Me on phone to customs guard in Edinburgh Airport: "Hi, I've just come off the plane and have a rapier, a hand and a half sword and a replica firearm. Wanna come and look at them?"
A friend of mine was requested to sign the anti-terrorism act for bringing a bullwhip and a halbird into Heathrow! Cleary we should be expecting more assasination attempts with medieval pole weapons in the future.
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Is it true.....
Date: 2002-09-11 01:01 pm (UTC).....that body cavity searches are actually quite uncomfortable?
Re: Is it true.....
Date: 2002-09-11 01:07 pm (UTC)But do you have a soft cushion I could borrow?
Re: Is it true.....
Date: 2002-09-11 01:19 pm (UTC)Aye Lad,
me Farmer Giles are playing up something awful......
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Date: 2002-09-11 01:43 pm (UTC)sadly this is the most amusing thing I've heard in days...
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Date: 2002-09-11 04:02 pm (UTC)Me: "A knife."
CG: "oh, okay then."
Oh well... :P
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Date: 2002-09-12 03:00 am (UTC)Customs Guard: "Is it a real gun or a replica?"
Me: "Replica"
Custom Guard: "Naaah, it's OK then. On you go"
Customs
Date: 2002-09-12 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Customs
Date: 2002-09-12 03:23 pm (UTC)Well, at least half of the space-borne Sci-Fi involves medieval weaponry ... perhaps our atmosphere is but the first step! :)