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- GENUINE EXTRACTS OF LETTERS SENT TO
- THE COUNCIL OFFICES AT OLDHAM
-
- I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he
- put his foot in the hole in his back passage...I.H.
-
- The lavatory is blocked. This is caused by the boys next door
- throwing their balls on the roof...D.G.
-
- This is to let you know there is a smell coming from the man next
- door...B.H.
-
- The toilet seat is cracked; where do I stand?...A.H.
-
- I request your permission to remove my drawers in the Kitche...F.T.
-
- Our toilet seat is broken in half into 3 pieces...S.H.
-
- I want some repairs doing to our cooker, it has backfired and
- burnt my knob off...A.T.
-
- The toilet is blocked, and we cannot bath the children until it is
- cleared...J.W.
-
- The person next door has a large errection in his back garden, which
- is unsightly and dangerous...(Is he a HAM ?)...J.T.
-
- Will you please send someone to mend our broken path. Yesterday
- my wife tripped and fell on it and now she is pregnant...R.T.
-
- Wopuuld you please repair our toilet; my son pulled the chain and the box
- fell on his head...I.K.
-
- Will you please send a man to look at my water ? It's a funny colour
- and not fit to drink...J.F.
-
- This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we
- cannot get BBC 2...J.E.
-
-
- Taken from a 'junk-fax' origin unknown...de GW0MOH (I'm an Oldhamer too...)
-
- GW0MOH at GB7ABC
-
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-
- During the period of appliance convertion some years ago, the Gas board
- received some rather odd letters from its customers.
-
- Here are some extracts:
-
- ...Can you move the meter so it won't cause an obstruction in my passage?
-
- ...The electricity man did it through the floorboards, but your man put
- it in my front passage where everyone could see it.
-
- ...I don't like it so much in the kitchen as I did in the shop window.
-
- ...Since you put a new pipe from the mains to our house, me and my
- husband dread going to bed at night because of a slight discharge.
- I think there is a leak just after it enters.
-
- ...I told my husband it was safe to leave it in all night, but he won't.
- If he comes to the showroom like I did, can the lady satisfy him
- behind the counter and talk him out of it.?
-
- ...I was told mine is no good, but if it is altered, I can get the
- North sea in.?
-
- ...I have heard that there are two ways you can have it, and it worked
- out cheaper the more you got if you have it the other way.
-
- ...I am not satisfied with an apprentice, so will you send a man to do
- it properly.
-
- ...My wife will be ready for your man if you let her know when he is
- coming on a postcard.
-
- ...I will try to pay before the end of the month because my husband
- will be surprised if you cut it off without telling him.
-
- ...My husband is pretty handy, but he says your men can do it better
- because of their tools.
-
- ...It has gone slack with use and my husband can't make it any tighter
- no matter how he tries, so for the time being we are making do with
- an old gas ring.
-
- ...My slot is not blocked now but your men made an awful mess banging
- their tools on the wall.
-
- ...Since I made arrangements with your salesman, I am having a baby
- and would like to change it for a drying cabinet.
-
- ...My husband was under the impression that I was getting it at
- reduced rates, but your salesman didn't use his head and got me into
- trouble.
-
- ...It is about time your workmen came back to fill the hole, because
- we are fed up with having it in the street, it is a big attraction
- and we are getting children by the dozen.
-
- ...The woman who is after the house says she is not keen on it, so if
- she asks it, can your man stand by to take it out before she comes.?
-
- ...My neighbour has a bigger one than we have and it makes a difference
- to her water when she fills the bath.
-
- --------------------- Remember GASMEN DO IT NATURALLY ----------------------
-
- From : G8AMG @ GB7LWB.#27.GBR.EU
-
-
-
- Excuses, Excuses!
-
-
- I found this lurking in a corner of my PC and thought it may help those who
- are the parents of school children.
-
-
-
- "My son is under the doctor's care and should not take P.E. today," wrote a
- parent. "Please execute him."
-
-
- "Please excuse Mary for being absent," wrote another parent. "She was sick
- and I had her shot."
-
-
- These drastic measures were inadvertently taken in notes written by parents
- to excuse their children's absences from school.
-
-
- In all fairness to pupils throughout the land, I must point out that
- slaughtering the English language is a practice that is not limited opnly to
- students. An astonishing number of grownups blithely go about murdering the
- King's English without any inkling that they are committing a serious crime.
-
-
- If you think that today's students aren't learning all they should, check
- out some of the writing miscreated by their moms and dads. the following are
- actual excuse notes received by teachers.
-
-
- Dear School:
- Please eckuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,
- and also 33.
-
-
- Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating.
-
-
- Pleazse excuse Roland from P.E. for a few day. Yesterday he fell out of
- a tree and misplaced his hip.
-
-
- John has been absent because he had two teeth taken off his face.
-
-
- Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was
- hurt in the growing part.
-
-
- Mary could not come to school because she has been bothered by very
- close veins.
-
-
- Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
-
-
- Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
-
-
- Please excuse pedro from being absent yesterday. He had (several
- mispellings of diarrhea crossed out) the shits.
-
-
- Please excuse Tom for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his
- boots leak.
-
-
- Irving was absent this morning because he missed his bust.
-
-
- Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.
-
-
- I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because
- I don't know what size she wear.
-
-
- Please excuse Harriet for missing school yesterday. We forget to
- get the Sunday paper off the porch. and when we found it Monday,
- we thought it was Sunday.
-
-
- Please excuse my son's tardiness. I forgot to wake him up and I did not
- find him till I started making the beds.
-
-
- Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend a
- funeral.
-
-
- My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent the
- weekend with the Marine's.
-
-
- Please excuse Mary from being absent yesterday. She was in bed with
- gramps.
-
-
- Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
-
-
- Please excuse Burma, she had been sick and under the doctor.
-
-
- Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever, sore throat,
- headache, and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever and sore
- throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over. I wasn't
- the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be the flu going
- around school, her father even got hot last night.
-
-
- G4HEB (Peter) @ GB7NEM
-
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