Last in this current series – Empress of the Road click pic and check out the expression. LOL: __________________________ Comments are on.
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A priest has heard a confession from a woman who intends to poison her husband. By the laws of the confessional, he cannot tell anyone. He also can’t seem to dissuade her. She shocks the priest by saying that she won’t poison her husband if the priest will sleep with her just the once. So? [...]
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How are you on your infinitives, gerunds and participles? 1 I can’t afford ___ [buy] a new car this year. 2 What do you propose ___ [do] about this problem? 3 I intend ___ [travel] to Europe next June. 4 He continued ___ [see] other women behind her back. 5 I [...]
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Predictably, The Telegraph and Mirror announced, in loud headlines today, that share prices were up to a pre-crisis high, pensions would benefit and almost everyone else would also. Happy days are here again. The reality is a bit different, as mentioned in this post yesterday. Let me quote a bit of Steve Meyers, investment banker [...]
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Once again, apologies to commenters for having to fish your comments out of spam [leading to delay] but the anti-spam does seem to be slowly and begrudgingly learning who are good people and who are not. Pity it’s taken a week to learn though because once again now, I must regrettably go to moderation until [...]
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Naturally, it’s embedding disabled – anything worthwhile always is but still, if you click on the pic, the youtube will appear: … and that speech. Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the [...]
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A friend recently received a posting on her web site in response to this bit of history : “Well presented but to a native Gaelic-speaking Highlander (one of whose ancestors served with the 77th Regiment) painful to read that: In 1757, England (?) was at war with France and battles were raging in Europe and [...]
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Remember the days when rock/pop started to go orchestral, just before it got pretentious? The last minute and a half really made this particular number: Remember Focus?
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Second last in this current series – The Hills are Alive: __________________________ Just a reminder to readers that comments will go to moderation at 10 p.m., through to early tomorrow evening.
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Dear Stonewall I’d like to apply for an exemption card please. It’s not just in the light of things such as one or two or three or four or five or six or seven or eight or nine or ten or eleven or twelve or thirteen or alleged links with paedophilia mentioned here or this [...]
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Confidence in British engine maker Rolls-Royce hit after mid-air A380 emergency No, no, no – not Rolls Royce but Airbus. Airbus is the problem – camel designed by a committee. See here. Also, please see: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight.
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1. Is Berlin or Vienna home to the world’s oldest zoo? 2. Are Haligonians native to Halle or Halifax? 3. Is it Buenos Aires or Rio de Janeiro which has more psychoanalysts per square kilometre than any other city in the world? 4. Which southern city in France was founded by a colony of Greeks [...]
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Travel writers sometimes tell us to step back from the Costas and seek out something different but usually they direct us to the big cities where we can spend even more money. There is an alternative, a hidden Spain, well off the beaten track but you need a guide and if you are with somebody [...]
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……. and let the music and the images carry you away _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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Third last in this current series -Bicycle Repair Girl:
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I really don’t know what it is but there are problems galore with my net connection, WordPress comments facility and the old problems on my computer. Comments – I’m still fishing your comments out of spam and not always getting them. The anti-spam acknowledges that it has falsely spammed 52 comments so far in November, [...]
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Another from my source whom I might just begin to call Deep Throat. _________________________ Read the Fed release first to get the background. OK, here is some commentary on it, from Deepthroat: The market, which had been wavering slightly on the downside most of the day. The modest $600-billion in additional treasury purchases will come [...]
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The whole premise of my tome Dark Logic is that a man who is by no means an innocent, in many ways, is drawn into issues between warring parties and it’s done in such a way that he is inextricably involved before he can think how to free himself. Even when he does, it pursues [...]
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You could click it here on this site, over at Daniel’s or on any other site running it. Nope, this one is not the Albion Alliance‘s but it is certainly worth doing, to keep the pressure up on the bstds. So, Laze and Gem, if you could see your way clear … Create your free [...]
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It occurs to me that we have been undernourished with the remarkable Jabbo Smith. Is Teschemacher’s eerie clarinet an acquired taste?
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This current crop of pics seems to have something to it, thanks to Yandex:
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There’s no choice but to quote this verbatim. I tried to abridge it but you need all the info it gives, in order to go to the subsequent parts: British Energy, owned by France’s EDF Energy PLC, has reported an “unplanned outage” at its Heysham 1 nuclear power plant yesterday. A company spokesperson told the [...]
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In today’s Telegraph I read of the death of Don Partridge who, in the sixties, was Britain’s most famous busker, with two top ten hits. Nowadays, like just about everything else, it has to be organised and controlled which is sad; spontaneity is being squeezed out of our lives. Buskers need permission to perform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqz_-jFHGM [...]
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Some fragments from the Guardian’s [admittedly good] live blogging of the election. On a Fox poll: 23% said they voted to support the Tea Party 18% said they voted against the Tea Party 55% said it was not a factor in their decision About four out of 10 voters said they support the Tea Party [...]
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See how well you do: 1. Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in a car crash, true or false? 2. Which famous historical figure bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night? 3. Which writer died of pneumonia while he was experimenting with freezing a chicken by stuffing it with snow? 4. Name the singer [...]
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Perhaps the most intellectually honest position is agnosticism – that there is not enough evidence to say one way or the other.
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This is the only version of this song by B Tribe and it’s someone’s dedication to his departed love:
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Captain Ranty is quite a guy and he’d have to be one of the top bloggers currently. He’s just re-posted exactly what I was looking for – methods of non-violent [and legal] protest and there are 198 of them. They include, to my amusement: 12. Skywriting and earthwriting 17. Mock elections 20. Prayer and worship [...]
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Remembering that the Americans have got this really weird system where the colours are reversed and the international Blue [meaning conservatives] and Red [meaning reds] is switcherooed, then it looks like this: The map is interactive at the Washington Post. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), poised to become speaker if Republicans take control [...]
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