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What's the difference between paraffin and petrol?

Post 1

Bagpuss

Answer: There's two effs in paraffin, but no effin' petrol.

Yes folks, the fuel crisis is beginning to bite. First time I've seen more cars waiting at the pumps than parked in the supermarket carpark opposite. Fortunately I filled up on Friday, but with travelling to work every day, I hope I have enough to make it back to Leeds next Saturday. Ho-hum.


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Post 2

Arthur Dentist, Really Cool Guardian Angel (Patron Saint of Pliers, and Wrencher of Teeth) With a Pointlessly Long, Stupid Name

Too bleedin' right mate. Try siphoning from other cars and selling it for a tenner a litre. I would but all the cars round here are empty apart from my mum's.

Bye

Arthur Dentist


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Post 3

Bagpuss

How much did your mum's tank fetch then? smiley - winkeye

A couple of blokes got arrested in Gateshead for doing just that. Some petrol stations are pulling similar scams.

Still look on the bright side, you can put an "out of petrol" sign on your car and park where you want (this is assuming your local traffic warden is exceedingly guilible, which isn't necessarily the case). Also another excuse to skive work, though I need the money or I wouldn't be working in the holidays anyway.


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Post 4

Clelba

Ahhhhhh, this answers one of the questions I asked in another forum. Thankyou.


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Post 5

Arthur Dentist, Really Cool Guardian Angel (Patron Saint of Pliers, and Wrencher of Teeth) With a Pointlessly Long, Stupid Name

You're welcome. smiley - smiley


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Post 6

Clelba

Am I?


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Post 7

Bagpuss

Absolutely. What question was answered, though?


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Post 8

Clelba

Don't know.


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Post 9

Amigo

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Post 10

Clelba

Um... Who are you?


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Post 11

Bagpuss

Who is any of us? Do we exist apart from in other people's dreams? Why is Leicester Square and when will Mile End? How does the man who drives the snowplough get to work?


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Post 12

Clelba

Have you never watched the Simpsons episode when Homer gets a snow plough? or should that be plow cos it's american?


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Post 13

Bagpuss

'Fraid not, and yes the yanks do spell it plow, a fact Sherlock Holmes once made use of.


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Post 14

Clelba

Did he really? Do you not watch the Simpsons then?


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Post 15

Bagpuss

Yes, I'd tell you which story, but my Holmes book is in Leeds. I do watch the Simpsons, but I've not seen that one. As a wild guess I'll say Homer couldn't get to work because he was snowed in. Close?


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Post 16

Clelba

Um... no you're not close at all. Homer crashed the car and instead of getting a new one he bought a snow plough and cleared the snow away from everyone's drive and the story grows from there.


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Post 17

Bagpuss

Oh.

Can't be right all the time, but I did do quite well at predicting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (not that I guessed who died or whom he kissed, but other than that).


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Post 18

Clelba

I haven't read that one yet. I'm waiting for my friend to get it. Then I can read hers. Or I think they have it in the school library. i could go there.


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Post 19

Bagpuss

One of my housemates at uni is obsessed with it, so he buys the books when they first come out and as he reads them in two days flat (though getting longer with each volume), I get them quite soon.


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Post 20

Clelba

ah. I started readin them in july this year, and finished the first three within about 10 days. And that was while I was on an exchange in France.


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