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I was looking for a "With Sympathy" card today for a neighbour and I had the child with me. I asked him to look for what he thought was a suitable card. Bless him, he handed me one that he thought would be "just right" and I absolutely fell about. He'd been looking in the rack next to the sympathy cards which was the office leaving section. It said "Goodbye from All of Us".  That child is a delight. He cheers me up every day Thank heavens I've got him. (I suppose it was apt really!) |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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Milly, he was spot on. An adult wouldn't have thought of that. Or probably wouldn't admit to it ... Eru, try to contain your giggles tomorrow (says she who wasn't able to contain her own when reading your post) |
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« Reply #137 on: 18:07:10, 14-06-2008 » |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #138 on: 18:32:25, 14-06-2008 » |
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Eru, try to contain your giggles tomorrow (says she who wasn't able to contain her own when reading your post) And try to avoid gurgles too. It's the organist's job to do the sound effects, not individual choir members. |
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« Reply #139 on: 20:27:21, 14-06-2008 » |
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I'd forgotten this thread...  I smiled today when I saw our baby tortoise yawning. SO cute. |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #140 on: 21:15:17, 21-06-2008 » |
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Morse interviewing a suspect who says: "I took her to a concert, I thought Vivaldi would cheer her up." Morse replies: "That's all Vivaldi's good for." Mind you, Morse is a great Wagner fan, so I don't really rate his taste in music |
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« Reply #142 on: 22:16:40, 21-06-2008 » |
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Even I am not shameless enough to post a picture of a drill here.
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« Reply #143 on: 00:55:45, 23-06-2008 » |
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Something else that made me happy tonight (although not as happy as walking DNA): http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php |
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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 #144 on: 13:32:07, 24-06-2008 » |
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That's quite an entertaining read. Something on there that also made me smile was the list of subjects that a particular contributor...contributed. Food: Vegetables, Pirates |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #145 on: 15:48:32, 21-07-2008 » |
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I've just smiled a lot at the sight of a young squirrel hanging upside down from the edge of my bird table, holding on only by the toes, and not doing anything except, apparently, admiring the view. It stayed like that for some time, just hanging in the air. I felt a bit mean because there had been nothing left for him/her to eat.
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« Reply #146 on: 15:52:21, 21-07-2008 » |
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Mary, that's certainly made me smile. I have a great picture in my mind's eye now I'm sure that he/she will forgive you for the absence of nuts  |
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« Reply #147 on: 22:18:51, 25-08-2008 » |
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From the current issue of the LRB, letters page: Sir - One of the most likeable things about the pieces that appear in the LRB is that, if you liken them to golf shots, once airborne they seldom stick as closely as they might to the fairway. I would never have thought of likening them to golf shots at all had it not been for an advertisement in the last issue for a book that its publisher claims brings 'golf, poetry and philosophy together'. It's clear that this is the volume those of us who have failed over very many years to find inner peace as we thrash our way past and all too often into the hazards yawning on every side have been waiting for. Except that the ambiguity of the ad makes me wonder whether the book is aimed at helping golfers to improve their game by making them more philosophical, or helping non-golfers to improve their lives by learning what makes golfers tick. |
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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 #148 on: 22:21:59, 25-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #149 on: 23:31:01, 25-08-2008 » |
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Something else that made me smile:
I get a few spam emails a day, which I delete without opening them, but I obviously see the sender and subject headings. The other morning I had two in quick succession: "Paris Hilton Raped by Gypsies" and "Paris Hilton Wins Pulitzer Prize". I think she must be the first person in history to achieve both those things in the same week!
To top it all off, I've found another one tonight, hiding at the bottom of my inbox: "Paris Hilton Lectures on Dickens and Dostoevsky". An invitation extended by the Gypsy Rape Victim Support Group Pulitzer Prize Committee, no doubt.
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