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Old 11-08-2006, 02:09 PM   #11
Trilby
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
- my great Aunt - Fatty Alice - will offer to help clean up every year, and every year will do something hideous - wiping all the crumbs straight onto the carpet, or folding up the dirty tablecloth and putting it back with the clean ones, or rinsing a wine glass in the water where the roasting tin is soaking....
I read this and laughed out loud. Too hilarious!
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