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Piglet
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Some people (myself included) will be delighted to see that (at least according to the Telegraph), Edinburgh is once again Britain's Top City.
Proper thing. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Albertus
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I've just learnt, from a crossword clue, that episcopal is an anagram of Pepsi Cola. Perhaps a sponsorship opportunity for TEC there.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Albertus:
I've just learnt, from a crossword clue, that episcopal is an anagram of Pepsi Cola. Perhaps a sponsorship opportunity for TEC there.
I remember hearing that many years ago.
If the Mormon Church still owns Pepsi, I doubt that there's much hope for a sponsorship.
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Albertus
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Oh well, I'm quite used to being the last to know things.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Some alternative New Year's Honours ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
They are wonderful and all look thoroughly well-deserved. That a man from Redditch should produce a book about roundabouts is no surprise, and it provides plenty of opportunities for observing bad parking too IIRC (my parents used to live there).
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Jengie jon
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Two completely random tangents. I took this photo yesterday. Secondly why do I have my mothers mixers instructions in my finance draw? I cannot think of any reasonable solution to that one.
Jengie
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
Two completely random tangents. I took this photo yesterday.
Jengie
Apparently one needs a Google account to open that.
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Jengie jon
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Darn, I tried to make sure it was readable by all. It is on google photos but it will let me post it to Google+ or Facebook and I could not find anyway otherwise to change the settings
Does this work or this one?
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Penny S
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Last night in the strong wind, my plastic tomato house ended up on its side on the other side of my garden and half way back towards the house, neatly tucked in over a group of large flower pots and under the rim of the bird bath. I wish I'd seen it go. It managed to do it by pulling a cup hook in the fence to which twine had attached it out. It partly knocked over a smaller plastic similar thing, but, it arrived where it did without knocking over the canes that had been inside it, the bird feeder pole, canes which had held up cucumbers, leeks or a plastic rain gauge en route. It may have flattened a few last lettuces and one onion. and knocked a sunflower seed dispenser on its way, but I have to conclude it either flew, or rolled. It's not a large garden, it only moved about six metres, but there's a lot of stuff in the way. I've put its frame back, but sequestered the cover. I didn't sleep well last night, but heard not a thing.
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Golden Key
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Watching the 2nd Harry Potter movie, and realized Mr. Weasley is played by the same actor who played Fr. Brown!
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Sipech
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Wonderful news from my alma mater. With a recent history that includes being the location for some of the Harry Potter films, Durham University has just appointed Professor Snape to be the inaugural Michael Ramsey Canon Chair of Anglican Studies.
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Golden Key
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Sipech--ROTFL.
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Piglet
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Love it! As if Durham wasn't cool enough already (about 15 years ago we spent a week singing the services in Durham Cathedral and staying in the castle - it was lovely).
On the subject of appropriately-named officials, I noticed in The Orcadian newspaper when I was home that the new president of the Orkney branch of the National Farmers' Union is a Mr. Cowe.
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Hedgehog
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I just realized that this year is the 75th anniversary of Gracie Allen's run for President of the United States! The gag started on the Burns & Allen radio show in late February of 1940. Gracie then, over the next week or so, did a whirlwind tour of other radio shows (such as Jack Benny and Fibber McGee & Molly) to announce her candidacy.
The idea caught the public fancy and it began to snowball. The radio show developed a campaign song with such lovely lyrics as "Those big politicians don't know what to do!/Gracie doesn't either, but neither do you!" and "Vote for Gracie to win the presidential racie." Her platform included such wisdom as "be proud of our national debt: it's the biggest in the world!" When asked her opinion on a hot-topic bill, her advice: "if we owe it, we should pay it."
One of her ideas that sounds even smarter these days than it did then: Put Congress on commission: if the country does well, they'd be paid accordingly; if the country does poorly, so will they.
Her political party, the Surprise Party! held its convention in Omaha, Nebraska. Yes, they actually held a convention in Omaha. It was packed. The Party mascot? A Kangaroo. Party motto? "It's in the bag!"
The campaign ground to a halt when the radio season ended in May (or maybe June). Over the summer, the Burns & Allen Show changed sponsors and, when it came back on in September the campaign idea had been dropped. Despite this, during the election in November of 1940, Gracie still netted in excess of 40,000 write-in votes. Perhaps they followed the advice of the campaign song: "That's right, you can't go wrong! Vote for Gracie and keep voting all day long!"
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Hedgehog
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Sorry for the double-post, but I need to correct something. I foolishly relied on Wikipedia for the number of write-in votes Gracie received. There appears to be no actual evidence to support that. Other Sources indicate that the total number of write-in votes (without classification as to who or what was written in) was only about three thousand votes. So Gracie, if she got any write-ins at all, would have received less than 3000 votes.
