On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 at 00:40:56, Roy wood wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren
>Branagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>
>>That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago.
>>
>>Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the
>>newsreaders who was a little disgruntled. In one news story about a post
>>office robbery the newsreader read the autocue:-
>>
>>"and the postmistress was held at gunpoint by two men, each carrying sawn
>>off shitguns"
>Before I lived here in Brighton I had to come down for a series of
>shows in the Brighton Centre. We stayed in a hotel called 'The Old Ship
>Hotel'
>In the lobby was one of those board which have letters stuck into
>velvet slots so you can spell out various messages. On the day I was
>sitting in lobby I noticed it read 'The Old Ship Hotel welcomes....'. I
>casually wandered over and removed the 'p' from Ship and replaced it
>with the 't' from 'Hotel'. I then replaced that 't' with the 'l' and
>sat down. It took over an hour of visitors giggling and snorting before
>the receptionist noticed what I had done.
And that left a spare pee - but that is another story (8-)#
Heard of the silent P as in "swimming pool"?
Tony
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