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Mamacita
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The creature that Americans call a buffalo is really a bison.
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Welease Woderwick
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Bisodol is supposed to be really good for acid indigestion.
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jedijudy
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If hydrangeas are grown in acidic soil, they will have bluish flowers. Isn't that the opposite of what acids do to litmus paper?
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Welease Woderwick
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I can never remember - which are the litmus states in the US elections?
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jacobsen
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I very rarely vote, which is naughty, considering the lengths the suffragettes went to to get women the vote.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I really must work on my swimming if I go to Sri Lanka - I'd like to be able to manage a couple of lengths in one go by the time I come home.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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My physics teacher at school came from Sri Lanka. We used to get great pleasure pointing out to him that "Sri Lanka" was rhyming slang for a popular English insult.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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A French priest once referred to me un vrai anglais which may well have been not a huge compliment.
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Chorister
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broderie anglaise may not be in fashion, but it is very pretty.
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Cara
Shipmate
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La langue anglaise is very much in fashion now in France. Clothes shops advertise their latest fashions as "must have." Everyone says"cool." And much more....
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Loveheart
Blue-scarved menace
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Its going to get a lot cooler towards the end of the week.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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I feel a bit sorry for Lot's wife.
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Latchkey Kid
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I try to keep my salt intake down. I even enjoy boiled eggs without salt.
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'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.'
Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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They sell pickled eggs at my local. They're really nice with Worcestershire sauce, but even better with Tabasco
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I found an empty bird egg on the grass this week. Isn't it a bit late for the little things to be hatching?
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Piglet
Islander
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Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon is a dish fit for a king, especially if served with a glass or two of Buck's Fizz.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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jacobsen
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Now that I've moved to the Cotswolds, Buckinghamshire is one of the several closely neighbouring counties, though I've never visited Buckinham itself.
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I remember, when I was 11 or 12, we visited some relations in Stow-on-the-Wold and my great aunt [?] had made Lardy Cakes.
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Smudgie
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I am a great aunt and also a great great-aunt and by this time tomorrow I will have seen two of my great nephews and my great great-nephew. My whole extended family's great ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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When I were nobbut* a wee lad we used to play in some trees at the top of a cliff that looked down on a house where they kept great danes.
*Yorkshire and other northern dialect for "nothing but."
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Danegeld was basically protection money extorted from the Britons by their medieval overlords.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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A hilarious animation of the lyric "We Are Your Overlords" appears in the infamous Viking Kittens video spoof of a Led Zeppelin song. Legend has it that Messrs Page and Plant were Not Amused™.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Just because one chooses to wear camouflage clothing does not provide an excuse to forego washing one's face; in fact, such a habit could well be considered to be slovenly.
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TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I am SO glad I have a washing machine. It even has a hand wash cycle that cleans and doesn't destroy delicate items! Otherwise, there would be a pile of lacy items stacked in the closet waiting forever to be cleaned the old fashioned way.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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That sounds like an interesting discovery.
Did you know that if you take an uppercase letter Y and place a circle between the outstretched arms of the Y, you will have a symbol for discovery? (disc over y)
I am surprised that no one uses that as an avatar!
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TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
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Piglet
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I wish the Discovery Channel would show something a bit more interesting than endless programmes about pawnbrokers and other assorted tat-merchants.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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St Nicholas is the patron saint of pawnbrokers. The three gold balls that are seen over many pawnbrokers' shops are representative of the bags of gold given by St Nicholas to the three poor young women to save them from being sold into slavery.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Since one of my cameras died I seem to have more camera bags than I have cameras - perhaps I should buy another camera to take up the slack.
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Cara
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When did people stop saying "slacks" for trousers? And were "slacks" only ever women's trousers, or could men have slacks too?
Of course over in the US they say "pants" which causes much transatlantic confusion and amusement...even more so these days I should think, now that in Britspeak in some quarters to say something is "pants" means it's bad, rubbish, crap (I think, if I've correctly understood the vernacular!)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Services in the vernacular seem to be the rule these days although I know there are exceptions - some places still say Mass in Latin and in the Syro-Malankara Rite I gather there are some Syriac words used that no longer have any real meaning outside the Rite.
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Loveheart
Blue-scarved menace
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Whatever happened to the proper use of spelling? Now our youngsters type nite when they mean night, rite, when they mean right, and the list goes on. Its about time the schools went back to basics and taught and corrected spelling in all subjects, not just English.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
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Ariston
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According to Sartre, the idea of the subject is one free from a transcendental ego; the ego is not something that exists beyond the epoche, but rather a projection, indeed, and illusion, one necessary to have an idea of unity to the transcendental synthesis of our perceptions, the "I" that is part of the "I think" that must accompany all judgments, ideas, and intuitions, but one that, nevertheless, has no entity of its own.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Lyda*Rose
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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so," spake Douglas Adams
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I quite liked the book Watership Down but found Adams' later works less to my taste.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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My daughter has wanted a pet rabbit since she was 3 years old but I'm afraid our current living arrangements don't allow for it.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Have you noticed how some people seem to rabbit on and on never seeming to pause for breath and at the same time saying absolutely nothing?
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Dafyd
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Is there such a thing as absolutely nothing? Even in a vacuum there's quantum flux. And, I suppose, God.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Suppositories are an effective way of getting certain prescribed drugs into the system - in some cultures suppositories are preferred to oral medication.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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My dear son-in-law is having the oral part of his testing today. He's a bit nervous, but I think he'll do very well! Go M!!!
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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After I had oral surgery as a teenager to remove eight(!) teeth in preparation for braces, I looked like a beat-up chipmunk.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Ariel
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I wonder if Friar Tuck had lived in more modern times whether he might have been known as the Fish and Chip Monk?
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Hedgehog
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That reminds me of the simple joys of archery. I find it quite a soothing form of exercise. Drawing back the bow and then hearing the sublime "thwp!" sound as a I release the arrow toward the target. Very zen!
I only do target shooting, though. I fear my conscience would not allow me to take aim at a living animal since this is just for sport and not self-preservation.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I think the Zen is beginning to look a little dated these days.
[ 27. October 2012, 02:27: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Piglet
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Am I the only person on Earth who hasn't read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
PS Wodders, you're dead right - it looks like a Mini Metro.
[ 27. October 2012, 03:19: Message edited by: piglet ]
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I don't know much about art but I know what I like.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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There's an art to grilling and smoking food. Sometimes it comes out OK, but misses the sublime 'this is a piece of Heaven' factor. It's well worth practicing to get it right!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Piglet
Islander
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Art Garfunkel was the taller half of a really rather good singing duo in the 60s and 70s.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Garfunkel's is hardly the place to go if you want to eat fine food.
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claret10
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Too much fine food makes me feel ill ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Ariel
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OTOH, Illy coffee is served in some good teashops and patisseries.
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