Ah-ah-aahh-CHOO!
In the early 1980s I worked for a certain strike-ridden (no longer existent) British car company in East Oxford.

Some friends of mine were in a band and were supporting the Damned at the old Oxford Poly (now Oxford Brookes) and as I was working nights, I had no way to get to see them but then I had a bright idea...

As the gig was on a Wednesday, I decided the only way I could get out of work (they were utter bastards to work for so I had no choice) was to appear too ill to work. Thus the plan unfolded.

So on the Monday and Tuesday nights I took a pepper shaker to work and snorted ground white pepper at regular inervals during the shifts to give me the appearance of someone with an extremely bad cold: sneezing, coughing, red face, sweating etc. This also made my snot turn a particularly nasty brown colour and lo and behold, when I missed Wednesday's shift but turned up on Thursday as normal, I was asked why I'd come into work at all as I'd been so ill at the start of the week.

Result!

Fooled the bastards and went and had a fantastic night watching my mates' band and then the Damned, who I still go and see every year as I thnk they're ace.

Punk Rock - Do things your own way!
(Joe Strummer's Telecaster in tune with the world, Tue 15 Jul 2008, 15:04, 1 reply)

I assume you mean BL?
If so do you have any Marina parts kicking about? hahaha.

No actually I do own a Marina.

Ok ok I own two.

*cries*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 15 Jul 2008, 15:09, closed)