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« Reply #3135 on: 00:51:00, 12-09-2008 »
Areligiously I have found that my wayfaring clients ( a la Winterreise, Das KW et al) have had great support from monks and funky nuns
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3136 on: 06:42:41, 12-09-2008 »
I am looking for exact quote of Nicolaus Copernicus. He said something like: And still the earth is moving (or spinning). At least he said it in Russian language.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #3137 on: 07:56:04, 12-09-2008 »
I think that might be Galileo, t-p. Have a google for "eppur si muove".

Or just have a look here:

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pur_si_muove!
There is no contemporary evidence that Galileo uttered this expression at his trial; it would certainly have been highly imprudent for him to have done so. The earliest biography of Galileo, written by his disciple Vincenzio Viviani, does not mention this phrase, and depicts Galileo as having sincerely recanted. The legend first became widely published in Querelles Littéraires (1761), recounting a tale published by an Italian living in London in 1757 (124 years after the supposed utterance).
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« Reply #3138 on: 08:03:27, 12-09-2008 »
Thank you oliver sudden,
I am not so good with details. I can see it clearly now.



I read this book not such a long some time ago.
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« Reply #3139 on: 08:52:06, 12-09-2008 »
It's my magic hat.
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« Reply #3140 on: 08:54:59, 12-09-2008 »
Today, a contrabass clarinet slap-tongue orgy beckons.
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« Reply #3141 on: 08:56:45, 12-09-2008 »
Actually no, that's in Berlin next week...
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« Reply #3142 on: 09:04:07, 12-09-2008 »
For today we have spanking the chocolate frog.

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« Reply #3143 on: 09:49:13, 12-09-2008 »
 Contrabass clarinetist arrested in Berlin following slap-tongue chocolate orgy. Accused denies illegal use of Mars Bar but pleads guilty to being on-Topic.
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I've got to get down to Sidcup.
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« Reply #3144 on: 11:00:57, 12-09-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 09:04:07, 12-09-2008
For today we have spanking the chocolate frog.
Actually that's next week as well.

This week it's young Ukranians.
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« Reply #3145 on: 11:04:55, 12-09-2008 »
Spanking Ukranians eating their chocolate frog.
That sounds good to me. I like chocolate frogs. I like swiss chocolate frogs, but they make it only in shell shape.
Spanking Ukranians eating their chocolate shells. Now it is better.
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« Reply #3146 on: 11:06:35, 12-09-2008 »
Alas no spanking this week. Probably a good thing since it was starting to hurt my hand. On the other hand we'd been getting a decent dynamic range between the three of us.
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« Reply #3147 on: 11:13:05, 12-09-2008 »
Are we doing cresc without acceleration or are we smorzando rall it?
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« Reply #3148 on: 11:14:49, 12-09-2008 »
Experimental noodling.
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'is this all we can do?'
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« Reply #3149 on: 15:10:19, 12-09-2008 »
Who'd be a launderer, I am tormented with pressing.
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