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What is the Real Difference between Paraffin and Petrol?

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What is the Real Difference between Paraffin and Petrol?

Post by Z4MAD » Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:19 am

Dear Comrades,

This is my very last post on this forum so I thought I would leave you with this little conundrum which is:

What is the difference between petrol and paraffin?

There is no effin petrol.

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Post by enuff_zed » Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:12 pm

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Post by sars » Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:27 pm

Well you’ve been an entertaining member, so long and thanks for all the fish :thumbsup:
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Post by Pondrew » Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:42 pm

@MAD
You know my thoughts. :thumbsup:
sars wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:27 pm Well you’ve been an entertaining member,
It has been said that I have one of those. :D
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Post by buzyg » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:17 pm

Short a sweet. :D :thumbsup:

Your time on the forum I mean. :o The Joke was pants. :lol:
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Post by sars » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:58 pm

Pondrew wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:42 pm @MAD
You know my thoughts. :thumbsup:
sars wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:27 pm Well you’ve been an entertaining member,
It has been said that I have one of those. :D
I thought yours was more of a tool :D
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Post by Pondrew » Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:02 pm

sars wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:58 pm I thought yours was more of a tool
Reminds me of a Father Ted episode: Pat Mustard says to Mrs Doyle, holding a big adjustable spanner "Can I put my massive tool in your box"
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Post by bigwinn » Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:15 pm

Pondrew wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:02 pm
sars wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:58 pm I thought yours was more of a tool
Reminds me of a Father Ted episode: Pat Mustard says to Mrs Doyle, holding a big adjustable spanner "Can I put my massive tool in your box"
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Still makes me laugh
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Post by sars » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:31 pm

Pondrew wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:02 pm
sars wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:58 pm I thought yours was more of a tool
Reminds me of a Father Ted episode: Pat Mustard says to Mrs Doyle, holding a big adjustable spanner "Can I put my massive tool in your box"
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Still makes me laugh
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Post by flybobbie » Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:23 pm

Have my old Granddad's diary from ww2, 1943.
In the back it's says pour paraffin in eyes if contaminated with mustard gas.

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Post by ronk » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:57 pm

flybobbie wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:23 pm Have my old Granddad's diary from ww2, 1943.
In the back it's says pour paraffin in eyes if contaminated with mustard gas.
They were a tough breed in those days!
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Post by buzyg » Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:20 am

ronk wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:57 pm
flybobbie wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:23 pm Have my old Granddad's diary from ww2, 1943.
In the back it's says pour paraffin in eyes if contaminated with mustard gas.
They were a tough breed in those days!
They surely were.
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Post by Z4MAD » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:05 am

buzyg wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:20 am
ronk wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:57 pm
flybobbie wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:23 pm Have my old Granddad's diary from ww2, 1943.
In the back it's says pour paraffin in eyes if contaminated with mustard gas.
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They were a tough breed in those days!
They surely were.
Dear Comrade Buzyg,

You are absolutely quite perfectly correct in your assertion of how resilient the English race was in those days now past. I was certainly intrigued concerning the post by flybobbie in which he informed us of his dear Grandfather's diary upon one page of which he advised that paraffin should be utilised to wash mustard gas from one's eyes. I think we should stop and think about this for a moment......

Further to the aforementioned, my mother's first husband was killed in the Battle Al Alamein in the northern desert of Africa; he remains there to this very day thus that there will always be a Piece of England there.

For my mother's part, she was left with two children, both boys. She brought them up throughout the war and yet the war widow's pension was wholly derisory to the extent that it would hardly feed one child let alone provide food and accommodation for the three of them.

I shall say no more, except to say, within this country we now reward indolence to the extent that,... well, feel free to add whatever you may wish.

With kind regards,

MAD
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Post by buzyg » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:27 am

Z4MAD wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:05 am
buzyg wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:20 am
ronk wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:57 pm They surely were.
Dear Comrade Buzyg,

You are absolutely quite perfectly correct in your assertion of how resilient the English race was in those days now past. I was certainly intrigued concerning the post by flybobbie in which he informed us of his dear Grandfather's diary upon one page of which he advised of an that paraffin should be utilised to wash mustard gas from one's eyes. I think we should stop and think about this for a moment......

Further to the aforementioned, my mother's first husband was killed in the Battle Al Alamein in the northern desert of Africa; he remains there to this very day thus that there will always be a Piece of England there.

For my mother's part, she was left with two children, both boys. She brought them up throughout the war and yet the war widow's pension was wholly derisory to the extent that it would hardly feed one child let alone provide food and accommodation for the three of them.

I shall say no more, except to say, within this country we now reward indolence to the extent that,... well, feel free to add whatever you may wish.

With kind regards,

MAD
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