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It's amazing what you can blame World War II for:
"[Name} is not in today... Due to a 2nd world war bomb near the track, he is unable to get get in."
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posted by BetaRish @ 1:01 pm
Exercises in the higher banter with One of 26. Elsewhere called 'poet of adland'. By a whipple-squeezer. Find out why being beta is the new alpha: betarish at googlemail dot com
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I know this was genuine - the posters at Farringdon flagged it up.
I've used that excuse (genuinely) in the past too! Train left Cirencester en route to Bath; just before the Box tunnel we came to a halt as a farmer had found an unexploded device in his field as he ploughed it. Turned out to be a discarded hand grenade...
Oh, I know it was real. I'd like to know whether similar things operate in other countries, due to other conflicts:
"Sorry mein herr, but there was a snafu on the autobahn this morgen, due to a cavalcade of loose bayonets left over from the first Franco-Prussian war..."
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