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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Ah, gbrekken, it's all a Welsh plot....just when you least expect it, and there will by Y Ddraig Goch flying on every flagpole on the planet!
    Aye dafydd, this is all part of the celtic fringe defence, devised by Robert The Bruce to ward off you know who. Unfortunately good ideas sometimes have tragic results. I firmly believe that had the plan worked Engerland would have never won in 66.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    Paris Hilton? isnt that where posh people spend the night.
    Good one, prendrelemick...I'd love to stay at any of the hiltons; but my budget is somewhere between motel 6 and under the overpass
    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    You are closer than you will ever know..........!!!!!!
    I wonder what she'll tell her kids about mothers indiscretions, "Mom, tommy has a video tape of yo....wow, what's that"
    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    It's slackened off since I've had to go back to work, but we get down there usually at the weekend. We've been harvesting the sweetcorn, beans, carrots and courgettes. The winter greens - broccoli, sprouts and cabbage are in. We've put in lots of onions, but the seed hasn't shown yet. We've also put in onion sets.

    I just need to get digging over the beds again for winter.

    Does the Mrs. help with the work? Are courgettes the same as zucchini?

    Quote Originally Posted by jocky View Post
    I recommend Brian Bean, urbane, sophisticated, architecturally upright, well read and a good speeler. Failing that the choice in our thread is varied and uncomplicated. Time to go :
    I was kind of looking for a lad with your Shakespearean prowess, Pauls easy going manner and work ethic and Atheist cooking skills and butler...oh, and about half my age...any ideas, Jocky?

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    Correct again!

    No question that this is the best thread on the internet.
    THat's why I keep coming back!

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    Sorry, Soundo, lets me out. I know nothing about Shakespeare forsooth, I hate work (the curse of the drinking classes) my butler is a drunk and as for the half your age.....sorry, Darlin', not only over the hiil, but almost at the bottom of the other side. 'Scuse me, I'm off for my medication, now. Anybody seen my stick? Does dim moddion yn erbyn twpdra!
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    Quote Originally Posted by soundofmusic View Post
    I wonder what she'll tell her kids about mothers indiscretions, "Mom, tommy has a video tape of yo....wow, what's that"
    Ain't that going to be an interesting dynamic for human interaction of the future. No kid of our age ever had to be confronted by videos of mom doing it all over the world, or see and read decades-old information at the click of a button.

    We're nowadays carrying our past around with us.

    I wonder if it will turn out well?

    [no]
    Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."

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    You can imagine the kids asking questions. "Mum, why is your autobiograhy called 'Memoirs of a Mattress'?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by jocky View Post
    I recommend Brian Bean, urbane, sophisticated, architecturally upright, well read and a good speeler. Failing that the choice in our thread is varied and uncomplicated. Time to go :
    Thanks for the recommendation Jocky but I didn't quite recognise myself in the description and I'm sure she is looking for someone considerably younger,
    a sort of cross between Bertie Wooster and Mr Rochester.
    In any case, one has to be careful with American women, especially as we don't really know what lies behind the avatars. It may well be that they look like Marylin Monroe but, on the other hand, they could turn out to be like Lizzie Borden.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    A Serial killer standing over a hot air duct, kind of thing? Hmmmmm!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    A Serial killer standing over a hot air duct, kind of thing? Hmmmmm!
    Yes but you'd be daft looking at her legs when you should be watching for the axe.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    Ah - yes, hadn't thought of that! Could be a clever ploy, a ruse, a trap. I shall have to have a re-think. Not sure Soundo would be any good with an axe. She seems more like a stiletto girl, somehow! (Knife, not heels!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Ah - yes, hadn't thought of that! Could be a clever ploy, a ruse, a trap. I shall have to have a re-think. Not sure Soundo would be any good with an axe. She seems more like a stiletto girl, somehow! (Knife, not heels!)
    We might be doing her a disservice. Despite the repartee, she could well be a sort of Pollyanna/Doris Day type without an evil thought in her head.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    Aye, you could be right!!!! However, since she knows where I am, I'm keepin' me gob shut!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Aye, you could be right!!!! However, since she knows where I am, I'm keepin' me gob shut!
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    Quote Originally Posted by soundofmusic View Post
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    Does the Mrs. help with the work? Are courgettes the same as zucchini?

    !
    Mrs Clem does indeed help with the plot.In fact she was the driving force behind getting it in the first place. She's the real gardener, who has always kept the house garden looking really nice. I'm like the hired help - strong in arm and weak in head. I'm still learning.

    Yes, courgettes are zucchini. We've had a good crop this year - particularly round ones which look a bit like melons. The kids won't eat them, so my wife has taken to making them into tomato type sauces and serving them that way. We're going on Sunday. It's turned a bit cool here so I may need a nip of rum in my tea between digging. Ho ho

    Quote Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
    Ain't that going to be an interesting dynamic for human interaction of the future. No kid of our age ever had to be confronted by videos of mom doing it all over the world, or see and read decades-old information at the click of a button.

    We're nowadays carrying our past around with us.

    I wonder if it will turn out well?

    [no]
    An interesting thought. We're probably lucky that we have left no digital trail due to our age. I think the kids today have to think in another digital plane when conducting thei lives. It could be messy.

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    What happened to the Cold Ale discussions? I've just come down from a truly long week teaching and now I am fully armed. I just finished a great taco salad made by the wife accompanied with a Foster's "oil can". Now I've got two Samuel Smith Imperial Stouts and two 5ths of Three Philosophers:



    I'm playing some K.D. Lang right now for the wife... but this is to be followed with Dylan and the Stones. A few hours from now I should be feeling no pain... although tomorrow morning may be another matter altogether (yet again... I've never really gotten a hangover from good beer).



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    Quote Originally Posted by jocky View Post
    Och, nae the bloody MacAlpines again, your immigration problems are worse than I ever imagined.
    Talk about your melting pot! MacAlpine Clan, Germans, Shriners, Dutch, Mexicans, and a bounced half Czech from Texas.
    By the way, I polished off the limburger and tossed the wrapper the trash as I headed out to work. When I got back to the hotel, I noticed my door was sealed off with plastic and yellow caution tape.

    Hmmm…I wonder how I can bury the fumigation fees in my expense report.


    Quote Originally Posted by stlukesguild View Post
    What happened to the Cold Ale discussions? I've just come down from a truly long week teaching and now I am fully armed. I just finished a great taco salad made by the wife accompanied with a Foster's "oil can". Now I've got two Samuel Smith Imperial Stouts and two 5ths of Three Philosophers:



    I'm playing some ...but this is to be followed with Dylan... A few hours from now I should be feeling no pain... although tomorrow morning may be another matter altogether (yet again... I've never really gotten a hangover from good beer).
    Man that looks good!
    I see you cracked open the 2007. I suppose that means another year for the 2008 and two for the 2010?

    Take it easy on that stuff or you may find yourself lost in Juarez where the hungry women will make a mess out of you!
    (Are you the blue painter he refers to travelling between Mexico City and Del Rio)

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