These period threads won't stop until JP does his reading

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After careful consideration of your keen argument, I am forced to agree.

However, this doesn't mean that I was telling fibs.

I was drunk when I posted that and I would pitch the probability that JP and myself sound exactly alike after several magnums of the old apple.

Absolutely no doubt about it.

I worked in Sarf End many years ago and my bestest chum there was from New Castle. We couldn't make out a word of each others accent when sober. However with the simple addition of large quantities of alcohol that was easily solved.

The reactions of the locals to a pair of large drunks, one from New Castle and one from Glasgow was interesting. We rarely found difficulty in getting to the bar.

True Story.