"Your loved ones could be left all alone and distressed and facing a whacking great bill," he warns.
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Now all you have to do is buy yourself some whacking great RAF pilot's gloves and you'll be set to take to the skies.
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Well, what better way to celebrate an influx of cheap bread and the destitute state of your nearest island neighbour than with a whacking great mound of pastry, meat, and gravy?
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It is a pilot's watch, a watch with a large face and huge numerals used by old-timey fighter pilots during World War II. Designed with a huge crown which, as William Gibson wrote, "is rather more than usually prominent, so that you can do it without removing your whacking great RAF pilot's gloves," the pilot's watch is the ultimate in utilitarian wrist-wear.
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Lugging four whacking great harps hither and thither can't be doing her invertebral discs too many favours.
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Hoare, p. 135 Leading London managements considered staging the piece, but some shied away from the controversial content, and others did not want Coward to play the lead.Castle, p. 61 As one of Coward's principal objects in writing the play had been "to write a good play with a whacking great part in it for myself",Castle, p. 65 he abandoned attempts to convince West End managements, and arranged to stage the play at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, a fringe venue in north London.
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They were all enthusiastic and willing to work and they created the blueprint for what the Uxfest became. In 1997 all proceeds from the event went to the Hillingdon Aids Response Trust. Festivals run from Fountain's Mill were always charity events, as a condition of the entertainment license. The budget being so small, they never really had money to pay bands, and although in the first year The Blood Divine were paid some whacking great amount like £600, no band was ever paid thereafter, apart from a contribution to travel expenses.
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The boys turn detective to try to recover the money, stalking the Wart (who is much the weaker character of the two) and trying to extract a confession from him, but Johnny Sharp interrupts the proceedings, threatens the boys with a cut-throat razor, and locks them in the tower of the local church. The boys escape and rethink their strategy to expose Sharp and the Wart; they have seen the men hanging out with a local merchant named Skinner and suspect that the missing money might be on Skinner's premises, just opposite the Incident (the boys are afraid of Skinner – "a whacking great bad-tempered thug of a man" – and avoid him as much as possible, though occasionally trespass into his yard as part of their war games). Ted and Toppy use the combat-planning skills they've developed during the games at the Incident to lead a well-planned raid on Skinner's warehouse where they uncover evidence of far more extensive criminal activities, including trading in black-market goods and production of counterfeit coinage. Skinner, Sharp, the Wart and a fourth accomplice (an 'unshaven type') return unexpectedly while Ted and Toppy are inside the warehouse.
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