All work and no play …
Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by Chuckles
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Something fishy here or not?
Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by James Higham
About the only thing on which I’d agree with MSM criticisms of the sphere [and maybe they can apply it to themselves a bit too] is that there is a certain onus in any form of journalism to try to be accurate and not to put something which is way OTT in its allegations.
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Dearieme visits a chamber
Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by James Higham
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2010 quiz
Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by James Higham
Women on horse and carts series in the offing? For a bonus point – whose was she? For those who found the Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est a tad inaccessible, this is for you – events of 2010:
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In Paradisum
Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by JD
Verdi and Mozart are fine but Fauré is supreme in my view:
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Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis …
Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by Chuckles
Time to raise the tone a bit in this place, it being a new year, and all that. Every year the students of King William’s College in the Isle Of Man sit a test known as ‘The General Knowledge Paper’ just before the start of the Christmas Holidays. The test is repeated at the start [...]
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The Vernon Hotel
Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by James Higham
Vernon Bar & Grill – only for the posh, no riff-raff please [courtesy Chuckles] The following was quite amusing: Dozens of Melbourne’s elite businessmen, celebrities and high-ranking police officers have been caught-up in an Office of Police Integrity investigation into a powerful lunch club. The OPI investigation is believed to be targetting several high-ranking police [...]
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Communications
Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by James Higham
The golden rule is that if it is a service which is immensely useful to people, which people enjoy and feel comfortable using and which assists the free exchange of information and ideas, then it must be either curtailed, forced out of business or government must monopolize the area. The only service allowed is one [...]
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Requiem for 2010
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by JD
Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten:
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And after New Year … the cleanup
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Chuckles
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Little women on bicycles, with Papa helping N91
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by James Higham
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Shutting out ugliness
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by James Higham
Ellee Seymour is a sweetie and I know the comment was lighthearted but she sort of missed the point of the opening post here today. For a start, it is Chuckles’s post, not mine and secondly, when she said, “Dream on,” I certainly shall do but not about what was in that photo.
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Happiness cannot be found in a bottle
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Chuckles
After last night, now perhaps you’ll understand the wickedness of alcohol. Remember:
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2011 cars as ugly as sin
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by James Higham
It’s as if the makers of awful, boxy cars are continuing to find the ugliest way to put a car on the road and the makers of fine machinery are taking the classic lines of earlier models and making them bulge in places and become tacky in others, in order to uglify as far as [...]
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New Years morning
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Chuckles
Office News We trust that everyone enjoyed the news years eve party. HR would like to announce that in the new year the chairman will be interviewing for a new executive secretary …
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