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Apparently they've picked up a top Mafia godfather in... wait for it.... Preston!I don't know if any of you have ever been to this particular northern town (although they call it a city now) but truly, it's the last place you'd expect to find someone with such exotic Sicilian roots.  Apparently they traced him through phone calls to and from his family. He was hiding out in a little flat in the town centre.  |
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« Reply #1 on: 12:43:51, 18-05-2007 » |
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One of the most unpleasant bosses I have ever had came from Preston. Now it all makes sense ....
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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 #2 on: 10:37:57, 19-05-2007 » |
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a contender for today's humourous story (is that the correct purpose of this thread?) might be:
ben and jerry's (ice cream) have decided to change the diet of their cows so they produce less gas...
to tackle climate change takes ingenuity, you know......
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« Reply #3 on: 11:04:45, 19-05-2007 » |
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Kangaroos don't fart (apparently). Not many people know that. A potential useful area of investigation methinks.
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« Reply #4 on: 11:41:30, 19-05-2007 » |
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Kangaroos don't fart (apparently). Not many people know that. A potential useful area of investigation methinks.
Neither does the Queen. Do you think there`s a link?  |
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« Reply #6 on: 12:55:11, 19-05-2007 » |
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Kangaroos don't fart (apparently). Not many people know that. A potential useful area of investigation methinks.
Neither does the Queen. Do you think there`s a link? I was corrected from the beginning; - navvies sweat
- gentlemen perspire
- ladies glow
- (but then according to some sources, so do racehorses)
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« Reply #7 on: 22:24:32, 19-05-2007 » |
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I did a "Magic Flute For Kids" in Preston once - super audience  Won't have a bad word said about the place! Although apparently it seems we should have been doing Jonathan Miller's "mafia" Rigoletto  |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #8 on: 12:33:20, 20-05-2007 » |
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Preston is fine. It just isn't the sort of place you'd associate with high-flying mafia-types really. Great shopping centre and as it's nearer than Manchester I do most of mine there.
Were you at the Guildhall, Reiner?
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« Reply #9 on: 13:27:44, 20-05-2007 » |
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My brother went to univeristy in Preston and he seemed to like it!
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #10 on: 13:57:12, 20-05-2007 » |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #11 on: 16:54:05, 20-05-2007 » |
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Is the Guildhall that rather disappointingly modern building? I've sung in there.
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #12 on: 19:12:01, 21-05-2007 » |
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Yes Mary it is. The acoustics are absolutely dreadful as well. However, we're lucky to have something at all and it has been the home of many seasons of the RLPO, which I have attended annually for years.
Reiner you may have been in the University for yours. Was it the Grenfell Baines Gallery?
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« Reply #13 on: 19:36:47, 21-05-2007 » |
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I was in the RLPO choir once upon a time - that's why I was in Preston. We've probably seen each other!
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #14 on: 19:37:50, 21-05-2007 » |
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I think somebody's been at your avatar again!
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