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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted：2022-03-29 09:23:27Copy HTML For all subjects |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-08 06:23:45Copy HTML None of you here are painting me a picture of a rosy old age, although I suspect my sheltered life has been a little less of an ordeal on the body than the rest of you reprobates. I don't remember you posting about participating in any athletics during your school years, Mark. Contact sports injuries come back to haunt you in old age. |
MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-08 06:29:42Copy HTML Being tall and lanky I would ask to go on a run during PE with my best friend. His gran lived near the school so we'd go there for orange squash and biscuits. Having said that I was pretty good at running. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-08 09:01:59Copy HTML I loved track and volleyball the most in school sports. My primary mode of transportation was a bicycle or walking until my mid-30's. I held up pretty good until about a year ago. I guess a song lyric is appropriate here: "He was a credit to his gender, put me through some changes, Lord, sort of like a Waring blender." (Linda Ronstadt, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me)
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-08 09:57:02Copy HTML Bird flu jumps to a new livestock host. The H5N1 virus was found in a single sheep on a farm in Yorkshire northern England, where the whole flock had to be tested after birds on the farm fell ill. The infected sheep was immediately killed. |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 12:46:02Copy HTML I've forgotten now why, Tom, but this morning the phrase "no need to switch horses midstream" applied. Have you posted on its origins?
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 01:08:10Copy HTML Abe Lincoln quote??? |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 01:17:52Copy HTML "Five Eyes" is a so-called intelligence alliance among the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, & New Zealand. In fact, it is really an espionage pact which members share data from spies, satellites, & the like. After the Signalgate fiasco, partners are reluctant to share secret info with the U.S. Trump still insists the breach in security was "no big deal." |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 01:29:25Copy HTML I saw a news clip where the guy said Signal wasn't even Trump's or new, that it has been used for a long time. It may have had a different name, but the use of the device was the same. I think this is just another molehill being presented as a mountain. If it happened last administration (and it probably did), it would have been a molehill.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 02:11:25Copy HTML A molehill for the Democrats but a mountain for the Republicans had it occurred a year ago, such is politics. Nothing is as bad as when the opposition do it, but nothing is as inconsequential as when the government does the same thing. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 03:56:44Copy HTML New Zealand voted in a communist PM and the five eyes effectively
Became four. I don’t know if they are back in the fold after getting shut of her |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-09 09:33:58Copy HTML Allota Fagina was a character in Austin Powers. A Parady to Pussy Galore in Goldfinger film. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-10 04:19:52Copy HTML Allota Fagina was a character in Austin Powers. A Parady to Pussy Galore in Goldfinger film. That was a great line from a brilliantly funny film |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-10 05:11:19Copy HTML The Italian secretary Alotta Fagina, working for Number 2 & Dr. Evil. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-11 07:30:12Copy HTML The Italian secretary Alotta Fagina, working for Number 2 & Dr. Evil. oh behave |
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MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-11 08:49:13Copy HTML You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-11 07:46:21Copy HTML English language is full of contradictions. Here are a few:
Good grief
Seriously funny
Found missing
Open secret
Pretty ugly |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 12:36:43Copy HTML "Star Gazey Pie" is a Cornish dish where fish heads poke through the crust & gaze at the stars while you eat them. And I always thought that English cuisine was awful. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 04:18:24Copy HTML English language is full of contradictions. Here are a few:
Good grief
Seriously funny
Found missing
Open secret
Pretty ugly I hear that Britishisms are all the rage in some parts of the States. From what I read, the word bonkers leads the charts at the moment |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 05:48:41Copy HTML Add Bollocks, Wanker, Cheque, Queue. I learned all these from Major & Mark & I can interpret for the Legion boys. They now call me Tommy Google. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 05:51:31Copy HTML English language is full of contradictions. Here are a few:
Good grief
Seriously funny
Found missing
Open secret
Pretty ugly Liquid gas Tragic comedy Fully empty Small crowd Clearly misunderstood Happily married |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 08:48:44Copy HTML Awfully good post, Tom. I saw a short clip of King Charles giving a speech in Italy where he said he owed thanks to the Romans for the idea of putting kings' likenesses on coins. In another, he apologized for the occasional British "corruption" of Italian cuisine. "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 08:55:23Copy HTML A brass band playing the Austin Powers theme, it really picks up after eight minutes, look out for the little boy in yellow, he really gets it. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-12 11:41:20Copy HTML Soldiers & Sailors used to gnaw on salted pork called fatback while conversing. That is the origin of the idiom "Chew the fat." |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-13 12:20:58Copy HTML The little boy in yellow has a bright future. That was a delightful video. Thanks, Mark.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2025-04-14 11:59:03Copy HTML In ancient Greece people disliked had their name scratched on a tile. If a person's name appeared often enough, the person was given 10 days to leave Athens for 10 years. The Greek for that is "ostrakon" which has been Anglicized into "ostracize." |
