Hearing aids were nowhere near as miniaturised as they are today. You kids today don't realise how lucky you are.

The guy on the right made the mistake of cranking up the volume on his state-of-the-art piezoelectric amplifier in order to hear the conversation over the snoring of the dude who's passed out on the table, just when the English exploded an Infernal Machine to breach the sea-wall around the harbour and sent peppermint sticks crashing through the roofs of houses throughout the town.

The subsequent international outcry prompted a great deal of research into ways of reducing civilian casualties by firing peppermint sticks more accurately.
The subsequent international outcry prompted a great deal of research into ways of reducing civilian casualties by firing peppermint sticks more accurately.
ReplyDeleteThe traditional "spiral" pattern on the pepperment sticks hearkens back to the rifling in the barrels of the improved peppermint guns.
There was also an agreement among the manufacturers of peppermint stick to label their products with an internal identifying code, to make it easier to trace peppermint-related crimes to a particular source.
ReplyDeleteFurther proof of the destabilizing nature of the homosexual agenda.
ReplyDeleteProto-Lesbian "Peppermint Patty" is well known for her willingness to aggressively insert peppermint sticks in the unsuspecting orifices of god-fearing christians throughout history...
Peppermint is an insurgent insertion.
ReplyDeletesent peppermint sticks crashing through the roofs of houses throughout the town
ReplyDeleteThus making the fortune of the inventor of the candy crane.
What?
ReplyDeleteFuck you people if you can't take a joke
ReplyDeleteThat first picture just looks like a relatively good party.
ReplyDeleteI haven't checked to see if the hand positions spell out POOP in teh sign alphabet.
ReplyDeleteI think it's an example of an epic fail of the "We can take the tablecloth off and not disturb anything" at Christmas dinner, sort.
ReplyDeleteUncle Jem and his friend Rupert will not be invited again
What?
ReplyDeleteKids, give back Grandpa Bouffant his hearing trumpet RIGHT NOW.