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St. Gwladys
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Another random tangent - just noticed that the verse for tomorrow on my verse a day calendar is Luke 4:7 - "If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine". I think this verse has either been tsken out of context or I'll have serious doubts about the (Christian) publisher!
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Penny S
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RE Rolf Harris paintings, here is a self-satisfied piece by an art critic in the Guardian. I would have shown a dark side if approached by him in the manner he recalls. I still could, as he also rubbishes the taste of the ordinary folk of this world who prefer representational paintings to unmade beds.
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In my collection of data about the friend's stitching up I have referred to in Hell and the prayer thread, I came across a company records page (independent of Companies House) for the new start-up of the guys who are doing the rip-off. And Lo, in the small discreet box for the ads which fund the site, there is an ad for solicitors specialising in wrongful dismissal cases! (Just the first time - it's random.) (The foundation company got Soil Improvement products, appropriate for something with the word garden in its name.)
Now it's possible that someone has been searching for that name in that sort of context, thus influencing the site, but the second popup was for marriage records. I choose to think that the witty aspect of God is showing that He is on the case.
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Update, it's not that random - it's very keen on those solicitors, and on both sites.
I'm now wondering if that matter is why people tend to be looking up companies. When I tried to use the electoral roll to find the man who ran off with my money without fitting the kitchen, the lady at the council said that that sort of thing was the usual reason people wanted to access it.
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(Transferred from a separate thread and originally posted by LeRoc)
I found this rather funny. It's purely a joke of course, but this guy tried to divide the European Union into 28 countries of equal population.
I think an additional restraint is that the resulting countries should be more or less culturally homogeneous. I don't think he's done this that badly. For example, I'm originally from the North of my own country. I often feel that culturally we have more in common with the North of Germany and the South of Denmark than with the West of the Netherlands. At least linguistically.
I think similar maps have been done with equipopulous states for the US.
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LeRoc
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(No problem.)
A lot of people have commented on the exclusion of South-East Scotland from the Celtic Union. I guess it's the only way he could make it equipopulous with the rest.
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
A lot of people have commented on the exclusion of South-East Scotland from the Celtic Union.
Historically, the Lothian region was part of Northumbria; it was annexed by Scotland in the early medieval period.
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Metapelagius
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quote:
Originally posted by Dafyd:
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
A lot of people have commented on the exclusion of South-East Scotland from the Celtic Union.
Historically, the Lothian region was part of Northumbria; it was annexed by Scotland in the early medieval period.
As before that the Angles had overrun the North Welsh kingdom of Manau Gododdin ...
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LeRoc
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Dafyd: Historically, the Lothian region was part of Northumbria; it was annexed by Scotland in the early medieval period.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
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Metapelagius: As before that the Angles had overrun the North Welsh kingdom of Manau Gododdin ...
Maybe the different kingdoms of the Island of Britain have overrun eachother so often that a case can be made for any division ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
But what do you think of this division into Northland, Anglo-Mercia, New Saxony and the Celtic Union? If you had to divide the British Isles into four equipopulous parts that are as historically/culturally homogeneous as possible, would this be the best fit?
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I think the Celtic Union has the feel of a ragbag of scraps put together - four very different countries in there together simply because they are all different to the main part of England.
You only have to listen to the Scottish complaining about having a Welsh presenter at the Commonwealth games to know that that wouldn't work!
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Metapelagius
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Dafyd: Historically, the Lothian region was part of Northumbria; it was annexed by Scotland in the early medieval period.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
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Metapelagius: As before that the Angles had overrun the North Welsh kingdom of Manau Gododdin ...
Maybe the different kingdoms of the Island of Britain have overrun each other so often that a case can be made for any division
Not so much overrunning each other as sequentially overlaying earlier strata, I suspect. No doubt the British tribe known to the Roman occupiers of Britannia as the Votadini had muscled in on the lands of some now nameless and quite forgotten folk. And so on back to the retreat of the ice sheets of the quaternary glaciation. And before that - who knows?
