Well I never

Just trying to work out how the hell you'd conceal a weapon of that size?

 

It is illegal under the terms of the Prohibition and Inspections Act of 1998 to cause a nuclear explosion.

 

So it was you John

See...that's why I had to do it Clue

 

Well so it is ! When did they move it there ?

 

Think it was 1965. Before that the joke was,

Q. How do you get rid of staines?

A. Nuke Middlesex.

(But see post #78 first )

 

This line of thought brings to mind Betjeman's Poem beginning:

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!


Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

 

It's illegal to get divorced in the Vatican.

 

I thought it was illegal to get married there in the first place?

 

Well I never

 

Mrs Scrungee always recited that whenever we've driven through. We visited a grotty car boot sale there many years ago at a muddy, potholed site with people selling furniture sitting in puddles and water rising halfway up the fabric of sofas & armchairs. Got a 30's art deco coffee table for £5, a chrome art deco coal scuttle & matching companion set for £10 (both would go for about £250 in specialist shops in those days) and an absolute bargain complete set of replacement ornate tiles to refurbish our Victorian fireplace. All the punters seemed interested in was red flock tidemarked worn out grotty 3 piece suites with ornate tassled cushions and treated us with contempt because of our poor taste in buying such 'old tat'.

Bring them on.

 

It’s illegal to sell your eyeballs in Texas.