Dave to the Grave
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[youthful idealistic mode]Shouldn't the decision about whom to vote for be based on who would best represent the people and/or who would best run the country, and not gender?[/youthful idealistic mode]I read an article once, which stated that if the women of the U.K. had never been given the vote, there would have been a continuous Labour Party government in office since 1945. (How this sort of statistic is calculated I do not know, since voting patterns would have changed, but lies, damned lies...etc.)
I may have read this in the Guardian so make of it what you will, but think of a world without Mrs Thatcher
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Pretty much like this site since late Spring.
Thank goodness you have returned. May the laughter and intelligent debate begin.
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Have a Happy Trafalgar Day, everyone!Did Admiral Lord Nelson himself play golf, I wonder?
He seems to have done everything else.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/tserver.php?f=F2525.j...mp;legacyResize
[Modded to display actual image because it's so cool. -TH]
Whilst on the subject, if you don't know how to yet, the game of 'Nelson's eye' is one of the many thrilling subjects of discussion on this forum.
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...... if anyone finds them objectionable all they have to do is hit the ignore button then they don't have to read them.Totally agree Lady Grendel. That's what I have done.
I'm sure some people enjoy them.
I did try to decipher them once, but life really is too short.
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Due to logistical problems with finding a mutually convenient 'field of honour', can I suggest the George Melly forum. The two of you could battle it out in the limerick thread. Eminem, '8 Mile' style.
Limerick 'freestyle' carnage.
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When he's not working cruise ships, Roy Walker's living in Scotland and going out with a 30 something year old optician who's a good friend of a good friend. Nothing wrong with his health to report!
love and kisses
lil sis
Roy Walker, Lytham, not Scotland. North Pier, not cruise ships. No partner.
Josie Walker
German Bight, west or northwest gale 8 to storm 10, expected imminent. Humber, west gale 8 or severe gale 9, expected soon.
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With this head to body, body to head transplant theory, as with 'Trigger's broom', we could have immortality.
Same broom, just keep replacing the head and the handle.
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Edward Woodward's demise in The Wicker Man was pretty hot.
Well, Edward Woodward would burn well.
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can anyone out there top Godot and myself for a straight faced wind up to those worshipping at the altar of George?
Wind up? Who said anything about wind up? George deserves some good threads. I genuinely believe he could be the first live Deathlisted guest on here if he's fit enough to get in touch. I think he'll be chuffed to bits at being Deathlisted. Speak to us George if you can. Welcome on board MPFC. This ship can be our's. Lets get some critical mass.
I must admit to having joined the GM forum, but not as a 'troll'. I am actually becoming quite a fan of this gentleman, and I have pleasantly passed some time this afternoon reading some very interesting articles he has written. One for SAGA magazine on the ageing process was particularly good.
I had to laugh at the notion of 'winding up' the GM forum, since it's only active members, at the moment at least, would appear to be from the DL. I don't think DL members need to go to another forum to wind each other up.
The idea of having a DL 'name' actually contributing to their own thread would be most interesting, to say the least, and if Godot should be successful in his quest, I think an award should be made to him for services to the DL. Perhaps one of those splendid DL thongs.
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Champagne. Overrated French gnat's piss!
I do have some sympathy for your point of view, not being a great fan of sparkling wines. Given the choice I would prefer to 'toast the bride' with one of the two great English alcoholic exports, a pint of Guinness or a tot of whisky.
I think our Celtic friends might have something to say about that.
The only other English alcoholic export that sells in any quantity in France that I could think of was 'Baileys', which I find very sickly, but, 'Baileys' it is then. Cheers!
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Champagne. Overrated French gnat's piss!I do have some sympathy for your point of view, not being a great fan of sparkling wines. Given the choice I would prefer to 'toast the bride' with one of the two great English alcoholic exports, a pint of Guinness or a tot of whisky.
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Or die trying?With the strongest military in the world? I don't think so.
With an army that strong you'll soon suppress a fith division nation like Iraq then and you'll hardly lose a soldier. Oh and you'll flush out Osama in a jiffy, won't you. What the hell did you learn from Vietnam? And while your military is chasing mosquitos in the middle east are those neurotoxins I smell in the subway?
I see what your trying to compare, but this isn't Vietnam. They showed up at are front door, and it was done in one of the most horrific ways possible. America walked into Vietnam, I guess at that time there was very little consideration of the consequences. You just might be right when you say, destruction can be done when you aren't keeping an eye, but unlike Vietnam we were attacked and for this I don't see much of a choice besides retaliating.
But why is the USA attacking Iraq? It makes about as much sense as Great Britain launching a missile attack on Boston after the Birmingham pub bombing in 1974.
