The coveted 1066 Award for the 1066th comment on the new blog goes to: JPT … who points out, at his place, that the Poles are integrating nicely over our way, which is more than can be said for some.
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[English note: I run these occasional posts in French because written French is fairly easy for English speakers to get the gist of, especially my own French, which is more difficult for the French to understand.] Muriel Moreno est un exemple d’un artiste qui est la principale force dans un groupe, comme Deborah Harry et [...]
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Springtime for Hitler – Mel Brooks
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Good people, my only advice today is not to venture out this evening, when all the spirits of evil are abroad and whatever you do today or in the next two days, don’t go round the church widdershins and make sure you don’t dance nine times widdershins around a fairy ring of toadstools. So, All [...]
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Nowhere is the Brit more conservative than in his choice of yacht. Uffa Fox, Chichester, Royal Solent and so on – the boat of choice is a bermudan rigged monohull, that monohull has traditional lines, it plugs its way upwind and ambles downwind with a brightly coloured spinnaker, not unlike the brightly coloured tie with [...]
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I have a question – you might like to watch this first: So to the question: Did Ben Johnson win that race in 9.79 seconds? Or did a beast win it? Similarly, did Agassi win those tennis matches or did a beast win them? Did he drop the people in it who enabled him to [...]
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From a Dutch commenter at Reuters: We dutch people said ‘NO’ to the new European treaty. Then Balkenende decided, that we should not be allowed to vote again after the politicians made same cosmetic changes to the treaty. Then Balkenende said ‘YES’ to giving away our rights and our sovereignty against our explicit will. So [...]
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1. Casablanca 2. Gone with the Wind 3. Casino Royale [2006] 4. Singin’ in the Rain [two people] 5. Chinatown Saturday – here are the answers: Michael Curtiz, Victor Fleming, Martin Campbell, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, Roman Polanski
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The world’s largest cruise liner on Friday began its maiden voyage to Florida, gliding out from a shipyard in Finland with an amphitheater, basketball courts and an ice rink on board. The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas spans 1,200 feet (360 meters) from bow to stern. Its 2,700 cabins can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 [...]
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Had to stop after the seventh. Which would you add?
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What four related words are merged here: SWAS PURI UINM NTTU MGER MNER
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Lieberman simply says what a lot of of us are thinking: “There’s a hard core of partisan, passionate, hardcore Republicans. There’s a hard core of partisan Democrats on the other side. And in between is the larger group, which is people who really want to see the right thing done, or want something good done [...]
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And the prize for the 1000th comment on the new blog goes to: MTG … who commented on the post Mr. Tuttle Came to Fix my Boiler Today. Sir, the one week yacht trip for two to Somalia is yours for the taking!
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07:30 this morning, buzzer goes – it’s the boiler man back and I never even called him. Wanted to check the boiler and see as it wer awright like. Bled the radiators again, din ee? “Yer pressure’s low.” “Seems fine to me.” “Can you do without yer boiler today? I’ll switch it off n see [...]
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Translator Rosemary Edmonds wrote that Tolstoy doesn’t explicitly moralise in Anna Karenina, he allows his themes to emerge naturally from the “vast panaroma of Russian life.” She also writes that a key message is that “no one may build his or her happiness on another’s pain,” which is why things don’t work out for Anna. [...]
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We can’t have everything and unfortunately, the ugly date stuck across this youtube is the price to pay here: Adagio cantabile: Flute: Have a lovely evening.
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Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among [...]
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Jessica writes: A few people have been asking about what it’s like at night out here so I’ll have a crack at describing it. I think a lot of people get goose bumps when they think about being out here all by themself because I think most people imagine it to be like a night [...]
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What do people do when they don’t like a message – they click out and go somewhere which says something they wish to hear. This is a weird youtube, no picture but a sped up chipmunky type voice which I think does get down to the issue quite well: The central and abiding question is [...]
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Though referring to Pakistan, the argument is the same about crossing traditional faultlines in Islam and banding the whole people together. Scott says: This meant glossing over the long running confessional fault-lines between Sunni and Shiite and appealing instead to the traditional discourse of anti-imperialism, drawing upon anti-Western rhetoric and symbols. Anti-Americanism then becomes the [...]
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Check this out, by Charon QC: Imagine a country which has restricted the money paid to experienced criminal lawyers with the result that many lawyers can no longer afford to practice in the field and the quality of representation may decline as a result. Imagine a country with over 85,000 people in jail, a country [...]
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It’s plain outrageous. Do you remember the Wren Cross scandal at Harvard when the director tried to hide the cross in a cupboard for fear of offending other religions? A Christian chapel, by the way. It was being “redesignated”. Then there’s winterval and all the other rubbish – Madonna on a crucifix in Moscow [wish [...]
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This might sound strange coming from me but there are some men’s voices which have authority to them and they’re quite listenable. This evening’s offerings include a few of them: There are only two good versions of Ring of Fire on youtube and the live one has poor sound quality. Going with the audio one [...]
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This post is a near impossibility – his supporters can’t concede one inch of ground and those who detest him want him dead or out or both. The others are polarized one way or the other. This is my take, not meant to convince, not written for that purpose, just to clarify things in my [...]
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Have you ever thought what spacemen and women do if they need to go N1s or N2s? The pinnacle of manned space oddities may be one of the first. On May 5, 1962, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard — one of the original seven Mercury spaceflyers — was ready to become the first American in space. [...]
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You can buy a designer cane but hand-carved is also good. If you’re contemplating the 199 Whitby steps, you’ll need a good whisky sword stick with a phial of the good oil inside and a hip flask to top it up from. My choice of the good oil is either Irish Mist or Drambuie. It’s [...]
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Interesting issue [for some of us] here. It reminds me very much of an incident I was caught up in. This continues on from the previous post on it. There were strong opinions that Polanski should be pursued to the end and some ladies felt no, leave it alone. Some gents were not sure on [...]
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This one’s a little harder – not which country but which state or county. 1. It has the Campaspe River and the Gippsland Lakes, is roughly triangular in shape and has a ski area called Falls Creek. 2. Has Oswestry, is landlocked, has a Union Canal and its flower is the round-leaved sundew. 3. 16th [...]
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Which of the seven songs do you like best?
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“The comfortable routine I had been getting very used to fell apart today with the wind picking up to 25 knots. A short building sea has been making life, I wouldn’t say uncomfortable but certainly different to some of the quiet days we’ve had. It’s nice to be guaranteed some good progress and even with [...]
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