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Offline derby girl

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Re: A boy named Jack
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 17 October 09 22:59 BST (UK) »
And the other thing about Jack is it is (or was) a sort of generic name for anyone you don't know - if my pa passed someone he would say something like "evening Jack" and I'd say - oh you know him - and he'd say - no.  I always found it puzzling. 
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Re: A boy named Jack
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 17 October 09 23:04 BST (UK) »
Please do that to me on the bus (elderly ones).

"Town please John!"

Cant speak to a driver like that!  :D
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
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