Re: Sleeps
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:06 +0000 (UTC)
>> Beige is common over here in youth lingo. Is it the same their?
>>
> Not that I'm aware of, but then I'm not exactly up to the minute with
> youth slang these days. What do your youths mean by beige?
They use it for all sorts of things, including how it was being used here
(boring, common, unexciting). But ...
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Kiddie jokes
Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:31:32 +0100
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her
struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the
phone.. 'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's
hitting the bottle.'
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Re: Sleeps
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:12:48 +0000 (UTC)
>>>> It would have been late 70's. Now they're in their late 70's. So it
>>>> still is a very beige time, if you see what I mean.
>>>>
>>> I sometimes wonder if it's compulsory to wear beige once you reach 70,
>>> or if it's just the colour-sensitive part of people's brains that
>>> shuts down.
>>>
>>> ally
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Re: Sleeps
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:07:58 +0000 (UTC)
>>I have a picture of my parents when they were younger to remind me. I
>>sometimes use it as the computer desktop background at home.
>>
>>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.hatfield/public/Before%20they%
20became%20miserable.jpg
>
> Taken at an iron age fort?
Badbury Rings is just northwest of Bournemouth. ...
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I wonder if I could share a poem with you.
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:29 +0000
1.At The Cenotaph.
I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed at the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
'Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive;
Breed new ...
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Re: Sleeps
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:51:34 +0000
"Chris H" <fazer.1000thousand@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>I have a picture of my parents when they were younger to remind me. I
>sometimes use it as the computer desktop background at home.
>
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.hatfield/public/Before%20they%20became%20miserable.jpg
Taken at an iron age fort?
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For all Cumbrian Mysoginists: "Gadget problems divide the sexes."
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:30:21 +0000
I found this quite amusing!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8346810.stm
I wonder if they interviewed Edith.
DB ...
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Re: Sleeps
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:25:51 +0000
"The Traveller" <nospam@nomore.no> wrote:
>
>"Sleepalot" <sleepalot07@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:0uq5f5t80s9qllefb9rahq695pgq7k7su1@4ax.com...
>> "The Traveller" <nospam@nomore.no> wrote:
>>
>>>and I've been in the wash room, throwing buckets of soapy water at the wall, getting it to swish out all the f ...
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Re: It seems to be very quiet in here....at the moment!
Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:54:16 +0000 (UTC)
> johnny wrote:
> <snip>
>>> I stopped killfiling people a while ago and I'm not going to make an
>>> exception for you. I find that ignoring pomposity is good for the
>>> soul. If you want to really hurt me, try being reasonable. It's harder
>>> to ignore.
>>
>> It's a challenge to be reasonable in a flame-war ...
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Re: Sleeps
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:44:43 +0000
"a l l y" <ally@situponDOGGIEseats.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that's how I (or the previous house owners) ended up with him.
>>>>>
>>>> He's been abandoned many times then, Sleeps.
>>>>
>>>And we're beginning to understand why ...
>>>
>> I've calmed him down considerably. I was able to cut the firmly
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