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Date Posted:2024-10-09 08:26:30Copy HTML

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky      

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Before I speak I have something important to say                 

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You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither           Steve Martin

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Date Posted:2026-05-29 09:45:54Copy HTML

Well Major, you can't "rojer" the willing, & it does lead to a pleasant release of the tension after a long night shift in the cramped squad car solving the problems of citizens who brought them on themselves.
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Date Posted:2026-05-29 06:36:59Copy HTML

Sorry Tom but if you're not rogering the willing you are committing rape.
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Date Posted:2026-05-30 01:40:37Copy HTML

"I never wanted to be Vice President of anything." Nelson D. Rockefeller.
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Date Posted:2026-05-30 09:32:01Copy HTML

He didn't have to serve long.  I'm kind of surprised he agreed to the appointment at all, having failed to secure the Republican nomination three times. 
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Date Posted:2026-06-06 01:45:36Copy HTML

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Joseph Broadsky
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Joseph Broadsky

Now that is one profound quote

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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Joseph Broadsky

Now that is one profound quote


Indeed. 

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Date Posted:2026-06-06 08:59:42Copy HTML

I’ve not picked a book up in about three years now. I used to devour them and sometimes sit in an armchair look at my watch and think I’ve only got about five hours to read and then I’ve got to go, alas not anymore. I suppose the Internet is just too easy. You see, I was never one for novels, I only read factual books and that is probably the reason why the Internet has taken over. 1 million facts at the touch of a button what more could you want?
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Date Posted:2026-06-06 11:22:20Copy HTML

The same thing happened to me, Major.  It was Covid did it for me.  We transitioned from library books, because the library was closed, to Kindle books too easily.  The internet is useful for a lot of information gathering for sure.  
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Date Posted:2026-06-07 05:32:06Copy HTML

Novels are my thing, factual books for dipping into for facts. Don't look at me askance but at the moment I'm reading The Queen of Love by a long forgotten author the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (he who wrote Onward Christian Soldiers). It's not as slushy as it sounds, quite funny, set in the salt manufacturing district of Cheshire, not far from either Art and myself. 

Over the years I have to say that my taste is for Victorian sensationist fiction. 

Shula did you ever get round to The Nebuly Coat either in print or on Librivox?

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Date Posted:2026-06-08 01:45:40Copy HTML

I did but I haven't read it yet. 
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Two of the most corrupt things on this planet, defense attorneys and the media. The Mafia has class comparted to those two." Mark Fuhrman L.A.P.D. detective at the O.J. Simpson trial.
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Date Posted:2026-06-10 01:59:43Copy HTML

I agree that the media is corrupt, but my position on defense attorneys is that they are there to keep the prosecutors honest.
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Date Posted:2026-06-15 08:26:06Copy HTML

Britain was built by men in overalls and destroyed by men in suits. Fred Dibnah
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Date Posted:2026-06-15 12:36:43Copy HTML

Britain was built by men in overalls and destroyed by men in suits. Fred Dibnah

Spot on,

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When Dr Samuel Johnson had finished his first dictionary he was visited by a delegation from the London respectable women’s association. They congratulated him on omitting what they classed as offensive words. He replied, ladies I congratulate you on your persistence in looking them up.
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Date Posted:2026-06-23 08:45:25Copy HTML

I plan to visit the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum in Lichfield this summer when this bloody horrible heatwave is over. 

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Date Posted:2026-06-23 09:01:10Copy HTML

There are times, not many I’ll grant you, when living in an old, solid wall Victorian house has its advantages. As good as air-conditioning in my home right now.
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If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist? Ricky Gervais
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Date Posted:2026-06-23 10:40:28Copy HTML

Does your Victorian house come with any Victorian stories, Major?


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Date Posted:2026-06-24 05:24:41Copy HTML

You ought to look at censuses past to see who lived there before you did. 

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Date Posted:2026-06-24 11:53:20Copy HTML

I haven’t looked at any census but I do have the deeds. The land that these two houses here are built on belonged to the Methodist church, which was a wooden building about 40 yards away. They knocked it down and built a new brick one in the village. We have two local churches. I should get the deeds out and have another look because I didn’t look at them much before my wife put them away for good keeping, you understand. I remember that’s one of the long-standing family names from this area owned it for years to house farm working families. On two occasions in the past I have noticed people stood outside the front staring at the place and went out to talk to them because I knew that they were going to say…. I used to live here and they did, the one thing they always remember firstly about the place was how cold it was. When we bought the house, we did not live in it for 12 months because that’s how long it took to renovate the place. I should have sued the surveyor who missed just about every fault with the house itwas possible to miss. I knew it was bad, I was in the building trade after all, but I chose to ignore it ever every time I looked out of the front window across open pasture land. We also face west and when I saw some of the utterly spectacular sunsets, nothing was going to put me off. We moved out and it took one years work before we moved back in. The lane goes in a half circle and connects to villages. When we arrived, I could wander up the lane for an hour or two and no cars ever passed me, now? It has become a bit of a rat run and the amount of crashes on the lane in the last 10 years are ridiculous.
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