On a rathermore serious level, I need to bring the mood down a notch in the lace-up boot hole and make a vaguely political remark. Boots have been bitchin' about lost profits. Blaming it rather all-encompassingly (?) on the big supermarkets cutting them up at the counter. (Well that's my expression and I'm sticking to it). They can't compete with the likes of Sainsbury and Tesco. Well matey I have news for Boots. They might make a bit more money if they sold things that other small chain-free chemists stock as a matter of routine (nevermind the biggies like S & T). The other day I went into my local Boots and wanted some Canderel. It's hardly the holy grail or the Turin shroud I was asking for! I also asked for the Listerine breath strips (not for me, it was for a friend - honest). They don't stock them. Quelle surprise! I had to go (not to the huge cost-cutting cut-throats namely S & T but) to the afore-mentioned chain-free chemist down the ginnel. They only thing Boots stock these days is corn plasters, well if you wear kinky boots what do you expect?
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 00:45:35
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 00:48:59
As long as they throw the corn plasters out with the bath water. Kinky and corn plasters just don't hack it.

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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 09:01:06
Boots... like a lot of high street retailers have been getting their butts well and truly kicked, and are feeling the pinch of consumer realism setting in. Lack of disposible income through higher taxation in one form or another plus the idiotic pertol prices, will squeeze everyone.
There will be lot of pruning to come I am sure.
In the meantime Tescos et al have their eyes firmly set on world domination. They will sell the lot..from kinky everything to a bag of sugar.
sigh
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 09:31:42
Well Boots deserve a kickin' if they can't "get with the programme". And as for Tesco they obviously plan to be "masters of the universe" but unless they branch into fetishism, erotica and kinky boots like wot Asda does with his George label, they will be pipped at the post by just a point of a kinky boot.
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 11:24:18
Good to see you back eggbod. And in kinky boots too (while line dancing?).
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 11:28:35
Thank you kind sir (outrageous flirty smile). Agreed but keep it quiet because if Tesco find out, we could all be buying our peephole bras with the cauliflowers and loo cleaners
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 11:35:55
An afterthought..........OOoh the romance of buying sex aids with toilet duck! and anusol!! (I don't know what that is but I think it's sun cream for your bum)
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 14:16:31
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 14:23:37
???!?!? Sun cream for your bum...??!!? How would your, um, precious area, get sunburnt in the first place....?!!
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 14:28:02
Typical Hel98 (owe you 2 now). I started this off as a grave political observation on the dire straits of Boots and it has now descended into anus sun tan cream. I blame you for this

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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 15:18:17
Okay, I'll go stand outside the classroom door and not speak to anyone....while still pondering the "bum cream"....
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 21:10:06
I'm still in eggbods naughty corner if you want to join me. I've found a new bottle of vodka!!

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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 21:08:42
I think peephole bras and cucumbers is more appropriate!!
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 17:38:46
Lawks-a-lordy! Were did that gurning face pop up from. If the wind changes you will be sorry. I don't think you'll get any results in the Ann Summers emporium with a gob like that
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 17:45:29
i'm world champion don't you know.
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- 09. Oct 2005 @ 11:38:20
Hmmm, must pop down to Asda for a bag of mixed organic salad leaves and an erotic novel. ;o)
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- 09. Oct 2005 @ 18:23:58
You jest not sir. Pop down any big super and you will find next to the fresh basil plants some "black swan" erotic lit (I said lit not clit). Can I say that on the sabbath?
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 09:44:10
And that's another thing! Who is this George anyway?? I never voted for him. Besides the idea of trying on a new pair of pants, while some random person is wandering past with a trolley load of fruit and veg, seems to me be taking "multiple choice" one shopping experience too far!!
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 09:46:52
Laughs! Or you could be trying on a new pair of fur-lined handcuffs and somebody strolls past with cucumber and two tomatoes - gasp another blogger!
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 18:21:30
George is from Crosby, if you're talkin about the @ ASDA "designer" bloke. (Crosby is by where I live BTW), I was reading about him in the local paper, and he designs for NEXT (Spew and splat noises) and Per Una, so he's the reason it's like attack of the clones when you walk down the highstreet. Apparently he can guess your bra size by just looking at your baps, and not the ones on the bakery counter.
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 18:32:19
Well Ethel love, he'd be better looking at the baps in Greggs the bakers than trying to guess mine. Put it like this, dough balls are bigger.
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 18:58:45
Boots is just a major rip off, they have one in Manchester Picadilly station with a superdrug opposite. HHMMMMMmmmmm which one do I go in?
Boots suncream = £8.99
Superdrug suncream £4.99
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 19:20:12
Just out of interest, If you are in the market for a geniuene Turin Shroud, I know a guy down Peckham Market who has three authentic ones left. Just give me a wink
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 19:23:52
And I don't even know who this could be. Is one genuine and the other two fakes? Or are two genuine and one fake. Good evening CJ592
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 19:27:57
Are you casting aspersions on his honesty??

Also if you wait a while he may even get you an authentic Holy Grail. He's sold out at the moment (Popularity due to the da vinci code) but he'll be getting another load in for christmas. Geniune! Honest!
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- 04. Oct 2005 @ 19:35:19
you certainly are on a bit of an egg roll now eh, bod? I thought you had disappeared only to find...lawks-a-lordy.. not one, but TWO postings. Huzzah. Glad you are back.
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- 05. Oct 2005 @ 14:39:09
kinky boots = yes everytime!
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They're stuck in the seventies aren't they? Kind of the Woolworths of the chemist world, a comforting but unprofitable throwback to when your mum used to take you shopping. Those starched white nursey outfits the stsaff wear too. What a throwback.
Yeah Chris, if they re-branded as Kinky Boots and did a bit of PVC and furry handcuffs they'd soon be turning over and the darlings of the stockmarket.