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Lesley.........quite easy really, coming down hill into Royston (maybe Barkway Road...might have been A10....can't remember), driving 16 tons of armoured truck, skidding on icy roads............Lol
Reply #861. Jul 12 11, 3:01 PM
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Qmel 
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Has anybody visited the United States here?
Reply #862. Jul 12 11, 8:08 PM
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| C30
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Qmel........my wife has, I haven't! I have visited nearly 50 different countries, but USA not one of them!
Reply #863. Jul 13 11, 12:17 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Not me,Mel. Do you think they'd be daft enough to let me in? :))
Reply #864. Jul 13 11, 7:11 AM
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Red...........aint the getting in...........probably wouldn't let you back out! Lol
Reply #865. Jul 13 11, 8:08 AM
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Saints2668
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And not before you enjoyed Mardi Gras in Nawlins!
Reply #866. Jul 13 11, 8:15 AM
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satguru
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| Twice here, 1980 and 1995, 11 states altogether. |
Reply #867. Jul 13 11, 8:15 AM
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Saints2668
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Sat... you only have 39 more states to go! LOL
Reply #868. Jul 13 11, 8:51 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Well,Saints,that sounds like a great idea! Got room for another Fat Bloke on Fat Tuesday? I'll bring my own clotted cream,should I? :))
Reply #869. Jul 13 11, 9:28 AM
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Saints2668
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Sounds good Red! Bring the clotted cream and I'll have the mudbugs (crawfish) ready to eat. Only one question do you like your mudbugs spicy or super spicy!
When you get here you better have your A-Game ready cause we party like rock stars down here!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Reply #870. Jul 13 11, 10:20 AM
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Ray, if he was driving on ice down a hill, doesn't that mean he can be forgiven, or should he have parked and waited for the thaw, or put tyre chains on? What's the right answer, please?
Mel, twice, even longer ago than David - 1971 and 1974. New York (Manhattan, Albany and Niagara), Noo Joyzey (Teaneck), Rhode Island (Providence), Connecticut (Norwich), Massachusetts (Boston) and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
Reply #871. Jul 13 11, 11:40 AM
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bloodandsand
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I think it was 1978 (or 1979). Based mainly in Syracuse, New York State. Had a fantastic time.
Reply #872. Jul 13 11, 12:05 PM
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Lesley.........the correct answer is that he should have taken notice of road conditions! I reckon he had to fill in more accident report forms in a month, than the other HGV drivers did in a year! His best, which initially caused everyone to become paralytic with laughter, was entitled......"Hit boat on A1"............true, he did! Boat was on trailer being towed by Land Rover.!
Reply #873. Jul 13 11, 2:56 PM
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One of the advantages of being in the Navy in the 50's/60's is that you got to see many different countries. Unfortunately you did not get to pick and choose which countries! So I had two x 18 month tours in Far East and one x 2 year tour in Middle East..........nearest I got to USA was Belfast when in a home-fleet ship.!
Reply #874. Jul 13 11, 3:00 PM
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satguru
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| When I got back from the 3 week 10 state tour in 1980 I worked out in my head I must have travelled the same distance as London to Warsaw and back, and checked and it was virtually the exact distance. Had I done that journey (a circle so out north and back south) I could have easily done ten European countries, nearly twice as many as I have altogether. But the states are the same size or bigger than our countries so implies the same thing to those familiar. Plus I could speak English the whole time which was well worth anything else. |
Reply #875. Jul 13 11, 4:48 PM
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"Hit boat on A1"
Classic. Beats anything Jasper Carrott found.
When I first visited America in 1971, I met a lot of people who couldn't understand me and couldn't place my accent. One woman recognised it because she'd seen The Forsyte Saga. I hope things have changed since then!
Reply #876. Jul 13 11, 5:07 PM
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Lesley...........same up here really.........most consider that I am a "Cockney.....er........um........person"! My first day working in Liverpool, I put a notice on the desk saying "I am NOT a Londoner"!
My work colleague, being a native Scouser, called me a "Cockney", until I retaliated and named him "Manc".
"I'm not a Manc, I'm Scouse", he protested. "Same difference", I replied. "Manchester is a lot closer to Liverpool than my home town is to London".
That cured him"!
I have no objection to London or the "natives" thereof, in fact my first wife was from London..........just that I am East Anglian!
Reply #878. Jul 14 11, 12:14 AM
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bloodandsand
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Not according to a certain person from Big Brother! You are an East Angulan from somewhere abroad :)
Reply #879. Jul 14 11, 12:55 PM
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That's odd - I was born and dragged up in London, and got asked, more than once, if I was from the Isle of Man.
I heard about the sayings of the Big Brother contestant, and wondered if she was really so clueless, or was doing it for publicity.
Reply #880. Jul 14 11, 1:25 PM
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