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    Quote Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love View Post
    Now, all this time I was feeling incredibly self conscious being in church wearing my summer shorts and little red tank top, until the old man turns to us and says "I guess you two ladies must be nuns?" He even seemed surprised when we said we weren't. What's more he had three daughters who really were nuns, so you'd think he would know what one looked like. Of course we were polite to him, but once we got in the car we were laughing for miles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    Im pretty sure manchgester cathedrial is CofE but thats thing I have a ridiclous fear of offending anyone that Im a bit afraid to go exploring though Id really loe to see the inside of a church

    Church of England? Yes that's what I mean by protestant , my mistake.

    LOL @ Petrarch, it has happened to me several times to try and enter churches forgetting that I wasn't wearing sleeves (and I don't wear tank tops if they are what I think they are, just t-shirt kind of things with no sleeves, I dont like those summery things) and being stopped because of that. While of course tourists are there in the shortest shorts ever...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love View Post
    What's more he had three daughters who really were nuns, so you'd think he would know what one looked like.
    hehe, this line had me go *rofl*

    i might have posted this before in another thread:
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    "We regret to have found a coffin in the cellar and insist that the party who has ordered or delivered the coffin or owns it remove it at once."

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    hey this is pretty good. I will be looking forward to reading more of your literature stories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post

    I also dont think i've ever seen a nun in red!
    If anyone has read "The Handmaids Tale" that is what the handmaids looked like. They referred to them as "Sisters dipped in blood"

    Sorry...random thought of intertexuality

    Great thread niamh!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dramasnot6 View Post
    Sorry...random thought of intertexuality
    Great phrase. I've got to use that myself sometime.
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    On my journey home from Wales today I got stuck on the M6. traffic. and everybody in the other cars were picking their nose. ! seriously, id lost count how many drivers we went past or went past us who were picking their nose.
    is that part of the driving practical test? how wisely u use your time when your not moving in your car?
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    Quote Originally Posted by optimisticnad View Post
    On my journey home from Wales today I got stuck on the M6. traffic. and everybody in the other cars were picking their nose. ! seriously, id lost count how many drivers we went past or went past us who were picking their nose.
    is that part of the driving practical test? how wisely u use your time when your not moving in your car?
    I pick my nose when stuck in traffic, not much else to do really...
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    uhhh....yes, thanks for that little detail. i will now frover have an image of Amess sitting in his fast car not moving picking away his nose and thinking what to eat with turnips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dramasnot6 View Post
    If anyone has read "The Handmaids Tale" that is what the handmaids looked like. They referred to them as "Sisters dipped in blood"

    Sorry...random thought of intertexuality

    Great thread niamh!
    Alias grace was a better read... but yes, still they were hardly nuns were they..
    Quote Originally Posted by optimisticnad View Post
    On my journey home from Wales today I got stuck on the M6. traffic. and everybody in the other cars were picking their nose. ! seriously, id lost count how many drivers we went past or went past us who were picking their nose.
    is that part of the driving practical test? how wisely u use your time when your not moving in your car?
    On the M6 today you poor thing how many hours were you stuck?
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    In work today there was a lot of activity and noise. I've had to listen to drilling and hammering for most of the day. So on the phone i got the the Dublin Airport D.M to put in a bit of a complainted as i couldnt answer the phone or do customer queries because of the noise. The guy came down to have a talk with the builders who had told them they be finished drilling at 3pm. This is now 5.10pm. He comes in to appologies and as he is talking to me his phone rings. The load noise in backround is still going on but when it stops suddenly all i can hear if the DAAD.M saying he had to go investigate a suitcase full of fish. I though i was hearing things and had to ask him if i'd heard him right. I had. Some nigerian was going through customs with a suitcase of fish, as as its illigal to bring raw meat in to the country this way he was stopped. Outraged he wanted to issue a complaint.
    Now isnt that odd!
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    That is a suitcase that will NEVER be used again.... People are so silly sometimes!
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    I was very confused today... I went out to post a letter in the village post box, and I passed this old man walking his dog. I was just about to say 'good afternoon' when he said, 'I bet that's the most work you've done all day'. I was EXTREMELY confused, especially since I'd been up since 6. But I just went into smile and nod mode, and walked on.

    People in my village are strange...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lioness_Heart View Post
    I was very confused today... I went out to post a letter in the village post box, and I passed this old man walking his dog. I was just about to say 'good afternoon' when he said, 'I bet that's the most work you've done all day'. I was EXTREMELY confused, especially since I'd been up since 6. But I just went into smile and nod mode, and walked on.

    People in my village are strange...
    Really? thats a bit weird! you were probably better off just smiling and nodding while secretly saying 'weirdo' in your head.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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