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You know the menthol oil (Albas? Do you have that in NA?) you can buy you put on a hanky to sniff when you got a cold?

Well my grandpa told me he sniffed the oil straight up his nose, and claimed he lost his sense of taste.

Don't know if he was kidding me though, I was quite young at the time. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Could you give us his exact words, taking care to imitate exactly whatever wacky Brit-variant accent he might have possessed?

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It's South London, similar to East-End Cockney (it's as good as if you're not from London), probably the most notable person you'd know with the accent is Michael Caine. Vinny Jones also.

I'll do my best, but only the opener...

'Allo, Treacle Bollerx, wo' you bin doin? Did eye evah tew you abaht the tiyme eye...


Treacle Bollocks was a term of endearment for small boys when I was growing up.