Re: Ooh my aching back!
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:18 +0100 (BST)
In article <qcKdnZSajffuok_XnZ2dnUVZ8lti4p2d@eclipse.net.uk>,
no.way@nospam.invalid (Andy Champ) wrote:
> Turns out that on the NHS you get bedrest and painkillers. Go
> private, and you'll get a physio.
You'll get a physio on the NHS, too, if the bed rest and normal movement
don't fix the problem. You may ...
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Ross McGowan
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:33:10 +0100
Won the Madrid Masters!
Local lad. Well doen.
B.
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Thar's gold in them thar hills ...
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Principal Photgraphy & a Little Bit of Luck
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:34:18 +0100
A tough lesson I learned about 30 years ago was never to get
over-excited about supposed film interest in my stories. The movie
industry, such as it is, seems to be driven more by enthusiasm than by
reality. Poor Douglas Adams spent the last years of his tragically short
life chasing crate of gold movie projec ...
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Emma
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:55:45 +0100
Watching the first two episodes of 'Emma' on Sunday evening was a
reminder that one of the major weaknesses of the sad remnants of the
English film industry is casting. It's not that there aren't any
talented casting directors around because there are. The problem is a
reluctance by producers or production ...
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Ooh my aching back!
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:49:58 +0100
Last weekend I had a good clear-up around the garden and in our woods and
ended the day with a glorious bonfire. For several hours I heaped piles of
garden waste onto the inferno with a long-handled pitch fork. It was a
bonfire to be proud of and later that night, after checking it had burnt
down to a safe l ...
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Re: Don't Feel Guilty About Ranting
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:16:49 -0500
Jerry wrote:
> .
> --------------------------
> The Internet will become the
> Sacred Sanctuary for Nutters and Idiots.
> (Michel Nostradamus, December 14, 1503, July 2, 1566).
> --------------------------
And where do you meet rational people? ...
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Re: Comes a Horseman Riding High
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:59:13 -0800
Jerry wrote:
> ?. . . . . . .? In the beginning was the Nonsense
> ?. . . . . . .? And the Nonsense was with God
> ?. . . . .? . . And God was the Nonsense.
>
> Gospel of John. Ch.1 V1 (Correct translation).
> ?
Regardless of how OLD, You, the World around you, the Universe itself is,
GOD, is but a Child, ...
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Re: The Silent Vulcan
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:04:25 +0200 (CEST)
On 7-Oct-2009, james <james@marage.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Regarding your first comment, I'm not one hundred percent certain but
> I've a feeling that someone, I know not who, has, like me, been
> surprised by two things: that the budget supporting the little-used
> Protection from Harassment Act 1997 seems to be ...
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Re: Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:56:27 +0100
In message <31303030343237394ACD9F9F73@homeinthe.shed>, Skipweasel
<skipweasel@homeinthe.shed> writes
>The message <S8GdnUQGXOHhulDXnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@giganews.com>
>from Rich <none@nowhere.com> contains these words:
>
>> I've dealt with aircraft assembly companies, I've been in the plants.
>> Would it bother peo ...
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Re: Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 02:17:41 -0700 (PDT)
On 8 Oct, 08:15, Skipweasel <skipwea...@homeinthe.shed> wrote:
> > I've dealt with aircraft assembly companies, I've been in the plants. ?
> > Would it bother people to know that in some places ALUMINUM jet airliner
> > wings are only 4mm thick?
>
> I'm surprised they're that thick. I'd have expected them to be d ...
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