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Was Simon really Simple, or just after a free Pie?

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And, more to the point, if it wasn't Simon, who DID eat all the Pies......Man.

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This thread[such an inadequate word) has of late developed a gravitas justly fitting of it's illustrious contributors and reminding me of the late, great journalist Alistair Cooke.

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Pies have been the stable diet of Simpletons down through the ages Spitty. Whoever invented the pie was a genius, you can put anything into a pie and folks will eat it, what an ideal way to get rid of unpalatable food, just stuff it all into a pie that has a lovely golden crust of pastry.
My hero and to me the Simpleton-in-chief, Desperate Dan of Dandy fame preferred the Cow Pie above all others, Dan, a man big on strength but small on brains always won the day, he would have spasms of sheer brilliance like using the two Cowhorns that came with his pies as a knife and fork, but it would have been cleverer to use the pointed ends. Sweeney Todd supposedly dispatched his unwanted corpses to a Mrs Miggins who specialised in exotic pies, indeed it was said of her that she had a finger in every pie, all pie in the sky perhaps, but do we ever really know whats in a pie we haven’t baked ourselves?
Who was that singing gobshite who left the pie out in the rain? there’s nothing as unappetising as a soggy pie.

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Ah yes,Alistair Cooke...a great man indeed.
He wrote a letter from America,y'know.
That poor pigeon was knackered when it finally reached Blighty.
The shame of it is,if he hadn't been so consumed by using 'E's,he could've played cricket for England! [Ai thenkyoh]

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Alister Cooke, that name rings a bell, wasn't he the one eyed fella who discovered Australia?, the size of it, a whole continent, Christ how could he miss it.

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I have a comment re the discovery of OZ, no one discovered it cos it was already there.
The Brits exploited it, sent their riff raff there, helped destroy the indigenous people & their culture.
That is all i have to say on this matter.
I don't know why I bothered to post this.Tomorrow i'll be more positive.

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Valid point RJ, just down the road, residents occupy houses built on fields, but, get up in arms when subsequent homes are built on adjacent fields, it is good to relate historical events to local issues.

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Yep-what HE said. I remember when it were all fields,around here!
....well,actually,it still is-but them's the perks of owning an island.....

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Every available piece of land around here is being built on, there were Reps from building companies going around the houses offering big money to buy large gardens to build another house on, a few sold their gardens and another house was squashed in, we were offered 150,000 E for our big side garden, the missus had great fun bargaining on the phone, she had no intentions of selling but she loves that sort of thing, no way do I want someone living up me backside at my age.

Phyllis is very two faced when it comes to speaking on the phone she has a special telephone voice she uses when she’s talking to strangers “Hell loo, to whom am I speaking?, oh yes I see, well I am afraid my husband is unavailable at present, out on important business..blah blah blah…” Then when I come home I’ll ask was there any calls for me “Just some geezer wanting a repair job done, same bloke who stung yeh before, told him feck off”