New U.K. passport produced by France. First look

[ceejayt]

 

[LiquidLunch]

What do you mean "just released a picture of proposed design" I've had a blue passport for months and my grand daughter got hers last July????

 

[Geo]

No this is the new new design

 

[ceejayt]

What do you mean "just released a picture of proposed design" I've had a blue passport for months and my grand daughter got hers last July????

Think you need to look a little closer ...

 

[Tanya_and_Mick]

A Hamster.....ahhhhh

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[LiquidLunch]

I thought April fools day was on the 1st of April. But I prefer this design!!

 

[maz]

Wonderful! I want one just like that.

 

[Gellyneck]

They could have at least put a traffic cone on the top of the unicorn!

 

[Rapido925M]

Monty Python! Classic.

Gordon

 

[Brains]

Monty Python! Classic.

Gordon

As the Pythons were all highly educated, as you would expect the Elderberry insult has a ring of truth.
If you smelt of Elderberries it implied you were an acholic, as early medieval strong beer was flavoured with elderberries to blunt the sharp taste.

The French reported at lot of the soldiers at Agincourt 'smelt of elderberries' (Once more unto the breach dear friends....)
I'm sure the Hamster insult will also have a medieval meaning in France as well.

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[DuxDeluxe]

As the Pythons were all highly educated, as you would expect the Elderberry insult has a ring of truth.
If you smelt of Elderberries it implied you were an acholic, as early medieval strong beer was flavoured with elderberries to blunt the sharp taste.

The French reported at lot of the soldiers at Agincourt 'smelt of elderberries' (Once more unto the breach dear friends....)
I'm sure the Hamster insult will also have a medieval meaning in France as well.

Possibly, but hamsters were only discovered in 1839 so it may have been another rodent

 

[deleted79651]

Possibly, but hamsters were only discovered in 1839 so it may have been another rodent

Wasn't rodent a public school for genteel young ladies? Asking for a friend's niece ...

Steve

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Wasn't rodent a public school for genteel young ladies? Asking for a friend's niece ...

Steve

I know a good song about that school......

 

[pappajohn]

UK passports have been made in France for a long time.
It would seem we have no competent printers who could beat the French on price.

 

[Brains]

UK passports have been made in France for a long time.
It would seem we have no competent printers who could beat the French on price.

The UK has one of the largest global printers of money and passports, De La Rue, obviously a French name ......

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[Spriddler]

I know a good song about that school......

Me too. The school was quite near to me in my teens and we used to date the girls and sing it after a few ciders.
It's here but very rude, so be warned.

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[DuxDeluxe]

Me too. The school was quite near to me in my teens and we used to date the girls and sing it after a few ciders.
It's here but very rude, so be warned.

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Epic

 

[Taran_Las]

That's awfully rude!

 

[nicholsong]

I know a good song about that school......

Wasn't rodent a public school for genteel young ladies? Asking for a friend's niece ...

Steve

I was invited round to a cosy dinner with an ex Head Girl of Roedean. She was very genteel - till after the main course then she dragged me off to bed as the dessert. Well it would have been rude to spurn her hospitality wouldn't it?

Geoff

 

[Spriddler]

I was invited round to a cosy dinner with an ex Head Girl of Roedean.

Are you sure she wasn't at the other posh Ladies College at Cheltenham?

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