Date   : Tue, 24 May 2011 21:26:10 +0100
From   : andrew.hancock@... (Andrew Hancock)
Subject: DDRC Boot Sale

agree!

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Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] DDRC Boot Sale

J.G.Harston wrote:
> Andrew Hancock wrote:
>> Depends on the Boot Sale, Junk Sale, Rally.
>> DDRC is well known for bargains!
>> But now the secret is out, everybody will be there on the list next
>> year, except JGH, because "That's miles away!"
>
> I only said that because it seemed so incongruous somebody asking if
> members of the list had been to their local car boot sale. It would be
> like me asking if anybody here had been to Blonk Street at the weekend.
> It's not like aksing if people have been to the Wakefield Show, or the
> South-East RO Show.

Don't think it's fair to call it "my local car boot sale". It's an 
annual event, and is certainly no ordinary car boot sale, and it 
attracts punters from far and wide. And it's a good hour away from me.

I'd say it's pretty similar to asking if anyone had been to the 
Wakefield Show.

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