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Andrew Dwyer

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  1. I got fined for not paying at a toll on highway from Hua Hin to Bangkok.

    I did pay but didn't get a receipt, I remember not getting a receipt and thinking it strange but by this time I was back on the highway heading for home and wasn't ( or couldn't I should say) gonna go back.

    The toll was 40 baht and the fine 50 baht.

    My gf's brother says this is a common scam by the toll booth operator especially when they see someone from Farangolandia who is unlikely to ask for a receipt ( aka me ! )

     

  2. No,mon ami. Woolworth went skint a good few years ago. And the sad part is, that it wasn't for astronomical money. Someone like sir Paul Mc Cartney, could have saved the company with all his billions. When F.W. Woolworth went down the pan people lost a lot. The ladybird label was always good for mums who never had a lot of money. The Easter egg isle, was a kids heaven. Also cheap but reliable electrical goods, like sound systems and stuff. When we lost Woolies, we lost a great company. I will never understand why the millionaires of the UK never banded together to save it.The book section was second to none, also the audio section was great, and the film section.It was reasonably priced and within every ones price range.It was an off shoot of the American 5&10 cent stores. I can remember when it advertised "everything for sixpence". You could buy a pair of running shoes for a shilling. One shoe was sixpence, and so was the other. I even remember the big tubes that used to suck up the money in a can. Fabulous days. The like of which we  will never see again. Woolies and Joe Lyons eating houses, where tomato soup and a crusty bread roll was fourpence.
    RIP Woolworths.

    There's a strong rumour on the net that Woolworths is gonna make a come back !!

    Although Woolies in the Uk disappeared it was still doing business in Mexico and I believe in Australia ( not 100% sure ).

    Anyway if Woolies does make an appearance in the high street I will be in there for some pic 'n' mix !!
  3. I reckon snake could be a tasty one. Anyone ever? 

    I was at a night market in Taiwan years ago. Big cage full of snakes, pick your own, they swing it round their heads and smack its head against a pole to stun/kill it then slit it's throat and squeeze the blood out.
    They then skin it and cook it , the buyer drinks the blood as the snake is cooking.

    I was watching and the guy offered me the snake blood, no way !!, I did eat some of the snake with him though, it was okay .

    Have had it since in China, it's okay, not great not bad !
  4. It doesn't say which arm he lost (and you can't tell from any of the photos).  I assume it is the right arm, which was extended outside the vehicle's right-side window and he was operating the steering wheel with his left hand (if he had his hand on the wheel at all).  And my remark is based on the fact that I was a PI lawyer, and probably handled over 100 upper extremity amputation cases.

    Good PI Lawyer !!
    It clearly states left arm in the OP !!
  5. There was also a myth that Roger Moore lived in the posh house in the small village I grew up in.
    Everyone ( in the village ) believed it and to this day many still do !
     

    Well I posted the question in the Facebook group for the village and people are fighting over themselves as to where exactly he lived during his modelling days in Leeds !!

    Apparently someone's mother-in-law still has his curtains [emoji23][emoji23]
  6. yes but wasn't he also quoted as having played bass on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street which is ?.

    I had heard that , but believed it to be an urban myth.

    According to Mr Google there are 3 people claiming credit for starting that myth:

    Some London radio DJ who did a phone in show.

    Some editor for NME Magazine.

    The Scottish saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft who actually plays sax on Baker Street. !!

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