I need a considered and witty response

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  1. Red

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    .. to a dee dar bluntsman who has had the temerity to refer to my town as The Town that time forgot. It will be copied to others.</p>

    All sensible, cutting, witty, crisp and succinct responses considered.</p>
     
    Red Rag, Dec 18, 2007
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    f*ck off tw@t!
     
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  3. Red

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    I was looking for something a bit more subtle nt
     
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    Ah ok!

    If only it was "the town that time forgot" - we might not have had a load of great architecture flattened in the 70's to build the Metropolitan Centre!
     
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    "Time" meaning....

    </p>

    ..smack heads, muggers, beggars, gun crime, child pregnancy and charming ethnic no-go areas?</p>
     
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  6. Red

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    Hmmmm

    ... I'd rather like to go for the slightly less self-deprecating approach if possible.</p>

    I have to say I expected better from you.</p>
     
    Red Rag, Dec 18, 2007
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  7. Red

    Red Rag Active Member

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    Now we're getting somewhere

    .. ooooh, if only......
     
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    Not only the town that time forgot, but Life Of Grime passed Barnsley by too.

    /poo
     
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    Barnsley. A town so backward they gave it a Sheffield postcode. nt
     
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    Ahem,

    *YAWN*...
     
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    Tell Him....

    You have to have been remembered to be forgot. Sheffield, big in the 60's!!
     
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    Sheffield, so desperate for the world student games they spent £250,000 on a video presentation for it. Shame no-one else wanted it.
     
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    They didn't forget us when they needed help to pay for Supertram!
     
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