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I don't know if this fits here, but if we had a thread called "I'm an idiot and I think this is funny" I'd have put it in that.

 

So I've not long bought a house and redecorating the bedrooms. Sparky had to run a cable so I've been putting the drywall back. I've found a very old tobacco tin from the garage (must have been from the '40s or '50s) and I've written "Yeah I'd be disappointed too" on a bit of paper, sealed that in an envelope, folded that up and put it in the ancient tobacco tin, wrapped that in a transparent plastic bag, taped that up too (battered metal tin still quite discernable) and hidden it in the drywall.

 

I intend to live for another 40 years so it may be 50 odd years before some excited homeowner re-models and discovers this. Maybe even the better part of a century.

 

I am quite prepared to play the long gag on this one.

 

EDIT - I must say it does look the part:

 

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You do realise that when you die you will have to come back and haunt that specific house so you can be on hand when the 'joke' comes to fruition?

 

 

reminds me of when I demolished one of the shed that were here when I moved in

Under the floor - pushed as far back as possible - was a tin box

it was quite heavy - about 1 foot by 9 inches and 3 inches high

 

What was in it??

 

was it the proceeds of a bank job and filled with crisp - but out of date - twenties

was it a cache of drugs

was it TREASURE!!!

 

 

 

 

nope - full of old engine oil

 

I reckon a child of the previous owner changed the oil on a motorbike and couldn't be bothered to get rid of it properly so just hid it!!

 

 

B****r

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I don't know if this fits here, but if we had a thread called "I'm an idiot and I think this is funny" I'd have put it in that.

 

So I've not long bought a house and redecorating the bedrooms. Sparky had to run a cable so I've been putting the drywall back. I've found a very old tobacco tin from the garage (must have been from the '40s or '50s) and I've written "Yeah I'd be disappointed too" on a bit of paper, sealed that in an envelope, folded that up and put it in the ancient tobacco tin, wrapped that in a transparent plastic bag, taped that up too (battered metal tin still quite discernable) and hidden it in the drywall.

 

I intend to live for another 40 years so it may be 50 odd years before some excited homeowner re-models and discovers this. Maybe even the better part of a century.

 

I am quite prepared to play the long gag on this one.

 

EDIT - I must say it does look the part:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]66833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]66834[/ATTACH]

Justification for posting this pair :evil_twisted: :evil:

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I don't know if this fits here, but if we had a thread called "I'm an idiot and I think this is funny" I'd have put it in that.

 

So I've not long bought a house and redecorating the bedrooms. Sparky had to run a cable so I've been putting the drywall back. I've found a very old tobacco tin from the garage (must have been from the '40s or '50s) and I've written "Yeah I'd be disappointed too" on a bit of paper, sealed that in an envelope, folded that up and put it in the ancient tobacco tin, wrapped that in a transparent plastic bag, taped that up too (battered metal tin still quite discernable) and hidden it in the drywall.

 

I intend to live for another 40 years so it may be 50 odd years before some excited homeowner re-models and discovers this. Maybe even the better part of a century.

 

I am quite prepared to play the long gag on this one.

 

EDIT - I must say it does look the part:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]66833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]66834[/ATTACH]

 

I am reminded of:

 

Link: Man who hid fake moustache under water valve waits five months to finish terrible pun | ITV News

 

Secret Stache.PNG Secret Stache 2.PNG

 

A man who found a fake moustache hidden underneath a water valve in his house later discovered his housemate had been planning an excruciatingly long-term dad-joke.

 

"Five months ago, my roommate John moved out," Reddit user Ryan Kramer explained.

 

"I haven't been in his room since then, however this week, behind a tiny door that accesses a water valve, we found a little surprise."

 

Mr Kramer says he then sent John "a confused text", to which he finally received the punchline.

 

"You found it! My secret 'stache!" it said.

 

"He has been waiting five months to make that pun," Ryan concluded.

 

Posted on ITV News website: Thursday 18th of September 2014.

 

:)

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Posted
I don't know if this fits here, but if we had a thread called "I'm an idiot and I think this is funny" I'd have put it in that.

 

So I've not long bought a house and redecorating the bedrooms. Sparky had to run a cable so I've been putting the drywall back. I've found a very old tobacco tin from the garage (must have been from the '40s or '50s) and I've written "Yeah I'd be disappointed too" on a bit of paper, sealed that in an envelope, folded that up and put it in the ancient tobacco tin, wrapped that in a transparent plastic bag, taped that up too (battered metal tin still quite discernable) and hidden it in the drywall.

 

I intend to live for another 40 years so it may be 50 odd years before some excited homeowner re-models and discovers this. Maybe even the better part of a century.

 

I am quite prepared to play the long gag on this one.

 

EDIT - I must say it does look the part:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]66833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]66834[/ATTACH]

 

Did something similar in last couple houses. Tin full of small toys below floorboards in one and writing over the wall under plasterboard in another (cant remember what it was!)

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I am reminded of:

 

Link: Man who hid fake moustache under water valve waits five months to finish terrible pun | ITV News

 

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Posted on ITV News website: Thursday 18th of September 2014.

 

:)

 

That sort of thing can backfire on you

 

many years ago I was working on the weekend getting a program coded and was the only one in the whole floor of the building and bored

 

I was coding the date validation section - as a professional programmer (well - I got paid for it) I had done that MANY times

 

and I put in a line that said if the day was 29 and the month was 2 then print "Happy Leap Year Day"

 

Normally my programmes had several little bits I did when bored - such as having a variable called Dracula - when all variables had to be things like WS17-index - or whatever

I lived for when an inexperienced programmer asked me why it was called Dracula

Clearly it was because it was a count

 

sorry

 

 

happened twice - would have happened more if the bar steward experienced programmers had not warned the new trainee

 

anyway

 

this one went wrong

 

 

the program was supposed to be run late afternoon

 

but one day things were running very late so the program ran at about 2 a.m.

and it came up with an unexpected message

 

and I was "on call"

 

so I got a phone call at 2 a.m. asking about this unexpected message

 

 

Took me several minutes to wake up enough to hear properly and remember that Satrday when I was bored

AND work out what date it was

 

 

 

to this day I am not sure they did not **** themselves laughing after the end of the phone call

 

but it did rebound

 

 

 

 

here endeth the story

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A map of Europe drawn from memory.

 

On the map, we can see:

 

1 GB

ROMainia

DDR (or where it was)

The Isle of RAM

 

:)

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Posted (edited)

Wife has told me the clocks have to go back

 

 

 

 

really annoying as I only bought them last week and they seemed fine

Edited by mikeprice
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I’ve set up a campsite that also caters for aquatic mammals. It’s called For All In Tents and Porpoises.

 

Damn, that doesn’t work with such bad grammar! Quotey fixy!

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Phew - managed to survive Halloween

 

CLEARLY not frighten of witches

 

But did have a load of Trick or Treaters on the doorstep, all dressed up as Gloria Gaynor!

 

At first I was afraid. I was petrified.

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My brother has planned tomorrow evening very carefully and has labelled each firework sequentially so that I can hand them to him correctly.

 

If I get it wrong, it'll be bang out of order!

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I had my leg X-rayed today.

The doctor said: 'Your patella measures 2.54 cm'.

I said: 'Inch-high knees?'

He said: '您的髌骨是2.54厘米高.'

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I had my leg X-rayed today.

The doctor said: 'Your patella measures 2.54 cm'.

I said: 'Inch-high knees?'

He said: '您的髌骨是2.54厘米高.'

 

That took me far to long!

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