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'In fact, why not give up smoking altogether?'
Pay attention, I said! We smokers are creatures of habit, ok??!
This, martle, I had indeed spotted over the years...  Here, have a chalumeau.  |
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« Reply #4142 on: 21:13:04, 18-12-2007 » |
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All more chance for you to listen to some program on Radio 3 that you missed.
Also there is Sinfield sit com or some other comedy. People don't feel bad around Christmas time, Andy D.
There is always something to distract yourself with.
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I tried distracting myself with the new BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist, and was very depressed by the terrible situation of the children in it. It's fiction, I tell myself...but it's not really. Dickens was drawing our attention to what actually happened, and almost certainly still does, up to a point.
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But Batman's just about the only programme I watch t-p. I have recorded Cranford (you probably won't know this, it's on BBC1) and I've watched one and a bit episodes, which I found very amusing, so I'm looking forward to seeing the rest. Some people do feel bad around Christmas time, especially if they're separated from people they want to be with. Not that Christmas means anything to me personally.  |
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« Reply #4145 on: 21:43:30, 18-12-2007 » |
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when Tigger jumped up onto my head - stupid cat
Perhaps he's suffering from Red Nose Syndrome or Itchy Antlers? No, no, Andy! That's ZOE! Er, isn't it, MJ?  Er, actually martle, it's Eddie!  Though Zoe is white with ginger too, but she has some black patches which he doesn't. (Tigger's just ginger and white, Katie is tortie and white.) I know my avatar pic is a bit blurred but I've had it so long I don't want to change it now. |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #4146 on: 23:11:21, 18-12-2007 » |
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Ok, now I`m truly teed off with Virgin. The bluddy e mail service is screwed up. I can`t send or receive them and, of course, they can give me no indication of when the problem can be resolved. I am now going to place an order with Argos for papyrus, sealing wax and a brace of their top-of-the-range carrier pigeons. Grrrrrrrr!
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I tried distracting myself with the new BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist, and was very depressed by the terrible situation of the children in it. It's fiction, I tell myself...
No, not fiction Mary, and I thought a terrific adaptation of Dickens' novel. The best ever. As someone really immersed into genealogy, I come from a long line of Fagins in Poplar. No, joking, but when you research into your family you see the poverty, the desperation, and I think this BBC version was excellent. |
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« Reply #4148 on: 23:27:43, 18-12-2007 » |
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From the Property Department, BBC
Dear Ms Moderatrix,
Sorry love, the carrier pigeons is off. There's been an embargo on them ever since Radio3's abortive Twelve Composers of Two Weeks. Nobody's got any - none in Argos, Smiths,
Poundland or Boots, although you may find some in Curry's (though that's probably down to Tesco, look you, bach.) Your best bet is to phone a friend and get them to pass it on for you. BBC Props does run an IT service, and Despard says when he's got time he could pop across and download something to your laptop (perish the thought, isn't it cariad?) Otherwise you'll just have to twiddle your thumbs until they pull their fingers out.
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« Reply #4149 on: 23:49:00, 18-12-2007 » |
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Ms Moderaterix
We do have some pigeons down by here. Of course you will have to ask Butcher Beynon about them, but he is dead tricky as he springheels down the street with a finger, not his own, in his mouth. Straghtfaced in the cunning he pulls the legs off of his dreams
Monday Otter, Tuesday Shrews!
Mr. Beynon never tells a lie!
No, and now I am going out after the corgis with my little cleaver.
Ho, Ho, always raises a laugh with us Welsh. Our Dylan. Incomprehensible to other folks. Oh well, there you go. Laugh a minuit he is, really.
I will not recall about eating cats
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« Reply #4150 on: 00:21:20, 19-12-2007 » |
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Dear Dafydd
I am deeply disappointed to learn of the dearth of carrier pigeons in your Props Department. As you know, I have always relied on you in past years to provide the many and assorted wildlife that I am, infrequently, required to call upon. I have never forgotten your timely, last minute provision of alpacas and mezzo budgerigars on the occasion of Brenda splicing Biddy Baxters mainbrace. The a capella parrots were an inspired and welcome addition.
In the meantime, rumour has it that due to unfathomable machinations in the Dispatch Department you would appear to have a glut of partridge plus trees, twelve in total. I would be happy to take a brace or two if this might assist you in any way. I will not require the trees.
My warmest regards for the festive season. May the Christmas fairy be with you.
Best wishes
Persephone Needleblip-Bumtrincket
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« Reply #4151 on: 01:20:12, 19-12-2007 » |
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Computers - pah! Let's talk about DRAINS.
My kitchen was flooded yesterday because the drain behind the washing machine had become blocked (this drain is in a kind of lean-to, used therefore to be outside the house and had been kind of partly tiled over, almost certainly by cowboys) and, after ascertaining that getting anyone round to sort it would cost serious money, decided to take matters into my own hands. With the help of some caustic soda, drain cleaning fluid, a set of drain rods, a Drain Blaster and of course a pair of yellow Marigolds I set to work and by god it was a disgusting job. I'm not sure which of the various methods of attack actually did the trick, but after a couple of hours of pouring and prodding and plunging the (black with weird grey lumps floating in it) water finally drained away. Tomorrow I shall have to clean the remaining detritus off the floor before leaving for Xmas in Swansea (which will mean I shall be a bit out of touch most of the time between now and then).
Between this and fixing the dishwasher I'm beginning to think I missed my true vocation.
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Our bathroom sink has been half-blocked for about a month and a bit. Probably easily seen to but...bah!
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« Reply #4154 on: 10:48:11, 19-12-2007 » |
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From the European Commission
Dear Moderatrix
My services have brought to my attention your administration's proposal to arrange for the movement of livestock - namely two carrier pigeons. May I respectfully remind you of your administration's obligation to comply with EC Council Regulation 21/2004, which has direct applicability and requires the electronic surveillance and tagging of all livestock movements within the Union. I would remind you that movements of partridges and trees are similarly governed, even though trees fall outside the scope of the above regulation.
In accordance with Article 226 of the Treaties, we would respectfully request that your administration notifies the Commission, within three months of the date of this communication, of your proposals for compliance with this legislation.
Please note that owing to the impending Christmas festivities my office will be closed until 31 January.
Yours faithfully
Helmut Grossmittagessen
For and on behalf of the European Commission
Rue de Mot
BRUSSELS
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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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