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« Reply #90 on: 21:49:15, 21-01-2008 » |
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Interesting! With regard to your "unoccupied Cyrpus", I think this warrants an entry on the Glossary thread.  Baz It is an incredibly sensitive area and I am sure whatever I say will offend someone. Cyprus is the Ireland of the Levant, and just as you can't even name the Six Counties or Northern Ireland without implying an unacceptable view to someone, I am sure any name in Cyrpus will be unacceptable somewhere. I would like to think that violence in the Six Counties, whether from Republicans or so-called Loyalists, is a thing of the past. I do hope so. ...BUT - are you talking about Cyprus or Cyrpus?  |
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #91 on: 21:53:43, 21-01-2008 » |
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At last I've managed to complete my Post #85. I posted it incomplete by mistake, rewrote it, and the board would NOT allow me to post the revised version, saying I'd already posted it...or something.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #92 on: 22:02:24, 21-01-2008 » |
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(DB, I think Baz may have simply been referring to a slip of the Basilian finger...  ) Whoops, ollie quite. It is typing on a laptop that produces these inaccuracies. Perhaps. And yes, Mary, there was indeed an exotic excitement with different coins and notes, I know. It is fine if you only go to one place, but for the past few years we have driven to Italy, passing some six countries and having to get different currency at each new border would be a right bind. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #93 on: 22:06:00, 21-01-2008 » |
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It also makes it more difficult to use them up if you change too much money, especially when you've been to a small country you're not likely to go back to any time soon.
I have a good £20 or £30 worth of Swiss banknotes chez t_i_n, from my first and for the time being only planned visit last March. Bizarrely leathery and fluorescent things they are, too. Almost worth having just to stroke occasionally, and try to rip into shreds.
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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 #94 on: 22:07:36, 21-01-2008 » |
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I'm sure I can take them off your hands if you need me to, tinners!
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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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George Garnett
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« Reply #95 on: 22:09:56, 21-01-2008 » |
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I agree about hard lavatory paper - good riddance to Bronco and its ilk, though when I was bored in hotels as a child, I discovered that it made (unused, of course!) good tracing paper  . And there's never been anything quite as good for playing comb and paper with. So it had its uses. |
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« Reply #96 on: 05:04:44, 22-01-2008 » |
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I agree about hard lavatory paper - good riddance to Bronco and its ilk, though when I was bored in hotels as a child, I discovered that it made (unused, of course!) good tracing paper . What was it good for when it was used? |
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« Reply #97 on: 09:18:59, 22-01-2008 » |
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I note that George doesn't specify its unusedness in so many words...  |
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #98 on: 09:24:18, 22-01-2008 » |
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I note that George doesn't specify its unusedness in so many words... " con sordino" |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #99 on: 09:41:00, 22-01-2008 » |
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Perhaps it could be used while playing comb and paper  |
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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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George Garnett
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« Reply #100 on: 10:00:44, 22-01-2008 » |
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Boys and girls, honestly! And Ruth, too! I expect it from the boys but dear oh dear.
Unused, obviously. One should never ever use the same piece of paper twice when playing comb and paper. After seven choruses of the Z Cars theme it's soggy and hardly fit for purpose anyway. At that stage it's scarcely use for anything except possibly...
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #101 on: 10:03:35, 22-01-2008 » |
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Doesn't sound like it's much use for that either George...
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #102 on: 10:07:48, 22-01-2008 » |
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The slide projector
It still exists, of course, and people are still giving talks to WIs in which one slide will always be upside down, or back to front, and one will always fall down inside the carousel, failing to appear on the screen and clogging up the entire show...
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #103 on: 10:10:15, 22-01-2008 » |
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Oliver, stop that. Naughty step for you (which I am delighted has made largely redundant the hurled board rubber). To return to the theme of Don B's thread  |
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