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I once helped Rudolf Nureyev to brush snow off his car.
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« Reply #31 on: 00:23:34, 15-09-2007 » |
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I can play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with my two two thumbnails on my mandibular canine teeth. Here's a sample I did just a minute ago: Brandenburg 3  John W |
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Gosh.
I once saw a performance by a fellow calling himself "El Rey del Corcho" who did a similar thing, with guitar accompaniment, by using his thumbnails to strike a metal-tipped cork held between his teeth. His Czardas was a joy to behold.
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« Reply #33 on: 08:14:44, 15-09-2007 » |
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I once stood as a candidate in a General Election. One of the other candidates in the constituency in which I stood was James Callaghan, another, the National Front canditate, had previously stood as a Liberal candidate. Surprise, surprise, he was a used car dealer.  |
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John W
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« Reply #34 on: 10:06:53, 15-09-2007 » |
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Gosh.
using his thumbnails to strike a metal-tipped cork held between his teeth. His Czardas was a joy to behold.
Metal-tipped cork??? That's cheating!  Czardas, hmmm might try that, I'll listen to a recording later....  |
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« Reply #35 on: 10:52:07, 15-09-2007 » |
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Seeing as we're talking politics here, I'm related to a certain member of the SNP...
What? The Socialist National Party?...(as Richard III would say) "GOSH!!!"... Best, Alistair Hi Alistair, no, The Scottish National Party! |
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Best regards,
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #36 on: 11:02:42, 15-09-2007 » |
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Seeing as we're talking politics here, I'm related to a certain member of the SNP...
What? The Socialist National Party?...(as Richard III would say) "GOSH!!!"... Best, Alistair Hi Alistair, no, The Scottish National Party! Yes, I did, of course, realise that (especially being a Scot meself); I was merely pulling your leg about your relative's involvement in National Socialism... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #37 on: 12:02:17, 15-09-2007 » |
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I was once mistaken for a burglar while collecting mushrooms
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« Reply #38 on: 13:31:13, 15-09-2007 » |
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I was once mistaken for a burglar while collecting mushrooms
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A likely story sunshine! Next you'll be telling the Sergeant down at the station that you were only "collecting" pearls, gold and silver flatware. While I have your attention, whenever there is an election, why are we asked to vote for candied dates? do some people get the plum jobs? |
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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 #39 on: 21:56:52, 15-09-2007 » |
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Every Saturday afternoon (for the last twenty years) I retreat into a self-created imaginary world where my friends and I save the universe on a regular basis.
Funny; this talk of that end of the gaming world - one of the nice things baout the internet and roleplaying games is that one can now download whole series of now out-of-print (and, at the time, hideously expensive) books and start feeling terribly nostalgic reading through them (They were an adolescent interest, but I never actually got around to *playing* them, and when I got to college I felt it was a bit too late). Alas, one can't download miniature figures just yet (well, for others; I never went down that end of the gaming spectrum myself: was more than happy with computer wargames  ). |
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Alas, one can't download miniature figures just yet
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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 #41 on: 06:59:35, 16-09-2007 » |
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I came second in a Victoria-wide school spelling competition in 1985. Numismatist was the word that got me. I knew perfectly well how to spell it but became a victim of the damned one-slip-of-the-tongue rule.
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I came second in a Victoria-wide school spelling competition in 1985. Numismatist was the word that got me. I knew perfectly well how to spell it but became a victim of the damned one-slip-of-the-tongue rule.
I think you & Member Johnson ... um, oh, wait ..... Evan would be good friends. But perhaps I'll let Ev tell you about his stint on Teen Jeopardy. While we're sharing small font childhood stories .... My first ever public performance of any kind was St Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall for the 300th anniversary of Bach's birth in 1985 (perhaps at the exact moment you were misspelling numismatist). We did St Matt's, St John's, and B Minor Mass during Holy Week. I was 8 yrs old. It's all been downhill from there. |
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« Reply #43 on: 10:13:49, 16-09-2007 » |
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And for any members hitherto blissfully unaware of member Dough's dalliance with the world of Rock in the 70's, here - alas - is incontrovertible proof.  ( And why does he need a lyric sheet, particularly since he appears to be singing with his eyes shut? Because the number had been written the night before, or possibly even that afternoon: another case of 'We're doing this new number tomorrow, but it hasn't any words yet. If we play you the tune, can you come up with something right away?". Compared to us, Spinal Tap were models of professionalism. ) |
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I came second in a Victoria-wide school spelling competition in 1985.
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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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