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Top 10 comedy shows #8 DADS ARMY

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 23 Apr

Dads Army is a very British situation comedy and may not transfer well to foreign audiences , especially with subtitles but to us it's the perfect 1970s sitcom. It's a little bit offensive in places as everything was in the 1970s...

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Some memories of the Home Guard. My Dad's not mine.

nannacroc @nannacroc (4049) 27 Aug 16

I was reading @jabo about her father's experiences in the war and it brought to mind one or two of the memories my Dad shared with me about his time in the Home Guard. The Home Guard in our town never got issued with guns. One day...

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I was watching Dads Army the other day and wondering if it really WAS like that

dorypanda @dorypanda (1601) 9 Jun 09

I know what my Grandad used to tell us, he told us that they (the Home Guard) used guns with rusty bayonettes and no bullets, apparently the idea was to stab the enemy with the rusty bayonette and hope that they got tetanus. ;P...

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