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  1. I saw a young guy cycling in Durham yesterday. He was on a BMX type
    thing, you know the ones with the saddles set so low they aren't meant
    to be sat on. Anyway he was sitting on the saddle and pedalling which
    always looks funny but he also had a lit semi-Sherlock Holmes-style pipe
    in his mouth.

    Colin

  2. prob didn't have tobacco in the pipe...

  3. Quoted message said:

    prob didn't have tobacco in the pipe...

    Good, "other mixtures" are far less damaging to the health.

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  4. On 17/11/04 3:19 pm, in article [email hidden],

    Call me Bob said:
    Quoted message said:

    prob didn't have tobacco in the pipe...

    Good, "other mixtures" are far less damaging to the health.

    Will the smoking ban only apply to tobacco?

    ...d

  5. Colin Blackburn said:

    I saw a young guy cycling in Durham yesterday. He was on a BMX type
    thing, you know the ones with the saddles set so low they aren't meant
    to be sat on. Anyway he was sitting on the saddle and pedalling which
    always looks funny but he also had a lit semi-Sherlock Holmes-style pipe
    in his mouth.

    Crack?

  6. Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    he also had a lit semi-Sherlock
    Holmes-style pipe in his mouth.

    Crack?

    Probably just cannabis, although maybe it's juat a new fashion - I keep
    seeing chavs wandering around wearing one of my fathers tweed flat caps so
    I guess anything goes.

  7. Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Mark
    Thompson <[email hidden]> gently breathed:

    Quoted message said:

    Probably just cannabis, although maybe it's juat a new fashion - I keep
    seeing chavs wandering around wearing one of my fathers tweed flat caps so
    I guess anything goes.

    That'll be because Burberry have stopped making baseball caps because
    all the chavs wearing them were devaluing their brand!

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  8. Mark Thompson said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    he also had a lit semi-Sherlock
    Holmes-style pipe in his mouth.

    Crack?

    Probably just cannabis, although maybe it's juat a new fashion - I keep
    seeing chavs wandering around wearing one of my fathers tweed flat caps so
    I guess anything goes.

    This guy wasn't a charva (I'll stick to the original NE term rather the
    fancy southern adaptation) he was a rah.

    Colin

  9. Mark Thompson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    I keep
    seeing chavs wandering around wearing one of my fathers tweed flat caps

    Does he know it's been taken? Some folk'll nick anything! ;-)

    David E. Belcher

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