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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12342

    #16
    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Wasn't the old slogan "Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion?"
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • LeMartinPecheur
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      • Apr 2007
      • 4717

      #17
      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      Wasn't the old slogan "Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion?"
      A chief trading standards officer, when media-interviewed about reports of TS action on substandard condoms, told the world that trading standards officers 'deal with every conceivable product'!

      Whilst also safeguarding certain products' impregnable reputations possibly...
      I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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      • David Underdown

        #18
        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
        Oh dear, yes, forgotten about that. My 16 year old niece has just had that variety but understands (I think) where I have been going for the past two months.
        The US usage (for dances) predates the usage for the concert series according to the OED.

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        • Serial_Apologist
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          • Dec 2010
          • 37882

          #19
          Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
          A chief trading standards officer, when media-interviewed about reports of TS action on substandard condoms, told the world that trading standards officers 'deal with every conceivable product'!

          Whilst also safeguarding certain products' impregnable reputations possibly...
          There was a wonderful anecdote about Archbishop Ramsay attending some conference on women priests. "What do you think is the main difference between men and women?" he was asked, and he replied, "My d-d-d-dear lady, I c-c-c-can't conceive!".

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