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PatD ®

10/25/2017, 13:13:19
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There's no evidence beyond the anecdotal for the existence of those signs, certainly none at all that 'many boarding houses' displayed them, but plenty that it was agitprop from the 70s/80s.  If it was the case, landlords in Kilburn (a London borough) must've been the exception, going by the  large number of Irish who settled there. One of whom was one of my very own cousins, now safely back in the auld sod, but still owning a few houses in NW6.....He's generally referred to with typical Irish subtlety as 'Tiger'. I don't see him as often as I would like, but that's mainly due to me not being able to afford to reciprocate casually spending €300 on a night out.

Last laughs?

As Mike says, he bought the T shirt in Ireland; meditating on which fact could lead on down into many a fascinating rabbit hole of post modern ironic speculation, if not indeed into an entire warren. But I'm not going to go there. 






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