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You meet lovely people in the expensive seats at covent garden  Hang on a sec. If LB sits in the expensive seats at Covent Garden then that must mean that ... Great Scott! He must be rich. Which means he must be posh as well! Blimey! Re. the word "snob". Wasn`t it once a word for shoemakers/repairers? The first person to mention the word starting with "cobb" gets docked 75 points  |
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« Reply #3541 on: 13:34:42, 13-02-2008 » |
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I am sure everybody on these boards know where the word "posh" comes from. If not, here it is "POSH": Portside Out, Starboa'd In. Looking at it just now, methinks where did the 'h' come in??
It's Portside Out, Starboard Home. Ah yes silly me. The old brain cells never work properly after a big asthma attack I had last. Still there we go. Thank you Anteil TTL. |
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« Reply #3542 on: 17:08:06, 13-02-2008 » |
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home soon, dinner,wine, radio 3, read some more of the cool colin wilson book ( i smiled at him mentioning listening to 'the third programme' ), mmm, or may watch troy or perfume dvd with flatmate life is not too hard at all is it eh |
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« Reply #3543 on: 18:50:58, 13-02-2008 » |
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life is not too hard at all is it eh ...unless your future children are slated to be the victims of some eugenically-inspired selective breeding policy. For example. |
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« Reply #3544 on: 19:06:24, 13-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #3545 on: 19:28:55, 13-02-2008 » |
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Autoharp, we may not agree with Lord Byron's opinion but I find a reply such as yours unnecessarily unpleasant . He's come to the Happy Room to tell us why he's feeling happy - what's wrong with that? After all, he started this thread in the first place!
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« Reply #3546 on: 19:35:50, 13-02-2008 » |
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Autoharp, we may not agree with Lord Byron's opinion but I find a reply such as yours unnecessarily unpleasant . He's come to the Happy Room to tell us why he's feeling happy - what's wrong with that? After all, he started this thread in the first place!
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« Reply #3547 on: 19:38:45, 13-02-2008 » |
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Thanks autoharp.
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« Reply #3548 on: 19:40:53, 13-02-2008 » |
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home soon, dinner,wine, radio 3, read some more of the cool colin wilson book ( i smiled at him mentioning listening to 'the third programme' ), mmm, or may watch troy or perfume dvd with flatmate life is not too hard at all is it eh I thought you were using perfume as a verb when I first read that Lord B, I thought you were going to perfume a dvd, an interesting idea!!!! A |
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« Reply #3549 on: 19:52:31, 13-02-2008 » |
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At the risk of droning on about a subject that makes me rather despondent, the point that I was trying to make about Henley is that it has a reputation for poshness but actually, the population of Henley has for a long time had a fairly well distributed population. Most of the 'posh' people live outside the town in enormous houses and park in town in their enormous tanks to shop on the weekend. Henley has become a victim of its own success and, more and more, the rents and house prices are increasingly forcing residents out, the town is marketed as terribly posh (and attracts a whole host of horrible horsey people who choke the town to death during the regatta and are uniformly loathed by residents). The town has three large council estates (in one of which my sister lives) but they are carefully placed so that they aren't visible. As a child, I was completely unaware of why some of my class mates seemed to dislike me as much as they did (my sister was told that she couldn't ever be 'one of them' because she lived 'on the hill'). When people say that 'Henley is for posh people' it just makes me cross and sad at the same time.
I actually think that people should have the option to live where they grew up. Darwin said a lot about the way that communities and, more especially families, survive more frequently than those who do not.
I'm watching BBC2's Wainwright Walks going up Catbells. Reminds me of last year's holiday when we walked up there. On this rather bitter February day, the idea of climbing Catbells in the summer sunshine is wonderfully attractive!
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« Reply #3550 on: 20:13:25, 13-02-2008 » |
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home soon, dinner,wine, radio 3, read some more of the cool colin wilson book ( i smiled at him mentioning listening to 'the third programme' ), mmm, or may watch troy or perfume dvd with flatmate life is not too hard at all is it eh I thought you were using perfume as a verb when I first read that Lord B, I thought you were going to perfume a dvd, an interesting idea!!!! A That's how I read it the first time too, A! |
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« Reply #3551 on: 08:50:09, 14-02-2008 » |
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Life is sweet! Boss & I have finished off FIVE reports in the last fortnight (four of them this week!) and no major deadlines are now looming. I went to a lovely concert at St John's Smith Square last night. Friend has confirmed a successful ticket booking for the Opera-Bastille so we are going to Paris for my 30th birthday. |
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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 #3552 on: 09:07:18, 14-02-2008 » |
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My wife gave me her Valentine's card to me!! We've been married for several years now and we still do this sort of thing. Unfortunaetly, my wife is doing a 19 day stretch at work, poor soul, so she said she'll wait till tonight for hers!!! Romance is dead, pah!!
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« Reply #3553 on: 09:28:23, 14-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #3554 on: 09:41:30, 14-02-2008 » |
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Did you get a Valentine from a nice rich ballet girl, LB?
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