Exercises in the higher banter with One of 26. Elsewhere called 'poet of adland'. By a whipple-squeezer.
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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..."
I know this was genuine - the posters at Farringdon flagged it up.
ReplyDeleteI'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:
ReplyDelete"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..."