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Wax On, Wax Off

Oh, the high-larious differences between British and North American English…

British car wash boasting 'the best hand job in the north'.
Click the photo to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of Fipi Lele and wxsnoozle.

3 replies on “Wax On, Wax Off”

Based on the area code (0161), that’s somewhere in Manchester. I’m from Manchester, and I can tell you with 99% certainty that the people who wrote that slogan knew exactly what it means.

That is indeed in Manchester. Just off the Princess Parkway, opposite Nell Lane and Withington Hospital. It is almost a claim hotly disputed by one of my colleagues.

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