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Roll back 25 years - it's 1986
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Contracting at Burtons in Leeds. Went from £6k a year after completing my apprenticeship to £575 per week after tax and NI, not bad for a 19 year old.Comment
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What does NASA stand for?
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Actually January 28th. I remember our teacher let us watch it live in a Computer Studies class. The launch that is. I don't think he was anticipating what happened.
More Challenger jokes please.Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."Comment
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No great loss now.Originally posted by zeitghostIndeed not.
Nor did I realise that Kelly McGillis was of the same persuasion.
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I'm looking forward to the Ashes Tour next winter down in Oz. Do you reckon we've got a chance?Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."Comment
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It doesn't seem that long ago.Originally posted by zeitghost25 years is a looooooooooooooooong time.
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The year I started a short lived career as a metal closures technologist at Showerings Cider and Babycham factory in Shepton Mallet. That's the science of bottle tops to everyone else.
Got bored of that and was offered a horizontal move into the advertising department. My biggest success was this:
Hey, I'd love a Babycham
Later got fired. Couldn't work the same magic on their sales of Cherry B
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My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Well done, Jimmy. Thanks for fixing that for us..
Really?
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