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I take my daughter to lycée at prades on Wednesdays and each week the sign at the roundabout near intermarche makes me smile.... it advertises le pressing du canigou, I have a vision of someone on top of canigou doing extreme ironing.

Sorry i`ll get my coat.
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:lol: :lol:
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...........or someone squeezing a tin of dog food....
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My husband asked my son if he would like to go to a choral concert he was singing in. My son replied that he would love to go but he was busy descaling the kettle.
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There was a boulangerie in Perpignan which made me laugh last year. It had one of those battery recycling bins in front with a big sign saying 'Piles' next to the shop sign saying 'pain' !

You know how you look at things sometimes and read them for a split second in the wrong language. :lol:
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I used to chuckle, when I lived in Sweden, they sold toilet paper called "Double Krapper". During the ten years in Sweden, it resisted me from buying Double Krapper, but it sounded pleasant.

The generic toilet paper should have been called "Double 0, coarse grit".

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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I am surprised that we get away with so many Family Butchers in the UK.
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I've yet to see a Green grocer!!
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Not far from where I was raised there was an Indian restaurant called Nobin. At our kindest we thought it was odd that they had no bin.....
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Where I was brought up the village fishmonger was one George Trout! :lol:
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and I am sure you have heard of the solicitors in Sligo, Ireland, calle Argue and Phibbs.
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and when I lived in Lancashire our vet was called Peter Nutt. He was also lucky enough to meet and marry a girl called Hazel.
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Aw Malcolm...I bet that isn't true about Hazel :wink:
Tho' I'm no Spanish speaker, doesn't "bobo" mean "pain" in Spanish? So much for Dr. Bobo and Pharmacie Bobo.
In Pau, where we used to live, there was a real estate agent called Monsieur Lostalot (quite a popular Béarnais name)
Who remembers the hamburger joint on Canet seafront (left of the Place Med) called Wind Burger ? (Pardon me...) :oops:

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I promise my vet, Mr. P. Nutt was married to a girl called Hazel. It's the truth!
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With a name like that, were the Nutts crackers?


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