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shagbark Posted Apr 14, 2011
Would this have something to do with a signal being transmitted and received after flying though the air.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 14, 2011
>>What do we have to do to get a +1 out of this guy...
As I said Shagbark......
You need to get your teeth into it!!!!!
GT
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Deadangel - Still not dead, just! Posted Apr 14, 2011
Was it Boots the Chemist?
As an aside, there's a Boots the Chemist which isn't part of the Chain. Every few years one of their lawyers looks into sueing the shop for Infringing their Trademark, only to discover the other shop has had the name for over 100 years.
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Apr 15, 2011
Kentucky Fried Chicken?
1952?? (wild guess)
Kentucky (logical assertion)
technically chicken fly?!?!
Chinese take away??
1958
New York
(they sell flyed rice?)
Pizza parlour
1934
Chicago
The preparation of pizza dough inspired the invention of the frisbee.
(obviously not true)
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Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD Posted Apr 15, 2011
Boots is well into its second century.
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shagbark Posted Apr 15, 2011
flied rice. Dental Retainers for airline passengers.
Hot air balloons for McGruff the Crime Dog (take a bite out of crime).
a flying 
festival?
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Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD Posted Apr 15, 2011
The fact that Comet is the name both of an old airliner and an electrical retailer?
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shagbark Posted Apr 15, 2011
A man dining says 'Waiter- there is a fly in my soup!'
The waiter replies- Very good sir- I will add it to your bill
Does the shop in question sell something to eat?
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Apr 15, 2011
DGI:
. a Company
. flies
. flies/flys or flew!!
Clues:
. First of its kind in the UK
. not pre WWII
. a shop (not a person) now found in many places.
.not a video store.
"Get your teeth into it".
Is it actually a shop, like a corner shop, department store etc. or an outlet or franchise, like McDonalds and Burger King, although the UK version, Wimpy, was first opened in the early '50's and has just dropped it's famous 'Knickerbocker Glory, after 40 years as per the Metro, 6th April.
*Must recycle the papers before they take over the place!*
MMF
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Rod Posted Apr 16, 2011
After a tiny hiatus, I'll try posting this on the proper Premier thread not the other one
Ok, I'll bite
Britain's first travelling Fish'n'Chips'n'Tea vans - sold as a franchise
and the stuff flew off the shelf
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 16, 2011
Pebble has it!!
Kentucky Fried Chicken!! Correct +3
The first in the UK!
Where and When now!
GT
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Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD Posted Apr 16, 2011
Was it some kind of new town, like Milton Keynes: the brave new world is...KFC!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 16, 2011
Not a new town Rosemary.....
A very old one....
It is in the Domesday Book!
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- 61: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Apr 14, 2011)
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- 64: shagbark (Apr 14, 2011)
- 65: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Apr 14, 2011)
- 66: Deadangel - Still not dead, just! (Apr 14, 2011)
- 67: McKay The Disorganised (Apr 14, 2011)
- 68: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Apr 15, 2011)
- 69: Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD (Apr 15, 2011)
- 70: shagbark (Apr 15, 2011)
- 71: shagbark (Apr 15, 2011)
- 72: Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD (Apr 15, 2011)
- 73: shagbark (Apr 15, 2011)
- 74: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Apr 15, 2011)
- 75: shagbark (Apr 16, 2011)
- 76: Rod (Apr 16, 2011)
- 77: bobstafford (Apr 16, 2011)
- 78: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Apr 16, 2011)
- 79: Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD (Apr 16, 2011)
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