Things that time forgot.

[Roslynmuse]

Did he have a notice in the shop? Please don't sit on the bacon slicer, we are getting behind in our work. ( It's the way we tell them!)

Bacon rind! That was the best bit of bacon when I was a kid! (Also, full English breakfast fried in LARD... especially fried eggs; so much tastier than that "healthy" vegetable oil!)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The rag and bone man.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The rag and bone man.

One still comes round here (about once a month - horse & cart, call ["Raggunbow!"] - the whole shebaggin). Don't think he collects many bones, though.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Did he have a notice in the shop? Please don't sit on the bacon slicer, we are getting behind in our work. ( It's the way we tell them!)

Ahem, "...behind in our orders".

[mangerton]

Maybe so that she could get back by five past, and the bacon would still be fresh.

[mangerton]

Did he have a notice in the shop? Please don't sit on the bacon slicer, we are getting behind in our work. ( It's the way we tell them!)

An oldie but goodie, as is this:-

Housewife goes into grocer's shop on a cold winter's day to find the proprietor standing with his back to the stove.

"Is that your Ayrshire bacon?", she asks.

[Nick Armstrong]

Bacon rind! That was the best bit of bacon when I was a kid!

Oh yes!! I used to be given the raw bacon rind to munch when I wor a lad too ! Used to be a treat !

I'd forgotten that.

An oldie but goodie...

A sudden rash(er) of bacon jokes!

Of course one cannot pass on without mention of the other great 'bacon slicer' gag....


I went into the butcher's, looked around and said: what's happened to your assistant? Butcher said: I sacked him. I said: Why? He said: I caught him with his you-know-what in the bacon slicer. I said: Blimey, what have you done with the bacon slicer? He said: I sacked her an' all!





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[french frank]

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A sudden rash(er) of bacon jokes!

Not so much a joke, but …

Google appears not to know the phrase, so perhaps it was a family expression: mother used to refer to "landlady's rashers" - which meant bacon cut in very thin slices. I think it was associated with seaside holidays in a guesthouse where the landlady showed the breakfast bacon the frying pan then whipped it out and served it up as 'two rashers' whereas properly cooked it would have shrivelled up to half the size.

[Serial_Apologist]

One still comes round here (about once a month - horse & cart, call ["Raggunbow!"] - the whole shebaggin). Don't think he collects many bones, though.

The one who visited S Ken in my childhood would call out something like, "I'll be 'avin you". Really used to freak my mum out!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Fish and chips in newspaper.
Trolley buses.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The one who visited S Ken in my childhood would call out something like, "I'll be 'avin you". Really used to freak my mum out!

You didn't live on "Alba Avenue", by any chance?

[french frank]

Cigarette cards.

[ahinton]

Cigarette cards.

Given time, maybe also cigarettes themselves...

[vinteuil]

... in his tutorials my Anglo-Saxon tutor used to offer his undergraduate students snuff. For all sorts of reasons, I don't think that wd happen now.

And I remember the Senior Legal Adviser where I first worked wore spats. I have never since seen anyone in a normal working environment wearing spats.

[Nick Armstrong]

... I remember the Senior Legal Adviser where I first worked wore spats. I have never since seen anyone in a normal working environment wearing spats.

Did he ever go to Florida?

cf "SOME LIKE IT HOT"
Agent Mulligan to "Spats" Colombo


MULLIGAN
Well, well, well: Spats Colombo.

SPATS
Hello, copper. What brings you down
to Florida?

MULLIGAN
I heard you opera-lovers were having a
little rally - so I thought I better be
around in case anybody decides to sing.

SPATS
Big joke!

MULLIGAN
Say, Maestro - where were you at
three o'clock on St. Valentine's Day?

SPATS
Me? I was at Rigoletto.

MULLIGAN
What's his first name? And where
does he live?

SPATS
That's an opera, you ignoramus.

MULLIGAN
Where did they play it - in a garage
on Clark Street?

SPATS
Clark Street? Never heard of it.

MULLIGAN
Ever hear of the DeLuxe French Cleaners
on Wabash Avenue?

SPATS
Why?

MULLIGAN
Because the day after the shooting you
sent in a pair of spats - they had
blood on them.

SPATS
I cut myself shaving.

MULLIGAN
You shave with your spats on?

SPATS
I sleep with my spats on.

You boys know anything about any garage?

FIRST HENCHMAN
Us? We was wid you at Rigoletta's !!

The henchman's punchline has become a bit of a saying in our family, when wishing to be evasive....