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I love using the British Newspaper Archive as a source of information for my tree.
But an added bonus is the adverts.
Here's my favourite so far - please share any amusing ones you find!
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Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep :-X
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Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep :-X
Of course, or for the farmer! It just struck me as very different from today's newspaper adverts.
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Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep :-X
I didn't know sheep read newspapers! ;)
Cheers
Guy
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Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep :-X
I didn't know sheep read newspapers! ;)
Cheers
Guy
You've obviously not met the right ones :D :D
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Recent research has proved something I already knew; sheep are intelligent.
They can recognise pictures of individual human faces, even though one would assume that people all look alike to a sheep.
They are capable of complex mathematics.
Reading is of little benefit to sheep so they haven't bothered to learn. (Except for Shaun and his flock.) ;)
I have Lamb lineage.
I wonder what P.T.Z. was abbreviation for. Probably an ingredient long since banned. If not, I may have administered it. I was about to say "used it".
Lamb 1: "Two and a half pints of blood? That's nearly a leg-full!" :)
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PTZ = Phenothiazine formerly, maybe even still, used to eliminate intestinal parasites.
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PTZ = Phenothiazine formerly, maybe even still, used to eliminate intestinal parasites.
This website explains everything you could possibly want to know about PTZ and probably things you don't want to know as well - if you can understand it!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4024446 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4024446)
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Nothing to do with sheep! From 1933.
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It seems that sometime since 1933 we've forgotten that bus is an abbreviation and needs to be written as 'bus. :)
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I noticed that too, I think some abbreviations have become so standard that they have become words in their own right i.e 'phone and 'flu'. What struck me most was that the article was as recent as 1933 - I would have expected it to be 1833!
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I noticed that too, I think some abbreviations have become so standard that they have become words in their own right i.e 'phone and 'flu'. What struck me most was that the article was as recent as 1933 - I would have expected it to be 1833!
I was born in 1954 and remember being taught at junior school to use the apostrophe in words such as 'bus and 'flu.
Cati
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Apos'trophe.
Martin
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I think Cati may have been referring to the horse-drawn tanker. I was a little surprised by the horse, though not by the buckets and tanker, as they were still in use in the 1950s in rural areas.
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............ and still in use in the 1970s in parts of Norfolk :o
Carol
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(https://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/imageservice/rendition/article/jpg/nla.news-page000007905324-nla.news-article77660256-L3-33bfd0c6999ced5324b75cf6ff2a16a5-0001.jpg)
Hope the boys in the prison camps did the right thing by the 4 housewives
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Now then young David, I'm not at all sure that you're not teasing us with your pretence of misapprehension. The correct use of the 'housewife' (usually pronounced hussif)) is explained here: https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-pocket-housewife/
But that clip is funny ;) ;D
Carol
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I'm a bit too old for this sort of humour, but it made me smile. Advert attached.
Martin
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Death at 140...?
Martin
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I noticed that too, I think some abbreviations have become so standard that they have become words in their own right i.e 'phone and 'flu'. What struck me most was that the article was as recent as 1933 - I would have expected it to be 1833!
I wrote flu as 'flu' at work and everyone laughed at me.
My funny newspaper article was when I was looking up my GRt grandparents. Was coverage of a church service and said "and Mrs Dunn brought her donkey".
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Death at 140...?
Martin
Maybe she was one of P.T. Barnum's exhibitis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth) ;D