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RE: Some silliness just for fun - Howard Wright - 04-03-2024
Hi
Seen on a van in the Glasgow area
‘Natural born drillers’
A hole cutting and boring company.
Cheers
Howard
RE: Some silliness just for fun - Nick Lettington - 04-03-2024
In Merideth Road, Ipswich, there is an undertaker called Butcher's, which I find a little disturbing.
RE: Some silliness just for fun - john williams - 04-03-2024
Diode, Welsh Poet
Seen on a driving School car in York in the 80s El Passo
RE: Some silliness just for fun - Chris Garner - 04-03-2024
In the East End of London in the '60s ( rough old area then! ) a very large scrap wagon with crane attached. Sign on the rear:
ABRACADABRA - I'M GOIN' TO REACH OUT AN' GRAB YA
In Birmingham, again in the '60s. Ford Cortina, registration number BOM 2A. Above it was a second number plate:
TA RA RA....
RE: Some silliness just for fun - Reckless Rat - 04-03-2024
Sink or swim
Emergency plumber
RE: Some silliness just for fun - David Stepney - 04-03-2024
When I was a student, One of my (more accessible) law books referenced the fictional solicitors Sue Grabbit and Runn.
RE: Some silliness just for fun - Lowespeed - 04-03-2024
There was a marquee hire firm in Droitwich, who's business name was "Good in tents"
RE: Some silliness just for fun - Robert Leigh - 04-03-2024
I think one of them was: I Slosh & E Dabsitt
RE: Some silliness just for fun - JohnD - 04-03-2024
The Bacchialdi Cafe is a favourite - tho not fictitious!!
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/aldi-praises-scots-cafe-behind-24075091
RE: Some silliness just for fun - Bluebird7 - 04-03-2024
Read a few books recently. How they built the Titanic, that was just riveting, but the book on how they built the Channel Tunnel was simply boring.
My favorite was the Dr Rev Spooners book on the maintenance of Oxfords and Cambridges favorite water transport, called the Care of Punts