nil by mouth...

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Bert had asked for 'two
portions of fish' - so they gave
him a double bass...

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- do stop playing with your food, Bert...





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our nearest and dearest? - they're in the furthest and cheapest...

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cash flow problems? - not
for those (so-called) care homes that
get paid by the weak...

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- no more than 'don't-give-a-toss homes', some of them (or they were, when I was a social worker back in the day)




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soccer academies: passing balls, failing exams?...

lateral thinkers? -
many strikers can't even
think inside the box...








(mind you, they do tend to finish games, even if they're not much good at reading them - which, by her own admission, is more than Posh Spice does with books)




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now you see him, now you don't...

pity the gay agoraphobic -

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no sooner had he
come out, than he had to go
straight back in again...

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(make that 'directly back in')

do the answers lie? - well, the questions seem to...

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Do the answers lie
iN One's questions? Wow, they do!
Hey, wait a minute...

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stuck for an answer...

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"I haven't a glue,"
said Sherlock Holmes to Watson.
So he used solvent...

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rhythm and greens: "music to my stomach"...

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Simply delicious,
Heston? - No. Remarkably
complicatedly!...

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Heston Blumenthal cuisine: putting the 'fusion' into 'confusion'...




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