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LeRoc
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Yesterday evening, I was playing the trumpet in a street party here in Brazil. A short black man with a baseball cap arrived, and brought out a trumpet. He played some notes along with us. He started a New Orleans type song, which we played along. Then he left.
It was Wynton Marsalis.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
It was Wynton Marsalis.
Or did you just April Fool us? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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jedijudy: Or did you just April Fool us?
No, it would have been a good one but this happened on 31 March and it was very real. I'm never going to forget this in my whole life.
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Golden Key
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4 ft. long pet rabbits! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Golden Key
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...whereas I'm more inclined to run away!
I think animals are wonderful, but I'm not a pet person. If I had to be around one of those giant rabbits, it would take some time and work to get used to it. I tend to have a visceral negative reaction to standard poodles--where I grew up, poodles were much smaller. I'm not sure I even knew standard poodles existed. I'm getting over that, though.
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
4 ft. long pet rabbits!
I want one!!!
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Could you imagine one of those with an axe?!??!??!
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basso
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
Could you imagine one of those with an axe?!??!??!
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Golden Key
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Shhhh, don't tell Kelly!!!
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--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Palimpsest
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Do they come in milk chocolate?
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
I've just learnt, from a crossword clue, that episcopal is an anagram of Pepsi Cola. Perhaps a sponsorship opportunity for TEC there.
I remember hearing that many years ago.
If the Mormon Church still owns Pepsi, I doubt that there's much hope for a sponsorship.
Snopes, people, snopes.
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Penny S
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Those rabbits may explain the passage I've lately read in Lindsey Davis' book "Master and God" about Domitian. In the description of Titus' games inaugurating what was to be called the Colisseum, rabbits were listed among the animals. "Rabbits?" queried the main character, but explanation there was none.
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Moo
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It turns out that a seventeenth century play by an unknown author may have been written by Shakespeare.
Moo
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lilBuddha
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I want it! I want it! want it!!!
It is ugly, impractical, dangerous and oh so lovely.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you......the Black Pearl
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Welease Woderwick
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Me too!
If we order two do you think we'll get a massive discount that makes it affordable?
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Sipech
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It's back!
The Englewood review of books has done their top 10 bad christian book covers (certainly beats our measly caption competition).
The 10th cover, and the whole premise of the book, is cringeworthy. Though I really, really want to read DOES GOD EVER SPEAK through CATS.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Sipech:
...certainly beats our measly caption competition.
The way things have been going lately, anything would.
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Penny S
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Originally posted by Sipech:
It's back!
The Englewood review of books has done their top 10 bad christian book covers (certainly beats our measly caption competition).
The 10th cover, and the whole premise of the book, is cringeworthy. Though I really, really want to read DOES GOD EVER SPEAK through CATS.
My feeling about No. 10 is that it is a send-up. Surely?
And what happened on the 20th May, 2012?
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Penny S:
And what happened on the 20th May, 2012?
There was an annular solar eclipse and and earthquake in Italy. Maybe something to do with that?
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Pigwidgeon
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Wasn't the world supposed to end on May 20, 2012, according to some strange interpretation of the Mayan calendar?
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Penny S
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That book seemed to associate it with Joel. It would have been my mother's birthday, had she been alive.
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Jengie jon
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Alright the just plain weird.
I made a pasta sauce today (avocado, mayonnaise and poached salmon if you must know). The bowl it was in in the kitchen fell off the shelf before I could put it on the pasta. Fortunately very little split although still annoying.
What I do not get is how some managed to fall onto the door base between my living room and hallway while not hitting the living room carpet at all. The kitchen is off the living room!
Jengie
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Sipech:
It's back!
The Englewood review of books has done their top 10 bad christian book covers (certainly beats our measly caption competition).
The 10th cover, and the whole premise of the book, is cringeworthy. Though I really, really want to read DOES GOD EVER SPEAK through CATS.
Yes! What is God telling us when Mr. Fluffles licks his own arse?
Most of the list are just bad book covers. Though that one, #10 and the angel bestiality porn cover are true disasters all way round.
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jedijudy
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I think I disagree with this dog being named World's Ugliest Dog. He's not ugly, IMHO!
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lilBuddha
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I think the judges got bored with the Chinese Cresteds winning all the time.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
I think the judges got bored with the Chinese Cresteds winning all the time.
They always remind me of Bill the Cat!
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Sipech
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Did you hear what happened when Tim Berners-Lee was looking at some dodgy sites on the web?
He clicked 'Delete internet history' and now no one's ever heard of him.
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Sandemaniac
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Not really thread worthy in itself, but I thought this XKCD would go down well here.
AG
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