Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 28 2012, 3:04 PM GMT*sigh* must I do everything for you?
'Good morning, I'm a door to door Wikipedia salesman, can I come in and play with your kids?'
Things you don't see much of these days Page 5
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 1:39 PM GMTThen grab him and never let him go. They are a dying breed.
It is this attitude that lead to their near extinction; we shall probably never know how many a lonely housewife neglected to put their milkman out on the step.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 28 2012, 3:04 PM GMT*sigh* must I do everything for you?
'Good morning, I'm a door to door Wikipedia salesman, can I come in and play with your kids?'
I was thinking more of...
"Good morning, madam, all the knowledge in the world can be yours simply through buying Wikipedia, which comes in just ten easy-to-read volumes."
"Really? Only ten volumes?"
"Yes. Oh sorry, I got that bit wrong... It's actually fifteen volumes."
(See why I didn't bother?)
Shellsuits.
True.
Nor do you see Jonathan King much thesedays.
Or Jonathan King trying to bum an underage boy in a shellsuit outside a village disco.
Quote: Nil Putters @ January 28 2012, 2:14 PM GMTWas it 'Wotcher'? I always thought it was 'Wotcha'.
Usually 'wotcha'; a contraction of "what cheer?". formerly the standard greeting in British English, but replaced by the Americanism, "Hello", a misuse of a word now used correctly only by Leslie Philips.
You do not see openly lecherous middle-aged men much these days (obviously that generalisation does not apply to internet forums).
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 1:36 PM GMTNo one says 'wotcher' anymore as a form of greeting.
I know people who do
Quote: lofthouse @ January 28 2012, 1:42 PM GMTLollipop men/women
I've seen quite a few recently
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ January 28 2012, 1:56 PM GMTThe Mumps.
I had Mumps about five years ago
I think I might live in the past 
I don't see Tim Walker much.
I am aware of his presence though when the strange red light beeps in my shower.
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 28 2012, 3:20 PM GMTTrue.
Nor do you see Jonathan King much thesedays.
Apropos of not much, does America get celeb paedos? We have bloody loads.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 1:36 PM GMTNo one says 'wotcher' anymore as a form of greeting.
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 3:25 PM GMTApropos of not much, does America get celeb paedos? We have bloody loads.
R Kelly.
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 3:25 PM GMTApropos of not much, does America get celeb paedos? We have bloody loads.
*cough*Michael Jackson*cough*
Quote: Rooface @ January 28 2012, 3:27 PM GMTR Kelly.
Wasn't that some girl who was like a day off her 16th birthday?
And there's Michael Jackson, but he was found innocent.
Can't think of any 'proper' ones... Why are they all here?
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 3:25 PM GMTApropos of not much, does America get celeb paedos? We have bloody loads.
The principal from Ferris Bueller and the former drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jerry Lee Lewis.
Quote: DaButt @ January 28 2012, 3:30 PM GMTThe principal from Ferris Bueller
Ah yes, I remember that one now. 