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« Reply #1875 on: 16:46:17, 28-06-2007 » |
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 his hat and trousers must be wearing thin then, eh?
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« Reply #1876 on: 16:58:30, 28-06-2007 » |
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Thank you t_i-n. Now I know the legend too. eruando, the leprechaun is magical figure and probably never wears his trousers thin. But be careful, he could be listening. I recently found out that Tristan and Isolde myth is Irish. In fact the symbol of Tristan teaching Isolde how to play harp is on our little children books of Irish songs. I was very surprized. May be Irish people had connections with Germanic people. I don't know and have to find out.  |
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« Reply #1877 on: 10:46:41, 01-07-2007 » |
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Everybody happy today? Hope so. All well here anyway and we seem to have a respite from the rain although the weather forecast looks grim for later. All my smoking friends are pretty glum at the moment. I really am ambivalent about the ban. I've never smoked but being with people who do hasn't bothered me. Not sure about the passive smoking thing although I suppose it stands to reason that it must be better not to be breathing in carcinogens. All the same, I'm not looking forward to the streets being one big ashtray. I suppose the fag ends will stick to the chewing gum and we'll all be a bit taller which will do me a favour . My closest friend smokes heavily and that now means that when we go out for our weekly lunch I'll hardly see her. She can't sit through a whole 3-course meal and has to nip out between courses for a cigarette. Sad really as she is a cancer patient anyway - although in remission. She says no point stopping - she might as well enjoy herself. I'd have understood that more had she been terminal, but she isn't. I'd have put those last paragraphs in the Smoking Room but didn't want to add to their misery. Any road oop, happiness abounds in Millyland and I wish you all the same.  |
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« Reply #1878 on: 12:50:47, 01-07-2007 » |
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Most of my close friends used to smoke (I never saw the attraction myself), but they all gave up years ago. My son also went through an adolescent rebellion smoking phase, and now is violently anti, with all the zeal of the converted. The only person I really know now who smokes is my brother, who smokes a pipe - and pretty silly he looks!
I'm happy, apart from the fact that I have two sons in London and am, as ever, worried about security and danger. One of them has been here this weekend, and that was very nice. He is a tremendous practical help, and being 6' 4" is able to reach things I can't, which has more uses than you'd believe possible.
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« Reply #1879 on: 13:23:03, 01-07-2007 » |
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All the same, I'm not looking forward to the streets being one big ashtray. I suppose the fag ends will stick to the chewing gum and we'll all be a bit taller.... At least it will give future geologists something to puzzle over. The Pleistocene Age will be a doddle to work out ('Why all this Playdo?') compared with the Gumnfagsnfreenewspaper Age. That'll give the paleoanthropologists something to write bemused conference papers about. |
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« Reply #1880 on: 19:06:32, 01-07-2007 » |
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George, the Pleistocene era is a total nightmare to work out, let alone the whole Quaternary era!
Got lots of composing done on holiday - now more than half way though Le Chasseur Maudit transcription.
Dinner now and then 2 weeks worth of Dr.Who!
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« Reply #1881 on: 21:54:07, 02-07-2007 » |
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Here's a shot of Birmingham from the happy days when it didn't rain all the time. Perhaps this post should be in the grumpy room?  (click on image for large version) |
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« Reply #1882 on: 22:31:24, 02-07-2007 » |
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All the same, I'm not looking forward to the streets being one big ashtray. I suppose the fag ends will stick to the chewing gum and we'll all be a bit taller.... At least it will give future geologists something to puzzle over. The Pleistocene Age will be a doddle to work out ('Why all this Playdo?') compared with the Gumnfagsnfreenewspaper Age. That'll give the paleoanthropologists something to write bemused conference papers about. Archaeologists would class the remains as ritual objects - which is archaeologist-speak for "search me, guv" .... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1883 on: 00:32:28, 03-07-2007 » |
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Here's a shot of Birmingham from the happy days when it didn't rain all the time. Perhaps this post should be in the grumpy room? (click on image for large version) Wow! If I'd known Brum was so green and ... well... cowey, I might have never left the Sceptred Isle. |
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« Reply #1884 on: 09:41:45, 03-07-2007 » |
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If you were an archaeologist a few thousand years hence, and found a fosilised cigarette but, what would you think it was? When you think about it, they really are bizarre things, fags.
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« Reply #1885 on: 09:52:46, 03-07-2007 » |
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These future archaeologists are going to have a rough time of it. They would certainly conclude from the strange habits around 25 December each year that we were fir tree worshippers, and from the complex temples built in gardens each spring that there was a flourishing Runner Bean cult.
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« Reply #1886 on: 13:31:09, 03-07-2007 » |
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I have a dim memory (yes, we know) of Carl Sagan suggesting that extraterrestrial visitors might reasonably conclude that the dominant species here was the automobile.
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« Reply #1887 on: 14:42:48, 05-07-2007 » |
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Yippee ! My lovely man and I are going to collect his campervan on Saturday, I've just sorted out the insurance, it will be such FUN !! We'll be able to get out and about all over the place, cant wait to retire now (at Christmas, I hope). It's like this : http://www.donamott.com/seasloop.aspWe're calling it "Romeo".... Happy us....  |
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« Reply #1888 on: 16:34:41, 05-07-2007 » |
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Janthefan,
Congratulations with the van. The van is a great way to sea the world. And while you are on the road you can listen to a lots of good music.
I can not decide if I am in a happy room today or a grumpy one.
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« Reply #1889 on: 16:51:59, 05-07-2007 » |
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So, Janthevan now, is it? |
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