Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s

From	Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com>
Newsgroups	uk.radio.amateur, uk.net.news.management, uk.local.devon
Subject	Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s
Date	2019-06-17 13:05 +0000
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Roger Hayter <roger@hayter.org> wrote:
> Jeff <jeff@ukra.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> He has no concept whatsoever of the state >of bombed-out cities, tight
>>>>> rationing
>>>> 
>>>> Didn't those GIs keep your mum stocked up with tights, Burt, in exchange
>>>> for "companionship"?
>>> 
>>> Tight rationing is fake news;  they hadn't been invented.
>>> 
>> 
>> What about the ballet, Robin Hood, and panto??
>> 
>> Jeff
> 
> Obviously tights had been invented, but English women did not wander the
> streets in them.   What the Americans call pantyhose, hadn't.  

Pedantry aside, what we can all agree on is that Mamma Burt regularly put
out for the GIs from the local base. It’s why Burt is so spectacularly
prejudiced against Americans; a platoon knocked his mum up and left her
holding the Baby Burt. 

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M0TEY // STC
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Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-17 13:05 +0000
  Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> - 2019-06-17 19:40 +0100
    Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-18 05:07 +0000
    Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-18 10:58 +0000

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