Overheard Conversations a la Alan Bennett

Ecker

Ecker

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Woman in Number 11A bus queue: "Course you know he only changed religions when he lost his eye".

What are these folk on?
 
United57

United57

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" Why have the Argentinians invaded the Falklands ? They don't have any claim to Scotland" not uncommon
 
Ecker

Ecker

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Woman on bus: "Oooh I'm wind swept, how are you duck?"

Man responding: "Well it's not been wonderful, I'm between marriages and me father's lost his leg"
 
shoes

shoes

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Infrequent trips on the bus always remind me why a great number these people cannot afford to travel by car :p
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Not really overheard, but a friend of my mother's arrived at the house one day for a chat and my mother asked about her health, knowing that she'd been to the doctor recently and had had some tests done - "Oh, yes, I've had a letter. I've got to go up to Dublin. They want to do an autopsy on me", she said. By the time we'd recovered from laughing at her for about five minutes, I realised that the poor woman had meant 'biopsy'...
 
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