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15 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Four for me - on a regular basis.

 

Zero per the "never" - I've done all 20.

 

Perhaps those of you who baulk at "Blockbuster" can substitute "corner video rental". I still have a Blockbuster card somewhere. There is still a Blockbuster Video extant. It is here in Oregon but about three hours drive from here.

 

Or asked at the aforesaid "corner video shops" if they had any "other videos" under the counter.....

Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl

Best Of My Love - The Eagles

Do It Again - Steely Dan

2 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I can just imagine the posh totty skipping up the stairs in miniskirt and high heels.

Hmm, I bet that image is in a few minds now😏

The Musical Box - Genesis

....so, have we run out of whacky signs ( he says breaking the rule he was taught at school not to start a sentence with a preposition)

Gandalf walks into a shop in Rivendell and asks the assistant "Do I get any money off for having a big stick".

Assistant replies, "sorry we don't offer staff discounts, and by the way it's elf service"

Down Down - Status Quo

23 hours ago, 62613 said:

Sign wasn't made by Boeing, was it?

Thoughts are with the two astronauts due to go up in Boeings Starliner.  The first attempt by Boeing to send an uncrewed Starliner to the space station in 2019 failed due to dozens of software and engineering glitches. A second attempt in 2022 succeeded but still had glitches to sort out.

Wouldn't be me!

On 23/04/2024 at 11:46, Steamport Southport said:

St George's Day today, also William Shakespeare's birthday and death day.

 

It's a good job he did write all that stuff rather than Francis Bacon as some suggest, as all those fine actors would have ended up working for the Royal Bacon Company.

Franz Schultz claims he wrote all of Shakespeare's works. Schultz also claims that his wife and him wrote the sonnets*

*Monty Python, "Stake your Claim Sketch"

19 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

True story,  Foreman tells the apprentice  to go to the shop and get him 20 Woodbine.  Apprentice says, what will I get if they don't have Woodbine?  Foreman tells him to just get anything...

Apprentice came back with two pies!

On a Storyteller's Night- Magnum

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

There were fake towns earlier in the war, near to towns that had already been bombed, with patterns of fire to represent still burning buildings, to attract subsequent raids away from the real thing.

 

Near Glasgow they were known as Starfish Sites, trenches laid out to look like a town. These were filled with petrol and set alight when a raid was due to try and fool the German pilots.  Sadly they were ineffective as the bombers used the reflection of the moonlight off the Clyde as their navigation aid.  There was one on the moors behind Eaglesham and some decaying infrastructure remains.  More info here 

https://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/StarfishDecoy

After Forever - Black Sabbath