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sandyRoe | 22:54 Tue 14th Jan 2014 | ChatterBank
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I remember seeing a TV report showing John Major haranguing a small crowd while standing on one. Did Michael Howard use one? Where did they get them? They must be as rare now as washboards or mangles.
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Probably tailor-made to fit!!!
22:55 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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milk crates ?
22:55 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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The danger of a plastic milk crate is that it might give way under your weight. Imagine Sir Christopher Soames on one.
22:57 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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I remember Audie Murphy had to use one, not a politician though
22:58 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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maybe iikea do them sandy ? :)
22:59 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Sorry, it was Nicholas Soames I meant.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58102000/jpg/_58102088_-1.jpg
23:00 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Dom Littlewood uses one when he presenting Thieves United or whatever
coz he is only little

Hempy Bogart did - esp with the tall lanky Lauren Bacall

and Edgar J Hoover

all not noted as politicians I agree
23:03 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Did Audie Murphy really use one? I thought his leading ladies had to stand in a trench.
They probably would get one in IKEA. They seem to do about everything else.
23:04 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Did Audie Murphy really use one? I thought his leading ladies had to stand in a trench.

It is possible. Audie was a decorated war hero and not all of them are sane
23:12 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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PP, whats sanity got to do with this topic ?
23:14 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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I'm not saying it was a deep trench. He couldn't have been that short.
23:15 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Ikea do a food away car, must do soap boxes too.
23:15 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Fold ^ (doh)
23:16 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Indeed, there ain't no sanity clause in my original question.
23:16 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Sorry, not exactly Ikea but Ikeaish - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2538735/The-flat-pack-car-build-inventors-claim-hour.html
23:18 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Built in under an hour? It would take me more than that to get it out of the cardboard boxes the bits came in.
23:19 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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//Did Audie Murphy really use one? I thought his leading ladies had to stand in a trench. //

The version I was told was that this story was about Alan Ladd.

I'm only old enough to remember Cheryl Ladd.


AOG has a soapbox but it's in practically constant use...

23:24 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Anne - I am very sorry I meant to write
Audie Murphy used to fight in trenches.....
23:27 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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Were his leading ladies fighting to get away from him in those trenches?
23:29 Tue 14th Jan 2014
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oh ok!
23:29 Tue 14th Jan 2014

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