The Greengrocers' Apostrophe

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    Scrungee, the remaining 2% probably spell it properly! :biggrin:
     
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      No!! The other 2% were grabbed by the '8 out of 10 cats'! :heehee:
       
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          They can't count as well as they're spelling :snork:
           
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          You are a Greengrocer and I claim my free bag of Broccoli (the rhyming dictionary said that that rhymed with Apostrophe - it loses a bit in translation doesn't it?!)
           
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          Kristen, you're not old enough to remember Lobby Lud! Did you study it in history at school? :heehee:
           
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          Don't have any in bags, but i have one plant left which i left for the bees, is this any good
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            That'll do, Jiffy. Kristen will put it in his exotic garden :blue thumb:
             
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              No mate, we only did history back to when Pontius was a pilot! But I'm sure you can remember back before then :)
               
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              Certainly can. :blue thumb:
               
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              Ahhh , so Lobby Ludd was the original promotion . I remember the Daily Mirror ran one , he was called Chalkie I think . If you stopped him at the seaside resort , with a copy of the Mirror you got a £5 note , to spend on fish and chips and Double Diamond beer !
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              Yes, Lobby goes back to the 1920's! He used to only go to seaside towns but, by the 1950's/60's the News Chronicle had got him travelling on public transport to lots of other places.

              It was no good accosting him outside of the specific hours that were quoted in the paper as he would be in certain areas at for a set amount of time. You had to buy the paper to find out when and where.

              Chalky White, from The Mirror, came along later.
               
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              Andy Capp's in there somewhere (note artful redirection back on topic :heehee: )
               
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              That's a clever one, Kristen :blue thumb: :love30:

              You're using the missing letter apostrophe and not the possessive. :yay:
               
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