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« Reply #435 on: 23:36:56, 03-05-2007 » |
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Anyone else a late-night election junkee like me? Always liked watching the results coming in - haven't seen Peter Snow and that swingometer for a while.
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #436 on: 23:41:44, 03-05-2007 » |
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Anyone else a late-night election junkee like me? Always liked watching the results coming in - haven't seen Peter Snow and that swingometer for a while.
Yes - although I've not been politically active for a few years now, the fascination remains. Sadly, an early start tomorrow means I won't be able to feed the inner psephological geek for very long tonight ... |
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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 #437 on: 23:44:10, 03-05-2007 » |
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Anyone else a late-night election junkee like me? Always liked watching the results coming in - haven't seen Peter Snow and that swingometer for a while.
Yes - although I've not been politically active for a few years now, the fascination remains. Sadly, an early start tomorrow means I won't be able to feed the inner psephological geek for very long tonight ... Ah yes - 'if the average swing away from Labour as calculated over a range of local elections over this period was repeated in a General Election, then we would have this result'. At which point you see loads of colours on the map which invariably are nothing remotely like what actually happens in that next election  |
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« Reply #438 on: 23:58:35, 03-05-2007 » |
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Anyone else a late-night election junkee like me? Always liked watching the results coming in - haven't seen Peter Snow and that swingometer for a while.
Yes - although I've not been politically active for a few years now, the fascination remains. Sadly, an early start tomorrow means I won't be able to feed the inner psephological geek for very long tonight ... Ah yes - 'if the average swing away from Labour as calculated over a range of local elections over this period was repeated in a General Election, then we would have this result'. At which point you see loads of colours on the map which invariably are nothing remotely like what actually happens in that next election ... with a hand-picked selection of politicians trying to explain away what the electorate has done to them while eminent psephologists try to disguise their disbelief at what they are hearing. |
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« Reply #439 on: 09:51:13, 04-05-2007 » |
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Morticia - I may have missed something, but what did you do about your hand? Did you go the A&E? Is it any better?
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« Reply #440 on: 09:57:42, 04-05-2007 » |
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Bless you for asking, Mary. I couldn`t face A&E so I used vast quantities of Tea Tree oil on it. Seems to have done the trick. I can see my knuckles now!  |
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« Reply #441 on: 10:23:10, 04-05-2007 » |
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1. go to www.google.co.uk2. click on "maps" 3. click on "get directions" 4. type "New York" in the first box (the "from" box) 5. type "London" in the second box (the "to" box) 6. click on "get directions" button 7. scroll down to step #24 Clicking on step 24, and 25 shows a nice little map for detail...... Tommo |
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« Reply #442 on: 12:39:00, 04-05-2007 » |
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Jeremy Vine did a passable impression of Peter Snow, even borrowing the great man's trousers by the look of it.
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« Reply #443 on: 12:45:38, 04-05-2007 » |
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Jeremy Vine did a passable impression of Peter Snow, even borrowing the great man's trousers by the look of it.
That tennis court way of judging the results was really something, wasn't it? (I seem to recall some pictures of Gordon Brown playing tennis from somewhere? Maybe we'll see more of that sort of thing as he tries to build up his image in advance of the next election?) |
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« Reply #444 on: 16:31:17, 04-05-2007 » |
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I am slow off the mark here. Friday afternoon innit? My best doctor joke.
"Doctor, I'm beside myself! First I think I'm a wigwam, then I'm a teepee, then I'm a wigwam, then I'm a teepee again! What is wrong with me?"
"You're too tense."
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« Reply #445 on: 16:32:52, 04-05-2007 » |
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« Reply #446 on: 20:54:40, 04-05-2007 » |
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I don't know any doctor jokes. Wait, I know one:
The old lady comes to a doctor and she complains:
Doctor, why is it when I sit down - I sit and sit and sit, and when I lay down and lay down and lay down etc.
And the doctor told her: and go, go, go (away probably).
But I don't know where is everybody? I already posted some message on the grumpy room thread and removed it, because I thought it was not good. And now what?
I should have some life beside playing and teaching.
Since my joke is not good and there is no one around I have to go back to my Weber and company.
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« Reply #447 on: 21:06:46, 04-05-2007 » |
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t-p, I don't 'get' your joke, but I suspect it's good. Try telling it again! |
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« Reply #448 on: 21:13:44, 04-05-2007 » |
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May be it is too Russian joke, or may be it is Soviet joke or may be it is semantic joke and is lost in my translation.
The joke is in fact that the woman keeps repeating the same simptoms that are not life threatening. She just likes to come in and complain.
Here you take everything seriously because if she sits for hours may be she is 1. depressed 2. has first simptoms of Alzheimer disease.
The woman says that if she sits down for a while she sits for a long time (repeating it three times)
and if she goes to lay down (I don't know which word to use for what I want to say) she stays in this position for a long time.
So the doctor playes alone and tells her to start walking. He repeats three times go, go, go, immitating her.
Does it make any sense? Probably not. May be it is Slavic sense of humour.
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« Reply #449 on: 21:20:29, 04-05-2007 » |
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well, tp, i promise you that that is funnier than any joke i have ever told.
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