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  • H hairy_hats

    Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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    Pete OHanlon
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    Curly Wurlys. More like Anty Wantys.

    Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

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    • H hairy_hats

      Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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      Dalek Dave
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      They all get smaller so that the price remains the same, but I like Big Biscuits. And it is not that my hands are getting bigger. Curly Wurlys used to be a foot long.

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      • H hairy_hats

        Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        I really miss the old fashioned little paper bag with a 1/4 of licorice torpedoes but no green ones thank-you very much as they give me wind but the red and blue ones are great.


        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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        • H hairy_hats

          Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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          Dalek Dave
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          Something else you don't see around these days, but which were common in my youth was the Spaz Chariot.[^]

          ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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            Something else you don't see around these days, but which were common in my youth was the Spaz Chariot.[^]

            ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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            Nagy Vilmos
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            Rubbish, you see them all the time in London[^].


            Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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              Rubbish, you see them all the time in London[^].


              Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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              :)

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              • N Nagy Vilmos

                I really miss the old fashioned little paper bag with a 1/4 of licorice torpedoes but no green ones thank-you very much as they give me wind but the red and blue ones are great.


                Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                Pete OHanlon
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                I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

                Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

                  Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                  "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                  My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                  Nagy Vilmos
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                  Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                  I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

                  Does. Not. Compute. :-D


                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                  • N Nagy Vilmos

                    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                    I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

                    Does. Not. Compute. :-D


                    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                    Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                    Does. Not. Compute.

                    Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                    Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                    My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                      Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                      Does. Not. Compute.

                      Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                      Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                      "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                      My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                      Nagy Vilmos
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                      You take sweets of that quality near your kids? Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me. :laugh:


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                      • N Nagy Vilmos

                        You take sweets of that quality near your kids? Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me. :laugh:


                        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                        Pete OHanlon
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                        Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                        Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me.

                        And the trips to the toilet caused by scoffing that much licorice has an 8 day half life.

                        Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                        "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                        My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                        • H hairy_hats

                          Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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                          viaducting wrote:

                          How Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days?

                          To me, being across the pond, after I read that I was hesitant to Google Penguin biscuits lest I set off the corporate site blocker. But curiosity prevailed, thank goodness, another awful image purged from my mind. :laugh:

                          It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                            viaducting wrote:

                            How Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days?

                            To me, being across the pond, after I read that I was hesitant to Google Penguin biscuits lest I set off the corporate site blocker. But curiosity prevailed, thank goodness, another awful image purged from my mind. :laugh:

                            It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                            Pete OHanlon
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                            The slogan of P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin could have taken a whole new meaning there.

                            Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                            "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                            My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                            • P Pete OHanlon

                              The slogan of P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin could have taken a whole new meaning there.

                              Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                              S Houghtelin
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                              :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That would explain the stutter.

                              It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                              • S S Houghtelin

                                viaducting wrote:

                                How Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days?

                                To me, being across the pond, after I read that I was hesitant to Google Penguin biscuits lest I set off the corporate site blocker. But curiosity prevailed, thank goodness, another awful image purged from my mind. :laugh:

                                It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                                hairy_hats
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                                S Houghtelin wrote:

                                viaducting wrote:

                                How Have

                                Darnit! :D

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                                • P Pete OHanlon

                                  Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                                  Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me.

                                  And the trips to the toilet caused by scoffing that much licorice has an 8 day half life.

                                  Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                                  "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                  My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                                  hairy_hats
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                                  Liquorice gives you a good run for your money.

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                                  • H hairy_hats

                                    S Houghtelin wrote:

                                    viaducting wrote:

                                    How Have

                                    Darnit! :D

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                                    S Houghtelin
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                                    You're probably like me, my brain is several words ahead of my typing. Without the red squigglies I'd end up looking like a bad typist. (Hunt and peck typist that I am.) :)

                                    It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                                    • H hairy_hats

                                      Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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                                      Gregory Gadow
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                                      I remember the day (granted, when I was five) when an apple required two hands to hold and half an hour to eat; now, they are small and can be finished in about 5 minutes. One of the reasons getting old sucks is that we still remember when the world seemed big and shiny and new.

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                                      • P Pete OHanlon

                                        Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                                        Does. Not. Compute.

                                        Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                                        Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                                        "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                        My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                                        Ben Breeg
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                                        Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                        Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                                        I can vouch for that. I never get to see any of the chocolate/sweets that enter out house. :sigh:

                                        Why can't I find a signature that I can stick with? Are they all gone?

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                                        • G Gregory Gadow

                                          I remember the day (granted, when I was five) when an apple required two hands to hold and half an hour to eat; now, they are small and can be finished in about 5 minutes. One of the reasons getting old sucks is that we still remember when the world seemed big and shiny and new.

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                                          Gregory.Gadow wrote:

                                          ne of the reasons getting old sucks is that we still remember when the world seemed big and shiny and new.

                                          And more pleasant.

                                          Why can't I find a signature that I can stick with? Are they all gone?

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