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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted：2022-03-29 09:23:27Copy HTML For all subjects |
MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-20 11:44:27Copy HTML Yes, if the title is passed on. The 3rd Earl of Lennox (above), who was murdered 500 years ago this year, was succeeded by his son Matthew who became the 4th Earl of Lennox aged just nine. And his son Charles became the 5th Earl when Matthew died. He was the 5th and last Earl as he died childless with no close relatives who could inherit the title. In some families the title is passed on for hundreds of years, as with the Barons de Ros and will go on further as the 27th Baron has a son who will one day become the 28th Baron when his father dies. 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：2026-06-20 02:10:52Copy HTML OK, so there cannot be two of the same Earls living at the same time. Another question, if John Doe is the 3rd Earl of Essex, how would you address or introduce him? |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-20 02:23:34Copy HTML The distance between the rungs on a ladder are being increased because people are getting taller. It is called...................climb-it-change. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-20 06:11:22Copy HTML OK, so there cannot be two of the same Earls living at the same time. Another question, if John Doe is the 3rd Earl of Essex, how would you address or introduce him? Formally an Earl is addressed as My Lord or Your Lordship with the highest rank of Peer, a Duke addressed as Your Grace. There cannot be two Peers with identical titles, similar yes, but not identical. Today for instance there is the 12th Duke of Devonshire and the 19th Earl of Devon, two different people. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-20 06:27:02Copy HTML And on that subject Tom, have you any idea just how many thousands of people have died falling down stairs in Britain? Houses of old, Victorian houses like mine, have very steep stairs and traditionally been a death trap for so many because not only are they steep but the stairs themselves are very narrow. Even today, falls on stairs and steps still kill over 1,000 people every year in England & Wales, and 43,000 more people are hospitalised. To add to the horror the steps themselves are very slim, in my house they are are a paltry 10 inches wide. I've not killed anybody yet but the missus has always come down them sideways, holding on to the stair handle and taking them one at a time. Also, posh houses would build staircases that turned around corners, making the inside measurement jus a few inches wide, yet another invitation to die. |
shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-20 10:05:26Copy HTML A lot of our houses built in the 1800's are like that. Rounding those corners is risky business. Best not to be carrying laundry. "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：2026-06-21 03:21:43Copy HTML And on that subject Tom, have you any idea just how many thousands of people have died falling down stairs in Britain? Houses of old, Victorian houses like mine, have very steep stairs and traditionally been a death trap for so many because not only are they steep but the stairs themselves are very narrow. Even today, falls on stairs and steps still kill over 1,000 people every year in England & Wales, and 43,000 more people are hospitalised. To add to the horror the steps themselves are very slim, in my house they are are a paltry 10 inches wide. I've not killed anybody yet but the missus has always come down them sideways, holding on to the stair handle and taking them one at a time. Also, posh houses would build staircases that turned around corners, making the inside measurement jus a few inches wide, yet another invitation to die. Your stairs are 10 inches wide? A ladder is wider than that. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-21 12:55:36Copy HTML You do know I mean the steps on the stairs? I've always taken the width of them from the day we moved in, which I thought for some unknown reason they were ten inches. I've just measured them and they are actually eight inches. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-21 02:12:23Copy HTML You do know I mean the steps on the stairs? I've always taken the width of them from the day we moved in, which I thought for some unknown reason they were ten inches. I've just measured them and they are actually eight inches. Art, you must mean tread depth not width. From front to back not side to side. |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-21 09:35:53Copy HTML One man's width is another man's depth.
"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：2026-06-22 12:15:19Copy HTML The rarest celebrity autograph may be from William Shakespeare. There are only six authenticated examples today. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-22 01:15:43Copy HTML I don't know so much. Ive never written an autograph and if I did, wouldn't that be rarer? |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-22 08:36:50Copy HTML Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-1897) British army captain and estate manager in County Mayor, Ireland. Best remembered for the word "boycott" named after his aggressive rent hikes and evictions provoked the local farmers to respond with a campaign of total social and economic isolation. |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-22 10:17:18Copy HTML Power to the People.
"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：2026-06-24 09:41:04Copy HTML Charlie Chaplin had an understudy who filled in for him on stage. That understudy was none other than Stan Laurel. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-06-24 11:17:51Copy HTML When I first visited Stan Laurel‘s Home in the lake District, I got so wondering how a man from the backend of beyond got to cross the Atlantic and with the great Oliver Harvey conquer the entire world with their comedy. It is a tragedy that today we have a generation and a half who have no idea who these two were if you’re ever feeling a bit pissed off, morose or angry, just sit down and watch a Laurel and Hardy film a cure for all. |
