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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 #166 on: 10:16:03, 24-12-2007 » |
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When our kids were little my wife and all her friends got fed up with Christams and the waste of buying silly toys, and they all made a pact NOT to buy each other's kids presents.
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« Reply #167 on: 10:27:33, 24-12-2007 » |
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mispelt: to wear the wrong fur coat
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« Reply #168 on: 10:31:39, 24-12-2007 » |
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mispelt: to wear the wrong fur coat
[off topic] That really isn't a word you want to misspell  We used to have a standard form in one of our operational departments at work, upon which the only spelling error was "annomaly" (sic). And I know more than one person who, when they say something that's not quite what they meant, call it (in all seriousness) a "Fraudulent slip". [/off topic] |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #169 on: 11:56:30, 24-12-2007 » |
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exhorbitant - charging the sort of fees normally demanded by quondam ladies of the night.
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« Reply #170 on: 12:04:56, 24-12-2007 » |
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exhorbitant - charging the sort of fees normally demanded by quondam ladies of the night.
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« Reply #171 on: 12:06:56, 24-12-2007 » |
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exhorbitant (ii) ( adj.) : no longer moving in circles where aspirates are introduced unwontedly.
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« Reply #172 on: 12:24:59, 24-12-2007 » |
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...Did anyone read Berlioz Memoires? He heard a symphony in his head, but did not write it down, resisted to write it down. "Once the symphony is written I shall be plagued by the temptation to have the work performed. I shall give a concert that will balery cover half of the cost ..."
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« Reply #173 on: 12:36:47, 24-12-2007 » |
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Hector Balerioz Hector Balerioz - The snare drum player who inspired Ravel 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 #174 on: 12:41:45, 24-12-2007 » |
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Stewed Red Cabbage, Roast Pots, brussels and parships.
Parships, variant of parrships - vessels for catching young salmon. |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #175 on: 12:42:52, 24-12-2007 » |
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Stewed Red Cabbage, Roast Pots, brussels and parships.
Parships, variant of parrships - vessels for catching young salmon. Ah, is that why they call it that?... http://www.parship.co.uk/ |
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« Reply #176 on: 12:44:55, 24-12-2007 » |
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Oh poo! And I was trying so hard to keep my typing error-free.  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 #178 on: 14:36:17, 24-12-2007 » |
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theramin. n. A uniquely enigmatic musical instrument unable to play more than one 'e', yet designed expressly to take part in all except the last 3' 33" of a famous piece by John Cage.
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« Reply #179 on: 18:06:45, 24-12-2007 » |
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How thoughtless Members will divagate if not lashed!
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