I've never understood why they were referred to as 'Great' Train Robbers either
none of them have ever robbed a train and got away with it.
/let's not forget Joe that the only reason he came back was for the free healthcare
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:33,
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/let's not forget Joe that the only reason he came back was for the free healthcare
^all of this^
though I believe the Great refers to the size
/bad day pedant
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:37,
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/bad day pedant
It's all actually a massive misunderstanding.
The train was full of fire guards, so it should have been "The Grate Train Robbery"
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:39,
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There were loads of banana boxes on the train,
"The Crate Train Robbery"
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:42,
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There were some snakes on the train,
"The Sea Krait Train Robbery"
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:43,
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There was a lot of expensive crockery on the train,
"The Plate Train Robbery"
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:44,
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Now that's just silly,
Burt Kwouk was on the train, it was
The Cato Train Robbery
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:59,
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The Cato Train Robbery
like The Great War
"It was rubbish" said my nan, mind you she was only 8 when it finished - now she's 99 and in hospital with a blocked bowel, well that's what you get for eating nothing but cream cakes and Vimto all your life, I ask you, the price of butter these days, and that Mrs Harris on the corner with her bad leg, it's a wonder her husband hasn't gone mad, what with his lumbago and the grandchildren, and that poor Rory with the attention whatsit and catching MSRA in the hospital well it wasn't like that in my day they had a matron and when she said jump you jumped
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:43,
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The First World War?
It wasn't called that at the time. It was knows as "Internation Civil War II"
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:46,
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my grandfather knew Lloyd George
my nan also made a cup of tea for the King during the war, that Mr Hitler and his funny ideas, everyone knew they;d do more harm than good, what with Niemoller and his platitudes, you;d think they'd have bought him some winter socks in his condition, well I'm telling you now it was hard in them days, cruel hard, we had to go up the road in all weathers, miles it was, just for a piece of coal or an apple, and if you came back empty handed you'd soon catch it from Uncle Fred, my he had a temper but he was still a CO even if he wasn't a pacifist, never done a day's work in his life, him, my poor grandad didn't know what to do with him, and all them workhouses had been shut down by then, that bloody George Canning and his newfangled ideas
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Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:50,
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