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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    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,
    Sensible children.

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    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.
    I think it's possibly an extension of the fact that so much of our communication was done on paper - once it's in the mailbox, she's all over.

    With a "delete" button handy, I think kids just tend to forget that there's a send and receive.



    Quote Originally Posted by stlukesguild View Post
    What happened to the Cold Ale discussions?
    Yay! Party at Luke's

    No need to bring beer/

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
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    I’m nursing a bottle of Chianti myself.

    Gilliatt
    With or without liver?
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
    I think it's possibly an extension of the fact that so much of our communication was done on paper - once it's in the mailbox, she's all over.

    With a "delete" button handy, I think kids just tend to forget that there's a send and receive.



    With or without liver?

    I wonder how many regrettable photos are out there in the internet ether just waiting to cause problems.

    It goes together like a horse and carriage - Chianti and Lecter'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    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!
    Yes, I'm afraid my allnighters take me three days to recover. I don't know, I've judged older men by this Florida lot; maybe in Europe a 45 year old can out run someone half his age. The only problem is that you all seem to take wedlock seriously over there...Not many divorces, are there?

    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]
    Not good, remember the old days with our brownie cameras and our first loves
    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Bean View Post
    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.
    Oh, come now Brian, England has had a lot more fetching lady serial killers than the states!

    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    A Serial killer standing over a hot air duct, kind of thing? Hmmmmm!
    To think that if I had just found an air duct; I might be driving a BMW right now

    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!)
    Actually, all of that is so messy and I really hate cleaning. I think a nice overdose of narcotics is the most pleasant for everyone.

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Bean View Post
    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.
    Doris Day, the one who had the choice of all those men and kept poodles instead...

    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    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

    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.
    I found this incredible vodka flavored like sweet tea, I take a little nip at teatime...really does the trick!
    I had a wonderful spagetti dish with zucchini, yellow squash and chicken fried in olive oil...it's delicious, unfortunately, I'm allergic to zucchini

    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 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).:sosp

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    I wonder how many regrettable photos are out there in the internet ether just waiting to cause problems.
    Yes! Even photos. In the olden days, once a negative and photo were destroyed, that was the end of it. Letters can't be unburnt.

    Now, placing one picture on one server is enough to ensure its immortality.

    The number of people who have lost jobs through netwowking site comments is already astonishing.

    People being quite stupid helps!



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    Yes, I'm afraid my allnighters take me three days to recover.


    Not quite there yet, thank god!
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    Doris Day, the one who had the choice of all those men and kept poodles instead...
    See - she really was a genius!
    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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    Soundo, not many divorces? I've only done it twice!!!!!!! And I'm not ruling out.......!!!!!

    Relax, humans are humans, whatever the race!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
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    Talk about your melting pot! MacAlpine Clan, Germans, Shriners, Dutch, Mexicans, and a bounced half Czech from Texas.


    Gilliatt
    "Oh, what a falling off there was". The Macalpine reference was us Scots laughing at ourselves, as we do. Germans, no, it was a go at the 'Keeper of the Keys'. Shriners, hardly that could get me in big trouble, like burned at the stake. Dutch ??? Mexicans, I have never met one in my life and have no reason to dislike them. This might interest you vaguely, my son in law is Chinese and two of my grandchildren are half Scots and half Cantonese. As to your ethnicity I have no problem with it at all. As for the chorus , you know who you are GROW UP.

    Quote Originally Posted by stlukesguild View Post

    you can't always get what you want!!!!
    if you try sometime, you just mind find that you can.

    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Soundo, not many divorces? I've only done it twice!!!!!!! And I'm not ruling out.......!!!!!

    Relax, humans are humans, whatever the race!!!!!
    Thank God for that, young Jocky's son and I are entered for the three legged race tomorrow. I have a terrible feeling this will end in shame and embarrasment. " Granda don't you ever affront me again in front of my pals. "

    Now this is the worst joke you have ever heard. Man goes to the Doctor and says, I have got a booze problem, My hands shake and I drink too much. Doctor, Do you drink a lot? No, I spill most of it.

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    Oh, there's worse. A White Horse goes in to a pub, orders a pint. Barman can't resist it, says "We've got a whisky named after you"

    Horse says, "What.......Eric?"
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    Ah, how far we've come!

    Jocky - you reminded me of something I'd meant to post but had forgotten.

    Middle son had a father & son evening at his school a fortnight back. Great sport - they'd set the hall up with various manly activities: bivouac building, river crossing, laser strike and desert survival.

    As the bloke looking after the bivouac-building looked in amazement at the structure we built, I laughingly suggested to him that asking a bushman to compete against softhands from Auckland was a bit unfair. So we won that.

    River crossing was ok, but we couldn't beat some of the nippier dads & kids, while the desert survival did not go at all well thanks to junior picking a water carrier with a hole in it!

    Final event of the night, laserstrike!

    Now, I haven't done this for 30 years, but I figured I had still remembered what to do when the bloke in charge checked in surprise at how many kills I'd made and how little I'd been shot.

    Roll forward to the prize-giving and I thought we might have gone ok, but to my shock, we won the grand prize, with the boy collecting new games and a week at an adventure school.

    Boys. Too easy.
    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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    Excellent. I used to like the challenges they set us in the TA. I'm not saying I was any good but my thick-headed effort helped sometimes.

    I've often suggested team building type activities for our lot at work, but the 70% women don't seem to like it -so no doing. Boo!

    ... and now we're out of cash. Bah!

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    Be fair, Paul, you're just working on the assumption that a "bonding hug" would be better with one of your female colleagues than with a big hairy squaddie! I hope so, anyway..
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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Be fair, Paul, you're just working on the assumption that a "bonding hug" would be better with one of your female colleagues than with a big hairy squaddie! I hope so, anyway..
    Too right - certainly preferable.

    As you know - we from Yorkshire are especially selective with our hugs...

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post



    Not quite there yet, thank god!


    See - she really was a genius!
    Yeah, I think the gene pool is purer in your part of the country; you'll probably be chasing around Mrs A when you're 90...she may even suggest you and Parker get a few native concubines.
    I always thought Doris liked women; who could have hung out with Rock and not tried to turn him around

    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Soundo, not many divorces? I've only done it twice!!!!!!! And I'm not ruling out.......!!!!!

    Relax, humans are humans, whatever the race!!!!!
    That's because you were waiting for me, dafydd...shall we meet at the tower in 30 years from this day...that is, if my heart and walker will carry me
    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    Too right - certainly preferable.

    As you know - we from Yorkshire are especially selective with our hugs...
    In America, women don't even hug their female children for fear of turning...we're always shocked when we see our french and latin ladies holding hands, walking down the streets together.

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    Thanks for the offer, Soundo.....do they sell pacemaker batteries round there?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Thanks for the offer, Soundo.....do they sell pacemaker batteries round there?
    They actually sell self chargers for the heart (just in case the ambulance doesn't arrive in time)...and who knows, in 30 years, I might be able to buy a body that will fit into my size 5 bikini...

    I'm not sure if my walker will make it up the hill, though

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