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This is the one you've bene waiting for folks.Osama bin Laden is deadaccording to authoratative sources in the frenmch secret services who are usually reliable.The report does seem to be credible.This news wa sjust reported a few minutes ago and will doubtless be major breaking news around the world in coming hours.
It is too soon for this story to be confirmed. Too much can go wrong for President Bush between now and November's midterm elections. If Osama Bin Laden is dead, I would imagine this information would be suppressed until the end of October.
I of course, do not know what I am talking about, but I have an ambition to become a conspiracy theorist.
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It's no wonder there's such animosity to the mods; by my reckoning Pulphack, Vinegar Tits, Alphonsin and Hackenslash are all journalists, probably not the only ones.Editors man, overpaid, can't write as well as us, take the credit for all the journalists work....what do they do to justify that money? I wonder, was the voting in that poll influenced by what some of us do for a living?
Perhaps you could all club together and start up a mini-cab firm.
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I can't say that I know much about Mr Hair, Gunjaman 5000, but if this chap can play cricket in the Indian sub-continent, I am sure he will be O.K.
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three and a half hours of foreplay followed by a twelve minute orgasm. And nearly everyone dies as well.
This thread may stay. There is one on football after all, which is no more relevant. However, if it does go, the above quote was worth the thread's short life. If I ever need to describe the attraction of opera, I now have a nice concise way.
That's not Opera, that's one particular opera.
You couldn't describe Ligeti's Le Grande Macabre like that. The orgasms all take place under a trapdoor under the stage, and you don't know when they are, just that they happen. In Satyagraha by Philip Glass there are no orgasms at all, and in R. Strauss' Rosenkavalier they happen at the end of the overture before the curtain goes up.
I of course bow to your superior operatic knowledge Notapotato, you being a professional musician and me a mere 'appy amateur. My search must therefore go on.
You do realise that you are discussing opera with someone who considers this music.P.S. A bit of Verdi or Puccini usually does it for me. The advertising executive's favourite I know, so very unfashionable at the moment, but la petite mort awaits. Sometimes more than one.
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Why are pirates called pirates?
Because they arrrrrrrrh!
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three and a half hours of foreplay followed by a twelve minute orgasm. And nearly everyone dies as well.This thread may stay. There is one on football after all, which is no more relevant. However, if it does go, the above quote was worth the thread's short life. If I ever need to describe the attraction of opera, I now have a nice concise way.
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A couple of soldiers on patrol in Iraq have run out of food rations, when one of them thinks he can smell bacon. They look over a sand dune, and see what appears to be a bacon tree. They can't believe their luck, and start walking towards it. However at this point they come under heavy gun fire.
Too late, the soldiers realise it isn't a bacon tree at all, it's a ham bush.
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Which one? Most of us can only name one. If I were a gambling man I wouldn't mind a list of runners and SPs. A good point. I suppose I could search the internet for names but my point is, it doesn't really matter. It will be Abu-'whoever', leader of some mysterious 'terror cell' no-one has heard of before, and there will be much back slapping in the White house, and up goes the President's ratings in the opinion polls.
This is nicely summed up in Tempus Fugit's post.
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With the U.S.A. midterm elections coming up on the 7th November, in theory the electorate will deliver their verdict on President Bush's record so far. After the recent British plane terror scare, the President's personal ratings went up. Now there is this news. We now have a terror threat to both allies and those who did not support the recent military actions. What he now needs is a 'success' in his war on terror.
If I were a gambling man I would put a couple of euros on the Americans announcing the killing of a high ranking Islamic extremist before the 7th November.
The problem is which one?
Both, conspiracy theorist and mystic in one post, oh dear.
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Perhaps we could follow the lead of President Bush
Mr President, in an attempt to appear more intellectual, is letting slip at every opportunity that he is reading books. Big books, and lots of them. Apparently over sixty this year already.
His reading this year includes a bit of Shakespeare and Camus.
Hamlet, the one where the boy prince is haunted by his father; and L'étranger, the one where a European colonialist hunts down and kills an Arab and then awaits execution for his crime.
I prefered 'Birdsong', by Sebastian Faulks, if you can get past the slow start.
Getting back off topic, you can be in my team Handrejka. We probably wouldn't win the league, but an exciting cup run could be possible.
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Pleasant a person, that I am sure Lady Clarrissa is, I don't think even she would claim to be an original poster. No more than Christopher Biggins would claim his portrayal of Widow Twankey were original.
Before we move on, can I just say that I enjoy CarolAnn's contributions to this forum. We obviously have a different definition of what is boring, and there is nothing wrong with that.
David