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Oh, ye of little faith!

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Poor you -did you not even get a tangerine? Here in Italy they say that if you receive a gift of Handkerchiefs it will bring you tears!

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Ok ... but where do the snot rags fit in:confused::D

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She could at least have bought you a jumper, you could still have used the sleeve.

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Not too long after the war ... that would be the second one:D ... times were hard, and I remember getting an apple and and orange, a new penny, and a sugar pig. And apart from a small cap pistol, that was it. I guess we are wandering here ... but, still, it's about Christmas. And sugar pigs, if anyone can remember them.;)

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An apple, an orange AND a sugar pig? AND a small cap pistol! You were spoilt.
My first banana was a Christmas present( and no new penny).I was licking the skin for hours before they showed me how to open it.

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We took some tea towels, tartany and lucky heathery in design, picked up last minute at Edinburgh airport, for a friend's Nonna, who we were having tea with the next afternoon in Milan.

She didn't exactly go overboard when we presented them to her. In fact she had a face like thunder.

Perhaps she thought they were big Scottish hankies.

Makes sense now.

:rolleyes::D

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I sense a Monty Python sketch brewing:eek:

Oh, and I hope no muslims are offended by the referrence to "sugar pigs".:rolleyes: And I hope that the fruit was organically grown. I hope none take offence at the "penny" and its evoking of capitalist greed.:p And the toy pistol! How could my parents have been so politically incorrect:rolleyes:

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Actually it tasted of DDT.I wasn't impressed with the flavour till they opened it and by then I was too ill to eat it.

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Did the same thing with my first banana too ... I bit into it and almost did the technicolor yawn all over the table;)

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They must've been your Christmas present....you poor thing!

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I remember sugar pigs and sugar mice....and yes this is all becoming very pythonesque........I've nearly P'd myself laughing at it.(only nearly...you are going to have to try a bit harder boys with the tales of a poor christmas)
We were so poor, all I got was a hole in my stocking. My dad told me that santa left lots of presents, but they all fell through the hole and broke.

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S'not funny:mad: I don't believe I actually typed that:eek::D I love the phrase "snot rags":D And I love being able to say it without getting a back-hander from my mom:alright:

By the way, folks over there don't use them any more, do they? I apologise profoundly to all those workers who lost their jobs because people would rather wipe their noses on disposable kleenex, than on soggy snot rags:rolleyes:

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Oh, Eric.....you've gone all sensible.......I was looking forward to more of the pythonesque.
Kleenex are far more hygienic though. I can remember my grandma boiling up hankies on the gas stove...in a pan. My Grandad had been on the beer and was a bit intoxicated.
He came in and helped himself to some of the 'soup' that was boiling away(hankies) and a chunk of buttered bread......he told my grandma that the soup was 'short o' summat' and suggested she chucked another onion in.
I don't think she ever told him that he had had 'hankie broth'.

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One Christmas Eve we did a midnight flit, with my dad telling me that Santa's gift this year was a new house;)