It's true, you know...


From the 1950s Government Warnings challenge. See all 378 entries (closed)

( Manic declared war on Old Media, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:37, archived)

oooOOOOOooOOH!
What ARE you talking about, you SAUCY man you, I ought to SLAP your wrists.
( bovine www.richardtingley.co.uk, visit or I kill you, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:40, archived)

you have to catch me first
(woo! chase me!)
( Manic declared war on Old Media, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:43, archived)

Ooh,
don't run too fast!
( bovine www.richardtingley.co.uk, visit or I kill you, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:48, archived)

and if you can't find me
I'll be in the wardrobe!
( thebear has now achieved 50 Solar Orbits, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:52, archived)

Mmmm,
wardrobes.
( bovine www.richardtingley.co.uk, visit or I kill you, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:57, archived)

err
Wasn't one of the fathers of modern computing - Alan Turing actually Gay?

hmm?

it could be true you know darling..
( Darkedge, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 14:04, archived)

You call me darling
but you don't mean it.
( bovine www.richardtingley.co.uk, visit or I kill you, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 14:11, archived)

i think that could
be the joke there ;-)
( pep, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 14:12, archived)

That would be why...
...that's his picture on the paper. ;-)
(b, Mon 18 Nov 2002, 1:43, archived)

no-ones flicked a duster in here for years
I'll do it when I've finished putting up this track lighting.
(Phil not DS, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 14:03, archived)

0000000hhhhhhh
ducky you jest with me
( raw-edge I'll sell my soul for some pain relief, Fri 15 Nov 2002, 13:44, archived)

Actually it's all quite tragic...
Alan Turing eventually killed himself because he couldn't cope with his homosexuality. He was arrested for it and put on estrogen because they believed this would make him more manly. He began to grow breasts, the poor fella...

Okay, this depressing post ends... now!
( Matazone Nine and a half years? Poot., Fri 15 Nov 2002, 14:16, archived)