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beano500

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20,854 posts

304 months

Friday 1st April 2005
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4400535.stm

"I Can't Belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve It!"

scruffy

3,757 posts

290 months

Friday 1st April 2005
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4. A family of four ate 20,000 Kit Kats to win prizes worth £12,000. "We had them for breakfast, dinner and tea," said 53-year-old Pat McGovern of Teesside.


So a kit kat is 55p, 20,000 of the little rascals would cost £11,000.
For a prize valued at £12,000...


dick dastardly

8,326 posts

292 months

Friday 1st April 2005
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"Conmen in Slough are getting people to pay £400 for laptops, before handing over bags filled not with computer but with bottles of water" now where have I read about that before

vetteheadracer

8,273 posts

282 months

Friday 1st April 2005
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My personal favourite....

A Belgian police training manual which aims to help recruits understand body language has caused a row by likening George Bush's facial expressions to a chimpanzee's

V8 Archie

4,703 posts

277 months

Friday 1st April 2005
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BBC said:
9. Conmen in Slough are getting people to pay £400 for laptops, before handing over bags filled not with computer but with bottles of water.
Standard chav trick isn't it? Caveat emptor.