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« Reply #1875 on: 22:55:11, 29-04-2008 » |
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How does this thread differ from the 'Waffle Rides Again' thread?
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« Reply #1876 on: 22:56:21, 29-04-2008 » |
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It uses ALT text!
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« Reply #1877 on: 23:01:33, 29-04-2008 » |
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Could someone please answer John's question.... I don't know either.... What is ALT text??? Ta  A |
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Well, there you are.
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« Reply #1878 on: 23:17:49, 29-04-2008 » |
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The evening had been going swimmingly until Esther made a passing reference to 'Tootles the Taxi', at which point the Vicar's wife turned pale and declined the offer of further trifle.
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« Reply #1879 on: 23:20:12, 29-04-2008 » |
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Waffle waffle.....  Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #1880 on: 14:17:48, 30-04-2008 » |
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Drat! I was going to paste maple syrup!
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #1881 on: 23:22:25, 30-04-2008 » |
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Phone calls in the dark.
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #1883 on: 20:23:04, 02-05-2008 » |
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Amazon.com denied the accusation: "We can provide a better, more timely customer experience if the POD titles are printed inside our own fulfilment centres," the company stated.
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« Reply #1884 on: 00:49:49, 03-05-2008 » |
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Consequently, even rigorous introspection soon grows as hostile to the idea of free will as the equations of physics have, because apparent acts of volition merely arise, spontaneously (whether caused, uncaused, or probabilistically inclined, it makes no difference), and cannot be traced to a point of origin in the stream of consciousness.
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #1885 on: 15:57:12, 06-05-2008 » |
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 I thought he always did it the other way round!! quite interesting Is there any truth in the story that English archers used to do that as an insult to the French forces? |
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« Reply #1886 on: 19:35:19, 06-05-2008 » |
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I thought he always did it the other way round!! quite interesting Is there any truth in the story that English archers used to do that as an insult to the French forces? indeed - no truth in it according to QI. Not sure it I believe them though, or whether i want to believe them  |
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« Reply #1887 on: 19:41:10, 06-05-2008 » |
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I think it's believed to derive from the practice of the French at Agincourt et al of cutting off those particular fingers of the captured English longbowmen, the ones used to fire their arrows, so was established as a sign of defiance.
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« Reply #1888 on: 19:45:37, 06-05-2008 » |
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Bit of an urban myth (urban? - seems wrong somehow).
The only people who were taken prisoners in medieval times were nobles, for whose release a ransom could be demanded. I'm afraid the common soldiery were simply butchered.
Incidentally, I only recently found out that several thousand of the French Army at Agincourt were Scots.
(That's not off-topic at all. Sorry)
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1889 on: 19:55:24, 06-05-2008 » |
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Incidentally, I only recently found out that several thousand of the French Army at Agincourt were Scots.
Och Hamish, wir din fir noo, thiv fun oot about oor Auld Alliance. Pass me that bottle o' Entente Cordiale |
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