Deogolwulf’s fewtril no.285 Why shouldn’t novels have in them badly-drawn caricatures of real persons? The world is full of them. I wonder if this fewtril can be set to music to illustrate the point?
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This cafe series means quite a lot to me, though perhaps not to you, as such. It’s not just a series for the hell of it. The first and second, plus today’s, do something inside to me, make me feel so unsettled and a glance at my second book would show that much of the [...]
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There’s a post on this Gates of Vienna feed at Orphans: Denmark closes borders and where is the MSM reporting this?
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Or Facebook for that matter? I don’t tweet but it’s not because I’m against it, unlike Facebook, which I’m dead against: One, two, three, four, five, six and seven. It’s just that I haven’t got round to it yet. There is great influence claimed for Twitter but there are also detractors, e.g. the Orphans provider: [...]
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Will he make it to the passenger seat?
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Register [courtesy Chuckles]: Microsoft confirmed today that it has indeed bought Skype from an investor group led by Silver Lake for $8.5bn. The software giant said the buyout of Luxembourg-based Skype’s technology would “enhance” Microsoft’s current portfolio of real-time communications products and services. Oh dear: It added that Microsoft would “continue to invest in and [...]
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Click to zoom Cafés
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Jon Snow sensed a surge of “yes”. Afterwards, he said the electorate were not offered a “proper choice”:
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There is a no-man’s-land in between the North of England (i.e. Leeds or Manchester) and Scotland. Lost in the middle is the forgotten City of Newcastle upon Tyne invented by the Romans in AD something or other as a last outpost of their empire. One of the first thing they did was build a wall [...]
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Julia M, whose site is well known for her wry observations of the PC madness swirling all about us, posted last evening at Orphans of Liberty under the heading: How Many Nudists Frolic With A Hoe… The tone of the post can be seen in this excerpt: …in an English country garden? Well, at least [...]
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Mascot eats cheerleader! brought to you by Funny Tube [You may have to hit HOME, top left, to replay]
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With a headline like “EU approves kids’ use of Viagra “, you’d expect a savage anti-EU rant but it’s actually not all it seems. Viagra, known chemically as sildenafil citrate, was originally developed to treat blood pressure problems. But when some men participating in clinical tests reported a welcome but unexpected side effect – better [...]
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True but never under the banner of the EU – only as our foreign friends, always welcome as guests, for a time.
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An occasional series featuring music every bit as good as the film or series itself. This evening – the Z cars theme. At the spearhead of operations were the four police constables: “Jock” Weir, “Fancy” Smith, Bob Steele and Bert Lynch.
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Click to zoom [cartoon stock] One day while he was at the track playing the ponies and all but losing his shirt, Mitch noticed a priest who stepped out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th race. Lo and behold, that horse – a very [...]
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Click pic to zoom Any war goes through a series of phases. 1. There are always ulterior motives David С Whitney & Robin Vaughn Whitney, The American Presidents, 9th ed., Nelson Doubleday Inc, Guild America, NY, 2001, pp 433-459, wrote of GHW Bush at the Republican Convention, August, 1988: He celebrated the nation’s complexity with [...]
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Was the vodka martini Bond’s premier tipple? Well, not according to the books – at least it wasn’t his main drink of choice. According to Atomic Martinis,his preferred tipple was whisky – he drinks 101 of them in the canon, including 58 bourbons and 38 scotches.
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All right, your humble blogger has bowed to the pressure from contributors and readers alike. I thought the new theme was snazzy but unfortunately, it lacked key elements which were needed. Sigh … shan’t go wandering again for a long, long time.
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Click to zoom Cafés
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One is on May 8th and the other on May 9th. Try this quiz one more time and see if you do better this year: 1. As the surrender was on May 8, 1945 at 23:01 CET, what anomaly did this officially cause? 2. Actually, who refused to accept the Rheims signing, for political reasons? [...]
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The story of Camilla Shehata, 25, and Wafaa Constantine, 53 is tragic, not just for them but for what it has occasioned at the hands of the Islamists. Truth is at a premium in this tale but as far as I can make out, their village husbands, Coptic priests, were either abusive or so lacking [...]
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An occasional series featuring music every bit as good as the film or series itself. This evening – Eye Level, by the Simon Park Orchestra, the signature tune for Van der Valk. The stories are mostly based in and around Amsterdam, where Commissaris van der Valk is a cynical yet intuitive detective. Drugs, sex and [...]
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For non-Brits, the title refers to the satirical comedy panel show Have I Got News for You. Yesterday I bought a DVD with 160 minutes of highlights from the programme, with various presenters and guests and I’d like to rate them: Best
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The past two weeks have been a bit hard on the deodorant – bumper takes at the till and much scurrying around – and one wonders if consumer confidence is returning to the High Street or whether people are simply loathe to alter their habits and are browsing at the high end, then finding bargains [...]
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MSNBC Now, on Obama’s so-called birth certificate [long form], please allow yourself the time to check this guy out and it seems pretty compelling [H/T Lord T]:
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Quite a collection this evening. The third youtube is of singer Alan Stivell, of which Wiki says: With a new bardic harp with bronze strings, Stivell began experimenting with modernized styles of music known as Celtic rock. In 1966, Alan Stivell began to perform and record as a singer. The following year, he was signed [...]
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There are a few issues in the pipeline, especially Putin’s attempt to join the WTO without following the rules and a slightly different look at the BRICS but time simply ran out and I’ll have to resume this evening. Orphans of Liberty is here. END OF POST
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Indeed: Ils ont enfin osé parler de leur libido, sans tabous, ni clichés. Dans les Hommes, le sexe et l’amour, le psychiatre Philippe Brenot a interrogé plus de deux mille spécimens. Ce qui se passe sous la couette, ce qui les fait fantasmer… Ils ont tout dit. Révélations jouissives pour nous, les femmes. For all [...]
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