Re: Currys

"Kevin Childers" <kchilder@mail.win.org> wrote in message
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> "PDR" <peter.rieden@nospam.baesystems.com> wrote in message
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>> "Tony Harding" <ToHard@nowhere.org> wrote in message
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>>> PDR wrote:
>>>> "tpow" <wd40@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> Dell being sold in Curry's shops...........
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>>>> For those in the colonies and other far-flung outposts of the Empire I
>>>> should point out that the "Currys" in question is a chain of electrical
>>>> retail outlets here in the home islands. They're a bit like your "dry
>>>> goods" stores,
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>>> What's a dry goods store? <serious question, BTW>
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>> Surely you jest? They have them in all the documentaries and current
>> affairs programmes about the colonies - they usually have a covered
>> boardwalk outside where the sherrif can rest in the shade and leave his
>> horse safely hitched to the rail.
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>> PDR
> Terribly funny old fellow, but hardly conducive to getting a quick
> response out of the colonial militia the next time they need to be called
> out to save queen and country.

Good point - if we upset you guys we might have to resort to retirements of
our more senior servicemen rather than just waiting for a colonial raid to
cull our ranks...

PDR