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin
Do you enjoy seeing and hearing Mr. Nighy in films and on BBC Radio as much as I do? Currently listening to him as lead in Charles Paris over on Radio 4 Extra. I do some of my best puttering and writing listening to him.
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Wasn't he in the Pub at the End of the universe film or some such with zombies? Sorry, I hate Google. I can't be arsed to look it up.
My second (unpublished thus far) has one vampire and nil zombies!
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
Wasn't he in the Pub at the End of the universe film or some such with zombies? Sorry, I hate Google. I can't be arsed to look it up.
My second (unpublished thus far) has one vampire and nil zombies!
He was in Shaun of the Dead playing Simon Pegg's stepdad. If we're talking vampires, he also plays the head vamp in the Underworld films.
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I'm rather fond of Bill Nighy too, mainly because he's a big Bob Dylan fan, and any one who's one of those is OK by me
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Dafyd: Historically, the Lothian region was part of Northumbria; it was annexed by Scotland in the early medieval period.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
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Metapelagius: As before that the Angles had overrun the North Welsh kingdom of Manau Gododdin ...
Maybe the different kingdoms of the Island of Britain have overrun eachother so often that a case can be made for any division
But what do you think of this division into Northland, Anglo-Mercia, New Saxony and the Celtic Union? If you had to divide the British Isles into four equipopulous parts that are as historically/culturally homogeneous as possible, would this be the best fit?
But there are parts of England that were never Anglo Saxon, such as Elmet. Elmet was later overrun by Vikings, but so were parts of Scotland and Ireland. Should West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, northern Derbyshire and part of what are now Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire be part of the Celtic union? It has greater provenance than parts of Scotland and Ireland.
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
Wasn't he in the Pub at the End of the universe film or some such ...?
He played Slarty Bartfast in The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if that's any help.
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LeRoc
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Just wanted to say that I'm utterly thrilled by the fact that ESA's spacecraft Rosetta is now closing in on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which it will orbit during its swing around the Sun. Some of the pictures have already been jawdropping!
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Firenze
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I saw that on the main BBC evening news - and I was glad to see both the scientists interviewed were women.
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Metapelagius
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Dafyd: Historically, the Lothian region was part of Northumbria; it was annexed by Scotland in the early medieval period.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
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Metapelagius: As before that the Angles had overrun the North Welsh kingdom of Manau Gododdin ...
Maybe the different kingdoms of the Island of Britain have overrun eachother so often that a case can be made for any division
But what do you think of this division into Northland, Anglo-Mercia, New Saxony and the Celtic Union? If you had to divide the British Isles into four equipopulous parts that are as historically/culturally homogeneous as possible, would this be the best fit?
But there are parts of England that were never Anglo Saxon, such as Elmet. Elmet was later overrun by Vikings, but so were parts of Scotland and Ireland. Should West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, northern Derbyshire and part of what are now Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire be part of the Celtic union? It has greater provenance than parts of Scotland and Ireland.
Hmm. Elmet (the area around Leeds) was certainly a British kingdom. Its penultimate king, Gwallawc mab Lleennawc, features in the collection of poems 'Canu Llywarch Hen', though Llywarch himself hailed from the British Kingdom of Rheged (nowadays Glasgow and south-west). I wouldn't like to say what Celtic survivals there are in the area (if any?), but until fairly recently Leeds was one of the very few English universities outside Oxbridge to offer Celtic Studies in its curriculum.
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After long thought, I decided this deserves to be a Random Tangent.
I was looking at the BBC website and saw a headline that I was going to use over in the Circus on the Famous BBC RSS Feed Headline thread:
Army takes over 'Miss Uganda' contest
Weird enough, but then I decided to read the article, which provides the following:
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The Ugandan army has said it plans to take over the country's Miss Uganda beauty contest, it appears.
Kampala's presidential adviser on the military Gen Caleb Akandwanaho - who is widely known as Salim Saleh - says the move is intended to "attract young people into the agricultural sector", adding that it may help to solve the "problems of hunger and poverty among the youth of the country,"
I can't work out the logic. Admittedly, I start by not fully understanding what "army takes over beauty contest" is suppose to mean. I think they mean take over as organizers and not as participants. But granted that that is right, how does that get one to attracting young people into the agricultural sector?
