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Old 9th February 2019, 07:33
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Management works? I believe this is in the same area as Government Service, Army Intelligence, and English Cuisine.
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Old 9th February 2019, 10:56
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Hale and Pace comes to mind. "We are … the Management."
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Old 10th February 2019, 11:33
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The funniest part of this joke is that you have to be of a certain age and above to get it …
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Old 11th February 2019, 08:34
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Old 13th February 2019, 22:05
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The funniest part of this joke is that you have to be of a certain age and above to get it …


Im old and I dont get it.
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Old 14th February 2019, 07:34
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Im old and I dont get it.
Ah! John -- there is a tape cassette on the operating table with a "hernia" where the tape has come out of the cassette. When that happened we used to use a pencil, eraser end in perhaps best to rewind the cassette so retrieving the tape so it could still be played.

The same technology in general could also be used to rewind VHS or Beta tapes.
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Old 14th February 2019, 09:42
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John … you need to get out more ….
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Old 14th February 2019, 14:22
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You can still buy audio cassette tapes, saw some in Tesco's the other day ... I wonder if they were next to the pencils?
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Old 14th February 2019, 14:50
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Strange thing, you bought one of those packets of pencils … which made you feel obliged to buy a blank cassette tape …. just in case.
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Old 14th February 2019, 16:20
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Thanks Bob. I see it all now.
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Old 14th February 2019, 16:59
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There is something about a cassette, I bought some about 2 years ago, which is silly because I didn't really mean to use them and I have a digital sound recorder that you can plug anything into and anything sensible can plug into it. But the block of 5 neat tapes just looked so appealing.
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Old 14th February 2019, 20:26
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I can relate to that. I've got about a gazillion screwdrivers, enough so that if you put them all together it would create a black hole that would suck the guts out of the Universe !! But I bought another the other day because I liked the look of it.

Could it be …. ?

I'm screwed …. ?
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Old 14th February 2019, 21:06
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An Irishman carrying two rucksacks was pulled aside while waiting to board a plane. When the

officer looked inside, he could see they were full of mobile phones "Why have you got all these phones with you sir?"

He replied " My mate Patrick has just opened a jazz club in New York, and he asked me to bring two saxophones for him"

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Old 14th February 2019, 21:36
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Good job my groan-o-meters have gone to the great big moan in the sky …
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Old 14th February 2019, 22:33
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An Irishman carrying two rucksacks was pulled aside while waiting to board a plane. When the

officer looked inside, he could see they were full of mobile phones "Why have you got all these phones with you sir?"

He replied " My mate Patrick has just opened a jazz club in New York, and he asked me to bring two saxophones for him"

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I got that one.
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I think you should pick that meter out of the scrap box and reconnect it. Without it as ballast they're leaking out and causing interference all over the place. I've had to put ferret bedes on anything remotely joke sensitive.
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Old 15th February 2019, 12:47
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Me and the missus are having a competition on who can steal the most dog related stuff from our local pet shop.

I've just taken the lead.

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Old 15th February 2019, 13:27
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No groan-o-meter should be subjected to that kind of abuse ….
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Murphy was carrying two rucksacks was pulled aside while waiting to board a plane. When the officer looked inside, he could see they were full of mobile phones.



"Why have you got all these phones with you sir?" he asked.


Murphy replied, "My mate Patrick has just opened a jazz club in New York and he asked me to bring two saxophones for him."


Stick that in your groan-o-meter and light it.
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Old 15th February 2019, 14:19
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10 points off for repetition. (Who didn't read the earlier posts then ? … )
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Old 15th February 2019, 14:20
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Ron see post #238 just before you...beat you to it!]
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Old 15th February 2019, 17:49
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I got that one.


So did I but were the saxophones tenor or Alto?
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Old 15th February 2019, 18:48
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10 points off for repetition. (Who didn't read the earlier posts then ? … )
How much earlier Bob? My memory isn't what it was (and it never was great) but I can't recall seeing it here. It was passed on to me by the son of a recently deceased school friend - but I don't think that it was responsible for his death.
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Old 15th February 2019, 18:53
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Oh hell, it was only yesterday. Sorry but I missed it somehow.

After logging on I always open up with 'New Posts' and rely on that to show me all the posts that I have never opened before. I thought that was infallible but it would appear maybe that is not so.
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Old 15th February 2019, 18:54
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