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Thread #52373   Message #2354528
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
01-Jun-08 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Verse to Cosher Bailey - recent oil news
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Verse to Cosher Bailey - recent oil news
With the high (UK) cost of fuel, this is back in the news. Telegraph

Back in days when jobs were fewer,
Cleaning chip shops was my toil*
All the waste went down the sewer,
Now there's gang wars for our oil*.
   Did you ever see...

Said the motor racing fans
"Babs would race at Pendine Sands
But when there was a pit-stop
It would smell just like a fish shop!"
   Did you ever see ...


*Toil, pronounced toy-ill
*Oil = Oy-ill