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Control Panel
Discworld
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 Posted - 02/08/2009 : 20:34:31
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Here is that shadowy bunch, the Greggs board.
None of them enthuses about pasties, I notice. You'd have thought they would have said something like "been Chairman of Birds Eye and also enthusiastic pasty eater since the age of seven".
http://www.ir.greggs.plc.uk/greggsplc/corporate.jsp?id_item=13 |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Posted - 07/08/2009 : 12:21:27
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I always imagine LT in something like this:
Only with the pattern obscured by flakes of pastry and tea stains. |
Edited by - No Expert on 07/08/2009 12:21:51 |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 07/08/2009 : 19:17:42
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quote:
Originally posted by No Expert
I always imagine LT in something like this:
Only with the pattern obscured by flakes of pastry and tea stains.
It would certainly go with a beard. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Edwin the Scot
Barsoom
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Posted - 11/08/2009 : 12:27:07
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| For the price of Greggs tea, or thereabouts, you can buy two litres of milk in Poundland. |
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 11:12:18
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Greggs has now renamed its Xtra Bites as Bloomers.
Isn't bloomer a word generally taken to mean a mistake? |
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 11:30:31
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Thats a blooper. A bloomer is Victorian underwear:
Alas I now have https://www.bloomers4u.com/ in my URL cache making me look a bit weird... |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 15:21:04
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quote:
Originally posted by Control Panel
Greggs has now renamed its Xtra Bites as Bloomers.
Isn't bloomer a word generally taken to mean a mistake?
IP
Greggs is from the North
so many words will confuse some.
They are trading very well
I was in london last week and
the Camden Greggs in Kentish Town
is Very Busy all day long.
Much like our London Road branch.
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 15:51:51
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A trip to london! Was the sunshine coach driver nice enough to stop so you could stock up on pasties? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 15:57:02
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quote:
Originally posted by No Expert
Thats a blooper. A bloomer is Victorian underwear:
Alas I now have https://www.bloomers4u.com/ in my URL cache making me look a bit weird...
I should think anybody with a taste for pasties is also an enthusiast for Primark underwear. |
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 16:10:08
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We've yet to get any cut price underwear news. Sure, we all know that we can get a pair of high fashion blue jeans for £5 at tescos, but what about undercrackers?
Anyone know where the cheapest 3 pack of briefs can be purchased... 'Tanga' style if possible, and paisley print. |
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 20:42:38
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| Rumour has it Bermuda shorts are compulsory in London road! |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 12/08/2009 : 22:33:37
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Originally posted by No Expert
We've yet to get any cut price underwear news. Sure, we all know that we can get a pair of high fashion blue jeans for £5 at tescos, but what about undercrackers?
Anyone know where the cheapest 3 pack of briefs can be purchased... 'Tanga' style if possible, and paisley print.
Mrs Poppadum blushed when I mentioned the word "undercrackers" to her, so I suspect that she is more familiar with it than I had been until alerted to it by No Expert.
She will have some explaining to do beneath the duvet if I am to set aside the latest Latin American novel, switch off the lamp and allow myself to succumb to those urges which the Council regards as diversion enough for Portslade residents. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Edwin the Scot
Barsoom
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Posted - 13/08/2009 : 10:50:50
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| I notice that a pasty firm has seen fit to advertise at the top of the Greggs page here a chough pasty from Padstow which it delivers to the front door. Why is there no mail order from Greggs? |
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Posted - 13/08/2009 : 11:13:42
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| Because due to excessive grease, the envelope would be transparent, meaning that hungry postal workers could see whats in it and eat it. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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BLONDIE
Barsoom
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Posted - 13/08/2009 : 14:50:01
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| Bloomers = Passion killers. |
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No Expert
Calaspia
610 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2009 : 09:05:26
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| In your day Blondie, wasn't a flash of ankle enough to get you all flustered? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 14/08/2009 : 09:49:48
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A great pioneer of ballooning in the eighteenth century was James Sadler. He worked from premises in the High Street in Oxford. His main trade, at the front of the place, was as a baker.
He may have baked bread (if not pasties) but that did not hold him back from scientific studies and his wife called him "the Phenomenon".
If the London Road, Brighton is to have any hope at all, then it does not simply need pasties and dodgy tea but somebody out the back at Greggs such as Sadler with the style and flair to make the area lift off.
What backing does Greggs provide for the contemporary equivalent of these ballooning studies?
I wonder whether anybody in LTNS's family refers to him as "the Phenomenon"?
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 14/08/2009 : 10:58:23
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| When can we expect a pasty-shaped hot-air balloon to sail across the Brighton and Hove skies with LTNS in the basket beneath, loud-hailer in hand to proclaim the merits of Greggs and the shortcomings of BlairBrownBush? |
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Edwin the Scot
Barsoom
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Posted - 14/08/2009 : 16:49:01
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| As far as I can make out, the balloon often goes up when this LTNS fellow is on the loose. People run for cover. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 15/08/2009 : 03:17:54
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A bank in northern Italy has been accepting parmesan cheese as a security against loans.
I doubt whether any English bank would look with favour upon LTNS if he took along his collection of pasties, even if he does look like somebody who would be anxious to have them back as soon as he could manage it. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 15/08/2009 : 07:46:32
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The Greggs topic has brought an ad at the top for a rather different sort of tea. It appears to be a way of reducing the effect of excess pasties...
Here is the link if it is not showing right now.
http://www.explainedtoday.com/shockfatloss/ |
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New Greggs London Road 89p Tea II