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    Snake Belts

    snakebelts_003Don’t talk to me about Snake Belts! I had two; a red and a blue one.

    I didn’t like the look of them from the start and they were banished to the back of my top drawer with the braces and old school ties, but my mum persuaded me they were ‘in’ and I wore one to school for ages.

    Then I noticed that Michael Bates had one wrapped round his turban in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and I never took it off.

    Ridicule finally forced them into retirement.

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