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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #108 on: Thursday 04 June 20 15:18 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Pennines on Wednesday 03 June 20 19:32 BST (UK)
Oh Roobarb, I am so mortified -- initially I assumed the battery had gone in my key fob -- but the key has the facility to extract a manual one from it and unlock the door via the lock.

I detached the manual key - only to discover that the car I was trying to open -- didn't have a lock! At that point I went to look at the number plate --- not my car!! Naturally I looked around to see if anyone was laughing uproariously at this event (after all we are all glad of a laugh at the moment!!)

No doubt it was caught on CCTV, as I was on a Supermarket car park. I can confirm that the car was the same colour as mine -- so that's my only excuse. (Apart from being a bit thick.)


That reminded me of an incident many years ago when I was about 9 or 10. I was out shopping with my parents. Dad had got bored with going round children clothes shops and said he would go back to the car and wait for Mum and me. We returned to the car some time later to find a strange woman with a very red face climbing out of the passenger seat of our car and Dad in fits of laughter. Two cars in front of ours was a car of exactly the same colour and model (black Ford Zodiac) with a very baffled looking man in the driving seat, presumably wondering why his wife had climbed into a stranger's car.   
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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #109 on: Thursday 04 June 20 15:53 BST (UK) »
Good afternoon,

Couldn't resist these,

https://wakeupyourmind.net/life/someone-took-horse/

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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #110 on: Thursday 04 June 20 16:56 BST (UK) »
Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #111 on: Thursday 04 June 20 17:23 BST (UK) »
Oh IgorStrav -- that was hilarious - such a brilliant commentary. Thank You.
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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #112 on: Thursday 04 June 20 19:37 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Pennines on Thursday 04 June 20 17:23 BST (UK)
Oh IgorStrav -- that was hilarious - such a brilliant commentary. Thank You.

"the stealth of a sofa....."  ;D :D :D :D :D :D
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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #113 on: Thursday 04 June 20 21:58 BST (UK) »
Quote from: IgorStrav on Thursday 04 June 20 19:37 BST (UK)
Quote from: Pennines on Thursday 04 June 20 17:23 BST (UK)
Oh IgorStrav -- that was hilarious - such a brilliant commentary. Thank You.

"the stealth of a sofa....."  ;D :D :D :D :D :D

 ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #114 on: Friday 05 June 20 07:08 BST (UK) »
Now getting to see the grandchildren , and it would seem they are learning to tell jokes.......

What did the mummy Dalek say to her son ?
"What do you mean you want to be a Doctor ?"


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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #115 on: Friday 05 June 20 11:51 BST (UK) »

Andrew Cotter has made several of these little films, well worth searching out. 😄
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Re: The funny side of lockdown
« Reply #116 on: Friday 05 June 20 17:11 BST (UK) »
Good afternoon,

Back with a couple more,

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