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Moo
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I just came across this news item.
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I was going through my favorites aiming to do some weeding, when, as one does when one is uncluttering, I clicked a link. It was a link for a program that assesses the readability of texts. For a lark I entered the opening paragraph of Pride and Prejudice. The analysis referred to several scales that scored the readability from grade nine on into college/university. Okay.
But the bit that tickled me was the recommendation that this sentence be rewritten for readability: quote:
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Miss Austen seems to have been guilty of befuddling her gentle readers (according to Online-Utility.org's readability calculator) . ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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I came across this news story, which I hope you all enjoy.
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Someone tell Mousethief (the mouse part of him anyway), there's going to be Orthodox cheese.
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
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Just as well Russia isn't in the EU - they probably wouldn't be allowed to call it "mozzarella" ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Someone gave me the flu one.
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The last few posts were a bit worrisome if you read threads from the bottom up.
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Huia
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If you put a sperm and an ovum together do they breed?
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I need an old man pub. A place where grey haired old guys can go at 4 pm and drink beer anonymously with other old guys who laugh at the same jokes we all know already. Just saying.
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Just thinking about my dear old Dad ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) and how we would call 'Oxbridge' Camford because why the heck not and it would make us giggle like children! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Huia
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Wow! Thanks Moo. I liked his spinning leaf too.
Huia
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Originally posted by spork:
... we would call 'Oxbridge' Camford ...
I must admit I've occasionally wondered why it should be one and not the other. But I suppose if one's referring to them both in full, one usually says "Oxford and Cambridge" rather than "Cambridge and Oxford".
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Now trying to think of a "Thingy and wotsit" where there isn't stress on the first syllable of Thingy and the last syllable of wotsit.
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This morning, I was listening to "Love is a battlefield" by Pat Benatar. I really love this song but was thinking that it's really showing it's age - very 1980's! I thought about how you could redo the song, but maybe slow it down and make it more moody.
Then this evening, at the end of a TV show that happening to be on (no idea what it was), lo and behold - there was a slowed down version of "Love is a battlefield"! How weird is that!
(Unfortunately, this new version was absolutely abysmal. Bring back Pat B!)
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I woke up from my nap with an old camp song in my head:
"White ---- bells, upon a slender stalk,
Lilies of the Valley deck my garden walk."
You tube didn't let me down. There are lots of charming little girl groups singing this round for me.
However!
About 9 out of 10 versions, there or on Google, call it "White coral Bells," when I was sure it was, "White Choral Bells." A few groups even sang "upon a silver stalk."
I ask you?!
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In the situations vacant column of the Christchurch Press, "Want to earn money standing around on street corners?" No, not an advertisement for the oldest profession, (although prostitution is legal here) but an attempt to recruit more road workers to repair the quake damaged infrastructure.
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Only on ship of fools would I wonder why "eta" (=η) was being used, when they actually meant "eta"(=edited to add).
Jengie
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Just thinking about my dear old Dad and how we would call 'Oxbridge' Camford
On holiday I ran into a very annoying woman who made a great fuss about her dog, a 'Labradoodle' cross. It was not until later that it struck me that I might have asked her if she was sure she had not, in fact, bred a 'Poobrador'.
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(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
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Ah! I just had a moment of accidental delight. I thought that this afternoon at work was going quite peacefully. I just now figured out why--I had accidentally shut down MS Outlook, so I have not been receiving any e-mails all afternoon! Bliss!
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I saw a nice message on a T shirt.
NEVER TRUST AN ATOM
THEY MAKE THINGS UP
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Not sure why the Model Major-General should be so inspiring, but he has also influenced Singularitarians ( just a little bizarre historically!) and psychopharmacologists, among others.
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And Episcopalians.
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O I have heard "He is the very model of moderator provincial*". It was performed in the 1980s so long before Youtube and such.
Jengie
*Before the merger with the Congregational Church of Scotland, synod moderators were provincial moderators. In the case of Northern Province this included the whole of Scotland, Northumbria, Tyneside and Cleveland.
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