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Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37280

.... actually seen in real life happened to me ... I was driving down Church Street last Saturday Afternoon and saw a ...'Sandwich board man'..... his boards had a load of God bothering stuff written on both sides, it was surreal. I thought they only existed in comedy films and cartoons :shock:

Hugh's Left Foot · **Joined:** Wed May 07, 2008 5:45 pm **Posts:** 130

I've not seen any in Hartlepool, but there is a guy in Newcastle who stands at Grey's Monument with the sandwich-board pretty much everyday...

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

Hugh's Left Foot wrote:

I've not seen any in Hartlepool, but there is a guy in Newcastle who stands at Grey's Monument with the sandwich-board pretty much everyday...

Under and around the big screen without fail on a saturday afternoon 2 oldish folk start reciting from the bible, they just get ignored, not quite sure what they gain from this behaviour. I think they may have a screw loose!

Hugh's Left Foot · **Joined:** Wed May 07, 2008 5:45 pm **Posts:** 130

Matty_Robson's_Chin wrote:

Hugh's Left Foot wrote:

I've not seen any in Hartlepool, but there is a guy in Newcastle who stands at Grey's Monument with the sandwich-board pretty much everyday...

Under and around the big screen without fail on a saturday afternoon 2 oldish folk start reciting from the bible, they just get ignored, not quite sure what they gain from this behaviour. I think they may have a screw loose!

Just the one screw? :laugh:

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

Hugh's Left Foot wrote:

Matty_Robson's_Chin wrote:

Hugh's Left Foot wrote:

I've not seen any in Hartlepool, but there is a guy in Newcastle who stands at Grey's Monument with the sandwich-board pretty much everyday...

Under and around the big screen without fail on a saturday afternoon 2 oldish folk start reciting from the bible, they just get ignored, not quite sure what they gain from this behaviour. I think they may have a screw loose!

Just the one screw? :laugh:

I estimate 92, but it could be 18.

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

MadJohn wrote:

They should lend some of those screws to mr parmo, might get that desk finished :laugh:

he'll be watching the tennis and where Mrs P goes up he just starts swearing and looking angrily at the hammer!

poolieineastlondon · **Joined:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:08 pm **Posts:** 453

You can't beat this bloke for me - not a sandwich board but if you've ever been to Oxford Street in central London, chances are you'll have seen him with his megaphone shouting, "Be a winner not a sinner":

http://ni.chol.as/2006/05/03/oxford-str ... ot-winner/

I once saw him getting a serious kicking on the escalator at Kings Cross tube but he kept on with his "Be a winner not a sinner" bit. Quality.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:30 pm

it's STeve McLaren!!!! :shock:

Salty · **Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:33 pm

theres one does his 'preaching' on redcar high street too.
brave nutter IMO!

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:32 pm

Snowy wrote:

.... actually seen in real life happened to me ... I was driving down Church Street last Saturday Afternoon and saw a ...'Sandwich board man'..... his boards had a load of God bothering stuff written on both sides, it was surreal. I thought they only existed in comedy films and cartoons :shock:

As you're one of our older posters, Mr S, surely you and Gremlin must have seen the Mail's sandwich board man? He used to walk up and down Church Street "wearing" and shouting out the headlines of the day.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37280

Y'know something, now you mention it, A few years ago I was walking up Church Street talking to Ralph Ward Jackson (rarfy, to his mates) : and he said......" That Josiah Catweale is a....." :wink:

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