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10 hours ago, hk blues said:

This reminds me of a PTTGOYN from my time in Hong Kong - the microwave was above the fridge and a cabinet and thus way too high - you pretty much had to stand on a stool to get food out or risk spilling it on your head.  

 

I'd have no chance then as I'm a short arse 

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2 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:
3 hours ago, GordonD said:
Billy Connolly points out that people called Alasdair always tell you how it's spelt - "It's Alasdair - D-A-I-R."

Not as weird as people called Campbell doing it: "Campbell with a p", as if there's another way of spelling Campbell.

Cullen Skink works for me.

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2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

My mad old uncle explained it thus.

"Thomson, no p, for no Pope."

My wife's maiden name is Thomson. No p.

My father in law was adamant of the no p. He also hates the colour green.

He also didn't speak to me other than grunts for a year because he thought I was a Catholic because I didn't support rangers.

The quicker that generation dies the better.

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7 minutes ago, Oystercatcher said:

My wife's maiden name is Thomson. No p.

My father in law was adamant of the no p. He also hates the colour green.

He also didn't speak to me other than grunts for a year because he thought I was a Catholic because I didn't support rangers.

The quicker that generation dies the better.

His logic was that superfluous letters in a name indicated Catholicism and cited Clark with an e as a further example.

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1 minute ago, tamthebam said:

In my class at school there was an Alasdair, two Alastairs and an Aleister whose dad was presumably pished when he registered the name 

 

No Crystal Tips though 

Maybe Aleister's folks liked a bit of the old dark arts and Satan? 

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9 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

His logic was that superfluous letters in a name indicated Catholicism and cited Clark with an e as a further example.

The staunch Scottish Protestant subculture truly is a meeting of the minds. 

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2 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said:

Jings, are the Thompson Twins from Tin Tin related to Paw Broon? 

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Lies. I think they have Nothing In Common but you'd have to ask a Doctor Doctor of genetics. 

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1 minute ago, virginton said:

The staunch Scottish Protestant subculture truly is a meeting of the minds. 

It was all to do with The Reformation apparently. Catholics thought the extra letters made them seem more important and relevant.

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In Englandshire and over here in the ‘murca I have to spell out my last name. Despite being about 1000 years old these chunts can’t get past the 100 years or so of anglicising it.

It doesn’t even sound like the way they spell it!

In fact ETA, just reminded weegies bugger up the spelling too

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