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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by TwoWrights, Jul 8, 2024.

  1. 1MoreAgain

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    This is why the Germans have a reputation as a nation which has no sense of humour.

    It actually doesn’t work as a joke.

    It would if Shakespeare has entitled his play The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the first place and Kaiser Bill has suggested changing it to The Merry Wives of Windsor but in the form given it was a weak attempt at humour at best.




    I cannot believe I am pointing out to dead Germanic nobility why their jokes are so ****.
     
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  3. TwoWrights

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    I quite liked it, proof that humour is indeed subjective. :emoticon-0138-think


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    On 21st June 1908, Hull women hired a special train to London for a “Women’s Sunday” rally organised by the Women’s Social and Political Union, attended by 300,000 to 500,000; the Hull contingent is said to be the largest from any provincial society.

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  5. TwoWrights

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    Special train, happy days. :emoticon-0138-think


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    Being women, I bet they had loads of Persil tokens. :bandit:
     
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    So, more Hull men had to cook their own Sunday dinners than elsewhere. Bit of a bugger. They should have told them they weren’t going.
     
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    I went to the 4-1 Wimbledon match, at Plough Lane, with the Persil tokens. That's the last time I ever ironically cheered an opposition consolation goal. :emoticon-0138-think


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    I've liked that as they'll be those that take you literally. :emoticon-0138-think


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  10. DMD

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    I do wonder how people remember these things. I usually had to check the scores on a Monday before going to work, just in case anyone asked me about the game, never mind recalling these things years later. I can often recall the pubs we found though. <laugh>
     
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    If the men had owt about 'em, they'd have got the woman of the house to cook it on the day before so ya could heat it up in the oven. :emoticon-0145-shake
     
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    The men should have been down the pub and coming home to a meal waiting for them.
     
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    Andy Capp lives. :emoticon-0138-think


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    A real blast from the past - was telling g'kids about Persil tokens, they thought it was more g'dad kidology!
     
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