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This needs to be a movie.

Richard Atkinson's _real_ name? George Santos. And now you have The Rest Of The Story

Canterbury Tales - The Milkman's tale.

I need to make mistakes of this quality. My mistakes have been too timid.

Clearly $20 went further back then.

This guy comes to mind.

Good times!

I had quite a few of these comic books growing up, loves me some Reid Fleming. I suspect Reid probably wouldn’t be as discreet.

"lost his money in Paris" ahem, sure he did.

It was $19, so it might have been the price of the ferry.

There's no crying at Fort Mascara.

Overheard

Big Rincewind Energy

I can see this as a sequence in a Wes Anderson film (Milkman played by Adrian Brody)

Like there would be an old timey map with a drawn arrow indicating the various geographical movements

Never saw "Beau Geste", so I'm just gonna assume this was the plot.

No, this needs to be a POGUES song.

Or Warren Zevon.

Or:

@dermotncosgrove.bsky.social

Beat me to it.

If you rilly rilly rilly wanna go hard.

A very British cautionary tale

Fort Mascara? Was he traveling there aboard the M/V Maybelline?

Fort Mascara is a location from the Barbie sequel, which goes unexpectedly hard.

I'm not a milkman, but I do have this stack of papers I'm contractually obligated to grade and return . . .

$19 used to go a lot further...

Kind of reads like an old Bugs Bunny script...

$19.60? is that a typo? or a translation?

Must be £19.60 if his milk round was in Canterbury.

Probably an American papers correspondent sending something funny home for the 'colour' section.

damn i'd buy the ticket now

To be honest, except for a few details, it sounds a lot like this movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0044...

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@felipeperea.bsky.social

That’s brilliant

Had a similar story from my old Big Issue seller. He and his mate ran away to join the Foreign Legion, but they were shipped to Guyana before they made the decision to desert.

I always wondered what happened to Ernie.

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That would be great. It could even be a musical, with titles like ' Who would have thought I'd be a Legionaire'

Early draft of The Flying Deuces, sounds like.

Bill Nighy, of course