Grandpa's Tall Tales(?)

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  1. 4. Do you remember that time at ________ ________ where Ross fell in the dustbin?
  2. 6. A waitress in Abu Dhabi thought that Grandpa reminded her of her father because of his ________ old ________ .
  3. 8. One of Grandpa’s army colleagues had a serious accident. He lost his ________ in a hedge and had to have it sown back on.
  4. 12. Name a ‘fish’ beginning with ‘w’.
  5. 14. When sailing in the Philippines during a storm, a shark washed aboard Grandpa’s ship and activated the “________ ________ ________ ________” announcement.
  6. 16. In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. Not far behind him, Grandpa join the Navy in the year nineteen ________ ________.
  7. 19. Who saved Grandpa from having to pay for a broken window at school?
  8. 21. Grandpa called Mark’s first girlfriend ________ ________ because she was very thin.
  9. 22. In the navy, Grandpa played several sports including rugby and volleyball; however, he was most fond of ______.
  10. 23. For Grandpa’s 80th birthday, Nick bought him a special present, he took him _______.
  11. 24. Grandpa often boasts that he got bitten by an _______ when swimming in the sea off Malta.
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  1. 1. Did you know Grandpa is bilingual, he always says ________ ________ ________ in French, when dinner is ready.
  2. 2. Grandpa had ‘shrapnel’ removed from his ________.
  3. 3. Grandpa’s favourite treat when he visits Portsmouth, if Nan gives him his pocket money, is a nice order of ________ .
  4. 5. What festive item did Grandpa’s boys steal for him from the mess?
  5. 7. It’s been said Grandpa has two speeds: ________ ________ and ________.
  6. 9. Grandpa did what to help, after Nan and Dianna fell backwards on a park bench in Norway?
  7. 10. Grandpa found a ________ ________ in his friend’s toolbox in Seylan.
  8. 11. Grandpa has an odd phobia, he is afraid of ________ .
  9. 13. Grandpa’s nickname for Dianna growing up was ________ ________.
  10. 15. A picture of which ship was Grandpa allowed to have over the fire place in the lounge for two years?
  11. 17. Grandpa has spent countless hours in the garden with his hose at the ready, trying to shoot at any ________ that make the mistake of entering.
  12. 18. Grandpa fell off his motorcycle because he was ________.
  13. 20. “If you spill something I will hit you with the force of "________ ________”.