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Old 2nd Oct 2021, 19:54
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“Prenez garde le gap, messieurs.”
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Old 2nd Oct 2021, 22:02
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The Army shows off its newest platform.
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Merde, no need to acclimatise, le submarine contract has been cancelled.
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Old 2nd Oct 2021, 22:18
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French invasion forces assemble at Le Chunnel.
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Old 2nd Oct 2021, 22:44
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"Anybody seen Jean Valjean? He's got the tickets..."
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....and at the next station along, the British Brexit forces gather to repel invaders...
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 09:02
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The British PM gets round Brexit by welcoming French Army to train with the British Army. Just so happens the Territorial Army are all HGV drivers and the training is on Tank(er)s
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 09:39
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"Sacre Bleu! The Prussians are at King's Cross!"
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 09:40
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Wellington (for it is he) "MORNINGTON CRESCENT!"
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 09:43
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Typical. Order us to form a square on the Circle line.
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 11:43
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Now all we need is to talk the driver into getting the train up to 88 mph and we will be home in a flash.
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 11:52
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This is what being routed looks like.
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 17:05
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Owing to HGV Driver shortages, the station kiosk did not receive it's order for Frogs Legs and Snails.

Quick Pierre, Folkstone and the cross channel train ferry, back home in time for breakfast...
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 17:09
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At Pinewood studios the extras all scramble for the last train from Watford. A visiting producer see the possibility for a Sci-Fi, Historical, Nautical, RomCom Blockbuster....


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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 18:10
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I’ve heard the delay is a rosser up the other end doing a stop and search looking for knives.
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Old 3rd Oct 2021, 21:27
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(Man in foreground with back toward camera) "Hey, you silly minkeys! Eef you squeeze ze bulb on ze top of mon chapeau, eet makes ze funny 'Onk Onk' sound."

That was the last cacophony heard as the train entered le garre and ran over the hapless re-enactors head....

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Old 4th Oct 2021, 06:48
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Well appears the French don't have any problems with keeping tbe tracks clear of litter...Well having a armed litter patrol of EVERY station helps. ..We will engage the Army said the PM at the Conservative Party Conference.
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Pierre was embarrassed to discover later his visually impaired wife had used his hat as a loo brush...
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. . and when they were on the mezzanine, they were neither up nor down.
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I just wish the Brits would put up some real men to fight us, that last 10,000 put up by the grand old Duke of York were just boys..
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