Pinched.
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Very funny, but sadly not an actual Pepys quotation so, in fact, it is ‘just’ a joke. Still very apposite, though.
One of the clues is the use of the word ‘pox’ - Pepys only uses this to mean smallpox (or occasionally swinepox or very rarely a generic synonym for an STI). When Pepys refers to Bubonic Plague, especially in 1665, he always calls it ‘the plague’.
…and so back to the jokes.
Mark
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What a shame. And I actually checked too. Upon rechecking my checking I find that it has become so established that it gets dozens of entries on google, hence my mistake. But the message is valid I guess.
Talking of which If you are on Twitter, then a parody Pepys/Mark Francois account (“Mark ne Francois pas”) is well worth following.
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Galileo once said:
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
He also said “Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango” … Makes you think, doesn’t it?
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An Englishman an Englishman and an Englishman go into a pub.
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Barbers and public toilets both opened today to the public.
Experts predict a record amount of number 2’s.
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I recently bought a bottle of brown sauce which carried the warning ‘Do not use if seal is broken’.
As soon as I opened it, the seal broke, immediately rendering it unusable. I was wondering, how many other innocent shoppers, especially pensioners, have fallen for this evil scam?
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That joke was so bad I just had to give you a “like”! Keep them coming 
I really, really hate those bleach blocks that people put in toilets.
Sorry - I just had to get that out of my cistern.
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Hugh,
Those 3 are absolutely brilliant! Thanks.
steve
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