"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:20:34 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

When I was an anklebiter in the 'forties the Kleeneezee Man was a
portly
little rubicund fellow with a trilby who did his rounds on a tricycle
with a big box on the front - like an ice-cream thingy of the time.

Urg's erstwhile Kleeneze-rep is a portly little chap with no teeth
who
was fond of boasting about his vehicle, so it could be the same one.

When I was a kid we had to make do with a one legged Breton onion
seller on a bicycle.

Looxury! Why, when I were lad us couldn't afford a Breton wit legs.....

What are legs?

Or onions, come to that?

Mary
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