab's post in the thread Software Woes with Sad Sad.
    More and more I am getting pop ups from software I bought and paid for trying to sell me something extra, or offer me money to refer their product to a friend etc, one offered me a free month of Adobe cloud to refer a friend, you can...
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to Adanor's post in the thread What would you pay with Wow Wow.
    Well, here across the Pond, it's really hard to image eating baked beans for breakfast. BUT when I was growing up, there was hot dogs, baked beans, and (yes, warm) applesauce. That was lunch, every Saturday -- for years.
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    captain clutterbuck replied to the thread Clocks.
    You don't see them much now but Cuckoo Clocks were really popular at one time , would I have one - no . I'm in the Harold K Steptoe camp , remember Come Dancing episode where he initially nails the cuckoo's door shut and then after the...
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    I spent a toe tapping Saturday afternoon at the brilliant Blues Bar in Harrogate a couple of Saturday's ago lots of brilliant tracks played , a few jivers and lindy hoppers from a local dance group were in attendance offering a great...
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    captain clutterbuck replied to the thread Conkers.
    Just back from Malaga and their edible cousins are being roasted on every corner really popular with the Spanish . There is a myth that conkers if kept in the house they would repel flies and spiders but sadly there is no evidence that...
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to ferret's post in the thread Conkers with Like Like.
    We attached our sticks to a rope if we had a good one so we wouldn’t lose it :)
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to Pearl's post in the thread Hello - New member here! with Haha Haha.
    You lost your map didn't you?
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    captain clutterbuck replied to the thread Clocks.
    Working on Computer systems from the early eighties I dreaded the two clock changes it was an absolute mare with mainframe systems and all the programmes that ran on them , the impact now I imagine is negligible given what our phones...
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to Pearl's post in the thread Clocks with Winner Winner.
    I know most clocks do it automatically now but I never do the car clock so it's right half the year but isn't it time we stopped this nonsense now? It's not like the majority of us need to work in the fields when it's lighter.
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    captain clutterbuck replied to the thread What would you pay.
    No problem with beans here they are off. Bonus with this version the subtitles teach you to order your breakfast when next in Benidorm , other Spanish resorts are available.
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    I was an honest[ish] plunderer of treasure , scourge of the Spanish Main and Batley City Centre but that scoundrel Commander Willoughby was a total cad and bounder and deserved everything he got . Surreptitiously flogging copies of a...
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    Thanks Captain! BTW I can't believe Foggy paid that much for a map either! :) - T&R
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to Graham's post in the thread Possible ringtone with Like Like.
    Bargain, A new Ronnie Hazelhurst LOTSW CD on fleabay £10.
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    captain clutterbuck reacted to theatrically_inclined's post in the thread Compo's house with Winner Winner.
    You almost never see Nora and Compo in the same shot when she is talking to him at his bedroom window. Kathy Staff is looking in the general direction direction of the Café upstairs window, but Bill Owen is really looking out of the...
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