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Post by GlasgowTangerine on Jan 11, 2008 12:48:11 GMT 1
I learnt about the outside-in cutlery thing from watching Titanic when I was 11.
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Bernie
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Post by Bernie on Jan 11, 2008 13:02:01 GMT 1
Then you weren't as poor as you make out. There was nothing else you could do with the vouchers you got free with your petrol, you know. When I was a lad you knew if you got offered orange squash round a friend's house it would be served in either the Esso whisky tumbler or "long drink" glass.
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Post by njkk on Jan 11, 2008 13:03:26 GMT 1
Old Stokie was the cabin boy on the Titanic.
I had a pint of Titanic White Star in the Bullshed lastnight, it was nice
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Post by brispie on Jan 11, 2008 13:17:16 GMT 1
We may well have some tumblers which weren't used for what they were made to be used for.
They're probably still at the back of a cupboard somewhere.
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Will_75
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 11, 2008 13:38:14 GMT 1
my dad still drinks his whisky from an Esso tumbler.
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Post by njkk on Jan 11, 2008 13:41:50 GMT 1
has anyone still got one of them brandy balloon glasses with a cat climbing up the side, with a little mouse in it?
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Post by ab on Jan 11, 2008 14:13:06 GMT 1
Of course I know outside in, but as the only interest I have in a fish course is whether it would be an appropriate point to nip out for a smoke (annoyingly generally not as too early in the piece and I'd just get glared at by MrsAB for leaving her with the bunch of tosspots who would attend such a dinner too early).
Anyway, any fule kno that the point of elaborate formal dinners is to enable maximum carnage when the inevitable food fight breaks out. Pip Pip.
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Post by bromley on Jan 11, 2008 15:04:22 GMT 1
7, dog wrong
What is the point of having a capuccino if you're going to spoon off the froth?
Bit of a crap do if there are only 4 glasses. You ideally need 6 or 7.
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Post by owlie on Jan 11, 2008 21:16:27 GMT 1
I got 7. Bris makes agood poitn on capuccino, but I'd have sopped after the word capuccino and added the words 'when there is a full cup of a different coffee rather than a mug of foam on offer'.
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Post by GroveR on Jan 12, 2008 10:01:11 GMT 1
9/10 - got the dog one wrong and my answer would have been "take the dog's effort as a personal insult and crack one out that sounds like a flock of starlings taking flight, following through and pebble-dashing both dog and hosts"
I was actually silver service trained and you could lose an hours wages for serving a guest over the left shoulder.
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