I’m just watching the Big Game in Melbourne – my team versus the hated Magpies for top spot and we’re not looking all that good. There’s a live blogging type thing going on downunder so I joined in, as you see above.
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One from Dearieme: One from me:
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‘This is an urgent page for passengers Barrat, Carter and Steel who have failed to board flight JQ 627 to Melbourne. If you are in the terminal, please proceed immediately to the gate where your aircraft and fellow passengers are awaiting an immediate departure.”
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1. ….. ……… …………. [name the film] once held the record for crashing the most police cars in a movie at approximately 30. The record was eventually broken by …… ………… ……. . 2. Bogart never said “Play it again Sam” in the movie Casablanca. What Bogart did say was “…… … ……”. 3. How [...]
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Darrell Robert Schoon:
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One commenter wrote: “This is brilliant!! you land, walk off the plane and there you are straight onto the beach …”
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Blognor Regis: Heinrich Hitzinger – that apparently was Heinrich Himmler’s false name whilst attempting to flee amongst the ruins of Nazi Germany. Sounds like a character from a Mel Brooks movie. Captain Ranty: Remember when we were told that airport scanners “..could not, would not store the near naked images of us”? Looks like we [...]
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Are you sitting comfortably, boys and girls? Then I’ll begin. Now where to start – China? China This blog is named nourishing obscurity. The reason is because of a quote from Deng Xiao Ping: According to Deng Xiaoping, in order to eventually overcome, China should adopt the ancient maxim of “hiding brightness and nourishing obscurity,” [...]
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New series courtesy of the SMH – travel destination gems off the beaten track. Today – Ohrid Where? Macedonia. Lake Ohrid is sandwiched between Macedonia and Albania, almost forming a bowl in the middle of surrounding mountains. The lake is surrounded by pretty holiday villages and monasteries (noticeably more so on the Macedonian side than [...]
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Dearieme takes us to Tahiti: … and I settle for Hungary – nothing too far away from the known knowns: Ladies, gentlemen and small furry animals, bed is beckoning under my new duvet cover. Apologies to readers, including fellow bloggers. Nigh nigh.
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As one who some time back looked not unlike the shape of the second from the left above but currently looks halfway between N3 and N4, I feel qualified to have a go at obesity. Someone said the other day that it is a consequence of a lazy brain and low self-esteem and thus exhorting [...]
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This Wikileaks thingy – it seems a good idea to me or have I got it all wrong? It wasn’t the centre of attention for me until I went to Iceland Review last evening and a very weird report appeared that the daughter of incompetent gunslinger Dick “Most Dangerous Game” Cheney wants Iceland to shut [...]
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Don’t know about you but I need 7 hours sleep a night. As I wake about 5.30 a.m. and get up at 6 a.m., then that means I need to go to bed around 11 p.m. and catchup at the weekend.
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Let’s get un-PC this evening:
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I want one of these flying cars:
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You know, Sandy Sarah can mock the Boris Bikes all she likes but other cities have managed it and if it took off, with bikes and the tube being the preferred methods, how much better would London be?
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What is so dispiriting, so dismaying, so soul-sapping, is the way we never, in this country, ever learn from our errors. Exhibit 1:
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“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” – Eleanor Powell Eleanor Powell was the most accomplished dancer associated with Fred Astaire in 1940. She left her career to have a family but when she returned, cinema had moved on without her.
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By 1933, he’d made two films and she’d made twenty but when both Broadway stars hooked up for the Carioca, it was the start of 10 films together. What she initially lacked in dancing skill, she more than made up for in chemistry. He gave full credit where it was due and said she’d made [...]
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Time to trot these hotel notices out again: 1. In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis. 2. In another Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub. 3. In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter [...]
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Laura Dekker posted this yesterday: It’s so great that I can officially set sail and that will be on Wednesday, August 4 at 9:00 AM. Finally I sail away at sea, in the company of my father for the trip to Portugal. The date of departure from Portugal is not yet known. But I will [...]
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Jim Rickards [part of Xxxl's must-read "diatribe series"]: “Complexity starts out as your friend and ends up as your enemy. The Byzantine Empire solved the problem of complexity by simplifying. You can think of it as a downsized version of the full-scale Roman Empire. They ditched the west, they kept the east – the east [...]
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If you have a mindset which still sees itself as part of the dating game [perhaps 10 to 55 years of age], then Vox’s post is devastatingly good. Here it is [almost] in full: Most men understand it when the most attractive women consider themselves too good for the average joe. Because, in short, they [...]
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