Flats in heaven
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:01 amby ozzy72
They obviously hadn't read Adrian Mole or the Boys and Girls' Book of Puns, and now a firm of developers in London's southern suburbs are ruing the fact.
Too late, the company has realised that its failure to sell a single flat in a new retirement block may have something to do with its name: Purley Gate.
The 13 apartments, available as single or two-bed units, are being advertised as having "incentives available", but there has been only a trickle of serious interest during the eight months since they came on the market.
Property generally goes rapidly in the pleasant surrounding area of Purley, near Croydon, with plenty of interest at the
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:09 amby Hagar
They obviously hadn't read Adrian Mole or the Boys and Girls' Book of Puns
Purley Gate
LOL
This is what comes from so many people these days not being able to spell properly. If you can't spell you can't appreciate a pun, good or downright awful. I love puns.
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:28 amby ozzy72
Somehow I just knew you'd appreciate it Doug
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:45 amby Hai Perso Coyone?
Okay...you knew this was coming....
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:18 amby H
This is what comes from so many people these days not being able to spell properly. If you can't spell you can't appreciate a pun, good or downright awful. I love puns.
And you're so alone in that, huh? ;D
Then you have the ones who look back at you as if the pun was meant seriously; it goes right over their heads (assuming that's what the blobs atop their necks are).
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:24 amby ozzy72
assuming that's what the blobs atop their necks are
A particularly large pus filled boil being the alternative H?
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:42 amby Hagar
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And you're so alone in that, huh?
Re: Flats in heaven
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:44 pmby congo
I'm up for it.
God I love these forums!
Re: Flats in heaven
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:35 amby beaky
Not a pun, but:
This reminds me of a retiree apartment complex in a town I lived in as a kid called "Harvest House"... surprised they didn't have a scythe hanging over the sign.
Re: Flats in heaven
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:52 amby H
Well, for strange names (maybe I should take a camera down there), how about an asylum named 'Nutter'house.
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:59 amby ScorpiŠ¾n
Is this an English thing, or am I just being thick today?
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:46 amby H
Is this an English thing, or am I just being thick today?
Well, I have definite ancestral ties to the British Isles, not just England, but I was born in the U.S. as well as also having Native American ancestry. As to where/how this leaves you...
... you choose -- just don't take off for the Pearly gates right soon.